Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-04-25
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.


pending news from Piers wall paper
sale.
The base ball park is being visited
by a great many fans since Sunday,
all eager TO see the new men in action.
All the players signed, except one,
have arrived,
Mrs. WisnesH at 9Os Main street,
will take washings and do them at
her home or 90 to other homes. She
will do house cleaning and other
work. Leave orders at the above
number.
The southbound train on the St.
Paul road was over an hour late last
night. The delay was due to
cylinder head of the locomotive blow
ing out while the train was pulling
out OF Harshaw.
Louise, infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. james MARITIME of Brokaw died
yesterday, aged seventeen months.
The funeral was held this afternoon,
interment being made in st. Joseph's
cemetery, this city.
Joseph Heineman, an eighty-six
year old veteran of the civil war, who
has been housed up for the past six
weeks on account of case of scarlet
fever at his home, is out again, the
quarantine having been raised.
There will be a meeting of Forest
Park club at the court house Friday
evening at 1870 O'Clock. Officers will
be elected and matters Of Importance
will be discussed. All members of
Forest Park addition are requested to
be present.
The remaining posts on Third street
will be taken down shortly. The
street railroad company's trolly guy
wires will be fastened to buildings
along the street. In front of the
court house ornamental iron posts
will be put up.
The city will begin condemnation
proceedings against number of prop
erty owners between Kickbush and
Walton streets TO secure land for the
widening of Canal street. 1t was fig
ured that that was about all such pro-
ceedings the city could stand for this
year.
The new rails being unloaded along
,
company are the longest ever seen in
this section. They are sixty-two feet
in length and weigh close to ton
each. A teamster has his hands full
in turning a corner with them.
Supt. Kadonsky and Supt Piver-
metz have on hand packages of pure
bred golden glow seed corn which
they will deal out to children at )
cents per package. They also have
1928 which they will give away in
cash prizes on this corn at the county
fair.
A bank is the only place where the
'EluSive Dollar" can be safely de-
tanned and held against all contin-
gencieS and the National German
American bank guarantees, with its
large resources and long established
reputation, that your dollar will be
held safe and returned to you with
interest when you need it.
Last evening at the Eastern Star
meeting there were two vacancies
filled as follows: Miss Frances AL
bers was elected to fill the unexpired
term of conductresS, made vacant by
the resignation of Mrs. Maud Drews
who will go to Amigo to reside. Mrs.
A. A. Book was elected to the unex-
plred term of secretary made vacant
by Mrs. Maud Laatsch, who will go to
Sheboygan to reside.
President Force of the NV. base
ball league has engaged Claude Elliott
OF Pardeeville for an umpire. Elliott
played on the Portage team in Wau-
sau twenty years ago. At that time
he had the reputation of being the
speediest pitcher in Wisconsin and
soon went into the big leagues, where
he remained until he began going
backward. 1t is believed he will
make good umpire.
The newly organized chemical COM
pany which is to operate plant in
this city for the extraction of turpen-
tine and other products from pine
Stumps, will start building this week.
The Wausau Iron Works will construct
the building. which will be built al
most wholly of iron and steel. The
work of building the foundation will
begin this week, and it is proposed to
have the plant in operation within a
few weeks.
Peter Van Vechten, resident of
Milwaukee since 1915, and . we'll known
pioneer, will remove to Kingston,
n. Y, where he will live with his
daughter, Mrs. w. S. Kenyon. He
will sell his home at 532 Jefferson St.,
in which he has lived for sixty-three
years" The above, clipped from a
Milwaukee newspaper, refers to the
father of our fellow townsman, p. V.
o. Van Vechten. The elder Van
Vechten is known to quite a number
of our citizens. He has been resi-
dent of Milwaukee a great many
years.
A shooting accident will occur some
day in the vicinity of the st. Paul
railroad bridge which crosses the Eau
Claire river south of the city. Every
day and especially Sundays kids with
out number visit that point to fish or
roam the woods. A great many of
them carry fire arms of some kind
and are continually shooting, SO that
it is unsafe for one to travel in that
section. There is some small game
in that section which should be let
alone at this time of the year, but
the kids shoot at everything they see.
People who are boating on the Sloughs
in that vicinity stand a good chance
of being hit by stray rifle or re-
VOlyer bullet