Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-04-25
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well the past few weeks, is improving.
The banks of Merrill will close at
8 p. m. after May 1st instead Of 4
o'clock as heretofore.
A lone boat house, located on the
west side, was half covered with water
and had to be tied down.
All are rejoicing because the river
is going down. There is such thing
as having too much water.
Over 20,OO0,0OO brook and rainbow
trout are being planted in the various
streams of Wisconsin this year.
Trailing arbutus is in blossom fur
Their down the line. 1t ought to be
good year for the fragrant flower.
The B. P. o. Elks' lodge of this city
is arranging for an indoor circus to
be given on May 4, 5 and in Elks'
hall.
The Northern Hemlock and Hard
wood Manufacturers association are
in quarterly meeting in Milwaukee
today.
The Marathon Paper Mills Co. is
now running on its new schedule of
three crews of hours each in TWEEN
ty-four hours.
The "Made-in-S heboygan" Edition of
the Sheboygan Press was hummer.
1t contained "a pages, showing the ad-
vantages of Sheboygan.
Rev. James Oastler, D. D., pastor of
the Calvary church, Milwaukee, will
occupy the pulpit in the Presbyterian
church on Friday evening, April Both.
John c. Gebhart, who has been very
i'll with pneumonia, is now improving.
Miss Helen Gebhart of Chicago, and
Elmer Gebhart of st. Paul, are at
home.
Miss Blanche Armstrong, Special
Magazine Representative. Subscrip-
tions taken for all magazines at low.
set clubbing rates. sic Mcclellan ST
Phone 1911. n24-tf
The death of A. NJ Pride of Toma-
hawk, may stop the work of building
an addition to the paper mills in that
city, as he was the leading spirit in
the enterprise.
The assessors of Marathon county
met at the court house on Thursday
and were addressed by Nils P. Hougen,
of the state tax commission, and Aug.
F. Rapraeger, assessor of incomes of
this county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Kohl of Tomah,
an aged couple, "who did not believe
in banks" upon returning home on
Thursday night felt the mattress for
81, 900 in gold which represented their
savings of lifetime. The money was
gone.
The Mems club of the NJ. E. church
of Grand Rapids, at the noon hour
on Sunday. Mr.. Jackson was in
Europe when the war broke out and
he told of Military Germany along the
Rhine.
The funeral of Lincoln Randall, who
was drowned on Copper river while
log driving was held on Wednesday.
Mr.. Randall lived on the old Paquin
farm between Wausau and Merrill.
He married one of the Paquin daugh-
ters, in 1893.
The past week the national board of
the American Society of Equity was
in session at the home offices here OF
which H. G. Tank is sec. etary. They
visited many industries in our city
and were very much taken up with
the Cooperative Packing Plant.
There is no city in the country that
can raise a dust in less time than
Wausau. Last Saturday and Sunday
our streets were thoroughly satur-
ated with water; on Monday afternoon
the strong wind which was blowing
almost suffocated people with dust.
Mrs. II. e. McEachron went to Hart
ford Thursday evening, being called
there by the illness and death of her
sister, Miss Julia Hit, who passed
away Friday morning at three o'clock
Miss Hit was thirty-four years of age
Mr.. McEachron and Miss Anita
Schnurr went to Hartford Saturday
morning to attend the funeral.
Good Friday was so dark all day
from the heavy clouds which covered
the sky that one could not do anything
indoors without artificial light, and
then there was a drizzling rain most
of the day. The afternoon was varied
by a snow storm of some dimensions,
and the Wisconsin river was at a
flood stage. Verify, Good Friday this
year, was a threatening day for the
valley.
A boy, seventeen years of age, was
killed in the paper mills at Port Ed
wards the past week, by being drawn
between the binders. 1t is supposed
that the paper broke and that his foot
slipped and his hand was caught in
the rollers. His cries were heard and
the machine was stopped, but not be-
fore the death of the young man. The
rolls were running at 400 revolutions
a minute.
For Sale-Ten acre tract partly
cleared. Two acres under cultivation.
On the new auto road between Scho-
field and Kelly. One mile from Roths-
child.
Mrs. T. J. Goodrich, Amigo, Wis.
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