Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-09-25
SHORT ITEMS
Born unto Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Og-
den a daughter last Friday evening.

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den a daughter last Friday evening.
The Edgar fair will be an event
of this week-Thursday and Friday.
The John Kiefer Furniture Com
pany repairs cane and upholstered
furniture. Phone 1909. adv. If.
The regular semi-monthly meeting
Of the Marathon County Council of De-
tense will be held this evening at the
court house.
A part of the concrete street on
the Town Line road has been opened
to the public. 1t will all be opened as
soon as dried out.
Mrs. Gustav Raduechel has COM
menced divorce action from her hus
band, Gustav Raduechel, because of
cruel and inhuman treatment.
The publishers of daily papers of
the state have been appointed mem
bers of the advisory committee by
Magnus Swenson, the state food adj
ministrator.
Mrs. G. S. Gilbert has donated
beautiful Hoffman picture Of Christ
in the Temple" to the First Methodist
church, and it hangs in the Primary
room of that edifice.
Rev. w. D. Bancroft, formerly pas
tor of the Baptist church of this city,
has been given call at Port Huron,
Mich, the duties of which he will as
sumo next Sunday.
The Annual Every Member canvass
OF the First Methodist church will be
conducted next Sunday afternoon. On
Thursday evening all persons enlist
ed for the canvass will assemble at
the church for plans and counsel.
A meatless day and a wheatless
day are being observed each week by
many families in this city and is
sorely felt by the butchers and
bakers. They will very probably live
through the ordeal as well as the con-
sumers.
Bertha Gilbertson filed papers in
circuit court Saturday for decree Of
divorce from her husband, Andrew
Gilbertson. The plaintiff also asks
for the custody of their two minor
children, and support for herself and
children.
Carl Lockins was brought into mu-
nicipal court Friday afternoon, to an
swer to a charge of having used abus-
i've language towards Frank Mime
book. He pleaded not guilty, pur-
porting a breach of the peace. His
case was postponed until Wednesday.
The graded and High schools of
Wittenberg were closed last Thurs
day becausee of an epidemic of scar
let fever, which seems to threaten that
village. Three families were quar-
antined with the disease at the time
the schools were closed there the
past week.
You know as we'll as anyone when
you need something to regulate your
system. If your bowels are sluggish,
food distresses you, your kidneys pain,
take HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
Natures wondrous herbs blended sci
entifcally. Results guaranteed. 35c.
w. w. Albers.
In appreciation of the work the
fire department has done" for the
Wausau Box & Lumber company, "at
various times" the above named es-
tablishment has presented the said de-
partment with a check for the sum
of $500, which has been added to the
firemen's pension eXchequer.
John Johnson of Neenah, who re-
Gently pleaded guilty in circuit court
to a charge of larceny in the night
time and whose sentence had been
postponed, was sentenced Friday to
serve six months in the Green Bay
reformatory. His sentence, however,
to Sheriff Goerling, who furnished him
employment.
The Wausau Iron Works was the
lowest bidder on the contract for the
construction of new concrete bridge
across the falls. There were two
plans submitted; one for the unpat-
ented style and the other the patented
Luten style. The prices were $50, 500
and $57,73S, respectively. The bids
will be considered at the next meeting
OF the city council
Last Friday night there was a dis
play of northern lights hard to beat.
At first there was just plain setting
reaching across the heavens IN arch
form. This later broke up into dane
ing columns which soon assumed all
colors of the rainbow and shot clear
up to the zenith. There were no re-
served seats and the large audience
did not have to ask the ladies to re-
move their hats