Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-05-08
SHORT ITEMS

The trustees of the Marathon Coun-
ty asylum met on Thursday in month
ly session.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. T. F. Rey-
nOlds, on Wednesday, a son, named
Thomas Alfred"
The John Kiefer Furniture Com
pany repairs cane and upholstered
furniture. Phone 1909. adv. If.
DR.. r. W. Jones has been confined to
his home the past week by illness. He
! is able to be up and will be down to
business in a few days.
Miss Conley and c. B. Bird spoke
at the High school this morning, the
former on gardening and the latter
On conditions on general.
County councils for national defense
Ihave now been organized in nearly
every county in Wisconsin and work
along this line has commenced.
The payment for water has been
changed from the 1st days of May and
! November, in advance, to the end of
each quarter according to meter rates.
] Next Saturday is naturalization day
in circuit court. Twenty applicants
are to be heard. A national examiner
! from st. Paul will be here to attend the
examinations.
The first annual meeting of the
Marathon County Accountants will be
held in the McCrOssen building. The
election of officers and other import
ant matters will be taken up.
A bursted water main on the corner
of Third and jefferson streets, caused
considerable cOmmOtiOn in that vicin
ity at about eleven o'clock last night.
The break is undergoing repairs.
Nos. and 4 of the fire department
were called out at $50 o'clock Thurs
day afternoon to Quench a grass fire
on the corner of West street and South
Eighth avenue. No damage caused.
There are ten homes in Wausau
quarantined, in which there are 10
cases of scarlet fever. There have
been no new cases this week reported
to DR.. w E. Zilisch, health officer.
Judge Reid and his class of Boy
Scouts took a hike to Marshall hill
on Saturday, where they cooked and
partoOk of their MONDAY meal, played
ball and enjoyed an hours rifle prac-
tice.
The war department has made spe-
cial request of the Training Camp as
sociation to secure applicants between
the ages of SO and A years. Applica-
lions will be received all this week
by f. Becker and Harry Berger.
Adolph Teske plead guilty in munich
pal court yesterday afternoon to
charge of intoXicatiOn and the wreck
ing of an auto. He was assessed to
the tune of $4,000 and costs. Liquor
and an unskined driver are unwise
combinations.
Three cases were disposed of in
municipal court yesterday. That OF
j.. L. Beste. charged with embezzle-
ment; Fred Voss, on a charge of nom
support of his minor child, and George
Schmidt, on a charge of burglary, all
being dismissed.
There is quite an agitation in Wau-
sau at present about going to the day
light saving plan. The mayor has is
ued a proclamation that it be adopted
from May Is to Sept. 10. Already quite
a number have adopted the plan-the
cereal and -four mills and others. The
schools may adopt the plan.
Lieut.. Drake and assistants and
eighteen recruits for Co. G, are still
in the city awaiting orders to join
the company at Ashland. Further re-
Cruiting was discontinued here some
,,-oal~S 90 and tho uupStiOO now arises
what are the present members and re-
Cruits delayed here for when anxious
to be on duty?