Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-03-02
SHORT ITEMS.

Geo. Cook of Unity, both received
bounties on wolf pelts the past week.
Fire, on Friday, swept the interior
of the Episcopal church Of Interces-
sion at Stevens Point and destroyed
the Sunday school room causing loss
of $4,000
Fire squads No. 2 and were called
out Saturday morning to attend the
burning out of chimney at the
home of Ernest Rosenbaum. No dam
age caused.
Miss Blanche Armstrong, Special
Magazine Representative. Subscrip-
lions taken for all magazines at low
est clubbing rates. sic Mcclellan St.
Phone 1911. n24-tf
Peter Strachota of Stratford, re-
Gently hauled to Marshield, with
two horse team, a load of clover seed
containing 100 bushels and received
check of $S75 in payment.
The old Chippewa Indian weather
prophets in the Couderay reservation
are predicting very early spring this
year and claim that sleighing will
break up within the next ten days.
Wausau Lake Chautauqua will put
on a course of fifteen numbers next
July. Wausau will be in circuit
comprising the cities of Kenosha,
Milwaukee, Appleton, Eau Claire, La
Crosse and Madison.
Eggs are now quoted in Wausau at
25 cents per dozen. Meats, the b3st,
at 70 cents per pound. Many persons
prefer eggs in place of meat during
the high prices of the latter, for it is
said they are just as nutricious.
Miss Florence Cook, teacher of the
Sayner school, is in the Wausau hospi-
tai to be operated upon for appendi-
citis. Miss Prudence Bates left yes
terday for Sayner to teach in Miss
Cooks place.-Eagle River News.
Charged with having sold mortgaged
property A. r. Baken was recently ar
rested and subjected to a preliminary
hearing in municipal court Wednes-
day. At the close he was held for
trial at the next term of the circuit
court, his bail bond being fixed at
$500.
Mrs. Margaret Kipke has been
granted 6 divorce from Henry Kipke
in circuit court during the past week.
She was given the custody of their
two children and also the household
goods. Kipke is obligated to contrib
ute monthly $4,000 for the support
of the children-$l5.00 for each.
Anton Derda, who was lately re-
moved from passenger train on the
Milwaukee road and who was granted
S25 damages in circuit court last
week, is now being held for expenses
in the case, for the reason that unless
a verdict for at least $50 was secured
the costs are up to him for payment.
Emil Tress was found guilty in
municipal court of petit larceny
Thursday morning and was fined
$500 and costs. The charge was that
he entered K. J. Anderson's barn in
this city and helped himself to sever
al articles belonging to Frank Berry.
He paid up and left for home a
sadder and wiser man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. E. Malik came
over from Clintonville last Sunday
and were accompanied by the lady's
sister, Miss Mary Berens, who had
been their guest several days. Mr..
Malik is spending most of the week
at Milladore, where he is interested
in the merchandise business.-Stevens
Point Gazette.
Otto Juers, cashier in the freight
Office of the Milwaukee road in this
city, has been added to the clerical
force in the Marathon County Bank,
beginning yesterday. Otto is son of
City Treasurer Henry Juers and is a
very capable young man and the rail-
road company disliked to part with
him on account of his ability and in
tegrity.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Bunker of the
town of Wausau, who own and oper-
ate saloon and dance hall in said
town, were arrested Friday on the
charge of keeping disrepuGable resort.
Saturday morning they were brought
before Judge Marchetti for examine
ton. The hearing was postponed un-
til next Friday, each giving bail for
their appearance on that day.
Another packing company is being
organized by the official representa-
tives of the American Society of
Equity at New Richmond, Wis, with
a capital of s250,O0O called the Inter-
County Cooperative Packing CON-
pany. Soon these institutions will be
as common as our public schools.
Fifteen per cent. for capital raising
will bring ''de nun" every time
9. 5. post oficel Wausau, Wis. Office
| OF custodian, Feb. $40. Sealed proposals will
| be received at this building until O'Clock D.
M, April 2. 1915 and then opened, for furnish
/ ing electric current, gas, water. and miScel-
| laueOuS supplies, removing ashes and washing
| towels during the fiscal year ending June 30,
/ 1916. Sealed proposals will also be received
until O'Clock D. m, April IL. 1918. and then
/ opened. for 20 tons hituminous coal. The right
/ to reject any and all bids is reserved by the
| Treasury Department. 7. q. Ryan, Gus
todian.
The heaviest snow storm of the
winter visited Wausau last Tuesday
night. Fully one foot of snow fell.
There was not enough to interfere
with business at all, in fact, it made