Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-04-04

Mich. is in the city the guest OF Mrs.
P. L. Coerling.
Confirmation suits cheap in price
but rich in looks. You will find an
endless array at Seim Bros store.
For your next trip buy First Ma
tional bank travellers checks. They
are the "a. B. A." kind, and the
best.
When you buy wall paper of Callies
you can always get room mouldings,
plate rails, ETC., to match. Let him
show you the 1911 styles.
Thos. L. Gibney today succeeded
Chas. F. Beck, resigned, as district
organizer for the Prudential Life In
surance Co. Mr.. Gibney has been To-
Gated here for about year.
A quarterly meeting of st. Paul's
church was held Sunday afternoon,
at which II new members were adj
mitted. John Ringle was elected an
elder vice the late Anton Schuetz and
resolutions of coincidence on the death
of the latter we're adopted. At this
meeting an announcement was made
to the effect that the church is today
in the best financial condition in its
history being free or practically free
of debt.
Saturday forenoon last, a farmer
driving frisky team on Main street,
was set upon by several dogs. His
team became unmanageable and ran
away. 1t went up Main street to
Fulton and east on Fulton until it
was out of sight. The farmer man.
aged to keep it in the middle of
the road and it ii perhaps still
running. No damage was done so far
as known.
About twenty Marshfeld hunters
are going to make an effort to stock
our neighboring county with English
pheasants. Each has agreed to take
six pairs from raiser. They will be
liberated and allowed to propagate.
They are protected by the game laws,
and are not allowed to be killed at
any time of the year until 1915. The
pheasant is about as large as part
ridge and has a bright and gay
plumage.
G.. G. Parlin delivered his illustrated
lecture a second time in the assembly
hall at the high school on Wednesday
evening to a large audience. As before
all were pleased with the entertain
ment. Mr.. Parlin went to West Bend
on Thursday to deliver lecture on
"Rome' and from there went to
on school business. On Tues
day evening he will deliyer his lecture
on the "Passion Play at GAINESVILLE.
The government groundwork lab
oratory has suspended operations, ow-
ing to a break in some of its machin-
cry, requiring some time in which TO
make repairs. j. II. ThickenS, the
and genial superinten-
dent, has had visit from the advi-
sorry committee of the American Pulp
g. Paper association, showing that
that committee is keeping in close
touch with the experiments in pro-
gress at the laboratory.
Firemen were called to the public
library this morning, where pile of
wood iii the furnace room was burning
A spark had escaped from
the heating plant and set fire to the
wood pile, causing the basement to be
filed with smoke, some of which
worked up around the steam pipes to
the floor above. The books may smell
a little smoky for q while, hut aside
from the damage to the basement by
smoke and water, no loss resulted.
The Barker g. Stewart Lumber
is about to install the blower
system in its planning mill. The saw
mill is running a double SHIFT. All
the other mills and factories in this
are running, with the excep-
ton of the Alexander Stewart Lum-
Der company which is waiting for
logs by the water route, about 5,O0O,-
300 feet of which will come down
from Grandfather on the first big
water. The ''Old Wisconsin is SLOW
y rising, and drivers are getting busy.
Mrs. Wilhelmina WINNER died this
Monday morning at her home, 324
Fulton street, after four months ill
ness with dropsy. She was born In
The state of Illinois, April 20, 1859,
and had been resident of this city a
great many years. Besides her hus-
band she is survived by four children,
/ brother and one sister. The brother
md sister are Ben Hett and Mrs.
II. II
have not been completed, but the
services will probably be held Wednes-
lay morning from st. Mary's church.
The spring goods shown by Seim
Bros. this spring are the best that
clothes designers can conceive. They
everything there is in good
clothes.
The county treasurer reports a
delinquency in the tax roll Of Sll, $685.
n. Aside from the city the town OF
Bergen returned the largest delin-
1uencv, over $780, The city'S por-
Jon was nearly $1,000. The town Of
Berlin farmers evidently are well
lealed' for the treasurer OF that
town returned a clean slate, as did
also the villages of Mcmillan, Scho-
field, Brokaw, Unity, Marathon and
Spencer. That part of the county
which has been longest settled shows
the smallest delinquency, giving evil
ience that its residents are prosper
Dus and that the land is too valuable
to let go for taxes.
According to schedule work was to
start this Monday on building the
81 Wisconsin Valley railroad.
This is the line which is TO run north
ward from GAINESVILLE, up through the
valley, connecting Portage,
stevens Point, WauSau and Merrill.
Several hundreds of tons of steel rails
we're shipped last week to Madison
and Portage. The Carnegie steel
works of Pittsburg will continue to
ship steel to different points on the
route, until enough has been
Only portion OF the road
will be built this year, and 1t may be
two years or more before the company
builds into Wausau, if it does at all.
The company expects TO have q por-
ton of the road in operation by next
fall
Three men who had previously been
working in this county were arrested
recently in Eau Claire, and were
taken to Neillsville TO answer
+. d n r.ra A faxv NpoL-S apO they visited