Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-10
MARATHON COUNTY
Vast Possibilities in Store for Those
Who Come Here to Reside, So Says
One Who Has Had Experience.

Mr.. and Mrs. John II. Chesak of |
Athens were in the city last Friday |
on business and pleasure. Mr.. Chesak |
does not come to Wausau as often as |
lie used to, nevertheless his name is a |
familiar one to all of our business |
men. 1t has been 33 years the 18th |
day of March, 1914, since the Chesaks |
came to Marathon county. Their |
father came up to this neighborhood
in 1881 to find a place in which to
locate his sons. At that time the
elder Chesak was offered 100 acres Cf
land on the west side of the Wiscon-
sin river at Wausau for $1,000 and
which is now covered with handsome
homes. 1t looked to him like big
sand heap and he was assured by
many that Wausau was nothing but
numbering town and that as the
timber adjacent thereto was about
exhausted, the city had reached its
grow th and would soon commence to
go backward, or, in other words, grow
smaller At that time there were
very few buildings on the west side
of the river. Mr.. Chesak went out to
Athens, it was then known as Black
Creek Falls, and from there looked
over Poniatowski and concluded that
the latter place promised better pos
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by farmers, all doing thriving busi-
ness. He purchased the general store
at that place of which his sons Joseph
and John took possession shortly
afterwards. John II. Chesak sold out
| his interest ten years later to his
brother, Joseph, and went to Athens
with his family twenty three years
ago in June, where he has been ever
since as manager of the Athens Man
ufacturing company, and in which
plant he is also heavily interested.
Mr.. Chesak has been heavy dealer
in lands and timber, having the ut
most faith in future growth and pos
sibilities of old Marathon and his sue
| cess speaks louder than words Of his
good judgment. Mr.. Chesak thinks
that the prospects for Investment and
making good returns in Marathon
county are even better now than ever
before. He cited The thousands of
acres of cut over lands which can be
purchased at very low prices-all the
best of farming lands. He is especial
| ly enthusiastic over his own town
and its surroundings. He has watched
it grow from small village to 1900
inhabitants and he knows that where
the hardwood forests have stood in
that part of our county, all tnGVtary
to that town, there are no better
farming lands in the country, and
the timber still on the lands makes
them all the more valuable to the
farmer, who would nave much
harder row TO hoe on the praine
lands further west. Mr.. Chesak says
that the men who thought the tim
Der exhausted thirty years ago, if
living now, know that the mills are
cutting more now than they ever aid,
and the prospects are that conditions
as to this industry will continue long
after the present generation has
passed away; and constantly follow
ing in its wake are the agricultural
interests: that considering the fertil-
ity Of our lands, there can be no
backward movement in progress Of
Marathon county.
Joseph Chesak continued in mer-
camille business at Poniatowski until
two years ago when he disposed Of
his interests and he and his family
have now been residents of Athens
for the past seven years. Marathon
county is 70 be congratulated upon
having such men as the Chesaks
within its limits. The ability and
enthusiasm has proven much worth
TO the county, as whole.
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