The Norfolk weekly news., 1900-03-29

plant was walking along near the Con
gregational church last evening wher
he heard thump behind him and the
next instant one of his legs was being
none too gently carressed by the teeth
of good sized dog. He shook the ami
NAL loose and he made an attack on the
other leg He was again dislodged and
the brute made another luuge at him
| but was met with blow from Jim's fist
and was induced to desist in his efforts
The only injury sustained by Mr.
Mcdonald was bruised and sprained
| fist.
H. Il. Owen is home from a trip to
Cheyenne and Sidney, where Owen
Bros. have large force of men at work
on the B. & M. railroad. Mr.. Owen
found the work progressing in most
satisfactory manner. He was called to
Omaha yesterday afternoon, to figure
on the double tracking proposed on the
Union Pacific between Omaha and
Cheyenne. 1t is hoped the firm will
receive this contract, which will prove a
good thing for laboring men of Norfolk,
who are always given preference on
work that Owen Bros have to do, and a
contract of that magnitude would re-
quire great many men and great
many teams.
@. d. Jenkins has received letter
from A. p. OBanion who recently
moved to Buffalo Gap, S. d., to take
charge of ranch. Mr.. O'Banion says
he likes his new home and occupation
very much. He also recites story of
an adventure that may be interesting
He was driving bunch of cattle to
town one day recently and stopped at a
crystal stream to quench his thirst when
on looking up he beheld wild cat that
seemed to be much interested in him
and was not bit shy. The interest
was mutual and Bert returned to the
house, procured gun and shot six loads
into Mr.. Cat and he says the animal S
pelt is now adorning their back fence.
A number of the Masons of this city
are receiving very handsome bronze
medal which has been issued under the
auspices of the grand lodge Of the order
in memory of Robert Carroll Jordon,
who was the first grand master of Ne
braska. He was born January 49, 1926
IN, cir
of the medal is a very good representa-.
ton. of the bust of Mr.. Jordon, and on
the other broken column, virgin and
Father Time are represented the signif-
icance of which are understood by
members of the fraternity. The med
ais are sold by the grand lodge at $l.00
each, and make very handsome
memorial to the first grand master Ma
son.
Several plans have been proposed
lately of paying off the debts on the new
Auditorium, but none have resulted
satisfactorily thus far. The trustees of
the creditors now have new plan and
are anxious that the people should know
it in detail. They have therefore called
public meeting to be held in the Audi
torium tomorrow night when they hope
to meet all interested in the building,
as will be seen by call in another
column. They announce that no con-
tributions will be asked at the meeting,
so that none need stay away for fear
they will be asked for donations. 1t is
hoped that the meeting will be we'll
attended by the business men of Norfolk
and that the plan will be satisfactory
and successful one.
An exchange recites the calamities
which befell a man who couldn't afford
to subscribe for a paper as follows ::
"Did you ever hear of man who was
too economical to take his home paper
but sent his little boy to borrow copy
taken by his neighbor? In his haste
the boy ran over two dollar stand of
bees, and in two seconds looked like a
warty summer squash. His cries
reached his father who came to the
rescue, and failing to notice a barbed
wire fense, ran into that, breaking that
down, cutting a handful of fish bait out
of his anatomy and running a four
dollar pair of pants. The old COW took
advantage of the tap in the fence, got
out, ate forty cents worth of alfalfa and
died of bloat Hearing the racket the
wife ran out, upset four-gallon churn
of cream into basket of kittens and
drowned the whole mess. In the hurry
she dropped and broke 81 worth of false
teeth. The baby, left alone, crawled
along the flood of cream into the parlor
running brand new carpet. During
the excitement the oldest daughter ran
off with book agent, the dog broke up
eleven setting Of hens, and the calves
got out and chewed the sleeves from
four fine shirts that hung on the line."