Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-08-08
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
Marathon Items
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Marathon Items
Marathon Times.
Kilian Strachota shipped two car
loads of stock from here Tuesday.
Nicholas Schmidt, the present man
ager of the local brewery, left for.
Chicago on business Saturday night
and is expected to return agin at the
end of the week.
The haying is now completed and
better crop of hay of the first class
has never been harvested. On ac-
count of the dry weather of the last
three weeks, the grain is ripening too
fast and the yield in some fields will
be rather light.
While Mrs. Mary Hack and most of
the family were at church Sunday
forenoon, with Bern. Hack and cou-
pie of the younger children at home,
their home located in the town of
Marathon, about three miles south
east of the village took fire and was
completely destroyed.
Athens Items
Athens Record
Tony Brown went to Wausau Sat
urday night to visit there.
M L. Tisch, plumber, of Wausau,
was in town last Wednesday on bust
ness.
The Athens band has been hired to
play at the Wausau fair, Wednesday,
Sept. 6.
J. I. Scott left last Friday for two
weeks vacation, visiting his sister at
Carrollton, Missouri.
Ed. Neuenschwander returned Sat
urday from Madison, where he has
been attending school.
Miss Lucy Braun returned from Mil
waukee Monday, after spending the
past two weeks with relatives there.
Miss Anna Grettinger of Milwaukee,
who has been visiting the Bell family,
went to Wausau Tuesday to visit be-
fore returning home.
Edgar Items
Edgar News.
Edgar voted for new village hall
last week Monday. Out of 80 votes, ga
favored the building.
Albert LaDusire and Miss Ira Stein
were united in marriage by Rev. p. A.
Erickson on Wednesday.
This village was visited by a very
heavy electric storm accompanied
The flag pole on the M. w. A. hall was
struck by lightning and was splintered
to pieces some of the fragments being
found sixty feet away The street
and walk in front of the hall was
covered with broken windows and
parts of the pole.
StratfOrd Items
Stratford Journal
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kipp and fam
lily autoed to Wausau Sunday to visit
with relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes of Wau-
sau, who have been visiting the for
mer's parents here the past three
weeks, returned to their home Friday |
George Maxson and son drove
Ford car here from Milwaukee last |
week for the Maxson Lumber Co. The
son remained here a week visiting
relatives.
e. H. Maxson and wife and W. B. |
Robertson and wife autoed to Wausau |
Tuesday to attend the funeral of Mrs. |
Judge Silverthorn, who is Mr.. Robert |
sons aunt.
MOSinee Items
Mosinee Times.
The business men and papermakers |
played baseball at Mosinee on Sun
day.
While bathing in Bull Junior creek |
on Monday, Abbott Reid, aged 13 |
years, was drowned.
With the hay crop safely tucked |
away, farmers have commenced to cut |
their barley and rye. These crops |
are reported as being quite heavy with |
we'll filled heads.
Paper makers Il. Weber, catcher; |
Henry Kronenwetter, pitcher, Frank |
Blake, first base; Jas. Hoard, second |
base; Ernst Peterson, third base; w. |
Brys, short stop; "Homerun" Tiede- |
mann, left field; A. Nelson, center |
field; Eugene Crotteau, right field.
Business men:-B. E. Walters, |
Leander Douville, pitcher; |
Arden Paranto, first base; Frank |
Schock, second base; d. C. DoEerty, |
third base; Chas Mack, short stop; |
Harry Hackbarth, left field; Max Han |
owitz, center field; Ed. Snider, right |
field.
A representative of the Midland |
Chautauqua circuit has been in town |
this week endeavOring to interest peo- |
pie here in holding chautauqua next |
year. At meeting held last night it |
was decided to enter into a contract |
with the company providing suffi- |
cient number of guarantors could be |
secured.
The first distribution of mail on |
route No. out of Mosinee post Office |
was made yesterday. Felix Wiaskow-
ski has been appointed substitute car
rier by Postmaster Butler and will |
take care of the deliveries on the route |
until the appointment of a regular |
carrier is announced by the post office |
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Dancy Items
Mrs. A. w. Clement is visiting her
brother at Charming, Mich.
We are all glad to be alive after |
the sweltering weather during July.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Dupre of Most
nee, spent Sunday with relatives in
Dancy.
Miss Hazel Clement is visiting her
sister, Miss Alice Dinwoodie, who is a
trained nurse in Milwaukee.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Van Hecke
and children of st. Paul, were well
come Dancy callers the past week.
The Misses Lola Knoller and Madge
are visiting the daughters
of G. H. Livernash at Necedah, and