Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-05-18
SHORT NEWS ITEMS

The following is sent the Pilot from
the State University:
The soldiers and sailors club will
be closed on June LIST.
Racine is contemplating erecting a
s3OO,O UG Masonic Temple.
Many of our society people thank
Partisan Sage for their beautiful hair.
Ascension Day, Thursday, was OBJ
served by many of the churches of our
city.
Amigo has just added nine wells to
its water supply, vastly increasing the
output.
The noise of the lawn mower is
again heard in the land. No one cares,
if it is not heard at four a. m.
Jud Alexander has purchased the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ. Quaw'
and will take possession soon.
Farmers in the county say that wa
ter left out doors Wednesday ana
Thursday nights was coated with Ice.
The county and city officials and
the banks of the city were out on sat
urdav afternoon enjoying half hoh-
day.
Some very fine arbutus came in
from the north during the week and 1t
was taken up as fast as it came into
town.
Fred Shubring has commenced ex-
cavating for a large addition to his ga
rage at the corner of Main and Scott
streets.
Mrs. R. F. Fisher has been chosen
secretary of the Home Service depart
ment of the Marathon Chapter of the
Red Cross.
The choir of lions Lutheran church
went up to Merrill last Sunday and
rendered "The Crucifxion" before the
Merrill congregation.
1t is the opinion of old deer hunters
that the zone buck" law is coming
back. The state conservation commit
tee says that $4,000 deer were killed
last season.
Elmer Menzner of Marathon, who
has been engaged as assessor OF mills
and lumberyards in Marathon county,
has been looking over Wausau yards
the past week.
Many of our people are already
having improvements made on their
cottages at the various lakes, prepare
tory to occupying them during the
warm months of summer.
The report of the Bureau of For
eign and Domestic Commerce for
March shows total exports of $S19,-
858,3O6 for that month, while the i'm
ports amounted to $523,977,957.
The Wausau Cemetery association
held it's annual meeting on Friday and
elected officers as follows:
President-Walter Alexander.
Secretary-A. L. Kreutzer.
Treasurer. Ringle, Sr.
Ralph Paff and Miss Elsa Mueller
have been retained by the County
School Board which held meeting on
Tuesday afternoon. Miss Mable Cook,
who was one of the supervising teach
ers last year, has accepted the posi-
tion of Deputy County Supt. Of
Schools.
We have had anything but normal
month, thus far for May so far as the
weather is concerned. Vegetation
has made hardly any progress. Very
cold nights were had. All of last week,
there were a few comfortable days
Saturday was one of them. 1t was
possible to sit out upon pOrches with
out heavy wraps. Sunday was cold.
Sugar, is is predicted will rise to
i
from cents a pound to so cents.
Well, why not conserve on sugar.
There is no use putting in two heap
ing teaspoons in your coffee, neither is
it necessary to add sugar to your but
tered bread; but there are those who
will do it, and when their wives are
not looking take double dose.
Harold NJ. Kuckuk, a graduate of
Wausau High school with the class of
16, and now a Junior at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, was recently cleo
ted to Alpha Zeta, honorary agricul-
tural fraternity. Uniformly high
grades, together with participation in
University activities are required OF
candidates for Alpha Zeta, for which
Mr.. Kuckuk presented a weighted av-
erage of 80, is a member of Alpha
Gamma Rho fraternity. associate ed
itor of the Wisconsin Country Maya
zine, actively engaged in work with
Agricultural Literary society, and Sad
die and Sirloin, President of the Agri-
cultural College Federation, and was
formerly a sergeant in the University
Band. Four other men were elected al
the same time MIR. Kuckuk is a so1
of Mr. and Mrs. William Kuckuk OF