Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-06-25
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boats, launch and canoeing parties
Phone PIP. m21-tf.
Last Friday was the longest day of
summer and now we are going back
| to the short days Of winter.
Mrs. ]. P. Hume of Milwaukee, State
Regent, D. A. r., spoke at the Wau-
sau Club on Friday afternoon at
o'clock.
Miss Blanche Armstrong, Special
Magazine Representative. Subscrip-
tons taken for all magazines at low
est clubbing rates, SIG Mcclellan st.
Phone 1871 u24tf
No. 3 of the fire department was
called at one o'clock Thursday after
noon to the home of Emil Brummond,
724 Park avenue, to attend to blaze
in his chimney.
A band of gypsies passed through
Wausau on Thursday. They wanted
to stop and pay their respects to
Wausau, but the police helped them
right along on their way north.
Amigo will celebrate the Fourth of
July. ]. D. Mylrea, formerly of this
city, was appointed chairman of the
committee on arrangements, and will
be in general charge of the days do
ings in that city.
William N. Anderson of the Ander-
son Bros. & Johnson firm, had an
abscess operation performed last
Wednesday morning at st. Mary's hos
pital. He is getting along rs well as
can be expected.
Thin-haired readers of this issue
should begin using Partisan Sage and
thus escape badness. w. w. Albers
sells it on guarantee to stop falling
hair and cure dandruff and itching
scalp or money back.
Pedestrians wading through loose
sand on the bed of the new bridge
over the falls is rather unpleasant.
A few planks temporarily laid length
wise would be quite relief from the
present disagreeable condition.
A dilapidated small band of gypsies
wandered into the ely Thursday morn
ing and began to work some of its
denizens. The authorities got after
them and ordered the outfit to i'm
mediately move out. They did not
hesitate.
| State VS.. Gotfried Pagel, called in
Justice Rileys court Tuesday after
noon on complaint of Minnie Bird,
against whom defendant used abusive
and slanderous language, was dis
missed, because of the non-appear-
ance of the plaintiff.
|
Grace Lusk, who has been sentenced
to 10 years in states prison, has
: commenced on her term and is as
sistant in the prison hospital, under
DR.. w. P. Smith, who was greatly in
need of intelligent help. DR.. Roberts,
the fiend incarnate, is still at large.
Both young men, who were injured
by a premature explosion of dyna-
mite last week, at Granite Heights,
are improving Harry Laabs, it will
be remembered had to have his right
hand amputated and Arthur Woller's
right arm was broken in two places.
The various Sunday schools of the
city, are playing series of games
under the auspices of the Y. M. c. A.
| to see which eXcels. On Tuesday
| evening the S. Paul and Universalists
played, the latter winning. Another
game was scheduled Thursday evening
| between the st. Pau1 and Methodist
teams. Several of the members of the
| former team failed to show up and
the game was forfeited to the Metho
dists.
Miss Rosetta Johnson visited local
| friends last Sunday, coming down via
| automobile from Wausau, where she
had been visiting since the close of
her school at Winnetka, Ill. Miss
| Johnson is daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
l.. P. Johnson, former residents of
this city, but who now live at Clarion,
| Iowa, and has gone to her home in
that city. She will teach at Rockford,
ILL.,, next year.-Stevens Point Journ-
al.
The directors of the Wausau Tele-
phone company, Messrs. Nathan
Heinemann, G. d. Jones, w. W. Albers,
James Montgomery, E. B. Thayer and
Manager H. 1. Crawford, took a trip
by auto on Friday, to Eland Junction,
Elderon, Wittenberg, Birnamwood and
| other places looking over and inspect
| ing its telephone lines, and also the
lines with which it is closely connected.
They found vast improvements being
made in the south eastern part of the
| county. New farm homes, new barns
and new clearings are to be seen on
| every hand,