Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-05-21
SHORT ITEMS

L1lacS, plum anu apple trees are III
blossom, and they look just gorgeous.
Many of our business men were out
playing golf on Saturday afternoon.
The weather report says showers
tonight and Wednesday and warmer.
The opening day at Rothschild will
be on May Goth. Big dance in con-
nection.
M. J. Cawley and family are now
occupying their newly purchased home
at 617 Grant street.
The river is again at a moderately
high stage, it being nearly six feet
above low water mark.
Geo. Steltz, who has been the city's
able assessor for many years, is max
ing his annual rounds.
G.. NJ Christianson, of Phelps, is at
st. Mary's hospital, i'll with pneumonia.
Mrs. Christianson is with him.
A number of ladies enjoyed lunch
con and spent the afternoon, Satur~
day, at the Wausau Country club.
Gordon Walker, who left here a
short time ago for Camp Grant, has
been promoted to Ranking Duty
Sergeant.
Wausau enjoyed very Summertime
weather the past week on Thursday
and Friday, the thermometer indicated
as high as &c.
L. G.. Hlava, who left here a short
while ago for Camp Grant, has been
transferred to Co. D, 355th Infantry,
Camp Funston, Kansas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Young are soon
going to move into the home, which
has been occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
H. ]. Hagge, 502 Fulton street.
Walter Bissell, Jr., celebrated his
18th birthday, by taking an auto load
of his young friends to Stevens Point
to attend the track meet on Saturday.
Theophil Grauer, who has been at
Ellington Field Houston, Texas, in
army Y. M. G. A. work, has been trans
ferred to Camp Cody, Deming, New
Mexico.
Ben II. Wegner, who was a mem
Der of the Tenth Separate Company
here, and who went to Camp Grant
a short while ago, has been promoted
TO Corporal.
One of the great catastrophies of
the country happened near Pittsburg
on Saturday. A terrific blast wrecked
the plant of the Aetna Chemical COM
pany killing 500 people.
The Wisconsin Electrical contract
Ors and workers will meet in Wausau
in annual convention ON the 18th and
1, l,vrr OfA inn
be held at Rothschild pavilion.
The cleaning up and general i'm
provements of Oak Island for city
park purposes, under the management
of the city's recreation committee, is
progressing finely and in a short time
will rank as another needed and en-
joyable addition to the city.
On charges of disturbing the peace
by fighting, Barney OlesOn and Fred
Worster were escorted into municipal
court yesterday forenoon. They plead
ed guilty and each were fined $500
and costs for their pugnatious pro-
pensities.
Carl Hilber, of the town of Mara
thon, has secured the contract for
building $500 feet of road surfaced
with disintegrated granite, from Roth
schild south, in the town of Weston
for $10,543. The contract was let by
the county road and bridge committee.
1t will comprise a part of the state
trunk line road between here and
Stevens Point.
Chairman L. C. Leak Emil Flatter
and Arthur Kiefer, members of the
city recreation committee, are making
preparations to overhaul and improve
the city's bathing beach premises,
preparatory to its opening on June
l and maintenance the same as last
year. During the past season it was
considered one of the most popular
resorts in the city and it is to be
hoped and expected to sustain it's
present popularity in the future.
A distressing accident occurred on
the north bound early passenger train
near Nekoosa early this morning,
caused by the passenger train collid-
ing with a freight train, previously
attributable to the sudden death from
heart failure of VIM. Gleise in his
cab of the former train. The trains
were both somewhat wrecked and the
passengers and crews of both trains
were severely SudhGu up. On dCCOuuI
of the wreckage the passenger train
was delayed, not arriving here until
late this afternoon.
A telegram from Washington on
Thursday, gave the Board of Education
that the Capital Issue committee had
refused to approve of the issuing of
100000 of bonds for the erection of
the new central school building in this
city. While the matter had been placed
before the federal authorities in Madi-
son it was thought best to send Supt.
S. B. Tobey to Washington, to further
plead the case, and it was so ordered.
If the committee still withholds its
approval the central school house can
not be built this season.