Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-07

The Winninger Bros, who have
been playing to large audiences at the
grand opera house, closed on Sunday
evening.
Thursday, Nov. Sd, was Mrs. Dun
bars birthday and a few of her
friends dropped in during the after
noon to help her celebrate the same.
Word comes to this city that
daughter has been born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Bentley Vaughan who reside in
Spokane, Washington.
Nearly every evening now, what
may seem to be a geyser can be seen
gushing on some one of our many
streets. 1t is only the flushing of
our water mains.
Lulu James Abercrombie formerly of
this city is singing in Milwaukee this
week, a member of the Aborn Grand
Opera Co. She will close her engage
ment in that city tomorrow.
The census bureau has issued a
bulletin covering statistics for Wis
consin, which says that Marathon
county has 1,554 square miles of terri
tory and is the largest in the state.
The population of the county is given
at 55,054 and of the city of Wausau
at Is, $50.
Jas. Lynch has on exhibition in his
barber shop potato which is quite a
curiosity. 1t is really five potatoes
in one, each grown together at one
end, and the whole resembles a big
foot. When brought into town it
weighed six pounds, but the weight
has since partly evaporated. 1t was
raised on the farm of John Holtzkopf
in the town of Weston.
A large crew of men has been at
work for the past two weeks on a
sink hole in the st. Paul Ry. Co. S
roadbed near Hazelhurst. Car load
after car load of gravel has been
| dumped into it and still the track
settles. There appears to be pit
tOmless bot at that point. Two
weeks ago an engine was overturned
there, caused by one of the rails
settling.
The county board, at it's meeting
next week, will be called upon to fill
| several vacancies in the county school
and asylum boards. The terms Of H.
J. Blanchard and A. L. Kreutzer on
the county training school board;
that of F. Chesak and Jos. Burger on
the agricultural school board and
Anton Mehl's on the asylum board Of
trustees have all expired. A court
house janitor, too, must be elected or
reelected.
President Bill Taft has issued
a letter to the common herd which
gives it the privilege of getting out
side of a turkey on the Both day of
November, providing his subjects can
raise the price of a bird, which is
doubtful in most cases. The old moss
back in Rhode Island who has fur
nished the white house birds for thir-
ty some odd years has another COB
bier in preparation for his royal high
ness.
The f. Schubring Lumber Co. is
constructing a cement hot pond
at its bull slide which will be heated
by steam coils, allowing the mill to
operate all winter. AS the mill is
not situated near the river it was
necessary TO dig a big hole for the
pond. By dumping the logs into the
hot water, the frost is drawn out Of
them and they saw easier. The mill
has recently been undergoing extern
sive improvements.
Senator John S. Donald of Dane
county, is expected to be in the city
next week for the purpose of address
ing the county board on matters rela-
tive to state aid for building high
ways and bridges. 1t will be incum-
bent upon the board to elect high
way commissioner at a salary of not
less than 5000 per year, who shall
oversee the building of roads and
bridges, upon which the states money
is spent and such roads shall be
termed state highways. No doubt
there will be a scramble for the office.
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