Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-07-11


street between McIndoe and Fulton
| streets.
Miss Myrtle Breitrick and Miss Alma
| Jedamus of Wausau are enrolled at
the summer session of the Stevens
| Point normal school.
The Good Roads association of Wis
| consin met in Milwaukee last Friday.
H. G. Flieth of this city, was elected
one of the vice presidents.
The comptroller of the currency last
| Wednesday issued call for state
| ment as to conditions of banks at the
close of business June 80.
| The Mosinee BASEBALL club is looked
upon as one of the best in the valley
was defeated in a game with Grand
Rapids on the Fourth. The score was
1 to 0.
The Wausau Red Sox were at Ne
koosa on the Fourth and played the
team of that place. The game result
ed in a score of 3 to 2 in favor of
| Nekoosa.
The excessively warm weather of
the past week made up for a good deal
of the cold weather which was with
us in June when we should have had
it warmer.
Karl Mathie, superintendent of the
paper mill at Mosinee, was in the city
with his family today, making the trip
by omobile.-Stevens Point Journal
(Thursday)
Roscoe Young's beautiful rose gar
den has attracted many lovers of that
flower the past week. Those who have
seen it say its roses are just as fine
as those grown in hot houses.
The Wausau Telephone company
| is having its buildings, now occupied
by H. l. Crawford and family, and Mr..
and Mrs. A. Archie, reprinted and re-
| paired, adding much to their appear
ance.
A. S. Collins, formerly of this city,
is now occupying position of state
editor at Madison, through the death
| of II. p. Myrick. The latter was state
editor and Mr.. Collins was his as
sistant.
| Wausau habliments of emerald were
never more beautiful than at the pres
ent season, and is most worthily COM
| plimented on in this and other re-
spects by the innumerable visitors in
the city.
| The regular monthly meeting of the
| Wausau Merchants and Manufactur-
| ers' association, which was to have
been held today, has been called off
| on account of the Dentists convention
| and the Chautauqua.
Leo Garsh and Orville Corville were
tried in municipal court Friday fore
noon on a charge of assault and bat
terry and found guilty by the court and
a fine and costs amounting to $7.37
were taxed against them.
The Pilot editor received some of
| the finest Strawberries from j. d.
Christies patch in the town of Weston,
! last Wednesday, ever grown in the
| county. They were a new variety
and very large and luscious.
The case of Otto Kreidatz, the de-
PENDANT being charged with having
obtained goods under false pretences,
and whose preliminary examination
was booked in municipal court for
| Friday, was postponed until Friday,
| July 81.
Carl Stretch plead guilty in circuit
court Saturday to a charge of lar
ceny. He was sentenced by the court
to serve two years in the state re-
| formatory at Green Bay, after which
sentence was suspended and he was
paroled to the state board of control.
In this issue of the Pilot, the COM
mittee appointed to assist in raising
| funds for the relief of soldiers families,
| has an advertisement requesting as
| siStance. Cut out the blank, fill it
| out, and send it to the committee. 1t
| is necessary to raise a large sum at
once.
A Krembs of Stevens Point, sue
| ceeded ID. E. Frost as postmaster of
that city the past week. The post
masters of that city since the time
of Lincoln are: d. Z. Catlin, Horace
Grant, d. r. Clements, James o. Ray
mond, George w. Cate, E. McGlachlin,
John Fin 1h, Henry Curran and D. Z.
Frost.
Dwight Killicut was before Judge
| Marchetti Thursday. on charge of
having committed assault and battery
| upon George McNowa, and was found
| guilty and a fine and costs were inn
posed upon him TO the amount of $500.
| Killicuts former plea when previously
arraigned in court was not guilty. The
judge after due consideration thought
otherwise.
Three of the valuable trained lions
of the Barnes Animal circus, which
performed in Wausau recently, were
Suffocated at Waukesha on Monday
evening, resulting in a loss of $4,000
to the circus. The animals were those
working on the mounted platform
when fireworks are shot of and were
killed by the smoke and fumes. The
circus is having no end of trouble
this year.
Wausau was as quiet a place as one
could wish to find on the Fourth.
Most everybody was out to the Shoot
ing park, down to ROthschild or out
in the woods picnicing. The streets
were deserted. 1t was different at the
parks; the people were wedged in
so tightly where interest was concen-
trated, that they could hardly get
about. This was especially so when
the time came to so home; the street
cars were literally damned and some
had to wait for hours before they could
even get a chance to hang on the
outside Of a car.
There was a consultation of the
WauSau. Wisconsin, and Marathon
County Telephone companies and the
Wisconsin Valley Electric Co. here on
Friday. relative to arranging lines