Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-11-06
SHORT ITEMS

day in Portage county
The Winningers are playing at
Grand Rapids this week.
A case of infantile paralysis is re-
ported from Stevens Point.
Col. Pier and family will soon oc-
cupv their new home on East hill.
baby daughter was born to Mr..
and Mrs. John Schultz Friday after
| noon.
Potatoes are being bought and sold
by weight in many places, go pounds
to the bushel.
The John Kiefer Furniture Com
pany repairs cane and upholstered
furniture. Phone 1909. adv. tt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Schofield have
moved into the Dunbar fiat at the
corner of Fifth and Grant streets.
Leon Priebe appeared in municipal
| court Saturday morning on charge
of riding his bicycle on sidewalk.
The First National bank of Ste
vens Point, has purchased new site
and will build a fine new bank build
| ing.
Wausau's streets are in ship shane"
| for winter. A large number of men
| have been cleaning them up and cart
| ing off the dirt the past week.
The Ringle Brick company's plant,
after manufacturing four million
bricks the past season, closed opera
ton on Nov. 1st, until next spring.
Mrs. Rowena Gossage was granted
a divorce from her husband, Albert
| Gossage, in circuit court Saturday.
| The case was brought here from Onei
| da county.
Miss Blanche Armstrong, Special
Magazine Representative. Subscrip-
lions taken for all magazines at low
est clubbing rates, SIG Mcclellan st.
Phone 1911 matt
Louis A. Rousseau, son of the late
| Mike A. Rousseau, one of the early
| settlers of Wausau, died at Rib Lake
on the 18th of October. He was so
| years of age.
| Our city .ufhorities have been fit
| ting Jackets on the hydrants of our
| water system The cold weather of
| October made them think that winter
| was here for sure.
| Amigo will hold special election
| to elect a mayor in place of c. F.
| Calhoun, resigned. The city is I'M
der the commission plan and pri-
mary will be held on the 18th, and
the election on the 9th.
William Tessmer has succeeded H.
]. Schneider in the Wilson Mercantile
company as salesman. The latter
| went over to Marshfield where he has
accepted position with the Blodgett
Wholesale Grocery company.
A number of our citizens received
invitations to attend dinner to be
| given at Valley Inn, Neenah, on Tues
day evening. Hon Richard Lloyd
Jones will talk on "The Americanism
of a Referendum" on that evening.
There was a meeting of the Mara
thon County Medical society held at
the Wausau club house on Thursday
evening" A supper was served at
| $50 o'clock following which DR.. Rock
Sleyster state secretary, spoke upon
the question of having university
extension course for physicians.
Smith Benedict, former citizen of
| Merrill, and manager of the Badger
hotel in that city, died in Royal Oak,
| Mich. on Thursday of cancer of the
stomach. He was buried in Grand
Rapids, Wis, on Saturday. He is sur
Vived by his wife and two daughters.
There was meeting of the Grocery
division of the Chamber of Commerce
last evening at the city hall at which
MeSsrS August Kickbusch and J. W.
Laut, who attended the annual Wis
consin Wholesale association meet
ing in Milwaukee recently, gave inter-
esting reports.
The army and navy model phono-
graph which the Tuesday Musical
club is giving to Marathon county
drafted men at Camp Grant, Rock
ford, H., is on exhibition this week
until Friday in the window of the
Quality Shop. The machine will un-
doubtedly be sent to the boys this
| week.
Several of our city school teachers
spent the week end in Milwaukee at
tending the Wisconsin State Teachers
convention in session there Thursday
Friday and Saturday. The High school
was given vacation on Thursday and
Friday, and those of the teachers who
did not go to Milwaukee did substi-
tute work in the grades for the grade
teachers who were out of the city.
Fox farms and skunk farms are
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No one has started in the latter as
yet, but the animals thrive in this
climate. In the. fox line Fromm
Brothers in the town of Hamburg.
have raised 100 black or silver gray
foxes this year, and have increased
their stock some 200. A consignment
of pelts brought them $500 apiece re-
Gently. Why not start more of them
This is a suggestion to the ambitious
young man.
The Wisconsin Valley Electric COM
pany's new steam power plant is pro-
crossing favorably and satisfactorily
The brick walls are gradually going
up and the immense concrete tapering
chimney, lined with fire brick, is well
uQder way having already reached
a height of so feet The diameter of
the chimney at its base is 141s feet,
the top, ~ feet and the total heigth,
204 feet, making it the highest smoke
conveyor in the city and will be one
of Wausau's latest attractions. 1t
is expected to complete the entire
work on this new plant by the middle
of next month. Immediately there
after the building is to be fitted up
with the most modern and best ma
chinery obtainable.
Fill the body with warm, CLOWN g
vitality, make the nerves strong, in
crease circulation, restore natural Wig
or feel like one born again Hollis