Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-05-28
COUNTY CORRESPONDENTS
StratfOrd Items
Stratford Journal.


Lightning destroyed the 3Ox64 foot
barn of Geo. Pfingstel Tuesday even
ing at about z o'clock Not long be-
fore the barn was struck the boys
finished milking and turned out the
cattle. Luckily the horses were not
let in the barn at all. 1t seems as
though the lightning struck at the
bottom of the barn on the southwest
corner and the blaze started so quickly
that even the harness could not be
saved. About ton of hay and some
machinery were also lost. The build
ing was partly covered by insurance.
Ernest Raugh resigned his position
as mechanic at the Stratford Auto
Co. garage and has accepted like
position with the Ford garage at
Athens.
Miss Sue Dale went to Wausau
Thursday evening to attend the grad
uating exercises in which her sister
is one of the class.
Sadie Thomson was Wausau Wis
itor Tuesday.
Mrs. Henry Lillge left for Wausau
days with relatives and friends.
Marathon Items
Marathon Times
Alloys Fochs the three years old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Mic r. FOchs passed
away early Tuesday morning at five
o'clock at the home of his grandpar-
ents, MIR. and Mrs. John Dalska, death
being caused by heart failure due to
a relapse from diphtheria from which
the little boy had apparently recov-
cred.
Aug. F. Sindermann and family
moved to Wausau the fore part of the
week.
Mrs. John Knoeck and Mrs. Leonard
Lemmer visited at Wausau Thursday
with the family of J. Donahue.
Mrs Philip Menzner and Miss Isabel
Schmutzlsr attended the commence
ment exercises of the Wausau High
school last night, Philip Menzner, Jr,
being one of the graduates.
Alfred Bauman, son os Mr.. end
Mrs. c. J. Baumann, has enlisted IN
the U. 8. navy and left last night for
the Great Lakes naval training station.
Athens Items
Athens Record
Ex-senator A. L. Kreutzer Of Wau-
sau was in the village over Saturday
and Sunday visiting friends and rela-
tives.
Ed. NeHenschwander, lawyer at Med
ford, is home for a visit with his
father and friends. Ed is in this
months draft and will leave with the
rest of the boys some tine between
the 25th and the Both of this month.
He left for Chippewa Falls Tuesday
for days visit there.
]. ]. Okoneski, Wausau attorney,
was in Athens Monday.
DR.. Leo McNicholas is here on
ten day furlough from the Great
Lakes Training Station. He is second
Lieutenant in the medical division.
The Penochle Card club gave Mrs.
Celia Braun surprise farewell last
Thursday evening. Mrs. Braun will
leave Athens in the early part of June.
Edgar Items
Edgar News
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Seim, Sr., of
Wausau, spent Thursday afternoon
here at the home of their son, VIM. G.
Seim.
Irving Puchner, who enlisted in the
U. 8. navy a short time ago has re-
ceived mis- call to report to the Great
Lakes Training Station Monday morn
ing, he will leave here Sunday night.
Mrs. E. B. Crawford was a county
seat visitor Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. C. C. Barrett and sons, Cyrus
Minshall, visited the latter part Of last
week with relatives and friends at
La Crosse, Winona, and Wausau.
Mrs. A. w. Puchner spent Tuesday
at the county seat.
The picnic held in the park at the
public school grounds here last Satur-
day was well attended by the rural
schools. County Supt. ]. E. Giessel
gave the afternoon address.
Ar. and Mrs F. E. Zastrow and son,
Franklin, visited relatives at Wausau
Sunday.
H. A. Saecker of Wausau is bust |
ness caller here today.
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