Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-03
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

If you are in need of shingles call
and see our large assortment and get
prices before buying elsewhere.
If. BARKER & STEWART LUMBER Co.
The street railroad company has
been making track repairs of late.
Gravel and cement have been filled in
around the rails where they stuck up
and interfered with vehicles crossing
! them.
A Green Bay hotel man served
twelve rice hens and twelve wild
ducks few days ago at dinner. A
game warden heard of it. The hotel
man paid $3.50 in fines the next day.
He is now wiser.
The county superintendent Of
schools, Wenzel Pivernetz, and his
assistant, Miss Eva Bernier will con-
duct examinations for teachers this
week, in the villages of Athens, Ed
gar, Stratford and Unity.
The Forest Republican, published
in CrandOn, says: "Several thousand
bushels of potatoes are laying in Gran
don cellars and no markets for them.
That's queer. Eggs are worth 1Sc
per dozen here, with steady demand.
S. H. L. Cooper of Chicago, who
spends the bulk of his time in MAX
ing an examination of national banks,
was in the city a few days the past
week. While here he examined the
affairs of the First National and Ma
tional German American banks.
Robt. Fleming circulated among
friends in the city the latter part of
last week. He formerly resided in
this country, but for several years
past has been filling out term of
enlistment in the United. States army.
Much of the time was spent in the
Philippine islands,
John D. Rockefeller would go broke
if he should spend his entire income
trying to prepare better medicine
than Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy for diarrhoea,
dysentery or bowel complaints. 1t is
simply impossible, and so says every
one that has used it. Sold by all
dealers.
The Marathon County Medical
society met Friday evening at the
Bells hotel. The business meeting
was preceded by asupper. A commit
tee which was ordered to arrange a
new scale of fees made its report, but
action On the same was deferred until
Monday evening. A number of physi-
clans from outside the city were
present.
Ed. Sires, a resident of Antigo,
arrested last week and brought here,
entered a plea of guilty to a charge Of
arson yesterday, He was sentenced
to serve a term of two years in the
state penitentiary. The summons
and complaint charged Sires with en-
tering the barn of Anton HoroZdowski
in the town of Harrison and wilfully
setting it on fire. This occurred on
April II.
Three s'coon'' lads, black as a pro-
feSsional politicians character, were
picked up by an officer here on Satur-
day. The boys with>four Others had
been paroled from the state Industrial
school and were working on farm
near Chat post Office in Lincoln coun-
ty. They claimed they had been
abused and for that reason ran away
from the farm The boys are too
young to be doing manual labor. They
were ragged and their wardrobes were
limited to what they had on their
backs. They walked all the way from
the farm to this city.
The Wausau Street Railroad Co.
VS.. the Wausau Land company
is the title of a case which has been
started in circuit court. The. pro-
ceedings are brought for the purpose
of condemning lands along the Wis
consin river north of Mosinee which
will beloyerf1owed in case the street
railway company decides to improve
the Mosinee waterpower, which it no
doubt will do ere long. While Wau-
sau people are growing over their
LAKE Wausau, Mosinee people will be
equally swelled up over lake Mosinee.
The hearing of the case has been set
for Nav 9.