Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-05-28
SHORT ITEMS

There was slight frost on Thurs
day night.
Mic Gender is driving new en-
closed Ford car.
C. M. Christianson, who has been
i'll at St. Mary's hospital with an at
tack of pneumonia, has recovered and
left that place Sunday.
Rev. D. ]. Williams delivered the
baccaulaureate sermon before the
graduating class of the Mosinee high
school on Sunday evening.
Strollers' bridge which has been re-
planked and closed for some time,
while the work was in progress, was
re-opened to the public on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Baumann,
1901 Third street, are the parents of
May %. The little girl has been
named Ruth Baumann.
The girls state declamatory contest
will be held Friday evening at Chip
pewa Falls. Miss Jeanette Nequette,
the winner of first place in the dis
trict contest will represent Wausau.
Children's day will be observed by
our churches the second Sunday in
June, at which time appropriate pro-
grams will be given by the Sunday
schools. Baptism will also take place
at this time.
Miss Viletta Hawley was at Mara
thOn this morning at a club meeting,
and this afternoon at Edgar. These
are probably the last two club meet
ings she will attend in the county,
as she expects to leave Wausau soon.
The High school tennis tournament
for players of the Wisconsin Valley
has again been postponed because of
the heavy rains and it is doubtful if
it will be played at all. 1t was to
be held at Stevens Point. Gale Meyer
and Samuel RedetZke were to be the
high school representatives from Wau-
sau.
The state boys oratorical contest
will be held in this city Friday, and
will decide the winner out of nine
districts to be represented. Elroy Mac
Faul of Wausau, who won first place
in the local district contest, will be
the representative of the Stevens
Point district.
Glenn L. Batesole, who will have
charge Of the athletics at the High
school next year, will attend the mill
taTy training camp at Lake Geneva
in August, being sent there by the
Board Of Education of this city. The
purpose for this is to get the High
school boys acquainted with military
drills, etc.
Charged with the larceny of several
articles from the premises of Fred
Fust of the town of Ringle, Hanley
WaszallOwsh of the same town was
arraigned in municipal court Thurs
day Pleading guilty to the charge he
was assessed a fine and costs tOtaling
$1975. Excessive poverty was his
claim for the crime.
There appeared in circuit court in
this city Tuesday evening three Offend
ers from Oneida county, namely: Alex
Deshane, Louis Cluke and George
Loyannes, who pleaded guilty to
charges entered against them. The
first for larceny and was handed a
two years term in states prison at
Waupun; the second for immortality
and was given three years in the same
place of confinement and the third
for a similar olfensc of lesser nature
was sentenced to a four months
term in the county Jail in Rhinelander.
Conservation Warden M. c. Thorn
arrested Frank Hintz and Frank Howl
ak of Stevens Point, at Pike Lake, in
this county, few days ago, while they
were in the act of net fishing there
contrary to the state statutes as pro-
lided. Friday morning they were TAX
en- before Justice J. P. Riley, pleaded
guilty to the charge and each were
fined $4,000 and costs, the total
amount of which was $111.00, besides
confiscating their outfit, which was
rather dear experience for those vile
spOrtsmep.
Victor e. Lambert's new play, 1.-THE
Other Mans Wife, is scheduled to
appear at the Grand tomorrow night
The story of the play is the double
standard of morals imposed upon the
world by man. The acts of the man
are cOndOned and excused and apollo
giZcd for while the same actions in
women are condemned and no excuse
made or accepted. Mr.. Lambert has
taken the time old theme and woven
into it a most fascinating story. The
Lambert Producing Company, (NOt
mc.), has given he play the best cast
possible and a sunptuous scenic in
VeSture.
On Sunday at the morning services
at the First Presbyterian church, the
memorial presented by the Mems
Bible class to the family of the late
Charles e. Swanson, who lost his life
on the night of February 5, on the
transport, "Tuscania,' was shown
The young man was one of the first
soldiers from Wisconsin to give his
life during this terrible world struggle
Mr.. Swanson was at one time a mem
Der of the Mems Bible class of this
church. and the inscription on the
Memorial reads as follows: presented
to the family of our Comrade, Chas
E. Swanson, by the Mems Bible Glass
First Presbyterian church, Wausau
Wis James Montgomery presented
the memorial and Roger Wilterding
did the lettering.
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