Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-01-17
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.


ments to have skating Kinks at the
various schools.
Rev. DR.. Tippett of Appleton, will
occupy the pulpit in the NJ. f. church
next Sunday morning and evening.
The Marathon Granite Co.'s works
was closed down today cn account of
breakage in some of its machinery.
The Wausau Ice and Fuel Co.'S
stockholders held meeting last night
and reelected the old board of direct
OrS.
Easter Lilly Camp of Royal Neigh
bors installed officers last evening,
which was followed by a supper and
social session.
Francisco Nagel has commenced an
action in circuit court to obtain
divorce from her husband Carl. Both
reside in the town of Holton.
Little Jack Winton, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. David Winton of Minneapolis,
was operated on for appendicitis re-
Gently and he is just out of the hospi-
tai.
A number of young men have
formed club and have rented room
on the second floor of the I'll. e. Smith
building, corner of Fourth and Scott
streets.
Rev. Brigham went to Wesley
hospital in Chicago the past week
where he submitted to minor opera
tion. He will be able to return home
in short time.
The employees of the post Office,
with their friends, enjoyed sleigh
ride last Saturday evening out to the
Pasnecker place in the town of Stet-
tin, where they had supper and en-
joyed dance.
DR.. Russell Lyon and family are
now occupying their new home on
East hill Mr.. Lyon has disposed Of
his former home at the corner of
| Fourth and Franklin streets to NJ @.
Ewing who will occupy the same with
his family as soon as inside decora-
tions are completed.
Carl Sorges, aged sixty-six years,
died Saturday at his home, 601 Hum
boldt avenue, after an illness of two
months. He is survived by his wife
and four children. He was veteran
| of the war between Prussia and
Austria in 1866, also of the war be-
tween Germany and France in 1870.
He was member of the local krieger
verein. That society will give him a
military burial on Thursday.
Aug. Priebe of the town of Flieth
had two of his sons in court this
morning, charged with assault and
cold storage battery. The case was
adjourned to tomorrow morning. The
principal exhibit of the complainant
will be an eye trimmed in the deepest
shades of mourning. Priebe was a
defendant in case not long ago, and
at that time brought two sticks Of
| firewood to the court house which he
claimed his wife and daughter had
beaten him with.
At present there are thirty-five
cases of scarlet fever in the city, eight
at the detention hospital and twenty
seven in homes. There are also three
cases of diphtheria. The number OF
scarlet fever cases has increased since
the holiday vacation in the city
schools. The children playing to-
gether at that time, with no medical
supervision over them, it is thought
was responsible for spread of the
disease. However, it is not near so
bad as it was this time year ago.
| During the past week the students
of different schools in the city were
busy preparing the play grounds for
ice Kinks. The boys worked like
beavers in clearing the grounds Of
snow, and heaping it up around the
edges to hold the water when the
grounds are flooded. One boy attend
ing the Washington school brought a
Shetland pony to school to assist in
the work. The pony, about the size
of a big dog, was hitched to sleigh
on which were two large dry goods
boxes. These boxes were filled with
snow and hauled to points where the
snow was unloaded and banked up.