Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-01-13
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Mostly in the Valley OF the Wisconsin
River

The tango and the grapevine dances
have just reached Marshfield. AS yet
the other modern dances are still
tabooed.
The claim is made in Chicago that
Marshl cid is the center Of the "cheese
trust, TO the extent that that city is
a center for large number of factor
les and much of the summer cheese
is placed in storage. Dealers there
decline TO express themselves on the
subject. Marshfielders are, however,
in the lime light.
Elizabeth Henschel, aged IA years,
attempted to commit suicide at
Grand Rapids few days ago. She
went to the Wisconsin river, walked
out on the ice in an attempt to reach
deep water, but was unsuccessful and
then returned to shore.
The postal savings bank system has
been discontinued at the Stratford
postoffice by order of the postmaster
general. Since the system was estab-
lished there, over a year ago, there
has not been single depositor.
Sealers of weights and measures
have found it necessary to caution
dealers against the sale of under
weight butter packages. In many
cases these packages sold for one
pound, only weigh fifteen ounces, and
at present prices of butter the pur.
chaser is swindled out of about three
cents on every pound he buys.
| Sheriff Otto of Shawano county,
shot two wolves few days ago. This
gives him $4,000 bounty.
The matter is being agitated in
Shawano of building new city hall
and Carnegie library.
An organization that embraces en-
ployes of the entire 500 system has
/ been formed for the purpose of pro-
/ noting the Safety First" movement
! A gang OF track layers left Merrill
| Thursday to lay new rails on the G.
M. & st. P. railway from Gilbert to
| Tomahawk.
! And now Stevens Pointer saw a
robin Thursday. The Journal COM
ments, that unless he shows further
symptoms. TIE authorities will not
institute proceedings"
| Myron Clifford of Stevens Point on
Thursday afternoon was found guilty
VI ASSAULT Oulys AC NdS S6uCeuCSu u
the county jail, at hard labor, for the
term of three months.
Wisconsin will spend S4,0OO,000 for
state roads in 1914--the state to pay
one-third.
A new law went into effect Jan. 1st
| of this year and that was that live
poultry shipped in this state must be
placed in boxes or crates with the
| tops covered by a screen, in order to
protect the fowls from having their
eeads cut off by careless expressmen.
Bounties On two wild cats, wolf
and coyote were applied for at the
office of the county clerk OF Langlade
county Thursday Counties pay a
bounty of SO head for and the state
| the same for wolves and coyotes. This
stimulates gunners TO kill them.
The Colby Lumber Co.. purchased
| the Romeo sawmill and the machin-
cry is being prepared for shipment to
this city, and will be placed in the
new building that has been erected
on the site of the one recently burned,
They will be in readiness for saving
as soon as a sufficient stock of logs are
in the yard. Colby Phonograph.
The discontinuance of the port Office
at Harshaw, which was to have be-
come effective December 3lst, 1913,
has been rescinded. The Office, there
fore, will be continued in operation
as heretofore.
Friday solid train of logs, hard
wood and hemlock, moved southwark
from this city The train was an ex-
ira and was made up of thirty cars.
This is one of the first such shipments
to be made beyond this city. Practi-
caIly all this consignment was intended
| for Wausau and Grand Rapids
Merrill Herald.
The Stevens Point Journal pub
fishes the fact, that so years ago, Jan.
| /, 1854, Wisconsin was swept by the
coldesu wave that ever visited this
region. The thermometer was 50 de-
grees below zero. The wind blew a
gale, the air was full of drifting snow.
Many froze to death all over the
northwest that day. All old settlers
will recall the cold New Years and
stiver at the memory.
The Northwestern railroad COM
panv has replaced its wooden mail
cars with more durable ones Of steel
construction.