Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-02-10
SHORT NEWS ITEMS

Number days clear. 5; partly cloudy
q; cloudy, 10.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
McCrossen last Thursday
John Brushert was among those
on the sick list last week.
Calvin Clark who is at Beloit col
lege has scarlet fever. He is improv-
ing.
Mrs. ]. L. Sturtevant who has been
i'll for the past few weeks is recov-
ering.
F. P. Regner who was at st. Marys
hospital with influenza is able to be
out again.
Mrs. E. A. GoodiHg, who was con-
fined to her home the past week, by
illness, is improving.
Eugene Cross has succeeded Peter
Knipple resigned. as stenographer at
the Chamber of Commerce.
The Yawkey- -Bissell Lumber COM
pany has recently increased it's cap
ital stock form $50O,000 to $1,0O0,000
Miss Marie Book and Miss Florence
Alexander were among those down
with the prevailing illness the past
week.
Perry Wilson. who has been CON
| fined to his home with the influenza
the past week, is able to be about
again.
The Boys choir of the Presbyterian
church will appear for the first time
| in uniform at the Sunday evening
services.
Wausau people are now burning so
much soft coal that when we have
a few warm days our streets look as
if they had been doused in ink.
Reid Goodrich writes from Califor-
MIA: Il see you are having an old
fashioned winter back there. | am
sorry you cannot have some of our
warm sunshine"
The second night of the Minstrel
Show given at the Opera House Tues
day evening was as much a success as
the previous evening and was greeted
by full house.
Miss Elizabeth Stoddard who has
been very i'll for the past two weeks
with the influenza, at the Wausau hos
pital, is able to be at home again and
rapidly recovering:
Mrs. w. w. Devoe has been very
Ill the past week with typhoid-pneu-
monia. All will be glad to know that
she is improving with every indication
of complete recovery.
Bad breath, colorless lips, sallow
cheeks give girl little chance for
"a man"-Don,t give up, try Hollis
ter's Rocky Mountain Tea and see
how popular you get. w w. Albers
Next Thursday, a meeting of fair
representatives of northern Wiscon-
sin will be held in Wausau, to pro-
test against the holding of the state
fair at the early date set by the state
fair board.
Carl w. Kroening, who has been in
the employ of the Employers Mutual
Liability Company has been trans
ferred to Milwaukee, where he will
have charge of the company's busi-
ness in that city.
Stevens Point will build a $500. 900
hotel. A meeting was held the other
evening and a committe was appoin-
ted to go to Eau Claire to get the
details OF plan used by that city in
financing its new hotel.
Marathon County, according to sta
aistics, has 1895 horses and 53.-
220 milk cows. Dodge is the only
county in the state which exceeds
that number. Dodge has 1892 hor-
ses and 67,7S0 milk cows.
Last Tuesday William Williams of
Knowlton while at work in the lum-
ber camps of the John Weeks Lumber
company, was struck by falling tree
and his back broken. He was taken
to the hospital at Stevens Point and is
partly paralyzed.
The Nelson Concrete Culvert Com
pany at Pontiac, Illinois, is consider
ing putting in branch factory in
Wausau. Harry E. Madden, former
Wausau boy, is here looking over the
situation and feels certain that the
Wisconsin branch will be located
here, for it is an ideal place for it.
AT a meeting of citizens held in
Marshfield the other evening $500
was raised towards a fund to build a
grand stand for the central Wisconsin
Fair Association which holds it's an
nual fairs in that city. A committee
was appointed to raise the balance of
$4,000 needed. They are setting a
good example in our sister city. The
only way to get improvements is to go
after them.
A tablet was dedicated in st.
Stephens church Sunday morning at
ten O'Clock by Rev. VIM. Spegel. 1t is
placed in the vestibule and is in men,
ory of the boys who were killed or
died in the late war. The inscription
lis as follows: I'm memory of the men,
bers of this congregation who sacri-
Iced their lives for their country:
Edward Kregel, Carl Plautz, Arthur
Oertel, Arnold Geisler, Emil Heide-
mann, Frank Marquardt, and Emil