Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-17

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vaudeville troupe engaged, will be
next Thursday.
The ladies of st. James church are
making elaborate arrangements for a
bazaar to be held in st. James hall
in November and are planning to
conduct it on a record breaking scale.
The proceeds are to be for the benefit
of the new church of that society,
the construction of which is being
actively resumed.
The Northwestern railroad has been
directed by the state railroad rate
commission to install and maintain
an automatic alarm system at it's
crossing on Main st. in Marathon
City, and to illuminate the same by
sign at night. The matter was taken
up the past summer, after several
accidents had occurred.
Miss Blanche Armstrong magazine
representative. Subscriptions taken
for all magazines and magazine clubs
at lowest rates obtainable. Special
representatives for Ladies' Home
Journal, Saturday Evening Post, De-
lineator and WOman's Home Compan-
ion. Your subscriptions respectfully
solicited. SIG Mcclellan st. If
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
Do,,+;c+ oI,,rob 1UhioL mot with MrC
w. E. Curtis last Wednesday after
noon elected officers for the ensuing
year as follows:
PreSident-MrS. G. d. Jones.
Vice President-Mrs. S. B. TObey.
Secretary-Mrs. Walter BOlin.
TreaSurer-Mrs. VIM. r. Chellis.
Last Saturday John Foster, deputy
game warden, shipped sugar barrel
full of fish nets to Madison. The
nets were ones which he had 'cOntis-
ticated," as a certain gentleman We
know pronounces the word. The nets
have been picked up the past season
ION streams in Marathon county. In
Madison they are sold at auction sale.
Pursuant to orders given in this
city, telegraphed to the dam tenders
up north, all the dams of the WiscOn-
sin Valley Improvement company
have been kept closed since the last
big rain. Had the water from these
reservoirs been released a week ago,
some cities in the valley might
have suffered as Black River Falls
did.
An Oneida county hOmeSteader ap-
peared before Judge Reid last week
to plead guilty to The charge of man
slaughter, but the judge would not
accept the plea, because the man had
secured no attorney. The fellow a
few days before had mistaken a
neighbor for a bear and killed him.
When shot, the man was at work
digging potatoes. He was thirty
years old and leaves his wife and two
small children.
We have for rent a nice home on
Fulton street. Good location and
best of neighbors. Cheap to good
parties. Crocker-Thayer Land Co.
Lumbermen state that there will
be less activity next winter in lum-
boring operations than during the
past two winters. One reason is that
during the summers of 19O9-10 forest
fires killed a large acreage of standing
timber in this state, and to save the
timber it had to be logged the follow
ing winter. This had a tendency to
flood the market with lumber, and
there are at present big stocks on
hand in most yards.
We are informed that during the
high water of ten days ago. the Dancy
drainage district supplied a lake
which was within few acres of be-
ing as large as lake Michigan. y
WauSau gentleman who visited that
section at the time states that, wish
ing to call on a certain farmer, he
found it necessary to ride a horses
back, the horse being up to his breast
in the water when standing in front
Of the mans doorway. The man
had built a platform in his pig pen
50 as to keep his pigs from drowning.
Hay stacks also were standing up to
their breasts in the water.
a week ago, at the time of the
food, trains 107 and los which ply
over the Northwestern, were not run
over this branch, on account of the
condition of the roadbed. They were
run over the new line via. Ripon,
Wautoma and Grand Rapids. Dur
ing the week no passenger train was
allowed to cross a bridge between
Eland Jet. and MarShfeld until
stop had been made and the train
crew had inspected the structure
In some cases all pas
sengers were ordered out Of the cars
and compelled to cross bridges on
foot Never before to our recollec-
ton were such precautionary meas
ures taken.
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