Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-03-04
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

Is geUUlng along nicely.
A move has been started in Eau
Claire to abolish Sunday funerals
Wausau adopted that innovation
some years ago.
F. W. Hoefer of Appleton, chief of
police of that city for the past IS
years, died at his home there last
Friday morning.
The Anchor Casualty company. oc-
cupying offices in the Livingston
building, has moved into rooms in
the Granite block.
For SALE-A dining room table
and sideboard and II leather seated
chairs. Can be bought for S25. Cost
$50. Apply to the Pilot office.
The Lawrence College Glee club
has been engaged for concert April
10th by the boys of Miss Cliffs Sun
day school class of the NJ. E. church.
Another installment of furniture
for the new Office of the Western
Union Telegraph Co. has arrived for
installation. More to follow in the
''sweet by-and-bye."
WANTED-A good salesman for the
sale of nursery stock. Steady work,
weekly payments. A German pre-
ferred. Please address the Coe, Con-
verse and Edwards Company, Fort
Atkinson, Wisconsin. adv. % If
We will buy all kinds of logs at
highest prices, delivered to our saw
mill in the city of Wausau, formerly
the Alexander Stewart Lumber Co.'s
mill, and at railroad landings.
adv If B. HEINEMANN LUMBER Co
The new Indian head and buffalo
design nickels are here and put into
circulation by the different banks in
the city. They are unique and fit
the slot machines to nicely, the
same as the old, SO we are told. The
National German American bank
sent out quite number as souvenirs.
S. T. Walker, formerly of this city,
| later of Rhinelander and stifl later of
| Madison where he has held position
with the Wisconsin Railroad COM
mission, has resigned said position to
become associated with the Stodall-
To-Day Company, dealers in notes,
mortgages and lands and capitalized
at 81, 100000.
At the first annual rural carriers
J meeting, held in Athens a week ago
last Saturday, VIM. Waterhouse of
this city was elected secretary. A
rural carriers examination is to be
held at Wausau March %. Applica-
tions should be handed in ten days
prior to the date as above stated.
Blanks can be procured at the post
office.
| Miss Blanche Armstrong Magazine
Representative. Subscriptions taken
| for all magazines and magazine clubs
at lowest club rates. Special repre-
sentative for the Ladies' Home Jour-
nal, Saturday Evening Post, Define
ator, Good Housekeeping and Wo-
mans Home Companion. lift
Judge A. H. Reid goes to Rhine
lander Monday to open the March
| term of court. There are nine cases
on the criminal calendar, among
which is the case of j. III. Wunder-
| Itch, for manslaughter, he having
placed set gun in the woods during
the past hunting season and killed a
man instead of deer.
On Wednesday afternoon the Ladies'
Auxiliary of the Y. M. G. A. met at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Alexander, in annual session. Re-
| ports were read and the following
officers elected for The ensuing year
President-Mrs. w. r. Chellis.
Vice-Prest.-Mrs d. f. Piper.
Sec. and Treas.-Mrs. W. E. Hudt.
loft.
Next Friday evening at the Y. M
G.. A. there will be a double header
between the Y. M. @. A. first basket
ball team and the Neillsville Co. A
first team and a game between the
Wausau high school five and the
Merrill high school boys. The games
will start at o'clock and will be two
very close games.
Mrs. S. S. Armstrong has rented
her home OF Franklin street to W. A
Mcdonald and expects to leave next
April for Rolf, Neb., where she will
make an extended visit to her son
Harry Armstrong and family. Mrs
Armstrong will spend several weeks
with Mrs. II. j. Evans of this city be
fore she departs for the west.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Stewart, anC
son John, and daughter Miss Helen
are making arrangements to depart
next October for trip around the
world Upon their return to thi'
country they will go to Pasadena
California, to make their home. Thai
they are to make their home else
where than in WauSau is deeply re
GREETED by our people generally.
Within the next four weeks the Y
M. G. A. of this city, will hold ;
minstrel entertainment at the opera
house. The date upon which thi'
win be given has not as yet beer
fully determined. The show viii
consist of many excellent feature:
among which there will be chorus
consisting of 65 voices. There will b,
many of the latest hits sung by tn,
chorus. The entertainment will b'
given by the boys Dept. of the Y.
The late Mrs. John E. Leahy wa
laid TO rest in Pine Grove cemeter,
Thursday afternoon. Funeral ser
vices were conducted at the home O
the deceased at o'clock by Rev. J
NJ. Duer, pastor of the First Presby
terrain church. Numerous floral offer
ings were mute testimonials of the
esteem in which the departed was
held by near and dear relatives ant
friends. The pail bearers were, Wal
ter Alexander, j. n. Manson, w. B
Scholfield, G. S. Curtis, W. T. Law
renee and NJ. c. Ewing.