The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1901-07-19
SATURDAY SETTINGS,

Manager Sprecher went to Carroll to.
day on telephone business.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. f. Chambers were
up from Stanton yesterday.
Wayne people are talking up a three.
days fair to be held this fall.
Mrs. Joe Phillips of Stanton is the
guest of Mrs. G. II. Vail at the Oxnard.
Mrs. S. l. Hibbon of Wabash, Ind, is
visiting at the home of her son, G. j.
Hibbon.
Jesse Hibbon of Fremont, brother of
G. ]. Hibbon, is here today to visit his
mother and brother.
Miss Otelia Pilger went to Madison
today to visit over Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Pilger.
Mrs. w. E. Spencer and children
went to Stanton at noon to visit over
Sunday with the family of Editor Enos.
H. r. johnson has resigned rs the
Norfolk manager of the Bee and Fran.
ces Eiseley has been appointed in his
stead.
Owners of fast horses should attend
the public meeting Monday night to
put in a good word for a racing pro.
gram.
The average high temperature for the
six days this week is l02 as shown by
DR.. Salter's thermometer. The maxi
mum yesterday was 104.
Sherry Baker OF Delaware, Ohio, Wis.
tied his schoolmate, Warren Sisson, yes
terday and today, and will leave to.
night for the Pacific coast.
A Kansas paper claims that the
farmers of that state are blessed with a
barber worm that shaves the boards
from the wheat without injury to the
grain.
Col. and Mrs. j. Z. Simpson returned
last night from South Omaha where
they have been visiting their daughter,
Mrs. T. w. Wheaton, for the past three
weeks.
Mayor Koenigstein has called a meet.
ing at the city hall Monday evening at
8 80 to discuss street fair plans. Re-
member the date, place and hour and
be there.
J. NJ. Hanna of Ainsworth, d. Hanna
of Woodlake, E. N. Hahn of Long Pine
and g. A. Barnes of Ainsworth were in
the city last night to attend the meet.
ing of the Masonic lodge.
There will be picnic tomorrow in
Hille's grove at the mouth of Spring
branch. 1t will be given by the Nor.
folk society of Krankenverein. A large
attendance of members is expected.
Mrs. E. S. Lawton of Washington,
D. @. is expected here on the evening
train to visit her old time friend, Mrs.
j. E. Simpson. Mrs. Lawton has held
a position in the government dead letter
Office for the past 90 years.
The store room in the Marquardt
block, vacated by Hoffman & Smith, is
being fixed up for Hight Bros bowling
alley, material for which is expected to
arrive in the next few days. The room
will be repapered and painted before
the alleys are laid.
THE News has added a new 16-page
paper folder to it's equipment, the
change being necessitated largely by
the fact that the Workman is to be
issued in a new form. The machine is
an Eclipse" and is highly recommended
for perfect and rapid work.
Geo. N. Beels returned today after a
months absence, having completed the
normal course in the Massachusetts
Metaphysical college at Boston, the first
and only institution of the kind on the
globe, and from which only q limited
number are graduated at each annual
session.
A large number of friends attended
the funeral of B. Harrison, which was
held this morning at S 80 from the
home of DR.. and Mrs. H. j. Cole. Rev.
G. FL. Main of the NJ. E. church had
charge of the rites, he having returned
from lowa..in response to the summons
of the family. Interment took place in
Prospect Hill cemetery.
G. T. Sprecher returned last night
from Schuyler, where be had been to
see his aged father, who has been quite
sick. The old gentleman's health was
much improved when he left. Three of
the children of Clarence Sprecher of
Kansas City, Kansas, who have been
visiting in Schuyler, accompanied their
.nncle home for a visit here.
Columbus Journal Abraham Scott,
after being almost derived Of his hear
ing for several years, has recently re.
covered SO that his hearing is Us good as
that of people generally, although he is
rs years old. The use of the syringe in
washing and the bent end of a hair pin