Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-08-02

Do you want shingles? If you do
call and look over our large assort-
ment and get prices before purchasing
elsewhere.
tt. BARKER STEWART LUMBER Co..
This is certainly queer season.
Wausau citizens during the past week
have been buying nice big blushing
peaches, shipped here all the way
from Texas, after going through sew
eral dealers hands, at just a little
advance over what potatoes, grown
right here at home, have been bring
ing. But a person soon tires of peach
| diet.
A. +. Hoge, chairman of the town
of Halsey and fire warden of that
town, caused the arrest of Herman
Luedtke last week, because the latter
set fires on his land, contrary to the
| fire warden's orders. Luedtke was
brought into court and paid stiff
fine, together with costs. 1t is said
that the recent rain did not auench
fires in that section, and there is still
danger.
The secretary of state has
caused a notice to be posted in the
register Of deeds Office which states
that eight Wausau and Marathon
county corporations, naming them,
have failed to comply with the law
which requires a yearly report from
such concerns. Unless they MAKE re-
port before January, 1911, their
charters will be cancelled. One of
the corporations named is one of the
city's best known institutions.
The Marshfeld News says that
1.-THE people of Wausau are to be con-
graduated upon the timely aid rend-
cred the smaller towns in the vicinity
of that city during the recent forest
fires. For week at time with the
city's fire fighting apparatus and
crew of men, Wausau responded with
a willingness to every call for help and
to their work is due the saving of
great property loss. The situation at
times looked most desperate but the
fight was determined one until relief
came Saturday with a downpour of
rain which for the present has put out
the fires"
h. M. Griffith, state forester, states
that the forest department of the
state is planning to build cabins on
the state reserve, employ fire wardens
to patrol the lands, cut fire lines, and
to enclose about 10000 acres with
fence. This will be a game preserve
and will be stocked with deer, moose,
elk, grouse, pheasants, etc. Roads
and trails will be cut for the use of
campers and tourists. Cabins and
cabin sites will be rented by the state
to tourists, which it is thought will
result in being a source of large rev.
enue to the state. The states of
Maine, New York and New Hamp-
shire at present receive a combined
revenue of s2l, 900, 600 from this source.
Twenty-Five years ago this summer
the state census taken that year gave
Wausau population of $50. The
school census of the present year
gives us 1886. Thus we have al
most doubled our population in that
time. What will the next twenty
five years bring forth? Other cities
in the Wisconsin river valley have
failed to keep the pace set by Wau-
sau. With the resources at hand,
developed and undeveloped, we are
bound to grow fast in the future.
Every time Editor Chris Johnson of
the Merrill Herald comes to Wausau
to get his hair cut, he becomes more
conscious of this city's Importance,
though he hates to acknowledge it.
The farmers of particular portion
Of the western part OF the county
have solved the feed problem, and are
not selling their cattle for tic per
pound to cattle buyers, as are some
others in this county. On this side
of Mcmillan is a long, deep cut
through which the railroad passes,
and farmers in that section allow
their cattle to run at large and wan
der into this cut. At intervals for
several weeks one or two head have
been killed, but one day recently
there was great slaughter, when a
special ran into and killed eleven
head. The railroad company is
supposed to keep its track guarded
and, we presume, will be obliged to
pay for the cattle at a price better
than tic per pound. The farmers are
saved the expense Of buying feed,
they get fresh meat and fair remun-
erotion for their cattle. The cut'has
been named dead Cows Gulch."
Deafness Cannot 9e Cured