Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-09
SHORT ITEMS

Frank Young drives a handsome
new Overland auto.
w. F. Owen was elected mayor OF
Stevens Point on Tuesday.
Furniture repaired and uphol-
stored. Kiefer Furniture Co. Tele-
phone. 1909. adV u.
The annual business meeting OF the
PRESBYTERIAN society will take place on
Thursday evening at the church.
The regular meeting of the council
was postponed from Tuesday until
Thursday evening, on account OF cleo
ton.
Union services were held at the
First Methodist church Sunday even
ing. Rev. w. H. Gould delivered the
sermon.
H. Davis, general secretary of the
Y. M. c. A. here, preached the sun
day morning sermon at the f1rst
Methodist church.
The city has declared war on GER
tain barberry bushes and advise their
destruction, on account of rust spores
which affect various grams.
The Knights of Columbus, Council,
1869, went to Holy Communion in
body last Sunday at st. James church.
This organization expects to have an
initiation soon.
DR.. J. M. Tilden, president of Lom-
bard college, will be in the city next
Sunday, and will give an address at
the First Universalist church on
Making Life Efficient"
Miss Bashana. Fara, who recently
was operated OF at the General hos
pital for appendicitis, is recovering
nicely. Miss Fara holds position in
the Office of the county clerk.
The railroad company's have been
very busy the past week burning off
the dead grass along their tracks in
Northern Wisconsin. Hundreds OF
miles have been burned off very sue
cessfully during the dry spell.
A. B. Wheeler & Sons Co., Of GIG
Third street, who lately sold their
plumbing stock, etc, to Ben. j. Hett
have organized a new company and
located at Fort Madison, Iowa. The
families of the husbands of the new
company will join them later.
H. H. Davis of the Y. M C. A
here, gave an interesting report OF
his trip with the boys of the fourth
| contingent to Camp Grant Sunday
| afternoon, at a meeting at the 10y.
He also told of the work being done
by the Y. M. c. A. at the training
camps.
The dry spell for the past few
weeks has made the dust anything but
| agreeable. Fires have started up il
some localities in the grass and il
| the forests, but no damage has beer
done. 1t only remains for few
days of warm weather to start W
fires galore.
April showers wash and clean ole
Mother Earth of Winters germs AMI
| impurities. HOLSTERS Rocky Noun
tain Tea does the same thing for YOU
| stomach, bowels, blood-purifies
cleans you thru and thru, a thorC
Spring remedy, 35c. Tea or Tablets
w. w. Albers.
Rev. and Mrs. Richard Evans are
expected home some time this weel
| from a several weeks trip in Cali
| fornia and other states. In case the!
| do not return, arrangements will bt
made for the regular morning ser
vices in the First Methodist church
| and for union services in the FRS
Presbyterian church.
City Comptroller Adams and City
Treasurer Chellis ran like steers IL
| a cornfield during the recent election
The former beating his opponent by
| 757 majority and the latter rolling III
| a majority of 1881 against his an
! tagonist Both are capable and de-
serving officers and the voters still
confide i'll them.
Beginning April 2, parcel post pack
ages for members of the American
expeditionary forces in France will
not be accepted for mailing unless
| the contents are such articles as have
been asked for in a letter from the
addressee. The sender must also
write his name and address on the
outside of the package. In the event
the package is accepted, the approved
letter will be placed inside it.
Judge Marchetti has had hoisted a
new flag on the flag pole in the park
adjoining the Northwestern Railroad
company's passenger depot in this
city, the third emblem of the nation
he has dedicated to Co. G, since its
military service in the state and ma
ton. Previous to the display of the
new flag the others had become
faded and frayed by the elements
had become disgraceful in the extreme
hence his triple tribute to his mill
tary friends.