Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-16

The city was dense with smoke on
Friday evening from forest and rub
bish fires.
Furniture repaired and uphol-
stored. Kiefer Furniture Co. Tele-
phone. 1909. adv If.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Quaw are
happy over the arrival of little boy,
born Sunday morning.
The Y. NJ. C. A. track and field
meet commenced on Monday and will
continue for four weeks.
NJ. NJ. Secor has rented the Mac
Donald residence, $50 Fulton street,
now occupied by E. w. Behlke
The Federated Charities of Wausau
will have meeting at the court
house this evening at 1880 o'clock.
On Saturday several letters came
from the Wausau men, now some
where in France" to relatives and
friends in this city.
The contract for building the new
school house at Tigerton, at a cost
of $4,000, has been let to Huckbody
& Krause of this city.
The dry spell was broken last night
by a cOpiOus rainfall, for which all
are thankful. Forest and grass fires,
the past two weeks have been a men
ace.
Miss Helen Silbernagel was able to
leave st. Mary's hospital last Satur-
day, at which place she has been re-
covering from an appendicitis opera
ton.
Station No. of the fire department
was called to Pine Grove cemetery.
at five o'clock, Sunday afternoon, to
put out q grass fire. No damage re-
suited.
On grounds of cruel and inhuman
treatment, Mrs. Anna Crogan has
commenced suit in circuit court for
a divorce from her husband, Theodore
Crogan.
John Messing, who has been con-
fined to the General hospital with an |
attack of pneumonia for several days, |
is able to be out and around again
as usual.
Station No. of the fire depart |
IICuI Wdo Cdlltu " Tile II. w. SldLCO ,
home, at 627 Hamilton street, at APP
O'Clock Wednesday afternoon, to put |
out grass fire near his premises.
For Sale-Residence property, PIG
Grand Ave, also can be used for 2 |
flats. Part cash, balance time. Also |
20 acres in Town Maine. Owner, Mrs. |
H. K. Mayer, 2155 Clybourn Ave-, Chi
cagO, III. a9w3
Pleading guilty to a charge of driv-
ing an auto at a rate of speed con- |
traTy to the ordinance of the city, in |
municipal court yesterday forenoon,
Clarence Hinkley, a visitor here, was !
assessed $1,000 and costs. |
Emery Skinner is now at New Lon !
don, Connecticut, having volunteered
for immediate service as a submarine
deteCtOr, and as soon as the boat on
which he is stationed, is Overhauled
he will leave on sea duty.
Walter M. Grippe, teacher of manual Z,
training at the Washington school, and |
Lynn HalversOn, principal of the |
Franklin school, will leave this week |
for their respective homes, after which |
they will go into the U. S. service.
John l.. Sell will be indicted into
the office of mayor of this city this |
evening the present incumbent, Her |
man E. Marquardt, stepping out. Mr.. |
Marquardt has been chosen as secre- |
tary of the Wausau Council of Defense. |
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kuhlmann and |
children, Ralph Edith Olive, and Bert, |
of Ingram, are visiting at the home |
of the formers mother, Mrs. Eva |
Kuhlmann. They are enrOute to South |
Pasadena, California, where they ex-
pect to make their future home.
Theophil Grauer, son of Rev. and
Mrs. E. c. Grauer of this city, is just
recovering from an attack of dip
liberia. He was confined in the hos
pital for one week, but is now able to
be out again. Mr.. Grauer is engaged |
in Y. M. c. A. work at Ellington (avia- |
tom Field, Houston, Texas.
Work on the new concrete bridge |
and vicinity is progressing, early |
completion of which is anxiously |
looked forward to by the general pub
lie. The work has been slow and |
sure, but is practical and substantial |
and when completed will be something |
lasting and to be proud of.
The Marathon County Training |
School for Teachers will close its |
school year on Thursday, June 49, |
The commencement exercises will be |
held on Wednesday, June II, and will |
be entirely patriotic. The Marathon |
County School of Agricultural and |
Domestic Economy will close on Fri |
day, May "a, and its exercises will |
also be held on that evening.
The Emmanuel Norwegian Lutheran |
church had a business meeting Sun |
day afternoon, at which time various |
business was taken up for discussion, |
such as improving the parsonage; rails |
ing the pastors salary; the church |
finances; instruction of the children;
patriotic duties, etc. Rev. S. L. Thomp- |
son also gave out the fact that he |
had received a call from another con- |
gregation, which matter was left over |
to be taken up at a special meeting |
in the near future.
Capt. George Ruder, who has been
ut Camp Custer, during the winter, is
at home on a short furlOugh. He is
on his way to Fort Sill, Okla, where
he will enter training for ten weeks
in artillery work, and departs for that
place Oh Wednesday. Capt. Ruder
spoke at the Rotary club yesterday,
giving a graphic idea of the life at
Camp Custer. where he was assigned
for duty last August in field artillery.
He has been twice promoted from
second Lieutenant to Captain.