Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-02-10
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Glt' 81 &Ns.
Mostly in the Valley of the Wisconsin
River

River.
Miss Caroline Fitch, a niece of
Harry Fitch of Nekoosa, has been
appointed postmistress Of Nekoosa.
The state suit involving the life of
tie state forestry reserve will be
argued in the supreme court the
week of April IS.
Several city employees of Merrill
have asked the city council for a
raise in salaries. The former salaries
remain as before.
Edward Krembs of Stevens Point.
500 line brakeman, was killed by a
train at Cadott Tuesday. A widow
and two small children survive.
The report is that this has been
very good winter for the woodSmen
in Eau Claire, and more logs have
been cut than any winter thus far.
The commission form of govern
ment won in Amigo Tuesday 49S to
1872. The proposed change was de-
feated a year ago by about $50 votes
Chas. E. Blodgett of Marshfield
has given 800 to the Wisconsin
Audubon society for bird protection,
the first man in the state to give
donation.
Hand heWed ship timbers are being
hauled from The town of Corning to
Merrill, to be transported to Liver
pool and used in the construction of.
| vessels. The best, longest and straight
est timbers being necessary for the
purpose.
Gov. McGovern has appointed Chas.
| f. Smith, Jr., Municipal Judge of
Rhinelander in place of David III.
| Walker, deceased. S. S. Miller of
| the same city was a candidate for
the position, having some 400 citizens
in his favor, but was turned down."
Many farmers in Langlade county
are having their COWS tested by A.
| j. Schmidt of ShebOygan, being
engaged as tester by the state testing
association. The cows entered num-
| Der 476 and the tester will have to
travel eight miles in making each
| record of the farms.
B. +. Mcmillan, pioneer lumberman
and president of the First National
bank, is still at st. Joseph's hospital,
| Milwaukee, under the care of an eve
| specialist who is trying to save the
| sight of an liberated eve. He will be
| compelled to spend some weeks there.
| Marshtield Times.
| Nomination papers are being circu-
lated in the different counties CT the
| Seventh j judicial circuit for Judge 3.
B. Park of Stevens Point, whose term
! expires jan, 1915, to succeed himself
and he appears TO have no oppoS' ton.
He is a Just Judge and deserving of
nomination and election.
At the requestof the Chief fPolice
of Marshfield the Wausau police ar
| rested man in this city, answering
| to the name of Charles Edwards,
wanted in the former city on charge
| of grand larceny. He was escorted to
| Marshfield for trial in circuit court.
| He is man of many aliases and
| general rover.
Henry E. Roethe, of Fennimore,
| Wisconsin, announces himself for gov
| ernOr on platform of Economy and
/ Lower Taxes" Let's see Didn't
we hear slogan like that about two
| years ago? Don't we hear it Just be-
| fore election every time. And still
the taxes go up, up, up. Show u.s.
| Athens Record.
The late snow falls have been a
| blessing to loggers and to farmers
| generally in getting in their logs,
fire wood, pulp wood, hay. stone, tan
| bark, etc, to the mills and markets
| in the county and neighboring coun-
ties, and men and teams in the log
ging woods are in great demand.
A petition from Marshfield, signed
| by 200 citizens, has been filed at
Grand Rapids, asking the circuit
court to appoint George L. Williams
of the latter city special assistant
| district attorney, for the purpose Of
| prosecuting the case of State VS.. LOUIS
| B. Carl, charged with embezzelment.
Thomas Mullen of Grand Repids,
has engaged in partnership with two
other Rapids men for the purpose of
cutivating ginseng. Already 5000
seeds have been planted. The culti-
waiting of ginseng of late has become
wide industry in Central Wisconsin,
! Marathon county still being in the
lead.
The vicinity of Grand on is the
| scene of many logging operations at
| the present time, owing to the late
| snow falls. OF logs 20,000,000 feet of
hardwood are being gotten out, be-
| sides many thousands of cords of
| pulp wood. The Underwood Veneer
| Co. of this city and others are logging
on the Pelican branch and are rush.
ing out maay thousands of feet of
hardwood timber.
The John Weeks Lumber company
now has upwards of one hundred
men employed in the four logging
camps the company is operating
two near Ashland and two near Mosi-
nee. The f. j. Pfiffner Co. also has a
crew of about fifty men at work in a
logging camp in Ashland county.
| The logs will be manufactured at the
| mill which has been owned and oper-
ated by the company for the past two
years at Sells Spur.-Stevens Point
Journal.