Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-05-09
SHORT ITEMS

recovered so as to be about again.
The Marathon County Sunday school
convention will be held in Wausau ca
the 18th and goth.
The Elks of Stevens Point are to
| build a new club house. Plans are
now being drawn.
The chief of police of Stevens Point
has shot and killed 10 stray dogs in
that city since Jan. 1st.
Alexander G. Krembs has been re-
commended for post master of Stevens
Point by Senator Hastings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Karl Kraatz, who have
been living at the Corwith home, have
now some to housekeeping on Sey-
mour street.
Saturday and Sunday were warm
days, such as the golfers like, and
many devotees of the game were down
on the links.
Stevens Point people will put near
ly 100000 into building operations
this year; the largest item is $4,000
for an opera house.
All the new service pipes which are
being put in by the city to our city
water works system are being sup
piled with water meters.
One of our resident owners planted
several very choice rose bushes the
other day. On the same night a sneak
thief appropriated them.
Our county building was a busy
place last Saturday as some thirty-sfx
with their witnesses came in with APP
plications for naturalization, papers.
1t looked like a convention meeting
of some kind
The Lutheran ministers of this city,
Merrill and other cities of Wisconsin,
have signed circular letter to Sena-
tor Husting asking him to use his
efforts in keeping this country out of
war with Europe.
The case of the three men arrested
at Eland Junction last Tuesday for
stealing sausage from the Co-opera-
tive Packing plant was dismissed by
the Municipal Judge because OF in
sufficient testimony to warrant other
wise.
Great work was done last week by
the city authorities in the cleanup
campaign but as hard as teams and
men did work, only a part of the city
could be cleaned. The work will con-
tinue daily until the city is entirely
cleaned up.
Work on the tuberculosis sanitarium
in the town of Stettin has been COM
menced by contractor F. W. Krause,
and the work of excavating is being
rushed. 1t is now about settled that
the n. W. railway will put in a station
at or near the sanitarium site.
The fifth annual meeting of the
Employers Mutual Liability Co., of
Wisconsin will be held in it's offices
in this city on Friday, May 10Th, at 10
o'clock a. m. There will be six direc-
tors elected to serve for the next three
years.
The Wisconsin Valley Electric COM
pany is getting ready to lay it's tracks
on Grand avenue. Extra heavy rails
are going to be put in. The Wausau
Telephone company is also busy lay
ing conduits in which to place its
cables under ground.
During the storm last Friday night
the house of L. D. Crooks, in Kline's
addition was struck by lightning. The
bolt entered bed room in which three
children were sleeping. The beds were
splintered and the walls of the room
| damaged. but the children were I'M
harmed
Rhinelander will have a prosperous
season as there is to be $250,000 spent
in improvements in that city. A new
hotel which will cost $4,000; an adj
dition to the Rhinelander Paper Mills
plant which is to cost 100000 and
the balance will be put into new streets,
residences, etc.
Rev. j.. T.. Destinon and Rev. George
Schroedel of this city, and Rev. o. w
Boettcher of the town of Wausau, at
tended the Wisconsin Valley conference
at Merrill last week. 1t comprised the
clergymen of the Missouri and the
Wisconsin branches of the Lutheran
church. The district takes in that ter
ritory between Grand Rapids and
TOmahawk.
Fourteen lots have been purchased
at Stevens Point on which to build a
new Polish Catholic church, which
is to be erected this season. A COM
bination church, school house and sis
ters' dwelling is planned. st. Peters
Catholic church has become so crowd
ed that it he's become necessary to
build larger quarters, as it now has a
membership of 900.