The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1901-05-31
MENTION.

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George u. Battlefield came down
from Creighton or the early train.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Kenable of Win.
side were visitors in Norfolk today.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. Reynolds spent
Sunday in Madison with MIR. and Mrs.
Willis Mcbride.
The weather has warmed mp to such
an extent that it il thought all danger
of frosts is past.
Conductor T. j. Hanrahan of the f.
+. g. NJ. V. has moved his family from
Fremont to Norfolk.
Miss Helen Millnitz, who has been
visiting Norfolk friends, returned to her
home in Plainview today.
ii. T.. Gregory, who has been visiting
at the home Of Mrs. Belle Pheasant, re.
turned to Lincoln yesterday.
Ralph, Ruth, Dorothy and Margaret
Orchard left on the moor train for
Marshalltown, Iowa, to visit their grand.
parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brainard who have
been visiting at the home of his brother,
V. E. Brainard, returned to Neigh
yesterday.
Mrs. VIM. Queen has returned from
! Omaha, where she has been receiving
treatment, and is very much improved
in health.
DR.. Frank Salter was called to Pierce
today by DR.. Pringle to perform an
operation for appendicitis. DR.. Robert
Johnson went along to assist.
Columbus officers had a clash with
tramps Saturday night. Revolvers
were used on both sides. Two tramps
were wounded and four captured.
Col. Simpson has been invited to
make the Decoration day address nj
Battle Creek, at the exercises to be given
by the G.. A. r., and has accepted.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. T. Davis, who have
been making this their home for several
months, departed Saturday morning, he
going to Yakima, Washington and she
to Portland, Oregon.
Ira L. Hungerford was down from
Deadwoodi Saturday on business. He
states that his town had 80 cases of
smallpox during the winter but no
deaths from the disease occurred.
Tlo Nn,tlonet N.hroc1yn ,nncarnnra
of German Lutheran ministers will be
held in Norfolk beginning next Wednes.
day and continuing over Sunday. 1t is
expected that there will be about fifty
ministers present. The sessions will be
held in Christ Lutheran church.
G.. T. Sprecher, local manager for the
Nebraska Telephone company, was at
O'Neill last week, negotiating for a toll
line into that city. The negotiations
are still pending, but it is probable that
the telephone line will be extended to
that town before the summer is over.
A blind man, who is adept at making
| wire baskets, is securing considerable
custom ON Main street. The article he
manufactures can be converted to many
uses and car be changed from a cake
basket to a lamp shade holder or cage
for boiling eggs by a few simple turns
of the wrist.
State Superintendent Fowler has ap.
portioned the temporary school fund on
a basis of 377 ,S23 persons of school age,
that being the census of one year ago.
The total found for the semi.annual
period is $3.50, S53. 80 and the rate per
scholar is a little less than 93 cents.
Madison county's share of the opportion.
ment is 1888. 81.
Mrs. Augustus Selline, aged 26 years,
died at her home four miles northwest
of the city at 3 o'clock Saturday and
the funeral will be held from St. Paul
Lutheran church tomorrow afternoon at
3 o'clock. Deceased was a daughter Of
VIM. Doering, who lives three miles
west of town, and a hiece of Ed. Braasch
of the firm of Braasch e. Zuelow.
Dunkards are arriving in Lincoln by
the trainload from all parts of the
country to attend the general confer.
ence of that denomination. 1t is esti-
mated that there are now s, 900 delegates
attending the convention. The sect is
quite generally known as the German
Baptist Brethren. The Lincoln Journal
says of them: 1.-The Brethren are
mostly agricultural people. They are
thrifty and economical, plain in matters
of dress and methodical in habits.
Years of living under the rules of the
church and observing the simple modes
of life of a thrifty, home loving people,
has brought about generations of strong,
healthy people, firm in the faith of the
fathers and DESTROYS Of perpetuating it.
To them the discussions of creed and
doctrina) questions has little charm, and
it is on the Bible alone that they depend
for guidance"
The Nebraska State Sunday School