Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-07-25
SHORT ITEMS

4. nice rainfall visited Wausau on
| Saturday morning. 1t was accom-
panied by thunder and lightning.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. E. Turner and
| family are now occupying their cot
tage at the Waupaca chain O. lakes.
The chautauqua at Grand Rapids
on account of the intense heat during
the week, came out short about $500.
The president has signed a bill
making an appropriation of $4,000 for
a government building at Stevens
Point.
New potatoes, home grown, are now
| in the market. Red raspberries and
blueberries are coming into the city in
great plenty.
what can I do for falling hair?'
Use Partisan Sage; this also cures
dandruff and itching scalp. w. W..
Albers sells it. adv
The chaWauqua at Marshfield and
at Stevens Point were neither of them
a success financially. At the former
place there was a deficit of $500.
Miss Blanche Armstrong, Special
Magazine Representative. Subscrip-
tions taken for all magazines at low
set clubbing rates. SIC Mcclellan st
Phone 1911. n24-tf
On charge of assault and battery
preferred by Albert Anclam, Edward
King landed in Justice Larner's court
Friday forenoon. King plead guilty
and was fined $500 and costs.
Claude Edwin Dedrich, a lad fifteen
years of age, while taking a swim in
the Wisconsin river at Merrill, last
Tuesday evening, got into deep water
and could not swim. He was drowned
The hottest place in central Wis
consin so far for this season, was
Stevens Point, last Tuesday-97 in the
shade. Wausau is only 40 miles from
that city and all we could show here
was 81.
Frank Genrich was brought into
municipal court Friday morning on
a charge of carrying concealed weap
ons. A fine of $40 and costs was the
tax assessed against him, which he de-
liberately paid.
We overheard one of Wausau's
boosters talking to one of the out-of-
town druggists on Wednesday, He
said: "Why, our merchants arrange
their windows so attractively that
men even break the plate glass to get
their goods"
Blueberries have not been so plenti-
| full in years as now. Down in counties
below us they are in great abundance.
To the north they are not ripe yet
but will be in another week. Very
soon the price will be down so low
| that they will be within the reach of
all.
David Finn and VAL Heinrich of this
city, and Robert Theilman of Toma-
| hawk, left Tuesday evening for Wyom-
| ing, where they have mining interests,
| they being members of the board of
directors of the company of which
| julie Thielman is president and mana
| ger.-Merrill Advocate.
The members of the Wausau Coun-
| try club had made arrangements to
| entertain a number of the members of
the Eau Claire Country club at a
match game of golf on Saturday, and
at dinner in the evening. Owing to
various reasons the Eau Claire golfers
could not come over.
Herman Oelrich, a man about 40
years of age, was drowned in the Wis
consin river at Merrill, either acct
dentally or otherwise; the jury was
unable to say which. His body was
found on Tuesday. The man had said
at the place where he boarded that
he was going to the river to wash his
| clothes.
The city seems to have had some
| trouble with street sprinkling the past
| few weeks. The excessively hot spell
has kept the wagons going contin-
| uously and it has been hard and hot
work. 1t has been difficult to keep
things going as they should and the
consequence has been we have had
~1me dusty roads.
The First National bank of Alpha,
| Mich, a small town in Iron county
| Mich, was robbed Wednesday after
noon of $4,000, by masked robbers
| The cashier was the only one in the
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| the cashier with their revolvers, took
what money was in sight, and escaped
| in an automobile.
The Wisconsin Association of Real
| Estate Brokers will hold a booster
convention at Medford July 26. The
second day the party will drive to
Wausau by auto, stopping at Athens
| for dinner. The wonderful water
| power sites at Wausau will be the
chief points of interest while the chief
| pleasure will be another banquet
| Waupaca Post.
The town of Schofield has evidently
gained a reputation. Many of the
druggists of the state came to Wausau
| by automobiles to attend the conven-
ton last week. The authorities OF
| the village had been making arrests
| for speeding within its limits, and the
autoists who came first got busy tele-
phoning those on the way to be care
full when they reached Schofield.
September 9Th is primary nominal
ton day and aspirants for rotation in
office and candidates for the various
positions begin next month to an
nounce their candidacy. Contests for
the different offices in the county
! promises to be lively ana interesting
May the best men. irrespective OF
party, be the winners. The Pilot
stands ready to assist all commers.
Hundreds of our people are going
out daily to pick blueberries. In one
| patch, three miles below Rothschild,
| yesterday, there were $50 pickers.
While the berries were there in plenty.
they were rather small. Rain is
needed to fill out the berries. The
raspberry and blackberry crops will
also be large provided a reasonable
amount OF rain is had
Robert Gritzmacher, who has been
parcel post carrier at the post office,
has now been appointed clerk. Walter
| ElriCke who has acted &C SuhSfituta