Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-03-28
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killed wild cat which weighed 80
pounds.
And, yet, another robin red breast
has been heard from; this time out
in Athens.
Max Tisch is putting in a new front
to his plumbing store at 20S Washing
ton street.
Plans for remodeling the opera
house at Stevens Point into a $4,000
hotel, is now under way.
The 500 road is going to shorten its
run by a "cut off, from Mellen to
Reserve. 1t will cost over a million
dollars.
President Van Hise will speak at
Stevens Point to the graduating class
of the Normal school on the evening
of June list.
The car load of lime furnished our
farmers by the agricultural school
was rapidly taken by them at cost
of $3.50 per ton.
Miss Blanche Armstrong, Special
Magazine Representative. SubScrip-
tions taken for all magazines at low
est clubbing rates. 5l6 Mcclellan st
Phone 1911. n24-tf
Mayor John Ringle and Fred Mohr
talked upon water meters before the
Mems society of st. Pauls church
| last Wednesday evening
VIM. thinner has had a crew of
painters and paper hangers at work
in the store recently taken over from
c. G. Pier and the same is much i'm
proved.
The secretary of the treasury has
selected a site for the RhineIander
post office. 1t is located at King and
Stevens streets, and was purchased
from Mrs. NJ. ]. Chaffee for $4,000.
DR.. w. E. zilisch, city health officer,
has recommended that all students
not having been vaccinated for the
| past years, be vaccinated. So many
of the smaller scholars have gone
through the ordeal.
Paper has gone up in price to such
an extent that it pays to save your old
papers, magazines and all kinds of
pamphlets, books, old rags, in fact
anything that will make paper. You
can sell all you can get together at
a good price.
John Hildebrand, while at work at
a vat which contained hot water, at
the Underwood Veneer Co.'s plant, one
day last week, slipped and fell so that
his feet were in the water. He was
rescued, but not before his feet were
quite badly scalded.
President Evans announces that
Ripon college has completed its big
financial campaign and is now mil
lion dollar concern. The college en-
tered into campaign to raise a fund
and succeeded in getting $325,OO0. 1t
was a great success.
Tuesday night, which was the one
following the ushering in of the first
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mendously windy. The wind blew a
perfect gale all night and did not let
up until sunrise, Wednesday morning.
1t was very heavy all night blow.
1t is reported that several women
have been accOsted on our streets
the past few weeks by men whom they
did not know. One young lady had to
run up to the door of one of our resi-
dences before she could evade fellow
who was following her. If any of
these roughs are caught, they should
be harshly dealt with.
The high wind of last Tuesday
night did much damage on the lakes.
None of the boats could venture out
on Lake Michigan, and it was fully
twenty-four hours before traffic was
resumed. In Milwaukee, one of the
heaviest snow storms Of the winter
followed the high wind, and traffic,
generally was suspended.
Out of five young men who recently
came to Wausau from Merrill for the
purpose of recruiting, only one, Val
entine Zastrow, was accepted. One
of the five, James Nelson, was afflicted
with a physical defect which necessi-
tated an operation. He passed
through the operation at the Ravn
John Gaulke, Jr., on complaint of
John Gaulke, Sr, father of the former,
was brought into Justice Larner's
court Wednesday afternoon to an
swer to a charge of assault and bat
terry. Gaulke, Jr., was found guilty
and mulcted to the tune of fine of
$1,000 and costs, or term of twenty
days Judgement in the county Jail.
hospital in Merrill, and is resting easy.
The Rib Lake Lumber company,
located at Rib Lake, which met with
a fire loss two years ago, since which
it has been undecided whether to re-
build in Rib Lake or go elsewhere.
They talked of coming here and of
going to Marshfield and other places.
Rib Lake finally won and the mill
is to be rebuilt in that town. The
new mill will cost a half million dol
lars and will have a capacity of
3O,OOO,OOO feet.
A young man by the name of Ray
mond Sharkey was accidentally shot
in the abdomen one day last week, by
the accidental discharge of a revolver,
at the Sharkey logging camp in the
town of Kronenwetter. A fellow work
man was cleaning his revolver and
didn't know it was loaded" it ex-
ploded and the bullet struck young
Sharkey. He was. rushed to St. Mary's
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