Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-03-09
SHORT NEWS ITEMS

VI.
north west Wausau to Henry Wood.
Judge Bump was confined to his
home for a couple of days the past
week by illness.
A warm spell in the next two weeks
might do great damage in our city
from the melting snow.
Mrs. E. M. Kanouse who has been
visiting in New Sharon, Iowa, is now
in Pasadena. California.
Bonus checks are being mailed out
from Madison and some OF the boys
are receiving theirs in Wausau.
Preparations are under way for the
American Legion and all veteran posts
to ioin in observing memorial day.
The Marathon Shoe company has
increased its capital stock, as voted
at its stockholders meeting, from
$3.50, 900 to $750,000.
After the big snow storm on Wed
nesday and Thursday many of our
best homes sprung leak and required
some snow shoveling to avoid damage.
While Saturday and Sunday were
beautiful days as far as sunshine was
concerned. they felt as if they had
been keeping company with icebergs
since last summer.
Soldiers now have to pay 8 cents a
mile for travelling, when the roads
were under government control they
only had to pay 1 cent, when they
/ wanted to run home for few days.
| Good-lookng hair, thick and lus-
trous, is easy to have if you use Par
isian Sage two or three times. It's
positive cure for dandruff and itching
scalp Sold under guarantee by w. w.
Albers.
| There is thing that Wausau may
see another such spring as it expert
enced several years ago when the
snow was so deep that trains between
here and Grand Rapids were stalled
for a week.
i A st. Patrick's dancing party will be
given at Rothschild Park Pavilion,
Wednesday evening, Mar. II. The hall
will be decorated in accordance with
the day and shamrock dances will be
the speeialties. Refreshments will be
served.
Those who know say that there is a
tremendous lot of snow covering the
earth north of us and there are chan
ces for a spring flood. Then again
the snow may melt so gradual that
there will be no trouble, let us hope
for the latter.
There should be great deal of ma
pie sugar made in this county this
spring. 1t looks as if it was going to
be an excellent season. Warm wealth
er is being delayed and there is great
deal of snow on the ground, all OF
which is conductive to a good season
Now comes the Interchurch world
movement for billion and half OF
money. There will be conferences
held in every county in Wisconsin, be-
tween now and the middle of April. In
Marathon county the conference is
to be held in Wasau, on the 18th OF
April.
Prohibition is not prohibition, when
the right to get all the liquor one
wants by simply presenting a<physi-
clans prescription. In one city alone
a doctor was kept busy, until arrested
just writing out prescriptions. There
should be no such right given. II
we are going to have prohibition lets
have it and not give any privileges.
Theodore Sternberg, who was sem
to States prison in 1916 from the town
of Easton, for six years, has been re-
leased, his time being shortened by
good behavior and by Gov. Phillip com
uting the sentence to four years
Sternberg was charged with killing
his father-in-law, Fred Jacks, anC
was found guilty of manslaughter il
] the second degree.
James A. Bell, of Clintonville, sor
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred S. Bell, of Most
nee, last week was elected director
and also secretary and general mana
ger of the Menominee Motor Trucl
company, located at Menominee, Mich
igan. The manufacturing plant is 10
Gated at Menominee Michigan, but thu
headquarters of the company will be
at Observation-Disclosures Times.