Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-12
SHORT ITEMS
The Merriii fair starts on Sept. 20

The Stevens Point fair commences
today.
The State bank at Hatley opened
its doors yesterday.
A son was born unto Mr.. and Mrs.
E. P German last Saturday.
F. M. Montgomery is candidate
for Register of Deeds for Lincoln
county. He was chosen at the recent
election.
The prairie chicken season opened
Thursday and many hunters have
hiked for the timber in quest of their
bag limit.
The State fair opened yesterday,
Sept. 10th. Let us hope that better
weather will attend it than was had
at our fair last week.
Local and outside capital will build
hundred room hotel at Stevens
Point. An option has been secured on
the ~ Jacobs, Sr. property.
NJ. H. Jackson of the Wood County
Training school was in the city Thurs
day and addressed the students of the
Training school in this city.
Those who have been out hunting
the past week say that it is lots OF
work and no shooting. There seems
to be a great shortage of birds.
Miss Bessie Refs, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. P. j. Refs, who has been i'll
with smallpox, has recovered and
quarantine has been raised on the
home.
The Majestic theatre which has been
owned by Miss Minnie Halder for sew
eral years, has changed hands. F. NJ.
Rehfuss of La Crosse, having pur-
chased it.
Miss Blanche Armstrong, Special
Magazine Representative. Subscrip-
| tons taken for all magazines at low
est clubbing rates. SIG Mcclellan st.
Phone 1871. MATT
James Jolan, Waterman at the
Rhinelander Veneer Co.'S plant last
Wednesday night walked off the third
story platform and was killed. He
was rs years of age.
The city council meets this evening.
The regular meeting is held on the
| first Tuesday in the month. In Sept.
that was election day evening and so
| it was postponed a week.
S. M. Quaw has been appointed
| aide-de-camp on the staff of State
| Commander Rosekranz of the G. A. R.,
which carries the rank of Lieutenant
| Colonel. Congratulations, Col Quaw.
The votes of the primary election
| were canvassed last Friday and Sat-
urday by E. H. Huffman of Wausau,
A. A. Damon, Spencer; F. Hoge, Hal
sey; F. J. Curtin, Stratford, and L. H.
Cook county clerk.
The hunting season for prairie
| chickens, cartridges and other fowl,
| opened on Thursday. The Pilot re-
Gently published that the partridge
season did not open until Oct. LIST.
| This was an error.
On Sunday, September oath, c. F.
Ogden will occupy the pulpit of the
| First Presbyterian church at Merrill.
It's pastor, Rev. c. L. Nisbet, has gone
to New London, Iowa, to attend an
Evangelistic meeting.
The late Mrs. G. W. Cate of Stevens
Point, left an estate worth $4,000 to
| $4,000 in her home and personal
| property. The bulk of the property
is left to a daughter, Miss Ruth G.
Cate of Stevens Point.
Word reached the city of the death
of l.. w. Chambers, of Jacksonville,
| Ill. Deceased was the father of Mrs.
J. M Duer, formerly of this city. Mr..
| Chambers had visited in Wausau and
was known to many Of our people.
Down in Portage ecounty, one of the
| greatest potato growing districts in
| Wisconsin, the farmers are buying po-
| tatoes from their neighbors who had
better luck, in order to have enough
to last them through the coming win
| ter.
Before going to bed, 1 always rub
a little Partisan Sage into my scalp, "
says a woman whose luxurious hair
is greatly admired. This cures dan
druff, stops itching scalp and keeps
the hair from falling out. Guaran-
teed by w. w. Albers.
The Stevens Point fair will be a
hummer. There are 6S horses entered
for the races. Twelve are from Cana
da. One of the big attractions which
will be there is Allie Wooster and
his string of fifteen running horses
They came direct from Detroit. The
fair commences today.
Miss Margaret Conway, who has
been a guest in the Rud. Puchner
home for a large part of the summer
left Saturday morning for her home at
Johnstown, Penn. She was accom-
panied by the Misses Ethel and Marie
Puchner, who went to that city pri-
marily to be present at the wedding
of their brother, Atty R. Edw. Puch-
ner, of Wausau, to Miss Margaret
Krebs, of that city, which event is to
take place next Saturday. Mr.. and
Mrs. Puchner departed yesterday to
be present at the wedding.-Witten-
berg Enterprise.