Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-16
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Mrs. IL. p. Maynard is quite i'll at
present. She is stopping at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Jones.
w. r Chellis, register of deeds, was
confined to his home nearly all of last
week, on account of severe cold.
Dr. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be ut the
Bells House, Wednesday, March 10th.
WANTED-Hemlock lath bolts, 80
inches long. For particulars inquire at
office of BARKER 4 STEWART Lbr CO.,
Wausau, Wis, If
Rev. e. e. Crippen, pastor of the
Baptist church, addressed the Mems
meeting at the Y. NJ. &. A. on Sunday
afternoon Subject, The Great Com
mand"
DR.. T. h. Harrington of Milwaukee,
addressed representative and appre
ciative audience of Knights of Colum-
bus in Marquette hall Wednesday even
ing. His topic was Social Evils
The dance given by the Eagles in
Elks' hall Friday night was very large
ly attended The crowd of maskers
was so great that it was with difficulty
they could move about on the floor.
REWARD OFFERED.-A volume of the
WISCONSIN RIVER PILOT, containing the
issues of the years 1873 and 1874. has
been lost track of Any information
leading to its recovery left at 407 Grand
avenue, will be rewarded. If
special train carrying teachers from
Merrill and Wausau left this city Friday
morning for Grand Rapids TO attend
the annual meeting of the Northwestern
Teachers association. Besides teachers
from this city number of students of
the Wausau Business college and of the
training school attended.
The old Edee livery business has been
purchased by Frank Menier. 1t has
been changing hands pretty frequently
of late. A few weeks ago it was sold
by w. S. Mathews to Otto Bruss and y.
Sickinger. A few days later Mr.. Bruss
acquired the interest of his partner and
now he has sold ont to Mr. Menier
While coupling cars on the Gleason
branch of the. st. Paul road, Friday,
Edward McGrath of this city, had the
bones in his right foot crushed. He was
hanging onto the ladder at the end of
the car and attempting to kick the
clutch of the coupler into position when
his foot got caught between the bumpers.
He was brought to st Mary's hospital.
Everyday from March lst to April
30th colonist tickets at low rates will
be on sale via the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railway to Seattle, Spo-
kane. and Tacoma, Washington; San
Francisco and Los Angeles, California;
Ogden or Salt Lake City, Utah, and
many other points in the Northwest.
For Information please call at office.
NJ. +. GOLDEN
Pat Pigeon is serving ninety days
sentence at the county jail for vagraney
Pigeon is one of the men who was pick
ed mp ut Woodruff with his hands and
feet badly frozen, a few weeks ago He
was Mt the poor farm for number of
days and upon leaving that institution
commenced TO lie around saloons when
the police took him in charge. He for
merly resided at WauSau and is said TO
be q veteran of the civil war-Rhine-
lander New North.
The man is well known in this city.
The jury in the damage ease entitled
Peter Mayer vs.. Thos Hill. ct. al, re-
turned verdict Wednesday evening
favorable TO the plaintiff. The jury
also found that Hill had taken no part
in the affair and the Judgment and costs
viii be assessed against his co-defend-
ant, Aug. Darge. This is the case,
mentioned in the Puor last week
Meyer suing for 5000 damages be-
cause, as he claimed, he had been
assaulted and locked in refrigerator
ear by the defendants. The Jury
brought in verdict for 1910 damages.
A number OF timber men and land
owners met last week in Eau Claire and
adopted articles of incorporation of n
company which will have for its aim
the protection of forests from fires, in
twenty-five counties in Wisconsin. The
capital stock will be $4,000, one share
of stock representing 10000 acres of
land, but no owners of less than 1000
acres to be admitted to the association.
A secretary viii be continually en-
ployed to furnish information relative
10 the work al any time. He will likely
be stationed in Wausau. The incor-
porators are j. I. Barber. Eau Claire;
w. II. Mylrea, Wausau; \. l.. Osborn,
Oshkosh. The association will be
christened soon.
Washington Once Gave Up
IN three doctors: was kept in bed for
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