Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-05-13
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

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Donald Ploss has new Chalmers
Detroit fiye-passenger car.
The Wisconsin Bankers Association,
Group six, will meet in Grand Rapids,
May %.
The circuit court for Marathon
county convened yesterday morning
in the court house.
The Reams Motor Car Co. has built
a cement walk on the north side of its
garage the past week.
G. j. Winton of Minneapolis, was in
the city Thursday looking after his
various interests here.
The work of repairing the band
stand on the county square and re-
painting same is now in progress.
Rev. L. P. Peeke of Fond du Lac,
preached in the Presbyterian church,
Sunday. Rev. ] NJ. Duer is i'm the
South.
The committee appointed by the
legislature to pass upon the sites for
the state fair, it is stated, will visit
Wausau this week.
B. A. Weichman, who has been con-
Quoting a pharmacy at Merrill has
closed out his business there and
moved back to this city.
Frank Kelly is building summer
cottage on lake Catherine, at Hazel
hurst. Mr.. Kelly's grounds are across
the lake from the town.
Virgil O. Stricken will deliver a
free lecture on Christian Science at
the Universalist church next Thurs
day evening, commencing at 8:l5.
Nathan Heinemann has had his
residence grounds raised and nicely
laid out. Mr.. Heinemann is making
ing other improvements on his prem
iSeS.
Mrs. Eliza Pomeroy and Miss Goldie
Short were elected by Arbutus Lodge
No. Is ID. r. to attend meeting of
the order on the Sd, 4th and 9Th days
of June at Fond du Lac.
L. f. Sargent, of Wausau, was in
town last week, and while here sold
his opera house property to H. H.
Leisenfeldter, the ticket agent at the
Northwestern depot. -Crandon Re-
publican.
A prehistoric Indian graveyard has
been uncovered at La Crosse. Labor
ers digging a sewer ran into grave
of skeletons, fragments of pottery and
arrowheads. By those able to judge
the graves are about 600 years old.
The swimming classes organized by
the management of the Y and which
have been continuing the past week
will keep on with the work the COM
ing week. There have been large
classes from all of the grade schools
of the city.
L. Hillmershausen and Albert Kutz
of Rib Falls and Otto Kutz of the
town ofStettin were arrested Wednes-
day for netting fish in Big Rib river,
by j. w. Foster and M. G. Thorn,
game wardens. They each paid fine
of $500 and costs.
Superintendent Thayer Young,
Thursday received word that his wife,
who is with relatives in Wausau, pre-
sented him with bouncing baby boy.
He went over in the afternoon to get
acquainted with the arrival. Marsh
field News.
Time is drawing near for the close
of the school year and many of the
scholars are anxiously awaiting it al
though some will start in to work
through the summer. months. The
change from headwork to manual
labor is good thing and probably it
is done by some for their own bene-
fit.
The baseball team drew the largest
crowd last Wednesday at Yawkey
Park that ever paid admission in this
city to see ball game. Over 1900
fans and admirers of the game were
present and it is very probable that,
had the weather not been so threat
ening in the afternoon, crowd of
1900 would have witnessed the vic
tory.
At recent meeting of st Johns
Vestry, l.. A. Pradt and G. Edgar
were chosen to attend the diocesan
council which will be held in Fond
du Lac. The question of changing
the name of protestant Episcopal"
to american Catholic" will be con-
Sidered and st. Johns church of
Wausau has passed resolution
against such change of name.
Mrs. J. r. Bruneau, at her home on
Grant street, met with serious acct
dent on Wednesday afternoon. In
passing from the parlor to the hall
she suddenly fell on the floor and
fractured her left hip. Mrs. Buneau
has been in declining health for a
number of years and this unfortunate
mishap, at her ages years, has
much enfeebled her and causes great