Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-04-04
SHORT ITEMS


The ice is all out of the slough below
the high bridge.
Herman Riebe has been con-
fined to his home by illness the past
week.
Mrs. NJ. B. Rosenberg went to Madi-
son and spent several days with Mr..
Rosenberg the past week.
Wednesday, March 18th, was really
the first warm day of spring, and the
snow disappeared rapidly.
The rush the past week has been
all for election, and every one con-
nected with the city and county.
The funeral of Mrs. ]. w. Bruce,
who diedat the Soldiers Home, was held
at her old home in Merrill, on Sat
urday.
G. D. Jones returned home Sunday
from his periodical official duties as
one of the regents of the state univer-
sity at Madison.
Mrs. Wise and daughter, Miss Eliza
beth, have leased the west apartment OF
Mrs. T. C. Ryan's residence on Grant
street and are now located in their
new home. Miss Wise is teacher in
the city schools.
A baseball club is being organized
at Grand Rapids. The officers elected
| recently were: President A. Nelson,
Sec'y, Joe Wheir; Directors: T. P.
Peerenboom, George Mullen, ]. E. Far
lev. DR.. Kickbusch and Chas. Nash.
c. H. Mcdonald, lawyer formerly
| of Wittenberg, now on the Law Board
of Review of the Federal Trade COM
mission at Washington, D. c., and very
well known in Wausau, has been very
| i'll and for a time was critically So
is now recovering.
The large scow on the falls, which
has been there ever since the freshets
of last year, is still on the rocks,
| having been moved down the past
week several hundred feet. 1t is
| hoped there will be at least enough
water to float it off this spring.
The Wausau Merchants and Manu-
facturers' bulletin suggests that it
would be good idea to start move
ment to have trees planted on each
side of Grand avenue, clear to Scho-
field. This would certainly improve
this already most beautiful thorough
fare.
Peter Erickson, son of Mrs. T. Erick-
son of Merrill, was instantly killed
at Chippewa Falls the past week, be-
ing run over by train Mr.. Erickson
was the brother of Mrs. Ella Douville
of Wausau. Mrs. Douville attended
the funeral at Chippewa Falls Thurs
day.
That spring is here, is no doubt,
as the signs are too strong to admit
of any doubt. The robins are here;
ducks are flying north; the ice in
the river is showing signs of break
ing up, and many other infallable
signs are to be seen on every hand.
All that is necessary to make sure
is dat leedle German band"
W. W. Daggitt, of Oshkosh, a we'll
known man in Wisconsin, passed away
the past week. He was publisher of
quite a number of books pertaining
to the Masonic order. He had been
postmaster of the Centennial lodge,
Oshkosh, past high priest of Tyrian
chapter, R. A. M; past eminent COM
mander of Knights Templar and was
a consistory Mason.
Mr. and Mrs. John S. May of Men
OmOnie are the parents of a daughter.
born Wednesday, March 10Th. The
baby daughter has been named Nina
Margaret May, and arrived on the
birthday anniversary of the mother.
Mr.. May was formerly principal of
the Grant school iii this city, and Mrs.
May, formerly Miss Martha Claussen,
was employed as a bookkeeper and
stenographer here
Many of our macadam streets have
been cut up badly by automobiles.
During the time the snow has been
going off, for nearly a month, autos
have run along in the same rut, which
kept growing deeper and deeper, and
when the water commenced to run it
wore the ruts still deeper, and now
that the snow is gone, those streets
are quite badly cut up. They may
even up after while and become solid
again.