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

Christian Scientist subject for next
Sunday will be Christian Science
Sunday was the shortest day of the
year and the old earth is now swing
ing back to spring and summer.
This Wright Directory company of
Milwaukee delivered the directory of
the city on Thursday and Friday.
! j. W. Bishop has been confined to
his home with an attack of pneu
monia. He is getting along nicely
now, and has been able to be out
again.
AT no time during the past year
has the dust been so bad as during
the past week. With every passage
of an automobile and every gust of
wind, clouds have been raised.
No peddler may engage in the bust
ness of peddling in Wisconsin with
out having the official badge worn in
conspicuous place on his person ac--
cording to a ruling by attorney
Owen.
Miss Elsie Buttke of this city and
Mr.. Max Tress OF the town of Stettin
were married Thursday afternoon at
the Trinity Lutheran church, the
Rev. j. I. Destinon officiating. Mr..
and Mrs. Tress will make their home
| in WauSau.
At Mondoyi two teams of 80 men
each went on hunting expedition in
the woods near that town. The con-
test was for supper to the team
shooting the greatest number of
rabbits. One side killed 200 and the
other 300 A good many rabbits
! down that way.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Sicard of Fort
Smith, Ark, are mourning the loss of
their thirteen years old daughter,
Ellen, who passed away Dec. 18th.
She was the eldest of three children.
Mr.. Sicard was former resident of
WauSau and all friends tender heart
felt sympathy to the bereaved.
Congressman Browne has given out
notice that the State Civil Service
Commission of Wisconsin will hold a
competitive examination for a cadet
ship at the United States Naval Aca-
denny at Annapolis, at Waupaca,
Wis, Jan. Sd, 1914. All the young
| mon i'm r. no diStriof batuaao tho onac
OF. Is TO 20 are eligible to take this
examination.
| Snow and cold weather are needed
in the woods of northern Wisconsin
to bring the logs and pulp wood to
the mills. Lnmbermen have been
unable to get any timber out of the
woods because of the unusual weather
conditions. AS result many men
are out of employment. Also men on
railroads are being laid off on account
of the weather conditions.
A big-hearted purchaser of Red
Cross Seals recently complained be-
cause the seals did not come in sheets
larger than 100. He had prepared
Christmas. package for his daughter
and had conceived the idea that he
would wrap it entirely in Christmas
Seals. AS the present was bulky, the
sheets of 100 were not sufficient. He
solved his problem, however, by past
ing several sheets of seals on large
piece of wrapping paper, in which he
enclosed his daughters gift,
Among the relatives and friends of
this city and elsewhere who attended
the funeral of the late Mrs. Karl
Weinkauf at Edgar were her sons,
Edward, julius, William and Paul of
Wausau and August and Otto of Mil.
waukee; John Dobrinz and son VIII
of Fargo, n. D.; Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Seim and son, Edward, Wausau; Mrs.
Edward Patzer and son, Henry. Mer-
rill; Richard, Arthur and Miss Ella
DobrinZ, Mrs. Katherine BrisBois,
Wausau; Mrs. Matt Gallon, town of
Maine; Carl Gohdes, Aug. Buss and
Mr.. and Mrs. r. GohdeS, of town of
Texas: Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Wyland of
| Wausau.