Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-10-21
SHORT NEWS ITEMS

the MIDST OF the Hu epidemic.
Factories for the manufacture oil
| beet sugar are being started up in
| the state.
A. F. Kimberly of Oshkosh, has &C
copied a position with the First Ma
tional Bank
| Mrs. w. H. Thorn, who was operated
on for appendicitis at st. Mary's hos
| pital, continues to improve.
Mark Scholfield has purchased the
residence formerly owned by E. S.
Manson, at 407 Grant street.
j The Kiefer Produce company is
building garage in the rear of its
cold storage building on Fulton street.
+. President Wilson, Col. House and
Mr.. Gompers are all ill., But this CO.
! incidence just happened. They are all
+, getting better.
4 There are places where the flu has
started in its deadly work, but so
! far, there is no such an epidemic as
was had last year.
/ Mrs. Guy K. Gooding, who has been
at st. Mary's' hospital for the past ten
]
turned home today.
Karl Mathie will supply the pulpit
in the First Universalist church next
Sunday morning, in the absence of
Rev. VIM. j. Taylor.
/ The American National bank of
| Marshfield has increased its capital
| stock to $150,000 The capital pre-
viously was $4,000.
Wausau seems to be in the grip of
a sugar famine-none to be had. Our
grocery men say it will be week be-
fore there will be any relief.
There are said to be plenty of part
ridges in the woods. 1t is said they
run about just like chickens. The
! birds are protected for two more years.
Mr.. Hayner, expert piano tuner and
repairer from Chicago, is now in the
city. Patronage respectfully solicited.
Leave orders at Muellers' Jewelry
store o21-tf
The Pilot>invites you to Wausau, be-
cause we know you will be delighted
with its people, delighted with it's laws,
delighted with its school privileges,
and delighted with the moral element
that exists and is largely sustained
by the people.
The new theatre now being built, at
the corner of Jefferson and Second
!. streets is nearing completion. The
walls are up and tee iron upon which
the immense roof will rest is in place
The building takes up the space OF
two lots, which is 12O feet square.
Thursday night was a cold one, the
thermometer touched 81, which is sew
eral degrees below freezing Those
who had no fires during the night
found their homes colder Friday than
they will be. perhaps any time this
Y winter. Friday the temperature be-
gan to warm up.
Last Sunday afternoon, Oct 10, a
fair was given in the town of Cassel
in the interests of the school districts
1t was held in A. F. Joswick's hall
Talks were given by county agent, F
G. Swoboda and Miss Mary Brady
p home demonstration agent and others
Premiums were awarded on grain
!, corn, potatoes, etc.
A mild winter is predicted by an
Y old weather prophet, who has been
0 watching the muskrat homes. Just to
show how easy it is To make predic-
. tons, he says the first snow storm will
D be on the 9th of December. He did not
say from which way it was coming
nor how deep it would be. but just in a
careless way announced the fact.
Miss Dorothy Pulling, eldest daugh-
I ter of Mrs E. B. Pulling of this city,
who enlisted as nurse in the service
of her country over a year ago. and
took special course in that work in
D Chicago, is now located at Fort Sheri-
l dan. where she was transferred. and
writes that she Is getting some fine
surgical training at the latter place
1 Marshfeld News.
} j. P. Duskey of this city. while at
Green Bay recently. left his automo-
bile in front of the principal hotel
and when he went out for il, soon
=! afterwards. 1t was gone-it had been
stolen, no trace of it could be found
land he returned home. He received
: a long distance message a few days
after his return. from a man in Green
Bay. saying that his machine was
found in his yard. quite badly dam
aged. Mr.. Duskey went down i'm
mediately and found his stolen car.