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

night to Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Porath.
DIR. Turbin, the eminent German
specialist and surgeon, will be at the
Bells Honse, Monday, Feb. ID.
United States civil service examina-
tions are scheduled to be held in this
city on March and April and II.
The Eagles installed officers Friday
night in their new headquarters, the
Elks' hall. Following the installa-
tion refreshments were served, and a
dance was given.
Do you want shingles? If you do
call and look over our large assort-
ment and get prices before purchasing
elsewhere.
If. BARKER 8 STEWART LUMBER Co.
Richard Relitz, employed in the
yards of the st. Paul Ry. Co., met
with an accident Thursday morning.
which necessitated the amputation Of
one toe of his left foot. The foot was
also badly crushed.
The trustees of the asylum met
Saturday morning and selected DR..
w. A. Ladwig as a successor to DR..
III. L. Rosenberg as county physician.
The trustees also passed resolutions
on the latter's death.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Geisel, residing
at the corner of Paramount and
Washington AYES, lost their infant
daughter Emily Thursday morning
The child was year old. The fun
eral was held Saturday afternoon.
Frank Schmeling has accepted a run
from Chicago to st. Paul over the
Omaha road, in the interests of the
American Express Co. For some
time he has been located in Grand
Rapids as agent for the company.
At the skat tournament held at
Paul Weinkauf's place last Wednes-
day evening, E. G. Kretlow and Philip
Stadler were chosen as delegates to
the state skst league convention and
tournament to be held in Milwaukee
Jan. %.
Miss Blanche Armstrong will be
pleased to receive subscriptions to
the Ladies' Home Journal, Saturday
Evening Post, Delineator, Woman's
Home Companion and az magazine
clubs. SIC Mcclellan st. sl3-tf
Frank Schultz has been chosen
chairman of the town board of the
town of Elderon, to succeed A. j.
Plowman. Mr.. Schultz has been on
the town board for about four years,
and probably will represent that
town on the county board next year
If the voters see fit to elect him.
JOS Nadeau, employed in the plant
of the Marathon Paper Mills Co. at
Rothschild, suffered the seyering of
one of the fingers of his right hand
one day last week. A large knife
which clips off paper into sheets as
it comes out of a machine, fell and
cut off one finger and injured several
others.
The national guard of Wisconsin
stands second among the guardsmen
of the country in the matter of marks
manship, being led by Idaho. Wis
consin's rating is 1912, while Idaho's
is 1O6.5S, but the latter's figures are
based on the work of only 524 men,
while Wisconsin had 2,96s men in
competition. Wisconsin also stood
second among forty-nine states and
territories in the percentage of its
guardsmen present at the annual
armory inspection in 1910. Co. / of
Neenah leads the forty-two companies
of this state in small arms practice.
A mixed train, composed Of an en-
CINE, seven freight cars and coach,
was wrecked on the Athens branch of
the 500 one day last week, at a point
five miles east of AbbotSford, in the
town of Holton, this county. Owing
TO the spreading Of the rails all the
cars were derailed and tipped over on
their sides. The tender was also de-
rallied but not overturned. All the
cars tipped far enough of to clear the
tracks except the coach. The train
was running about . miles an hour
when wrecked, and the passengers and
crew were badly shaken upand bruised.
Two of the crew and several passen-
gers were semitic the hospital at Chip
pewa Falls.