Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-14
SHORT ITEMS.

Saturday and gave us touch of
winter, that is compared to the warm
weather we have been enjoying.
A good many of the devotees of
golf took advantage of the fine
weather Saturday and played the
game during the afternoon at the
Country club grounds.
A warrant has been issued by the
Mayor of Marshfeld against Louis B.
Carl, charging him with embezzlement
to the amount of S2,82689. Carl was
formerly Supt. of the water works of
that city.
The wind Saturday played particu-
lar hob with our streets. The dust
was so bad at times that one couldn't
see a foot ahead and the clouds of
our surface dirt could be seen flying a
hundred feet high.
A rich vein of iron ore has been
discovered on a farm in Washburn
county, near Couderay, Wis. Investi-
cations have been going on for some
time and options taken on farms and
land in that vicinity.
For ideal paints for inside floors
and for stains and varnishes, for all
interior wood work, including furni-
ture, Pier has a complete line to
select from. When you want any of
these goods remember him. advt
The johnson Electric company of
this city has secured the contract for
doing the electrical wiring in the
Merchants State bank at Rhine
lander, and the company now has a
crew of men there doing the work.
Frank Kelly went up to his cottage
on lake Catherine Friday morning
and was accompanied by K. A. Good
ing. They hunted cartridges for a
few days and returned Sunday even
ing, having had very good success.
Anton Bury was brought into NUM-
cipal court Friday on a charge of non
support of his family. Promising to
go to work and support them the
case was adjourned for two weeks, in
order to test his inclinatiOns in that
direction
When an itinerant solicitor for
printing strikes a town he usually
obtains orders from business men,
who would holler the loudest if their
local newspapers would advertise for
mail order house. IT'S strange
but true. 1t makes us wonder. Does
it you?
After an examination in the juven-
lie branch of the municipal court
Friday, Geo. Roeder, Jr., aged eight
years, son of Geo. Roeder, ST., of Rib
Falls, has been taken to the state re-
formatory for boys at Waukesha. The
commitment was made at the request
of his father.
If the two loads of rock dumped
out at the post office corner is a
sample of the bed of rotten rock re-
Gently found near Wausau and which
is to be used to repair our streets, the
Lord have mercy on the inhabitants
of Wausau. The rock hauled and
and dumped there should be hauled
off again to save the reputation of
the city.
In the old items of twenty-five years
ago, the Stevens Point Gazette has
the following which is interesting:
"Mark Barnum, the erstwhile auburn
locked, but now gray haired editor of
the Wausau Torch and DR.. A. w.
Trevitt of the same place, spoke to
large audience at the rink last Satur-
day evening, while B. W. Pulling sang
some of his original verses"
H. C. Stewart and family are max
ing preparations to surrender their
present home in this city to Louis
Dessert and family of Mosinee the
last week of this month, when the
latter will move i'm about the first of
November, the former departing for
their new home in Pasadena, Cali
fornia about the first of the coming
month. The purchase price OF this
new home by Mr. Dessert has not
been made known up to the present
time.
Logging operations, some on an ex-
tenSive scale, have started in this
section of the lumber country and
large crews of men are being sent to
the camps almost daily. The know
ing ones most interested say that the
cut will be much larger this season
than last, due to the fact that bust
ness has been good in the lumber
field, while stocks have decreased and
the outlook for future business is
quite promising. Consequently, Wau-
sau's supply of logs is as usual forth
coming.
The extension and installation of
the ornamental street lighting system
on the streets on Third from Grant
to McIndoe, on Jefferson from First
to Fifth and on Jackson from Second
TO Fourth is at a standstill, owing to
the nonarriyal of the transformer and
standards. AS soon as arrival they
will be erected and equipped for
regular duty, the same as Others of
like nature, and illuminate WauSau
brighter than ever. Thus doeth
Wausau move in slow but sure way
and in conformity to its usual substan-
tial progress.
A double wedding took place in st.
James church on Tuesday. The con-
tractinr nartieS were.