Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-31
U. c. T. CONVENTION.
Commercial Travellers Of the State
viii Meet Here This Week.

De held in Wausau. this week begin
ming Thursday and continuing to and
including Saturday. The local branch
has been very active for some time in
making preparations to entertain the
delegates. How large number of
visitors will be here can only be
guessed at There were about 1900
| attending the last convention, held in
Madison, so there is good reason to
| presume that there will be a great
many visitors in Wausau this week.
Many of them will remain over Sun
day.
The local members greatest diff
Guilty has been to secure quarters for
guests. A house to house canvas has
been made to secure rooms. The
| hotels and restaurants will supply the
meals. Members of the society hav-
ing families will bring their wives
with them.
The local council has been success
full in getting donations from the city
and county, which will be used to the
best advantage in decorating the city's
main streets and court house. A
great many of the business men, too,
will decorate their places of business.
Designs representing a crescent and
grip, emblems of the society, were
ho1sted and suspended last week at
each corner on Third street. These
are covered with innumerable electric
lights. Wires have been strung on
both sides of Third ard on parts of
Scott and Washington streets, on
which are strung thousands of incan-
descent lights. Blue and yellow poles
(colors of the society have been
planted all along the main streets to
support wires. On these will be sus-
pended bunting, etc. From appear
ances SO far we believe we are safe in
saying that the decorations will be on
larger scale than any ever prepared
for similar event in Wausau.
The program for the three days
will be as follows:
THURSDAY.
The early part of Thursday and
Friday will be taken up in meeting
visitors at trains and escorting them
to headquarters.
$3.50 a. m.-Band concert by Cones
band at council headquarters.
1000 a. Injecting of grand coun-
Gil followed by orchestral and vocal
music.
1870 a. m.-Address of welcome by
Mayor John f. Lamont, followed by
more music.
10:45 a. m.-Response by G. J. Med
berry, grand councillor.
HOO a. m.-Grand council meets.
1:30 p. m.-Band concert on county
square.
1880 p. m.-Exhibition run by fire
department.
$3.50 a. Injecting of grand coun-
Gil.
1:30 p. m.-Game Of base ball be-
tween Red Wing and Wausau.
LAS p. Reception for visiting
ladies. (.
400 p. m.-Street parade.
1870 p. m.-Band concerts on county
square and at west side band pavilion.
500 p. m.-Concert, ball and supper.
SATURDAY
$50 a. m.-Automobiles for sight
seeing tour for the ladies will be pro-
yided by the Wisconsin Valley Auto
mobile association.
1000 a. m.-Game of base ball be-
tween Red Wing and Wausau.
1870 a. m.-Initiation of candidates.
1:30 p. m.-Street car ride to Roths-
childs and paper mill.
7:30 p. m.-Band concert at county
square.
The parade will form on First and
Second streets, march by way of
Washington street to the west side,
and after making tour of Clinton
street, Clarke street, First avenue and
Third avenue, the paraders will march
back to the east side, crossing the
high bridge. The march on the east
side will include Scott, Fifth, Warren,
Fourth, Mcclellan and Third streets.
1t is planned to have the body
divided into four sections headed by
Wausau, Milwaukee, Green Bay,
Marshfield, Oshkosh and Madison
bands.
The first division will be made up of
band, "a squad of policemen, color
bearer, vehicles conveying the mayor,
grand officers and ladies.
The other divisions will be COM
posed of the following councils:
Second Milwaukee, La
Crosse, Eau Claire and GAINESVILLE.
Third division-Green Bay, Apple
ton, Fond du Lac, Marinette- Osh-
kosh ana Sheboygan.
Fourth Marshfield, Sparta,
Manitowoc, Waukesha, Ashland, Wat
ertown and Milwaukee.
Fifth division-Wauseu Madison
Rice Lake, Superior, Chippewa Falls,
Racine and Hudson.
The members of the local council
will make an effort to see that Wau-
sau upholds its name of being city
whose people know how to entertain
a stranger. Warm, pleasant weather
is all that is needed to make the
affair success.