The Norfolk weekly news. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1888-1900, 1899-06-22
Madison.


Madison.
Judge Evans of the Tenth district held
court for Judge Allen Tuesday.
Attorney James Nichols went down to
Columbus on important legal business
Wednesday.
Over an inch and half of rain fell
Tuesday night and crops are looking
much better as result.
o. Y. King of Lincoln, who has re-
Gently graduated from the Nebraska law
school, is visiting with his wife here for
few days before taking up work in his
permanent location.
a lawn social, given by the ladies of
the d. Of H. on Friedman's lawn last
Thursday evening, netted the ladies the
neat sum of $32,25. Over 10 gallons of
ice cream were used during the evening.
Doc Malcome, formerly foreman of the
Chronicle, and B. f. Wood, recent ed
itor of the Reporter, have leased the
Chronicle plant from Editor Seely and
will now run it in partnership, Here S
wishing you success, boys
The funeral of Van Farage, who com.
mitted suicide in Norfolk, was held from
the residence of his parents on Saturday
last, in the afternoon The services
| were very quiet, printers from the local
papers acting as pall-bearers.
A painful if not serious accident be.
fell Billie Fraser while working in the
Star office yesterday morning. He was
running a job off on the job-press when
n slip refused to lie right on the impress
sion plate and he tried to adjust it before
the print was made. In doing so, his
| fingers remained second too long on
the plate, and as result were caught
between that part of the press and the
| form. The result can be imagined bet
| ter than described. -Four crushed fin
gers are now done up in a large, un-
recognizabl emass and drawn, weary
expression of pain tells the story of what
he is suffering. DR.. Smart, who attend
ed him, has hopes of saving all but one
of the fingers, for that one he says little,
but it is to be hoped that even that will
be spared and his hand eventually re-
paired.
Wednesday morning at ten O'Clock
the solemn words that made Carl T.
Seely and Miss Minnie Steen husband
and wife, We're pronounced in the pres.
ence Of the families and few of the
most intimate friends. That the
wedding was to take place was well
known fact, but just when or where was
kept very quiet. Everything was in
readiness and soon after the ceremony
the few special friends, who had been SC
fortunate rs to receive invitations, sat
down to sumptuous, as well as sub
stantial, wedding breakfast After this
came handshaking and goodbyes, and
the bride and groom drove to the depot
where they embarked for the west
Denver, Colorado Springs and several
other points are included in the trip
which will extend over several weeks
AS the train pulled ont showers of rice
old shoes, brooms and other useful arti
cles were generously presented to the
happy pair, and then the crowd that had
assembled to witness their departure
returned, satisfied with the whole affair
That an introduction for two so wei
known residents was needed to the pub
lie never entered our heads, hence it il
omitted with the passing reminder thai
Carl is the we'll knewn, popular deputy
internal revenue collector of this distric
and his bride most successful and lead
ing teacher in our public schools. TIL,
date of their return is uncertain but viii
probably be in about three weeks.