Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-12-08
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

/ The trustees of the Marathon Coun-
ty Asylum held their regular meeting
on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Dec. I'd, 1914, son
was born unto Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar
Wilson, at Hinsdale, Ill.
Wausau did not have representa-
tive at the good roads banquet at
Merrill on Wednesday evening.
The State Horticulturists will meet
in Madison on the 18th of Dec. The
opening address will be made by Hon.
Henry Johnson, state treasurer.
No. 2 of the fire department turned
out Sunday evening to care for a
chimney fire at the home of VIM.
Hahn, on Second avenue. No dam
age.
No. 3 of the fire department had a
call from Second avenue at about 100
o'clock Saturday morning to care for
chimney fire at the home of Peter
Bernard. No damage resulted.
The stone work on St. Johns church
has been completed and the roof is
now being put on as rapidly as posi-
BILE. AS soon as enclosed the work of
| finishing the interior will be COM
menced.
The J. M. Kuebler Co., manufac-
turers of sash, door and interior finish
is one of the prosperous plants of this
city and in order to more fully meet
its demands for its increasing out
puts, has purchased a new 300 horse
power engine for installation next
month.
1t is said large number of leading
northern Wisconsin men who are in
terested in the preservation of the
deer are in sympathy with the move
ment for sfive-year-closed season for
deer hunting and will indorse legisla-
tion of that character when it is pre-
sented to the legislature. An excel
lent idea and should receive general
endorsement.
A reminder clock for hotels, garages,
taxicab stations, liveries, laundries
and other lines of business where
time reminder is needed for calls and
appointments has just appeared as
the invention of Charles O. Heon, a
former Milwaukee boy, now of James
vile, Wis. 1t took the inventor three
years to work out his first model. He
calls his invention the "Heon Clock
Reminder
An attempt is being made by the
people of Wisconsin to send the Bel
gian sufferers 100000 bushels of pcta-
toes, grown in this state. : )tatoes
never were any better than this year
nor was the crop ever any larger.
The price today is less than 80 cents
bushel and it would not be such a
great hardship to get together this
amount to send to the starving Bel
gians.
Flowing is not a common thing in
northern Wisconsin still that is what
some of the hustling farmers of Mar
athon county are doing these days.
The days are short but can be length
ened by working in the moonlight
and that is what some of industrious
tillers of the soil are engaged at, and
perhaps may SOW next years crops if
the present weather holds out, for as
all know there is a reversal of. the
seasons throughout this whole coun-
try of late years.
Ernest Jaeger of the town of Scott,
Lincoln county, died at the Marathon
county asylum Friday evening. De-
ceased was forty-three years of age.
He had been transferred from the
Oshkosh asylum to this one seven
teen days before his death. The re-
mains were taken to Merrill Saturday
evening and burial took place
in the town of Scott yesterday. Sur
viving are his widow and two daugh-
tiers. His death is also mourned by
two brothers and one sister.