Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-10-12
SHORT NEWS ITEMS

Kari Math1e Will speak at Manitowo(
! on Thursday next.
| A touring car was stolen at Wiscon-
sin Rapids recently and later was
found in ditch near Knowlton..
! The Central Wisconsin Poultry as
ISOLATION holds a meeting next Thurs
day evening at the office of the county
agent.
| Supt. NJ H. Jackson of the Wood
, the NJ E. church on the Irish question,
Oct IS.
Burns Post, 339, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, will hold meeting at the G.
| A. R. rooms at the court house this
evening.
! The Rev. E. w. Wright of Oconto
preached from the First Presbyterian
church pulpit Sunday morning and
evening.
Carroll Jester, aged II, son of Mr..
was operated on Thursday at the Wau-
sau hospital for appendicitis.
| Edgar, who was caught up by Barney
Devine, conservation warden, $4,000,
the case having been held over
Mrs. w. R. Chellis was elected to
grand associate conductoress at a
meeting of the Grand Chapter of the
Eastern Star held recently at Milwau-
| kee.
The public library will not be open
ed until the latter part of the week,
| it is expected, some delay having been
experienced in completing work on
the inside.
! A man roaming about the streets of
| Merrill the other day insisted that he
came down from the moon 1t was
| later discovered that he had escaped
| from an asylum.
This is the potato digging season.
| The crop in Marathon county was
very poor on account of the drought,
! but outside of the dry area, crops
have been phenomenal
Rev Ernest w. Wright, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church at
Oconto, occupied the pulpit at the
Presbyterian church in this city on
Sunday, both morning and evening
services.
A. H. STANCE has donated another
park to the city of Merrill 1t con-
sists Of seven acres and is surrounded
by lagoons on the Prairie river. There
is already about $4,000 worth of i'm
! prOvements on the park.
/ Duck hunters are having good luck
on lake Wausau. One sportsman took
the bag limit one day last week-fif-
teen. He also was successful in land
ing bass which weighed Az pounds
after being scaled and "inards" re-
moved.
| Wheat has come down to $500 a
I bushel, which is the lowest price since
1917 Corn is below $1.00 and pota-
/. toes are really selling for less than
/ $100 bushel. 1t looks as though the
h. c. l. has at last gotten on the tobog-
gOn.
| Pearls of considerable value have
been taken by Philip Kohler and his
brother, George, from the Peshtigo
River. They have taken pearls to the
value of $1,000 from clans, recently.
Some are of the blue variety and one,
a perfect oval, brought $100.
Ashland county has had the larg-
est potato yield in its history and the
crop there is selling for 60 cents a
bushel. The sacrifice in labor, in
digging, loading and hauling is so
great that many of the farmers are
leaving their crop in the ground
The Wisconsin Conference of Social
Workers holds its annual convention
in Oshkosh on Wednesday, Thursday
| from Wausau who will attend are
and Friday of this week. Among those
| Frank Gaetzman, chairman of the
county board, Dr. c. c. Partridge, city
health office, and Mrs. E. F. Stockum,
| secretary of the Federated Charities.
An attempt will be made the COM
ing winter at Wisconsin Rapids to CO.
operate with the residents of Pitts
vile and Marshfeld, to keep the
roads in Wood county open for auto
| traffic Deliveries by truck by mer-
CHdHtS nave oeeu piOCheu SeFGIdi
months heretofore by the snow. The
Chamber of Commerce of that city
has the work in charge.
A business mems class will be con-
Quoted at the Y. NJ. c. A. each day in
the week. excepting Sunday from now
on. instead of on three days of the
week as had been planned. The several
classes which have met to date have
been so over-crowded, according to
Physical Director Pfaff, that this
change in plans has been necessary.
! The younger business mems class will
meet three times week, on Monday,
! Wednesday and Friday at els p. m.