Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-06-25
SHORT ITEMS.

1893 lOi sale Az NJ LipSki . Siltittiy
new stock. Opposite city hall.
A blind flute player discoursed some
very sweet music on our streets few
evenings the past week.
The roof of the Y. NJ. G. A. has
been given coat of tar the past week
and other improvements made.
The Wisconsin State Dental society
will hold its forty-second annual meet
ing in Oshkosh on the 9th to the 18th
of July.
A. NJ. Petersen is being urged to
run for the Office of coroner this fall.
Mr.. Petersen is popular man in the
city and county and would make an
excellent coroner.
w. L. Edmonds is erecting a sub
stantial new porch TO his residence
fronting Grant street, which will add
very materially to the appearance of
that pleasant home
On Wednesday afternoon at 500
o'clock the fire department was called
to put out a fire in rubbish pile
back of the Alexander Stewart Lum-
Der Co.'s old boarding house.
Clothing in grays, stripes, plaids
and silk mixed effects; each one made
individually, all by hand, and perfect
in style and every other detail, at
Seim Bros opposite the court house.
At the annual convention of the
state grand lodge of the Knights OF
Pythias held i'm Oconomcwoc last
week, Franklin E. Bump of this
city, was honored with the election
of Grand Master of Arms.
Our national banks made state
ments of their conditions last Wednes-
day on request of the U. S. comptrol-
Ter of the currency. These reports
were excellent ones and showed those
banks to be in splendid financial con-
dition.
The Boy Scouts and Scouts band,
that went down from this city to
Stevens Point, last week to attend
the state encampmcnt of Boy Scouts,
returned home on Wednesday even
ing They report having had de-
lightful time.
Rose, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Lowe, PIT Mcintosh road,
died June 10Th, 1912. The child had
been sick about week. The funeral
was held Saturday at 1:30 O'Clock
from the home, interment being
made in Pine Grove cemetery.
On Friday, while walking down
Third street in front of the Fair
store, Herman Steiteinger, a farmer
living in the Town of Weston, was
taken sick and fell to the side walk.
He was picked up and when revived
was taken to the Central house.
Building operations on the new
city hall have been partially sus-
pended for a few days, owing to the
non-arrival of very necessary build
1 ing materials to proceed with the
work. A small crew of laborers, are
about the premises engaged in pre-
pairing the foundation grounds for
the delayed articles.
Special suits for boys, from I to Is
years, fine blue serges, fancy cheviots
and cassimeres, just what mothers
want for their boys for the 4th,
at Seim Bros opposite the court
house.
John Schwister, the Wausau ayia-
tor, will arrive in this city June 18th.
Mr.. Schwister has been engaged to
give a couple of flights in his three
passenger machine at the Firemen's
convention which is to be held in
this city July % to the 25th. Mr..
Schwister has also been engaged to
fly at Stevens Point, July 4th.
The Wausau street railway has at
work an automatic rail grinder. The
rails are little high at the joints
and it was deemed advisable to have
them ground down. The work of
grinding the rails is very slow, some
of them requiring about an hour and
half to level. The machine is oper-
ated by electric power
c. G. Pier, the paint and wall paper
man, near the west end of Scott
street, is about one of the busiest
dealers in town just at this time. Go
down to his store and choose what
you want out of his large stock. He
would rather close his doors than
knowingly sell an unsatisfactory roll
of paper, can of paint or anything
else in his line.
The store building formerly occu-
pied by Fred Burt, is being fitted up
by mechanics for occupancy 10y Will
liam Weinkauf, (Billy's Toggery'o
who will remove his stock of mems
clothing and furnishings from his
former location to said new one. The
front, interior and shelves, counters,
show cases, cabinets, lighting fixtures,
ETC., are to be modern i'm all respects.
Wednesday night, at about HOO
o'clock, the fire department was called
out to extinguish fire in the barn of
Michael Saykalley, 132 Ninth avenue.
BY the time the fire department ar
rived on the scene the fire had gotten
a good headsay and was beyond con-
troll, The barn was a story and half
structure, also consisted of a wood
shed, and was total loss of about
$3.50.
Will, .,cs1.l.,t L.: 4.