The Norfolk weekly news. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1888-1900, 1899-10-12

Nebraska synod will be reviewed in
interesting papers and addresses.
Rev. a. f. Siegler and family de.
parted on the early G. st. p. NJ. & o.
train this morning for their future
home in Wauwatosa, Wis. During
their residence in Norfolk the family
has gained a large circle of friends who
will not soon forget them and who ex-
tend the best wishes for their future hap.
piness. Members of the Sophomore
of the high school were among
those to bid the family God.speed,
Miss Lydia being q member.
w. +. Reavis of Battle Creek is in the
city today. Mr.. Reavis has just recent.
ly returned from the Klondike country
He encountered many hardships during
his absence and is pleased to get home
again. While there he acquired a
mine on the famous Forty Mile creek
which promises some reward for the
hardships encountered. His brother
who went to Alaska with him did not
accompany him home but is in charge of
the mining property there. Mr.. Reavis
is not certain that he will return to the
Klondike next spring.
State Secretary Pollock of the Sunday
School union from Beatrice was in the
city yesterday and made arrangements
for the holding of a county convention
i'll this city on the Goth and Goth of this
month. The meetings will be held in
the Baptist church and all the Sunday
schools OF the county are invited and
expected to take part. Good talent in
the way of speakers and music are ex-
pected to participate and an excellent
time is anticipated. 1t is also believed
that much good to the work in the
county will result. Programs of the
convention will be issued and distributed
within a few days.
Walter p. Powell and his near family
Expect to depart on Tuesday the 18th, for
Oregon, where they expect to make their
home in future. They are now dispos-
ing of household goods and completing
work in hand preparatory to removal.
The family consists of Mr.. Powell and
his unmarried daughter, Sadie Walter
Powell, jr.. and his wife; Joe Powell;
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Kidder and children,
and Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Hazen and little
son. Mrs Kidder and Mrs. Hazen are
daughters of Mr.. Powell. The family
has a large number of friends in and
around Norfolk who regret exceedingly
70 see them leave, but who desire moth
ing but good fortune and happiness for
them in their new heme.
A very pretty wedding took place at
10 o'clock this morning at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. @. Stitt, in which Miss
Emily Rust Holt of this city and Frank
w. Congdon of Hampton, Connecticut,
were the contracting parties, Rev. G. H.
Main Of the NJ. E. church performing
the ceremony. None but immediate
relatives and friends were invited to
witness the union. The newly married
couple left on the moo train for Omaha,
where they will visit the exposition a
few days and after returning for
a short visit here, will go to
Hampton, where they will make their
future home. The bride is well known
in Norfolk, having made it her home
since childhood, with the exception of a
few years which she spent in Connecti-
cut with her grandmother, where she
became acquainted with the groom.
She is a lovely young lady, both in re-
gard to looks, demeanor and disposition,
and Mr.. Congdon may congratulate him.
self on acquiring a rare Nebraska jewel.
The heartiest of congratulations of Nor
folk friends are accorded Mr.. and Mrs.
Congdon.
j. H. Conley has located his stolen BIZ
cycle and the thief is in Omaha. The
Bee says: Detectives Heitfelt and
Donahus arrested w. Arlington last
Saturday and booked him at the police
station as a suspicious character. They
Ahi'' oopeo Ito Idu Dttu thklnR t0l0gS
that did not rightfully belong to him,
but were unable to get any positive evil
dence. He was kept in Jail until Tues
day morning and then the officers put
up a job on him. They had him re-
leased and kept the closest surveillance
upon his every action during the day
with the result that he was landed in
Jail again about dusk with a bicycle in
his possession that had been stolen Nm
at Norfolk some time ago." Mr.. Con.
ley left this morning for Omaha and
will bring back with him the thief and
the wheel. While In this city Airing.
ton went under the name of Marshall
at his boarding house and the sugar fac.
tory, where he was employed, and when
he hired the wheel of Conley gave the
name of Wilson. If he is one and the
same fellow he is sailing under many