The Norfolk weekly news. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1888-1900, 1899-07-27
FRIDAY FACTS.

Madison today.
j Il. Hale was down from Battle
Creek yesterday.
Chas. LAUGH was in the city from
Creighton yesterday.
Miss Edith Altschuer left today for
Columbus on visit
Miss Birdie Hale was in town yester.
day from Battle Creek.
Miss Anna Hilderman was in this me.
tropolis yesterday from Stanton.
Miss Laura Durland has returned from
her visit to Plainview and Osmond.
II. NJ Yeazel is in town from Madison
greeting his numerous Norfolk friends.
Mrs. A. Allinson went to Madison
this morning to visit with Mrs. @. w.
Crum.
Miss Pearl Kethlege has returned
from her visit to Miss Jessie Westervelt
near Tilden.
w. II. Biggs, an attendant at the hos
pital for insane, is very sick with typhoid.
pneumonia.
John Davenport came over from Sioux
City last evening to visit friends and
relatives.
julius Hulfhwill leave tomorrow morn.
ing OH an outing trip to Denver and Col.
orndo Springs
Sol G.. Mayer has remodeled the office
in the Star by putting a "high board
fence" around the desk.
Spencer 81 Ovelman have made some
improvements in the interior of their
shoe store. The office desk will hereaf.
ter occupy an alcove cut into the shoe
repairing department., and other changes
have been made.
The annual NJ. Il. camp meeting of
this district is to be held at Lyons Au-
gust 10th to GOTH tits believed that the
success which attended the meetings
when held here will continue with it in
its new location.
A fierce county seat relocation fight is
on in Knox county. A petition for re.
moval has been filed, which has append.
ed the signatures of 1900 voters out of
possible 1890. The opposition is out in
squads getting signatures to protest
and what the outcome of the fight will
be is hard to determine ut the present
time.
Julius Leyman was looked up again
last evening for being drunk and dis.
orderly. He was given fine with costs
of rs. 10 and was told that the next time
ne appeared before the court on SINH
lar charge he would be given fine that
would confine him in the county jaill for
a period Of about 80 days.
w. H. Clark, head painter of this di.
vision of the H. L. q M. ", with his
gang, is working great and needed i'm.
provement on the railroad property in
South Norfolk. The general offices. de-
pot, railroad eating house and other
buildings are being treated to fresh
and handsome coat Of paint both inside
and out, and when finished the improve.
ment will be very marked.
Madison Chronicle: The latest thing
in the social line is a wood saving 90
ciable, at which the young ladies present
exhibit their skill in handling the buck
saw, those saving the most wood in
given time, receiving1the prize. The
young men pay an admission to see the
contest and the attendance is always
very large, as there seems to de desire
ON the part of the young :gents, when.
ever the experiment has been tried, to
learn the ability of the yonng ladies to
supply stove wood.
The city has received car load of
rubble stone, which will be placed in the
Jail yard and afford an opportunity for
all gentlemen of leisure, who may be
taken up by the authorities, to give their
muscles some unaccustomed exercise.
All hoboes will take due warning and
give Norfolk wide berth if they do
not wish to assist in demolishing the
stone pile. Recruits of this kind were
in demand this morning to assist III un.
loading the stone.
This fall the term Of DR.. A, Hodgetts,
who has been presiding elder of the Nor
folk district, M. f. church, for six years,
expires and already there is some talk
as to who will get the appointment.
Friends of Rev. Thomas O. Webster,
now pastor Of the First NJ. E. church at
Grand Island, are circulating petitions
and urging his appointment to the posi-.
ton There are undoubtedly other can
didates and it is probable that the con-
test for the position will prove quite
interesting.
A jolly party Of young people were
out last evening enjoying hay rack
ride through the streets of the city.
With their tin horns, sleigh bells and
other noise making contrivances they
could hsa readily lonatad or al,,o.. -