Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-07
SHORT ITEMS.

The Stevens Point fair opens today
and will continue until Friday the
10th.
Thursday evening, during run of
the new motor driven fire truck, Con.
Athens prize bull dog was run over
and killed by that machine.
The game bird season opened today
and hunters are out in full force in
search of the feathered tribe and a
chance to bag some of them.
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of
President Wilson, will speak at the
teachers state meet in Chicago on
the 4th to the 9th of November.
The Wausau Bridge & Iron Works
have been awarded contract to erect
a waterworks steel tank and tower
and steel bridge at Wittenberg.
On alleged grounds of cruel and in
has commenced an action in circuit
court for divorce from her husband
John Petre.
L. H. Wheeler and family whom
the PILOT mentioned several weeks
ago were to move TO WauSau from
Chicago, will occupy the residence at
100 Warren street.
Next Sunday morning at the NJ. E.
church, Rev. +. A. HaltZhauser,
native of Wittenberg, Martin Luth-
er's city, will address the congrega-
tion on John Wesley.
Farmers are cutting their corn,
that was damaged by frost and filling
their silOs. One farmer who has IS
and acres in corn and has two silOS,
could easily fill one more.
Rev. D. o. Williams, Phi. D., closed
his pastOrate in Oshkosh and this
week will come to Wausau with his
family and take charge of work here
for the First Presbyterian church.
The following attended the county
fair from Stevens Point on Wednes-
day. They came up by auto. Mr..
and Mrs. NJ. E. Bruce, Mrs. Nick
KalOcinske, Mrs. Louis KitOwski,
Henry Finch, Charles Cashin, Fred
COpps and Alex Krembs.
J. d. Taylor, Sr., of Asbury Park,
n. j., father of j. d. Taylor, Jr.,
formerly of this city, died at his
home in the above city on Saturday
evening, Aug. 28th. He was 70 years
of age. Mr.. Taylor had visited in
Wausau on several occasions.
Wausau people should take advan-
tage of the opportunity offered by the
book stores and equality Shop" to
possess the book "Edalaine" a metri-
cal romance by one of our pioneers,
Madame f. Roeni Medeni, OF which
twentyfOur copies only remain. Price
$1.00.
For violating the law of the public
highway, by turning to the left in
stead of to the right, w. A. Kelly
was arrested and arraigned in munich
pal court Wednesday. He pleaded
guilty and was compelled to pay $500
and costs, which he Immediately
paid.
The American flag must now be
displayed on all public schoolhouses
of the state during the hours of Ses-
sion. Heretofore the provision has
been that the flag must be in each
school room, but now the law is man.
datOry that it must be displayed on
the school grounds.
John Wagner at Amigo, was ar
rested and locked up on a charge of
''drunk and disorderly." Half an
on the streets by the policeman who
broke jail and wanted to know what
the damages were.
The killing frosts of the latter end
of last month were quite severe with
garden truck here and in the county,
especially with tomatoes, cucumberS
and beans. The corn and buckwheat
crops also suffered considerably and
in some localities were entirely ruined,
entailing hundreds upon hundreds of
dollars to the growers.
A large crowd of people from Minoc-
qua, Woodruff and RhineIander attend
ed the Indian War Dance at Flam-
held in the regular Indian dance
hall. Many of the braves were deco
rated with bright feathers and gar
ments, their faces being painted as in
days of old. Minocqua Times.
Here's what a man says is the best
thing to do when out of whack;
If you're feeling kind o. blue
Eat an apple
1t will cheer you through and through
Eat an apple
1t will put your stomach right
SOOthe your liver overnight
Operation? Calm your fright
Eat an apple
An error was made in last weeks
PILOT, when we stated that Miss
Marie Hidensperger had gone to
Chippewa Falls as principal in the
State Home for Feeble Minded. Miss
Hildensperger departed Saturday for
Green Bay for a visit and today went
to DePere, where she will teach
Latin and German in the high school
in that place. Miss Martha Rohdes,
of this city, is the principal in the
State Home at Chippewa Falls.
The largest cooperative creamery
enterprise in this country, according
to dairying authorities, is that in
which 472 of our cut-Over country
farmers are partners. There were
manufactured at this Baron county
creamery last year Lip, $50 pounds of
butter. The patrons of this creamery
are paid, on an average, three cents a
pound above New York prices for
butterfat and four cents above Elgin.
The output of this creamery for 1914
would have required 65 cars to haul it
to market and had all of the tubs
been placed side by side in single
column a solid front of nearly five
miles in length would have been
formed.
SCHOOLS OPENED YESTERDAY.