Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-01-10
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

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The county board members were
entertained at supper at the North
western hotel Friday evening.
DR.. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, Monday, Jan. 16.
At meeting of the directors of the
Wausau Street Railroad Co. held
Thursday, a dividend of eight per
cent. was declared.
The Thomas Produce Co., which
succeeded w. r. Bryan in this city,
lost its store in Merrill last Tuesday
night by fire. The company will re-
build.
AL. Rietz, who for several years has
been cutting the fuzzy growth off
mems faces in the shop of Henry
Dern, has opened shop for himself
in Brokaw.
Mrs. L. Miller, better known as
Jennett Sayre, of Crookston, Mimi,
died the past week. She was a former
high school teacher in Wausau about
three years ago.
Do you want shingles? If you do
call and look over our large assort-
ment and get prices before purchasing
elsewhere.
If. BARKER STEWART LUMBER Co.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the Marathon Telephone
Co. is scheduled for tomorrow, but
owing to the annual report not being
completed, it will be postponed until
Jan. %.
There are three houses in one block
.quarantined on Scott street, between
Sixth and Seventh. These are the
Wetzel, Goerling and Russell homes.
There are cases of scarlet fever in
each.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. II. Duncan enter
tanned the county board members at
a supper served at the county asylum
on Thursday evening. The members
inspected the asylum and county
home building while there.
Miss Blanche Armstrong will be
pleased to receive subscriptions to
the Ladies' Home Journal, Saturday
Evening Post, Delineator, Woman's
Home Companion and all magazine
clubs. sic Mcclellan St. s13-tf
The second death to occur from
scarlet fever in this city this winter
was reported last Tuesday afternoon.
Oscar, the four-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. +. Wenzel, 1919 Stark street,
died of the disease. -Four other chill
dren are i'll with the disease, and the
mother is ill with pneumonia.
Ole Oleson, care-taker of the Robt.
Thielman summer cottage on Little
Rice lake, was found dead last
Wednesday. He had evidently been
dead some time, for his body was
frozen stiff. Parties had entered the
premises after his death ami stole
valuable property.
Mrs. Frederick Degner, aged eighty
nine years, one of the pioneers of
Athens, died at the home cf her son
William recently. She resided in
that locality twenty-eight years. One
of her daughters, Mrs Otto Bruss, re-
sides in this city. Her sons Henry
and William are two of the prominent
business men of the village.
John Schwant, residing at zoos
Steuben street, had more than his
share of roast chicken last Tuesday
night. The night being cold ne
placed a pan of live Goals in his chick
en- coop TO warm his fowls. The Goals
did not stay where put and one,
possibly more, we cannot swear as
the number, set fire to the coop
Thirteen hens and one sir. chicken
were roasted.
AT the last meeting of the Stevens
Point city council five Polish women
appeared before that body and bur-
dened the councilmen with their
marital troubles. One said that all
her husband does is raise hell,H as
she put it. Two claimed that their
husbands are living in this county,
supposedly in Beyent or Hatley.
Money must be scarce at the Point,
according to the stories of these five
women, one Of whom has seen but
$500 of her husbands money in a