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

Tim Preece of Battle Creek was in
town over night.
w. A. Rainiger of Tilden was a city
visitor last evening.
Arthur Martin Of Battle Creek was in
the city over night.
DR.. Mettlen was in the city this morn.
ing from Bloomfield.
Attorney Guy r. Wilbur of Wayne
was In the city yesterday.
Miss Jesse Westervelt of Tilden is
visiting friends in the city.
Mrs. s. f. Brace of Battle Creek was
a Sugar City visitor yesterday.
Rev. j. b. Van Fleet returned this
morning from a visit at Waverly, Iowa.
j. Chauncy Childs will leave Monday
morning for Wayne TO attend the Nor.
NAL school.
+. A. Brakeman of Independence,
Iowa, is in the city visiting his brother,
w. H., and family.
The +. E. u M. V. bridge gang is
repairing bridges along the Creighton
branch of that road.
The U. p. pay car was here over night
distributing dollars where they would
do the most good among employees.
DR.. II. S. Holden moved into the Rome
Miller house at the corner of Norfolk
avenue and Thirteenth street yesterday.
The teachers institute, which has
been in session all the week at the High
school building, will close this after
noon.
Sheriff Chas. Crockett and A. Wood
of Bloomfield brought a female patient
to the hospital from Knox county last
evening.
Miss Bessie Duel, who has been visit
ing at the home of her cousin Art Bru-
baker, returned to Meadow Grove last
evening.
Mrs. Geo. Lehman terminated her
visit with Mrs. Geo. H. Spear and re-
turned to her home in Columbus this
morning.
G. w. Brocaw returned last evening
from a trip to Iowa, and was called to
Albion this morning by the illness of his
little boy.
Bids for the additions to the Congre-
gational church will be opened at the
home of Col. S. S. Cotton at s o'clock
this evening.
Miss Jennie Tannehill will leave Mon
day morning for Fremont, where she
will attend the summer term of the
Normal school.
Davenport Bros shoe store is keep.
ing up with spirit of improvement
abroad in the town, and is receiving a
fresh coat of paint.
Mrs. p. j, Stafford is enjoying a visit
from Mrs. T. j. Mahoney and daughter
and Miss Powers of Omaha, and Miss
Pollard of South Omaha.
Misses Matilda Fricke, May Anderson
Edith Richardson, who have been visit.
ing friends in the city, returned to their
homes at Madison this morning.
j. H. Shaw, the well contractor,
loaded his apparatus on a car last even
ing for shipment to Humphrey, where
he goes to dig a we'll for that city.
Thn nh;ll,nr &c wv II pieI xrbo
were poisoned by eating candy Thurs
day evening, are very much improved
today and may be considered out of
danger.
Reserved seat tickets will be on sale
Monday morning at Christoph's drug
store for the Blind Boone concert which
will be given in the Baptist church
Thursday evening, June %.
A number of persons have been sub.
poenaed to appear before Judge Bates
court in Madison, Monday afternoon
at l o'clock. to give testimony on part OF
the state in the stock yards cases.
Earl Rock, II years old, the adopted
son of Henry Leisy, living at Scribner.
departed from the latter's home las,
Monday and has not been heard from
since. He is wanted badly by his foster
father.
The branches of trees are in many
places growing so low over the sidewalks
that an ordinarily tall man cannot walk
under them without crooking his neck
like that of a squash. The trees need
trimming,
Sheriff Geo. w. Losey passed through
the city this morning on his way home
from Sioux City. He says that he now
has the thieves located who burglariZed
the shoe store of Greenwalt & Stein
brecher last winter.
Another game of base ball was played
between the teachers and town boy
yesterday afternoon. The rain storm
came up in time to stop the game at the
end of the sixth inning, when honor.