Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-02-02
SHORT NEWS ITEMS

1 SHORT NEWS ITEMS
"a 4 regular meeting of the Talbot
Il Montgomery post of the American
n Legion will be held Friday night at
the court house post adjutant is
to be elected.
Nj. J. Cawley learned today that
Miss Gladys Thons, formerly of the
Fox river valley, and niece of his
brother in-law, was one of those killed
in Washington at the KnickerbOcker
theater recently. Mr.. and Mrs. Cav
ley met the young lady several years
ago at Chicago when she was on her
way east.
The Wisconsin Hardware Dealers
association holds its annual conven-
ton at Milwaukee beginning next
week Wednesday. 1t is expected that
large number of men will attend
from this city, among them repre-
sentatives of Sells Bros, Baumann
Hardware company, ROemer & Thai
helm, Louis Wiechmann, Holman &
Kuntz and others.
The plaster ceiling in the library
room of the court house, that is, what
was left of the plaster, is being re-
moved and new metal ceiling is be-
ing put in. During the use of the
Jury, room just above the library, the
plaster began dropping off from the
lath and repairs became necessary
The work is we'll under way and will
be completed soon
John A. Sullivan, secretary and vice
president of the Great Northern Life
Insurance company, who has been
confined to ST. Mary's hospital with
an infected foot, has recovered suf-
ficiently to be taken to the Bells
hotel where he is now located. The
annual meeting of the company has
been postponed a month on account of
Mr.. Sullivan's absence from business.
On Saturday, February IL. school
children will participate in contest
to be held at the Stuart theater to
determine what grade of the public
schools can sing the Star Spangled
Banner best An elimination in each
school building will first be held, fol-
lowing which one grade from each
building will enter the final contest.
A large wool flag will be presented to
the winning class by Jos. Ekman
1t will be of interest to local men,
bers of the Northern Hemlock and
Hardwood Manufacturers association,
the headquarters of which is at Osh-
kosh to know that A. L. Osborn ap-
peared before the Interstate Com
merce commission at Washington last
Thursday. Mr. Osborn placed on the
shoulders of organized labor the bur-
den of responsibility for retarding
building operations. He did not ex-
press himself as wholly favorable to
freight rate reductions.
January was a cloudy month. There
were twelve cloudy days, eight clear
ones and eleven that were betwixt
and between. The highest tempera-
ture of the month was sc degrees
above zero, this day before yesterday.
The lowest was 80 below, although
many, many are the persons who will
question the accuracy of the gov
eminent thermometer. this having
= having been recorded on the oath.
Twenty-one fogs are recorded which
is a record that would make London
or San Francisco jealous.
The Marathon County Telephone
company held its annual meeting re-
Gently electing the following officers:
F, F. Chesak, Athens, president; G..
S. Gilbert, Wausau, vice president; F.
P, Stone, Wausau, treasurer; Otto G.
Fehlhaber, secretary. The officers to-
gether with A. l.. Kreutzer, A. J. Cher
ney of Edgar, H. /. Crawford, con-
stitute the board of directors.
A letter received by Mrs. c. F..
Woodward yesterday from ner daugh-
ter. Miss Prudential Woodward. who
is located in Washington, ID. G. de-
scribes the severe snow storm which
buried Washington last Friday and
Saturday Miss Woodward said snow
commenced to fall on Friday morning
and continued until Saturday night,
falling almost in sheets Washing
ton, she declared, had never in its
history experienced such storm and
people had no idea that roofs ought
to be shoveled off This caused the
accidents. Twenty-six people were
injured simply by the snowfall Street
car service was impossible for forty
eight hours.
The following item, from the Wit
tenberg Enterprise, will be of inter-
est to Wausau persons who know Mr..
Puchner: alfred X. Puchner, son of
Or. and Mrs. r. Puchner, former resi-
dents of Wittenberg. and who gradu-
ated from the Wittenberg high school
In 1914 and has been since living in
he