Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

Dr. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be. at the
Bells House, Wednesday, March 8.
Ben Kuebler has been confined to
his home for several weeks with bron-
chial trouble. He is now improving.
After Feb. 10, Philbrick Pharmacy
will occupy the store 513 Third street,
near Rohde's book store Watch for
opening. ct
The Sunday school classes of j. n.
Manson and Mrs. N. t. Kelly of the
Universalist society enjoyed a sleigh
ride on Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Carl Lemke, who was operated
on last week for the removal of gall
stones, is reported to be on the road
to recovery. She is still, confined in
st. Mary's hospital.
The time.for congressional distribu-
ton of free seeds has arrived. Con-
gresham Morse is favoring those in
this section, who signed his nomina-
tion papers, with packages.
The men who design Piers wall
papers are the highest paid artists in
the world. They visit every point on
the globe, except the north pole and
Merrill, to get new ideas.
A newspaper has been established
in the village of Stratford, which will
be known as the Stratford News.
VIM. Jaeger of Edgar and F. ]. Curtin
of Stratford, are the publishers.
DO you want shingles2 If you do
call and look over our large assort-
ment and get prices before purchasing
elsewhere.
Dell Hickman of the town of Ber-
gen, brought four wild cat scalps to
the Office of the county clerk last Sat
urday and collected S24. The cats
were all young ones and belonged to
one litter.
Learned men tell us that in Latin
the word editor means something
''to eat" In the United Safes it's
meaning is altogether different. 1t
means TO scratch around like blazes
to get something to eat.
Last Tuesday night was the begin
ming of the Chinese new year and Yep
Sin, who conducts the laundry on
Washington street, and his assistant
Ping Pong, duly celebrated the event.
They had feast of Chinese delicacies
A few minutes delay in treating
some cases of Group, even the length
of time it takes to go for doctor
often proves dangerous. The safest
way is to keep Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy in the house, and at the first
indication of Group give the child a
dose. Pleasant TO take and always
cures. Sold by ali dealers.
The anniversary of Lincoln's birth
was observed in Wausau last Satur-
day. Flags were displayed from the
flag poles of the First National, Mar
athon County and National German
American banks, the court house and
the Livingston Mercantile Co. Flags
were also displayed at the homes of
several of our citizens. Next Tues
day is also a holiday-W ashingtons
birthday-and will be observed by the
hosting of flags.
Mrs. p. ]. FoSse returned Friday to
her home in Poynette. She came
here previous to the death of her
mother Mrs. Fred Boiler. She was
accompanied home by Clarence, Gil
bert, Arnold and Dorothy Rietz, chill
dren of VIM. Rietz of Chico, Cal,
whom Mrs. Boiler had cared for from
. the time of their mothers death until
Mrs. Boilers last illness. Mrs. FosSe
viii care for them until they have
reached certain age.
G. Paersch of the town Of johnson
was awarded silver cup last week by
the state college of agriculture for
furnishing the best exhibit of Swed-
ish oats. Tie cup was offered by the
Milwaukee chamber of commerce.
An auction was held at the close of
exhibition and the best single ear of
corn sold for $3.50; ten ears of Golden
Glow corn sold for s26.75 and ten ears
of Silver Dent corn went for SIC.
Prize winter wheat went at the rate
of s64 per bushel, barley at $50 and
Swedish oats at 81.