Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-01-03
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
Date your letters 1911.

Wisconsin's population equals 42.2
people to the square mile.
The county training school opened
for work this morning after holiday
vacation.
The Wausau Sulphate and Fibre
Co. has increased it's directorate to
nine members.
DIR. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells House, Monday, Jan. 16.
Farmers Lave begun hauling rock
to the city stone crusher. The city
will purchase 600 cords this winter.
Stevens Point is to have a govern
ment building. The treasury depart
ment is advertising for bids for its
construction.
For SALE-A heavy work team,
weight 1920 will be sold at bargain
if taken at once. Address B. t.,
Pilot Office. to
c. C. Yawkey has received a new
automobile of the limosine type that
is about the finest thing in that line
ever brought to the city.
The Liederkranz society will elect
officers next Thursday evening, The
annual election is invariably accom-
panied by social features.
The stockholders of the different
banks of the city will meet next
Tuesday and elect directors. The
directors meet at later date and
elect officers.
For SALE-Several nice homes in
good localities in different parts of
the city for sale cheap. Also few
bargains in farms. Apply to Charles
TapliE. S26 Steuben street. If
Farmers Institutes will be held
next week at three points in this
county-Edgar, Plover and Unity. In
connection with the institute at Ed
gar cooking school will be conducted.
Leopold Gross, aged eighty years,
died Wednesday at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. G. a. Wolff in the
town of Weston. He is survived by
five children The funeral was held
Saturday.
Mrs. Augusta Parsons was granted
divorce in circuit court Wednesday
from her husband Anthony. They
were married in 1895, and have one
Child living, of which the mother is
given the custody
Stockholders of the Mathie Brewing
Co. will meet next week on Wednes-
day evening and held their annual
election of directors. The Mathie
Land company will also hold its an
Eual meeting that evening.
The old Breathitt county spirit
breaks out occasionally, among the
colony of Kentuckians located in
Langlade county. On Christmas day
two men got into an alteration, when
guns were drawn and one was shot.
The county board will convene to-
morrow. At this session salaries of
county officers for the ensuing year
will be fixed Auditing committees,
which have been at work on the
officers books, viii also report. 1t is
also dSeiy that appropriations will be
made for bridge and road work. The
session, from present indications, viii
be short one.
A gentleman residing on Franklin
street tells this one on his son: The
boy, a lad of six years, said to his
father one morning last week, ''Pa,
where does Santa Claus get all his
presentsS' To which the parent re-
piled, "He buys them" The boy
fumbled his tin watch in silence for
few minutes and then said, 'sHe must
be a chump, to let them palm of tin
watches on him."
The Merrill Herald now denies that
Jas Wright and +. W. KGbasta were
the leaders in the demonstration at
the Lincoln county fair grounds last
fall when Senator Borah of Idaho,
attempted TO make an address. This,
we infer, means that the two libel
suits started by those gentlemen
against the editor, Mr. johnson, have
been settled out OF court. There has
been rumor to that effect for some
time. The papers were-~f.ed in the
Marathon county circuia court, bqn
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