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

Sheriff j. NJ. Cherry of Wayne was in
town today On official business.
The salary of the Norfolk postmaster
has been increased another 500 by vir.
tue of the increase to business.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. S l..
Miller of South Norfolk died yesterday
afternooniand the body was taken to
Tilden this morning for burial.
Father Thomas Walsh drove to Battle
Creek last night where he was on the
program to make an address at the
graduating exercises of the school ut
that place.
w. G. Fry, former day clerk at the
Oxnard hotel, has made arrangements
to take charge of a hotel at jefferson,
Iowa. He and his wife left this morn.
ing for that place.
Miss Nellie Morrow returned at noon
today from limerick where she has com.
pleted her school work. Miss Dollie
Stevens accompanied her home and
Will visit q snort time.
DR.. A. E. Scobee will leave Monday
for San Francisco where he expects to
make his future home and will form a
partnership with his brother. in. Flaw for
the practice of osteopathy.
F. H. l.. Willis has been appointed
postmaster at Battle Creek, vice G. F..
Montross. resigned. Mr.. Montross is
editor of the Republican and will prob.
ably devote his time to that publication.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. f. Miller have gone
to Aurora to spend Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. S. r. Barton and from there
Mr.. Miller goes to Grand Island to at.
tend a meeting of deputy grand master
workmen to be held Monday.
The Congregationalists of Pierce con-
template the erection of a new church
edifee with modern convenienses. The
building will cost about $1,000 and the
main part will be 2S by as feet with a
wing IS by 20 feet, and a commodious
basement for kitchen, dining room and
other purposes.
j. N. Bundick, manager of, the Nor
folk sugar factory, returned yesterday
from his sad mission to Washington, d.
G., where he went to attend the funeral
of his father, which took place on Fri.
day of last week. His mother and sister
will come and make their home with
him and will be here aboutthe Goth of
June.
The time of the public school teachers,
will be taken up next week in grading
examination papers, checking off for
books and supplies and doing other
work following the close of the school
year. This is one OF the hardest weeks
for the teachers in the school year, but
it will be finished a week earlier than
usual because of the early closing of the
schools.
Stanton Picket This is not con.
sidered a peach country but for all that
there will be a good many peaches har.
vested in Stanton county this fall. The
writer has a number of trees, planted
only two years ago, that are heavily
fruited. On one of them are fully three
hundred little downy balls that promise
with time and favorable conditions to
develop into luscious fruit.
The weather turned cold enough yes.
terday TO make wraps and fires seem
comfortable. A light frost fell last night
but the recent rain had so thoroughly
wet the ground and vegetation that it
produced no effect. A probability of
frost is promised for tonight by the
weather bureau and it would undoubt.
eddy be the part Of wisdom for gardeners
to take precautionary measures against
it.
The following from the Neigh Advo.
cate is a sample of the way the Norfolk
situation has been exaggerated in the
surrounding country Norfolk is wrest.
ling with the smallpox epidemic as well
as the scarlet fever. Several cases of
the former scourge have developed in
the city and one case was reported last
week in the asylum. The schools and
churches are closed until the disease is
stamped out" Up to the time the Ad-
vocate was issued no churches had been
closed and the schools had been closed
but a couple Of days and then reopened.
The fact is merely emphasized hat the
truth had best be told at home and thus
forestall the stories that people and
papers of surrounding towns may be in
clined to originate.
The possibilities of a smallpox scare
are thus disclosed by the Wayne Demo-
Graf and people with freckled faces
should have a car that they are not
~quarantined 1.-THE latest josh on the
itch, Cuban measles or smallpox, comes
from the q~uarantining Of Judge
Hunters home. The judge tells me it
is his opinion that his little boy had
simply gotten his face poisoned with ivy.
None of the rest of the family, and all