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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20

went TO that city hardly hoping 10 re.
cover moro than the bones OF his brother
Henry. The body had not yet been
needed, however, by the school for dem
onstration and had been re embalmed mt
tho school. Dolioatoly cared for and
tenderly treated, the remains Of the
suicide lay M though. sleeping peace
fully when his brother was admitted to
the room yesterday morning at 10
o'clock. The corpse was Immediately
taken to an undertaken, placed in a
oasket and shipped on n noon train back
home to the unnaturally wilowt
wife and orphaned children in Iowa.
The faculty mt the medical school did
everything in their power to aid tho
bereaved man who had come for the
body OF his lost brother. They spent
several hours in getting into the grounds,
as the day was Sunday, and helped by
all possible means to prepare the body
OF Broer for Its last rest. Louis Broer,
who has been searching in vain for the
dead mans whereabouts since January
and who came upon the facts only last
week, was delighted, Of course, to be
able to recover tho complete form of his
brother, since 1t seemed hardly possible
that the flesh should have been spared
cutting until now. He was pleased not
only on his own account but because he
had come away with the words Of the
widowed woman burning in his ears,
"Unless You bring back the body it will
mean my life"
The story Of Broer's wandering from
home on January IA because of worry
over preachers conduct, of his hang
ing here and shipment as ali unknown
man to the medical school, was told i'm
Saturdays News. He was hunted by
his brother everywhere, through adver-
tising, and finally Carl Otto, German
in this city, saw the notice of reward
offered and wrote. Louis Broer took
the first train for Norfolk and arrived
Saturday. He found the clothing and
recognized it Immediately. He had
himself brought the blue overcoat from
Germany as present from another
brother to Henry.
The dead man leaves family of q
wife and six children, the oldest of
whom is n daughter of 81 years. He
was the first to die Of a family of nine.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
The GOVERNMENT BUILDING.
Superintendent of Construction Over
due-Work to Begin Now.
[From Saturdays Daily.]

[From Saturdays Daily.l
March l was the date set for the be.
ginning Of active operations on the Nor.
folk government building. The super
intendent of construction is already two
weeks over due, and Postmaster Hays
has informed the contractors that they
may begin excavation Immediately, SO
far as the ground is concerned.
James r. Fain is superintendent of
construction for Norfolk S new building.
He was supposed to have been ON the
ground before this, and there is stack
of mail awaiting him at the post office
that would swamp letter carrier.
A few weeks ago the construction
company asked Mr.. Hays in regard to
the possibility of beginning work. He
replied that they might commence dig
ging at once. They will have to wait,
however, until the Baptist church is
taken away before anything can be ac-
complished. The plans and specifica-
tions are here, done up in roll that
looks like small telephone pole and
occupies a vault of its own at the office.
The building is to be completed by
May /, 1904.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20

keep track IL IL changed every hand. A
man Is never made TO smile when his
ace IL trumped, and to think lot of
other things, for his noe is never
trumped and because his partner
may be n bit better Mt the game than he
is himself. People belong because they
love the game and some mon are there
whose wives are not, simply because OF
diversity Of tastes.
Now and then u man is out of town.
In that case tho hostess fills the place
with someone else who promises to be
on time, and whom she thinks can play.
III 1t happens, as it has, that he can't
even play pitch and do 1t well, but runs
on his nerve in spite of 1t, he goes aud
starts to play. He may lead with the
king when the ace is out, and the side
he was thrust upon may loose AZ points
in the round of tho boards. If he had n
fair reputation before that night, he
might better have kept 1t by dropping
dead But he has tho chance of walk.
ing home with one Of the best looking
players in the olub-the one whose
husband is away--and that would repay
him for loosing everything he ever
owned.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
DRUMMER HAS FUNNY FUN.
He Would Rather Cook Than Eat and
Does II at Home.
From Mondays Daily.l

