Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-06-09

Mostly in the Valley Of the Wisconsin
River.

Ttu Leulner OF ManlJOWOc, FORM
erly Of this city, Is being doomed for
the state presidency of the Elks, in
session here today and tomorrow.
Announcement has been made tina
the St. Paul Railway company will
build new passenger depot at Toma-
hawk at once, which is long felt
want.
RhiEelander Is a aking preparations
to celebrate the coming Fourth of
July. A committee is already out
engaged in soliciting funds for the
event.
About eight miles of steel has al
ready been laid on the new extension
of the G. M. & ST. Paul railway. Last
week large crew OF men began plac-
Ing gravel on the right Of way.
Peter Jensen, farmer residing
half mile from Withie, was blown to
atoms on Monday of last week by the
premature explosion of dynamite
which he was using to blow out
stumps.
Mosiaee is preparing to celebrate
the coming Fourth, a mass meeting
having been called for the purpose
last evening. Not move as yet has
been made to celebrate the day in
| WauSau
Major c. Werden of Amigo, one of
the oldest Masons of the state and
| one of the best abstract men in north
| ern Wisconsin, died at his home in
Amigo OH Tuesday He was also
war veteran.
Flag day, June Ia, falls upon Sun
day this year and is the 18th birthday
anniversary of our stars and stripes.
Every business place and home in the
city should display the national ensign
on that day, even thought is Sunday.
Every kind of wood grown in North
ern Michigan and Wisconsin will en-
ter into the construction of bunga-
low which is to Constitute the exhibit
by the lumber interests of the state
at the Forest Products Elk position at
Chicago.
Fred Nelson, Wood county farmer
charged with selling diseased pork to
a Marshfeld butcher, has been found
guilty and paid fine of Sl0l.5O. He
should have been compelled to eat
the diseased mess.
| Thomas O'Brien, the long distance
walker, has again started on his long
walk from Rhinelander to Washing
ton, ID. G. O'Brien is a sufferer from
paralysis and it is in nope of recover
ing his health that he makes these
journeys on foot.
All indications point to big day
in Rhinelander next Monday, as one
hundred representative southern
bankers are to visit that city on that
day. The purpose of which is to
familiarize themselves with the re-
sources and opportunities of northern
Wisconsin.
In an opinion to District Attorney
e. P. German of Marathon county,
Atty. Gen. Owen holds that where a
building occupied as saloon is burned
the town board has no authority to
allow the saloonlleeper to move his
place to another without a new Ii
cense.
The county board of Lincoln county
will meet in Merrill Saturday to con-
slider the proposition of bonding the
county in support of the Minneapolis,
J Merrill & Marinette railway. The
new bond TO be submitted calls for
$40, 500 instead OF $4,000 which was
presented some time ago.
Declaring that in his opinion the
surety laws which include the bond
ing of saloon keepers seeking license
are constitutional Atty. Gen. Owen
said on Tuesday that he had never
given an opinion that the saloon
keepers could not be bonded by surety
companies.
The State Bank of Mosinee has
been recognized and now has CAPT
tai of $50, 900, with a surplus fund OF
. $4,000. The officers are as follows
A. yonBerg, president; Louis Dessert,
1st yice-president; John Mcclure, End
vice-president; w. A. vonBerg, cash
Ter; E. B. Won Berg, assistant cashier.
The legend, Guaranteed under the
Food Drugs Act" which is found on
the label of many goods, is to be
abolished by the government. 1t
means absolutely nothing to the pur-
chaser, goods SO marked may be adul-
terated and mishranded to the last
degree. There Is no authority In law
for it, and all that it's use has done is
to fool some people into believing that
the goods so labeled had been in
spected by the government.