Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-24
SHORT ITEMS

pany repairs cane and upholstered
Jesse Bradley of the town of Cleve-
land, transacted business in Wausau
Thursday.
The chautauqua at Merrill COM
mences next Thursday and lasts I'M
| til the 31st.
Captain Harry Haveron, of station
No. 2 of the fire department, is tax
ing his ten days vacation from the
10th to the Both.
The Brown Bros. Lumber company
of Rhinelander, has increased its cap
ital stock from 100000 to $500 900.
This is some increase.
Misses Lillian Young, Ruth Olson,
Emma Reutel and Mary E. Ross of
Wausau, are at the lake in the Wau
sau cottage-Shawan Co. Advocate.
A son was born unto Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Greutzmacher of Racine, on
Wednesday. The mother was former
ly Miss Katherine Martini of this city.
Miss Blanche Armstrong, Special
Magazine Representative. Subscrip-
tions taken for all magazines at low
est clubbing rates, Sic Mcclellan st.
Phone 1911 n24tf
Band concerts in the court house
park entertained the people of Wau-
sau and it's visitors several evenings
during the past week and were duly
appreciated by all.
ANY hair or scalp trouble you may
| have will quickly vanish after few
days use of Partisan Sage. w. W.
| Albers sells it on guarantee of money
back if not satisfied.
The Wisconsin Trap Shooters have
taken possession of the city since
Sunday, Monday and today and are a
| fine body of orderly gun men and seem
to enjoy themselves here.
The fourth annual summer meet
ing of the Central Wisconsin Press
association is to be held at Marsh
field on the 9th of July instead of
| the goth as heretofore announced.
Constipation causes headaches, sal
| low color, dull sickly eyes, makes you
| feel out of sorts all over. HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea will Danish con-
stipation. Try it without fail. w. W.
| At ers.
The swimming beach is the popular
place of attraction these days and is
| being well managed, patronized and
| perfectly safe in all respects. 1t is
| the source of special delight for the
children and all persons as well.
At the meeting of the District and
| Special Agents association of the
| Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
company held in Milwaukee last week,
H. l.. French, agent of the company in
| this city, was elected vice president.
Farmers here as we'll as elsewhere
are complaining of a scarcity of help
| to care for their crops. The Chamber
| of Commerce in this city has been
appealed to but little assistance can
be found here, for the reason that
volunteers are lacking.
T. F. Delaney has been making
| some marked and substantial i'm
provements on his home and grounds
| on the corner of Third and Franklin
streets, of late. His next addition to
his home will be an auto, having made
preparations for housing one recently.
Jacob Kanatka of Ringle, arrested
recently on a charge of having set
fire to the barn of a neighbor, had
a jury trial in circuit court Tues
day afternoon of last week, which
resulted in his acquittal, sufficient evil
dence not being found to convict him.
The second of a series of three ar
ticles giving practical rules and in
structions for the drying of fruits and
vegetables is printed in this issue of
the Pilot. 1t tells about apparatus
| necessary for drying and illustrates
homemade dryers. Every woman
| should read it.
Messrs. and Mesdames C. G. Krue-
city, and Mrs. Paul Gebert of
Merrill, attended the State Millers'
convention held at Neenah the week
end. They made the trip by automo-
bile. C. H. Hooker was president of
| the association.
County Clerk J.. H. Cook sent out
| the lists of all young men registered
with the serial NUM- Der OF each. These
are published for the 1st and End as
sembly districts of the county and
were mailed to various people
| throughout the county. Z
Those who subscribed for stock in
| the Lamson Truck & Tractor COM
pany which was to have located here,
| have been given the opportunity of
| taking the stock so subscribed or
withdrawing the same. In case they
wish to take the stock in the COM
pany, which is about to consolidate
with another company in Chicago,
| they will be given double the amount
| for which each subscribed.
A sensible spasm has taken hold
of the powers that be in our city gov
| eminent in spreading coats of paint
on the various bridges of this COM
monwealth. Painters are now en-
gagged in painting the Washington
| street bridge, having lately completed
work of this kind on the Strollers'
and Tannery structures. Their for
mer appearance has been greatly
| changed in semblance, be- ides being
a protection to their durability. 9th
er bridges there are thai will be taken
in hand during the season.
An abundant yield Of "spuds" is
now practically sure to result in this
state. Farmers throughout the state
| have responded most surprisingly to
the urgency of the situation and an
exceptional harvest of potatoes is
| looked for because of the increased
cultivation. And not only have the
farmers been energetic, but Judging
from the beautiful, we'll kept gardens
to the rear of fully 80 per cent of
Wausau homes, and the lots and
acres within and just without the
city limits, being cultivated by Wau-
sau people, we feel sure that in this
vicinity there cannot be a shortage of
the good stand by.
| SHIPPING TTTMRER