Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-17
SHORT ITEMS

| Deen appointed major OF the f0urtH
Wisconsin Infantry.
The B. P. o. Elks have a lodge and
club rooms in the Bijou theater build
ing on Scott street.
The John Kiefer Furniture Com
pany repairs cane and upholstered
furniture. Phone 1909. adv. If
There was no union open air re-
ligious service on Sunday evening ow
ing to the chautauqua entertainment.
/ 1t is not too late to plant cabbage,
lettuce, beans, peas, carrots, kale,
radishes, spinach, beets and turnips.
The Marathon County Council of
Defense meets this evening at the
court house. A full attendance is de-
sired.
John Burk was brought into police
court Friday forenoon on charge of
vagrancy and was fined $1,000 and
costs.
The city streets are still being oiled
and sanded and the sidewalks are al
so receiving good share of the black
liquid.
Marathon county is expected to fur
nish 373 men for the new draft for
the army according to registration
figures.
]. L. Kelly has purchased the home
of Mrs. Minnie Lampert, S1S Fulton
street, and will move into the same
about August l.
Edgar Nolan, young man of Mer-
rill, was instantly killed while at
work in the switch yards of Milwau-
kee last Thursday afternoon.
Miss Isabelle Guenther had her ton
sils removed at st. Mary's hospital
last Wednesday morning and recover
ed nicely from the operation.
1t looked like old times in Wausau
on Wednesday when a number of
Winnebago Indians were seen on our
| streets. They were on their way
north and only spent few hours in
Wausau.
| Fire squad No. a was called to it's
neighborhood Friday afternoon to
quench a fire in John Gorski's auto
mobile, said to have been caused from
improper insulation. The damage is
about $4,000
Thin-haired readers of this issue
should begin using Partisan Sage and
thus escape badness. W. w Albers
sells it on guarantee to stop falling
hair and cure dandruff and itching
scalp or money back.
Directors of the Presbyterian church
extension board of Chicago, recently
elected Dr. W. o. Carrier associate
superintendent of the board. DR..
Carrier was formerly pastor of the
local Presbyterian church.
Pleading guilty to a charge of as
sault' and battery in municipal court
Thursday afternoon, Adolph Weber of
! the town of EaSton, was assessed q
| fine and costs of $111.05. Helen
| Glasel was the complainant
| Fire squads Nos. and were sum-
/ moned to the tannery at nine O'Clock
| Thursday evening to quench an in
| cipient blaze in one of its departments
alleged to have originated from spon-
| taneous combustion. Slight damage
| done.
| John Borie appeared in municipal
| court Wednesday forenoon and plead
| ed guilty to a charge of assaulting
Earl Greubel. A fine of $4,000 and
costs were handed to him by His
Honor, Judge Marchetti, as a just re-
taliation.
The Stevens Point Gazette, with it's
issue of last week, commenced on the
| 10th year of it's existence. It is one
of the very prosperous papers of the
STATE, and it is now building new
home for itself which will be finished
| this season.
Alfred Wolf was brought into mu-
nicipal court Friday forenoon, on a
| charge of attempting to purchase in
| toXicantS at a saloon in this city, he
being posted as a prohibited person
| from entering such places, plead gull
| ty and was assessed a fine of $1,000.
| Mrs. Alice Hehlke was granted a di-
| vorce in circuit court Thursday from
her husband, John Hehlke, on grounds
of cruel and inhuman treatment. At
| the same sitting of the court August
| Bucholz was granted a divorce from
| his wife, Mrs. Aderlina Bucholz, on
| grounds of desertion.
| The annual meeting of the Agents
| Association of the Northwestern Mu-
| tual Life ms. Co. of Milwaukee, will
| be held in that city on the 16, II and
| 18th days of June. H. l.. French,
the company's district agent, of this
| city, departed on Saturday to be pres
| ent.
The contract for the construction of
the 500 line terminal buildings at Ste
vens Point, to replace the station and
| other buildings destroyed by fire has
been let and work of construction has
| begun. The buildings will include a
modern passenger depot, division Of
| fees, baggage rooms, cafe and club
rooms for employees.
| George E. Bird, who has been at
tending the summer session at the
University of Wisconsin, received or
ders from the war department at
| WashiL Ston to report to the Rock Is
land arsenal, Rock Island, H., where
he enters the ordinance department
| VI NAAS - bIIu iSll MdulSOn
last Saturday for Rock Island.
There is considerable fault found
because lights are not dimmed on au-
tomobiles when meeting and passing
| other cars. There may be no neces-
sity for the strong lights to be turned
OFF in the city, where the streets are
lighted up by arc lamps. This mat
ter should be worked out reasonably
and an ordinance passed to remedy
the nuisance.
The crop conditions in the city and
county are exceeding all expectations.
The grain crop, except corn, is SUI
perb, the hay crop is immense and
the vegetables, more especially pota-
toes, never locker better. The corn
crop is distressingly small thus far.
owing to the damp and chilly weather