Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-12-20
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

u"iJ TIM az Oilde hcoClIlS SALARIES
for county officers for the ensuing
term will be fixed.
Miss Ruth Alexander came home
to spend the holidays from Millbrook,
n. Y, on the Hudson, where she has
been attending the Bennett school.
1t is expected that farmers will be-
gin hauling rock to the citys stone
crusher as soon as the country roads
| get little better The city will buy
several hundred cords.
Men, more than women, appreciate
something useful as a present, there
fore look over Seim Bros. stock of use
full presents for men. Each and every
article will be appreciated as gift.
Rural school teachers report about
600 children who are not attending
school. The county superintendent
has sent out notices to the parents,
calling their attention to the COM
pulsory educational law and the pen
alties provided for not sending chill
| dren to school.
The Wausau Cemetery association
met last evening and elected officers,
| the names of whom can be found
elsewhere in this issue. Reports of
officers were made and acted upon.
One of these reports showed that
| there had been 236 interments made
in the cemetery during the year.
The scarlet fever situation remains
about the same. A few new cases
are reported each week and a few
| more homes are released from quaran-
tine. The cases at present are less
| than half the number at this time
last year. No deaths have occurred
| this fall and the disease is in a very
light form. Notwithstanding the fact
that there is little scarlet fever in
town, physicians report that they have
| all the work they can handle. 1t is
generally so after cold weather sets in.
| While fremen were extinguishing
! the blaze at the mattress factory in
the Kickbusch building on First
street last week, an old OK yoke was
found stored away in the building.
1t had evidently reposed there for a
| great many years and had been used a
considerable length of time before
being put away, as was evidenced by
the way the rings were worn. 1t was
hewn out and used at time when
horses were somewhat of a curiosity
in this section-as much so as the Did
OK yoke is today.
City Treasurer Henry Juers COM
menced the collection of taxes yester-
day. Receipt No. l was given to the
Marathon County bank. Mr.. Juers
has two lady assistants. As rule
the smaller tax payers pay first and
come in rush. The big fish bring in
their contribution at the tail end.
Tax collection time is the hardest
part of the treasurer's work, for he
has got to listen to all the kicks of
every lunkhead who thinks the treas
urer is to blame because taxes are
| collected.
Joseph Walker died Friday morning
at an early hour at the county asylum
of paresis. Deceased was forty-six
years of age and had been a resident
of this city for a great many years,
being employed most of the time as a
woods foreman. About three years
ago he was committed to the state
hospital and later was placed in our
county institution as an incurable.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. NJ.
j. Walker, residing on Grand Ave; a
| daughter, Esther, and two sisters, the
MeSdames Jessie LaPier and Mary A.
Brennan. The funeral was conducted
from the home of his mother Monday
afternoon by the Rev. Jas. Duer.
Alex. Heller was arrested yesterday
charged with the burglary of the
Hochtritt store. which took place
some days previous. We understand
that the young man has made state
ment in which he admits the charge
against him. He was arrested week
ago on complaint of an employee of
the Barker & Stewart Lumber Co.,
who had lost tools out of building.
| The complainant failed TO connect
Heller with the theft of the tools and
the latter was discharged. Heller is a
young man, hardly out of his teens, yet
old enough to be able to distinguish
the difference between other peoples
property and his own.
Jos. Seidel, parol agent of the state
prison, was in the city yesterday
looking up matters pertaining to the
killing of Frank Pasnecker of the
town of Stettin, and the trial and
conviction of Geo. Haas for the Of
| tense. The two lived in the same
house, few miles west of the city,
during the summer of 1905. They
became engaged in a quarrel on the
night of July sth of that year and
Haas disemboweled Pasnecker. using
sharp knife. He tried TO run away,
! but was captured, tried and found
guilty, and on Oct. 3 Of the same
year was sentenced TO a term of ten
years in the penitentiary. What Mr..
Seidel's object was in looking up evil
dence in the case was not disclosed,
but it is supposed that it was for the
use of the beard of pardons-
Your Christmas dinner viii not be
complete without some of Stark's
pure Ice cream. Phone 1914 for de-
livery. d6-3t