Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-29
SHORT ITEMS

Today is registration day.
Bernhard Riebe is assisting at the
First National bank.
Carl Helke mas been confined since
Saturday evening.
There are several cases of small
pox in Stevens Point.
George Rick mas loaned his car for
an ambulance TO the Red Cross.
c. G. Pier and little daughter, Jane,
are both i'll at their nome with infiu-
enza.
The Women's Marching club has
rendered its services as nurses during
the epidemic.
II. c. F'lieth and Paul Peters of the
American National bank are ill at
their homes.
Gauze masks are being worn in
most all places of business as a pro-
lection from the influenza.
The clocks have now been regulated
to sun time and were turned back
one hour on Sunday, Oct. 81.
The weather turned out much cold
er Friday and the beautiful fall wealth
er of 1918, is but a memory.
The past week has been busy one
for physicians giving physical exam
nations to the registered boys.
The st. Paul road will soon enlaree
its round house in this city, making
this point much better terminal
The first institution to regulate its
time piece to sun time was the First
National bank, which it did Saturday
afternoon.
Letters have been received frcm
John N. Manson, Jack Burt, Jennings
Alexander, Lieut.. Charles Gilbert and
f. T. Montgomery.
A patient of the Rib View sana-
forum, William Running of Amigo,
died on Tuesday. His home was in
Amigo and he leaves a wife.
At seven o'clock Friday evening Nc.
3 of the fire department was called to
the home of Carl Schultz, 203 Chicago
avenue, to care for a chimney fire.
On Tuesday last, Frank Plankow
an inmate of the county asylum,
passed away. He was sixty-four years
of age and his home was in Polonia
The sisters of Notre Dame, who have
charge of st. Mary's school ON Grand
avenue, are assisting the sisters at St.
Marys hospital during the epidemic.
Activities at the Red Cross rooms
the past week have been conferred on
the making of gauze masks, the de-
mand for these being greater most of
the time than the supply.
Rev. FIR. E. P. 0'Toole, was taken
to st. Mary's hospital Wednesday, ow-
ing to an attack of influenza. He is
reported as convalescing which is
good news to his many friends.
There was heavy rain storm set
in on Saturday with high wind.
which lasted all day Sunday and Mon
day The wind turned to the west
yesterday afternoon and it has been
colder, with a cessation of the rain.
Heavy rains on Tuesday and We'd
nesday stopped the forest fires of
Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota.
1t is a pity they did not come a week
sooner and prevent the many deaths
and loss of homes occasioned by the
forest fires.
Peter J. Refs, who has long welded
the razor in Wausau, departed today
lOT w ulIe LAKE, WHGIG. ne HAS puT-
chased a barber shop. White Lake
is where the Yawkey- Bissell Lumber
Co. has it's large saw mill and lum-
Der yards in Langlade county.
Two panes of glass were broken in
to bits in the front show window OF
the Silberstein store, in the rear OF
the Marathon County bank on Thurs
day, morning. A team backing out OF
the alley caused the wreck and q rush
of nearby people to the scene of the
accident. The loss is covered by in
surance.
The United War Work campaign tC
raise $170,000,000 throughout the
country. the week commencing Novem
country, the week commences Novem
Der 18th; Wausau and Marathon coun.
ty does not have to 90 through this
campaign as the Marathon War Fun(
provides for this. Our people viii
now see that the Marathon Wal
Fund" was a move in the right direc
ton. Until the end of the war there
will not have to be an army of solici
tors at work, raising funds for wal
work activities.