Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-08-01
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

lum, situated near MarShfield, has
been completed and accepted.
DR.. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells Honse, Friday, August 18th.
Hugh J. Culberson of Milwaukee,
has been appointed master mechanic
of the Wisconsin Valley division of
the St. Paul road.
Those desiring to furnish rooms
and board to teachers, please notify
S. B. Tobey, at once, stating terms
and accommodations. a1-2w
The Gill-Dawley Lumber company,
temporarily located in the Mckinley
block, has removed its office to the
Dunbar block, over C. B. Mayors
store.
At the meeting of the Ninth Coun-
cillor District Medical Society held in
Grand Rapids last week, it was
decided to hold the next quarterly
meeting in this city.
One of the Northwestern Railway
Co.'s locomotives went Wandering On
Wednesday afternoon, leaving me
track which runs into the H. E. Nc
Eachron's Co.'s grist mill.
Albert Schroeder, employed at the
Wausau Iron Works, met with a mis-
hap on Wednesday, resulting in two
crushed toes on his left foot. A hoist
ing chain broke, allowing a heavy
casting to fall on his foot
Do you want shingles? If you do
call and look over our large assort-
ment and get prices before purcha ing
elsewhere.
If. BARKER & STEWART LUMBER Co.
Geo. Merklein, who returned from
Laona Friday, says that while up
there he met Geo. WOessner, an old
Wausau boy, who left this city
twenty-four years ago. Mr.. Woessner
is at present resident of Menominee,
Mich, and travels for a hardware
house.
Wausau representative who at
tended the Wisconsin State Firemen's
association meeting, held in Superior
the past week, were successful in
landing the next meeting for this
city. Chief Frank Zielsdorf and
Mayor John F. Lamont were in at
tendance.
John Baker, an employee of the
Wausau Paper Mills Co., in Brokaw,
was brought to the city one day last
week, and taken to ST., Mary's hos
pital. While working alone on lad
der he fell off, and received serious
injuries. He was found some time
later in an unconscious condition.
An effort is being made by the
commercial club on the west side to
arrange for series of band concerts
to be given on the fair grounds Sun
day afternoons, the balance Of the
season. 1t is also aimed to have races,
games, etc. A committee appointed
to solicit funds announces that the
plan is bound to be carried out.
Wesley NJ. Ketchum of Madison,
whose resignation as assistant engin-
eer and electrical expert at the state
capitol took effect last week, has
been appointed to a position with
the engineering staff of the state
railroad commission. He will become
an electrical inspector with head
quarters in Wausau.
The police have made several ar
rests the past week of automobile
drivers, who were exceeding the speed
limit. Most of them paid a fine of
$500 and costs, with the injunction
that if arrested again on the same
charge, the fine would be much
heavier. 1t is the intention to keep
up a systematic campaign against au-
tomObile and motorcycle speeders.
Lie pOSUdl ucpdI UIllSIU lids duUllOI-
lied the establishment of another ru-
raj route to lead out of Wausau. The
order will go into effect on or before
Sept. IL The route viii be about
twenty-five miles in length and will
cover territory west of the city. The
carrier to be appointed will probably
be Geo. Bartlett, for he is the sub
who stands in line for appointment
State Forester E. NJ. Griffith has
had published 5000 special warning
notices to be sent to highway COM
miSsiOnerS and town officials in the
state to be posted on trees and other
prominent places. The posters are in
red and warn all persons against the
setting of fires upon any land in the
respective town or district, until 9th
erwise ordered by the town board.
The statute is cited and the fine is
from to $40 to $50, or six months i'm
priSonment for each offense.
Tony Imperio and Philip Roberti,
the two Italians confined in the
Marathon county Jail for shooting
Sheriff Radcliffe of Eagle River, on
July 6, are scheduled for hearing to-
day. They will be taken before Judge
Higgins, in Eagle River, and have re.