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

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3 O'Clock tea yesterday at her home on
Koenigstein avenue.
Ed Harter arrived in the city from
Chicago Friday to visit his parents and
friends. He will return to his duties in
the city next Tuesday.
Mrs. II. l.. Whitney and daughter,
Bernice, are expected tonight to visit at
the home of Mrs. Whitney's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Powers.
The popular fad of decorating dwell.
ings and business houses with fresh
coats of paint still continues and the
painters are still very busy.
DIR. w. II. Deering, formerly phys.
ician at the Norfolk asylum, but now
occupying a similar position at Lincoln,
is in the city visiting friends.
Misses Maude and Cora Duel and
Dretta Irwin drove down from Meadow
Grove last evening, visited with friends
over night and returned home today.
The string trio, which furnished such
excellent music on the streets of Norfolk
a week ago, are again in the city enter
tanning the denizens of this metropolis.
Fred Gruber, a classmate of Ernest
Shultz from New Ulm, Mimi, arrived
in the city with him last evening and
went to Hoskins today to visit friends.
County Commissioners Johnson,
Winter and Hughes drove out today
to inspect the new bridge which is un-
der construction over the Elkhorn
southeast of the city.
Geo. S. Bridge, brother of the Messrs.
Bridge of this city and a member of the
firm of T. d. Randall q Co, the oldest
commission house in Chicago, is visiting
in the city for a few days.
THE News job department. has recent.
ly received III addition of several new
faces of job type and its already very
complete facilities for handling all kinds
of job work have thus been augmented.
r. d. Scott, F. E. Martin and w. G.
Barnes of the Battle Greek Enterprise
force were in the city last evening at.
tending to business connected with the
publication OF Mr.. Scott's Knox county
write-up.
Brigadier General Stanton of Wash
ington, ID. c., who was paymaster dur.
ing the war with Spain but is now on
the retired list, owing to his having
passed the age limit, is visiting at the
home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary l..
Stanton of this city.
Norfolk seems to be in a specially
favored locality this year. Portions of
the state south and west are actually
suffering from a lack of moisture. The
people of Brown county are rejoicing
over a fall Of rain which came Monday,
but which was too late to insure a good
crop of wheat.
Next Sunday will be observed by the
German Evangelical church as Child
ren's day. In the morning the pastor,
ItSN' ". pblSloilCl, Will plCuCli w tii'
children and in the evening the services
will consist of speaking, singing and
other exercises by the children. All
Germans are invited to attend.
Chr. Schavland, clerk of the district
court of Madison county, kindly fur
nishes THE NEWS with some statistics
concerning the number of divorces
granted in this county since 1890. The
number granted each year since that
time were 1890, IS 1891, 4; 1892, 10;
1898, II; 1894, %; 1895, ~; 1896, Z;
1897, 10; 1898, 10; and for the first six
months of 1899, s.
The party of Tennesseeans who came
to Norfolk to look up the beet sugar in
dustry departed far the east yesterday
by way of Sioux City. A company has
been or ,anized at Jackson for the manu-
~facture of beet sugar and they were here
looking for pointers in regard to es-
tablishing the industry. Geo. @. Power,
the Chicago gentleman who accom-
phIilSu tiSill, - ihtuStiiui SoillillioolOhC
of the Illinois Central railroad.
G. j. Stockwell's brother, Fred, ar
rived in the city yesterday from Wayne
in company with his sister-in-law, Miss
Cora Brown, who is on her way to Hot
Springs, S. d., where she will take a
course of treatment for the rheumatism
with which she is afflicted. Nh. Stock
well will on the first of July assume
charge of the job and advertising de-
partment of the Wayne Democrat, he
having resigned a similar position with
the Republican,
Congressman Robinson today an
nounced his decision in the competitive
examinations held here last Thursday
and Friday for appointment of cadets to
tine military academy at West Point and
the naval academy at Annapolis. Rollo
Fred Anderson of Neigh is selected by
Congressman Robinson to be cadet at
West Point, and VIM. f, Hensley, jr,,