Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-04
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

WANTED-A boy to pump pipe or
gan. Enquire at PILOT office.
For SALE-I will sell my entire
stock of plumbing goods for 100000,
cash. d. G. DANIELS.
The first wild cat of the season was
brought in Thursday by Dell Hick-
man of the town of Bergen, who col
lected So bounty.
Frank Tighe will stand trial in
municipal court on a charge of having
abandoned his family. He furnished
bail for his appearance.
DR.. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, Monday, Oct. oath.
A civil service examination for
railway mail clerk will be held at
the various named places on Nov. II,
Milwaukee, Madison, Lacrosse and
Wausau. For information apply to
Secretary, room So, 428 Grand Ave-,
Milwaukee, Wis.
Farmers in this county have started
digging their late potatoes. The late
rains are reported to have increased
the crop nearly fifty per cent. over
what it promised during the drought.
Down in Waupaca county many of
the vines are just beginning to bios
som.
Down in Grand Rapids the board of
education has ordered one of the
schools closed on account of number
of the students having scarlet fever.
All of the books in the building have
been ordered burned. The disease is
getting a good foothold in Merrill
and Tomahawk.
Frank Klade, who filed upon Indian
reservation lands In North Dakota
eighteen months ago, departed for
that state the past week, taking with
him his family possessions. He is
satisfied that ne is going to get rich
on this prairie land, but he may come
back to Wausau some day-wiser.
The Livingstons is the name of the
firm which in the future will conduct
the business of the Livingston Mer
camille Co., in this city. Incorpora-
tion papers were filed last week. The
incorporators are Sam Livingston,
Fannie X. Livingston and Sidney L.
Stein. The capital stock is $4,000.
A boy with fine Waltham appear
ance, but with Waterbury lungs, ar
rived Friday morning to grace the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Grin Liljeqvist.
In writing jewelry adds Grin has in
serted 1.-THE English, German and
Scandinavian languages spoken" He
will now add "baby language" to his
list.
A carrier pigeon was found last
Thursday in a barn on the Aug.
Tegge farm northwest of the city.
Fastened to It's neck was a small thin
brass tag on which was stamped
"U. S. 1889" 1t evidently belonged
to the government, but what it was
doing up here is question. When
liberated it started south, at the
same pace at which it is said the
election went for Gov. Kent in Maine
years ago.
Word reached this city that Emil
Breitkreutz, who resides at Los Angel
es, is the father of bouncing baby
boy. Emil was raised in Wausau, and
was graduated from our high school
and the state university. He is
civil engineer on the Los Angeles &C
queduct. In his letter he says: at
has been from los to ia degrees in
the Office all summer, but now it has
gotten down to o."
A suit has been started in the cir
cult court of Marathon county en-
titled A. g. White VS.. The G. & n.
w. Railway Co. The plaintiff asks
$4,000, claiming that he received
personal injuries which have left
him unable to earn livelihood by
manual labor. His home is in Osh-
kosh. While repairing bridge be-
longing to the defendant company he
was struck by train Sept. %, 1909,
and severely injured.
The board of public works on
Wednesday last awarded two sewer
contracts TO LutZ & HaaSe They
will construct the Z. Washington
street sewer. lone block at eighty-six
cents per lineal foot, unless solid rock
is encountered. In that event there
will be a charge of 81 per cubic yard
of rock removed. The Harrison boule-
ward sewer, 1900 feet in length will
be constructed for sixty cents per
foot, $42 extra for catch basins and S3S
completed this fall. Miller & hrause
also bid on these two jobs.
Father Against Son, might have
been the title of case tried in court
Wednesday, but il wasn't. 1t was
Aug. Siebert ST., VS.. Aug. Siebert, Jr.
The elder Siebert claimed that sons,
like republics, are ungrateful. He
was, he said, employed by his son for
81 months at wage scale of $40 per
month, making 1910. He also loaned
his son, he says, $40, making s7l0 In
the five years and seven months he
worked for his son he claims he re-
ceiyed but 500, leaving net balance
of sole due him. He sued TO recover
this amount A jury of ''twelye men
good and true evidently didn't think
well of the elder Siebert's system of
bookkeeping, and returned verdict
granting him q Judgment of but $50.