Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-12-23

A Merry christmas TO you all, is
the sincere wish of the PILOT.
Mrs. Joslin and little daughter,
who have been i'll with pneumonia,
are now improving rapidly.
The opening of the Training school
has been postponed one week and will
open on the 9Th day of January.
Mrs. A. H. Schmidt, who has been
at st. Mary's hospital for some tim e,
was able to return home. on Satur-
day.
The Pilot is issued on Monday
evening this week, that it may be in
the homes of subscribers before
Christmas.
Judge and Mrs. A. H. Reid moved
into their newly finished home on
Franklin street last Saturday. 1t is
one of the very handsome homes of
our city.
The Musical club of the state uni
versity start out on its annual Christ
mas trip, Dec. %. 1t takes in four
cities: Wausau, Appleton, Oshkosh
and Green Bay.
Rev. w. II. Gould of the Universal
ist church delivered the address be-
fore the Y. NJ. 9. A. Sunday after
noon meeting. His theme was 1.-THE
Young Man of Business.
A letter to the PILOT from Seattle
says: "We are having a splendid fall
here; we have had no frosts yet and
hence the roses are in bloom. So far
we have had very little rain"
II. A. Marth has resigned his posi-
ton as one of the chefs OF the
Crystal cafe and proposes to enter in
TO business for himself either here or
at some other good point
Stark's Sweet Shop is the place to
get your candies of distinction-the
kind you always like-for the holt
days. They are made of the purest
materials under ideal, cleanly condi-
tions. His place is at the same old
popular stand as heretofore. adv
G. 2. James has resigned his position
as agent for the Standard Oil Co., in
this city for the past fourteen years
and has purchased the WauSau AL
kali establishment, located near the
tannery. VIM. Heller succeeds Mr..
James as the oil company's agent.
The Salvation Army people have
been soliciting funds during the past
week to feed needy families a Christ
mas dinner and contributions have
been quit freely given to their kettle.
Their occupation is grand one and
deserves all the assistance required on
this occasion.
A. +. Rapraeger, assessor of in
comes and whose office was formerly
in the Marathon County bank build
ing, has moved into rooms on the
third floor of the court house. Those
desiring to meet him on business in
connection with his Office will always
find him there at regular hours.
Rev. w. J. Turner who was pastor
for some time of the East side Pres
byterian church at Merrill and who
had been a prominent minister of the
state for twenty-five years, died Sat
urday night at his home in Ironwood,
where he had been pastor of the Pres
byterian church since 1912. He had
many friends here and in Merrill.
Burial will take place in kilbOurn on
Wednesday afternoon.
The case of Ernst Kunze VS.. Carl
Schmoekei in circuit court ended
Saturday afternoon. This case was
brought by the plaintiff for the recoy-
cry of a strip of land in possession of
the defendant for about thirty years.
The jury brought in verdict for the
defendant The law is very plain in
this instance. If any one occupies a
piece of land for twenty years with
out any title to it whatsoever he is
the owner of the land.
A resident of Brokaw, a local adj
vance agent for the Menace" an
anti-religiouS sheet, drew large
crowd at Elks' hall last Tuesday
evening His main object seems to
have been to excite hatred of GER
tain religion and to organize society
of the Guardians of Liberty in this
city of comparative unity and friend
ship. Newspaper reporters were ex-
cluded from the meeting but they
protested and remained A private
meeting is TO be held later.
The case of the city of WauSau VS..
the Sigerstrom Piano company, long
pending for many months in Munich
pal court, has been recently settled,
the city paying the cost and damages,
amounting to SSS. The city had sued
the itenerant company for So daily,
for selling its wares in this city. A
similar case being up before the
supreme court and deciding that the
license ordinance was unconstitution-
al, because the fee was excessive.
Hence that is why the city declared
the case off and settled it.
The NOrth-bound passenger train
on the st. Paul road was two hours
late as per schedule time Saturday
morning and Sunday afternoon. Sat
urday mornings train found slight
fall of snow on its track and Sunday
afternoons train was delayed by fall
of several degrees in the thermometer,
the engineer, therefore, being unable
TO keep up sufficient steam TO arrive
| here on time Monday mornings
train was also late 10 minutes for an
other reason hardly worth mentioning.