Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-30

Automobile parties going north to
the lakes pass through Wausau nearly
every day.
Girls collected $500 at Athens,
during band concert by parading the
streets for contributions.
Girls are going into the Curtis e
Yale Co.'s plant, to take the places
of young men, who have gone to the
war.
Theodore Roosevelt has refused to
run for governor of New York, giving
as his reason that he is too busy
with war work.
DR.. A. H. Lemke, dentist, will re-
move his office from 3121R Third Ave-,
S., to the Dunbar building, 311h
Third street on the 1st of August.
The Wisconsin Drainage association
met in Grand Rapids last Thursday.
The motive of the association is to
reclaim swamp lands for agricultural
purposes.
Base ball has been declared one of
the on-essentials by Secretary Baker,
and games have been discontinued.
This, is of course, a hardship to base
ball fans.
$4,000 men will be called from Wis.
during August. This will practically
exhaust all Of class l men in Wis
consin, including those who registered
on June 9Th.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Tremel, 40S North Second avenue, is
placarded with scarlet fever sign.
The children are i'll with this con-
tagious disease.
The Treasury department has de-
cided to hold the fourth Liberty Loan
drive from the 28th Of Sept, to the
18th of October, extending over a
period of three weeks.
A Minnesota clam fisherman, by the
name OF Geo. Pratt, secured pearl
from "a clam taken out OF the Wis
consin river nine miles north of
Stevens Point, valued at $500.
Pickpockets did a land office bus
mess at Amigo on Tuesday night
when the big crowd gathered at the
depot. Something like $500 was taken
from various ones, in the crowd
Jennie: You can't expect a Teller
to love girl with red nose, color
less lips, dull eyes. So take Hollis
teT's Rocky Mountain Tea at once.
Don't delay-it's dangerous. 35c. w.
W. Albers.
The Hagenbeck- Wallace circus,
which is to be in Wausau on the End
of August, next Friday, was the circus.
which met with such a frightful dis
aster, In wreck at Gary, Ind, re-
Gently, when so many of it's en-
ployees and performers were killed.
The government crop report states
that corn in southern Wisconsin, is
making rapid growth, owing to the
warm spell. Haying is nearly com
pleted with light yields in most sec
lions. Harvesting of barley, rye, wheat
and oats, is becoming general. Early
potatoes are seriously affected by the
blight, but the late crop is very
promising. The small grain crop
prospect is good.
A son of Mr.. and Mrs. Anton
Keuntjes, aged 10 years, living in the
town of Carson, Portage county, was
pushed against manure spreader in
operation and he was carried to the
cylinder, covered with four inches of
spikes, four inches apart, which
strike within four inches of the floor
OF the machine. Though the bows
BODY was punctured a score of times
by the spikes, he will live.
The city council met on Friday
evening to discuss the question of the
wisconsin Valley Electric company.
using the new concrete bridge to Law
It's street railway tracks across same
to connect its lines to the west side.
The matter was referred to the COM
mlttee on streets and bridges. The
matter OF providing suitable quarters
for the local branch of the Federal
Employment Bureau, was referred to
the committee on judiciary.
The annual meeting of the Wiscon-
sin Press association was held in
Oshkosh, last Friday and Saturday.
lt was largely attended and a splendid
program, dealing with the war and
the printing and publishing industry
IN general. The principal address was
made by Jenkins, of the Madison State
Journal. Editors were royalty en-
tertained by the Oshkosh people. one
OF the pleasant features being a boat
ride on lake Winnebago on Saturday
evening.
John and Joseph Winetzki are now
in charge of the Stark Candy Kitchen.
This business belongs to Walter and
Frank Winetzki. Both young men
nave gone to fight for their country
and are now at Camp Grant. The
former left with the contingent about
SIX weeks ago and Frank departed
last Tuesday. From the crowds in
their place of business these warm
days, there will be no lack of patron
age during their absence.
A farmer living in the northeast
part of our county has discovered that
his potatoes have been stricken with
blight. 1t is impossible to see it
except by close scrutiny. The plant
vines seem to be slowly whitening
away. Farmers should watch careful
Iy for this blight and at once spray
with a Bordeaux mixture which can
be secured from any drug store,