There il commercial traveller in
Norfolk who does something else besides
commercial travelling. He is a phenom.
enal in way and his way is different.
The drummer has been on the road for
80 years, and gets home on Fridays
to spend Sunday. And during the
time that he is at home with his family
and this is the feature of it all-he
takes charge of the kitchen and the cook
stove the pie tins and the bread baking
and gets the three meals q day complete.
This sort of work is the greatest fun
in that salesman's life and he would
rather cook three meals day than eat
one, any time. He does it not because
he wants to relieve his good wife of her
household duties, not because he is dis.
satisfied with cooking that isn't his own
although the food he gets at some of
the country hotels does bother him a
bit-but simply and purely because he
loves the art as an art and is in a
perfect state of ecstasy with his
sleeves rolled up to his elbows
and heap of dough before him. Some
men cook because they need the
dough, but this man kneads the
dough because he likes to cook.
The commercial traveller is particu.
lar as to the utensils he uses and the
articles that he employs in creating his
dainties. He buys his spices in the
lump and CRATES them himself, to be
sure that they are unadulterated. That
is great. He will only use certain sort
of chocolate because to his notion that
is the only brand on the face of the
earth that is fit for man to eat. He is
as careful with coffee as any kitchen
maid ever dared to be and his cooking
apartment looks as though it might be
a kitchen made especially for him.
Sunshine cake is one of his specialties
and loaf of it, all baked and finished,
is beautiful sight to see. 1t is not q
joy forever, because it doesn't last a
minute. And the funny part Of it all
is that the man is one of "the best fell
lows" on the road among drummers, and
thoroughly practical, withal.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
WAKEFIELD WEDDING TOMORROW
Miss Martha Parker, Former Norfolk
Girl, Will be Married.
[From Tuesdays Dally.l

u AOii uSSudy = Idily'J
Tomorrow is the wedding day of Miss
Martha Jane Parker now of Wakefield
but for years at home in Norfolk. She
will be married to Ralph Jackson Pugs.
ley, of Genoa, Neb., in the Presbyterian
church of Wakefield, at high noon
Mr.. and Mrs. Pugsley will take an east
ern trip. There will be number OF
Norfolk people in attendance. Mrs. A
J. Durland and Mrs. Mcmillan left fol
Wakefield today noon and tomorrow
morning DR.. and Mrs. A. J. Cole and
daughter, Rosella Mr.. and Mrs. j. S
Mathewson; DR.. and hlrs. @. s. Parker
Robert johnson and Miss Josephine
Durland will leave for the wedding
Dwight Pierce Of Lincoln will arrive in
Norfolk tonight to accompany the
party.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
STATUE OF MORTON.
Rudolph Evans To Do The Sculptor
Work.

Washington, March 17.-Special to
The News; Rudolph Evans, famous in
his line, has been selected to do the
sculptor work on the statue of the late
j. Sterling Morton, which will go toward
adorning Morton park at Nebraska City.
The statue is to be life size with a
sprite in front represented in the act
of training a sapling. The statue is to
be paid for by popular contribution, a
large amount OF money having already
been contributed by the people of Ne,
braska and other states to honor the
memory of the father of Arbor day.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
[From Saturday's DailY.l

tFrom Saturdays Daily.l
Even teachers have troubles some-
times.
Another of those enjoyable programs
was given yesterday afternoon.
President Warren of Yankton college
spoke regarding a college education
Monday.
In two days there has been no speak
ing during general exercises. The
phenomenon is not explainable.
The freshmen girls appear to think
they are about sit" when they have
succeeded in getting their hair "done
up"
Miss White, ex.county superintendent
of Wayne county, gave talk regarding
the life and work of Francis willard
Tuesday.
A person might think that the fresh
men and sophomores were reading latin
when they take part in entertaining,
but they are not. They read nothing
but ordinary English "as she is spoke" 4"
At present there are but three candi.
dates entered in the declamatory con-
test, and if there are three prizes some-
one is certain to get one. The candi-
dates are; Nellie Handley, Roxie
Sturgeon and Clyde Bullock.
A number of grade boys have been
having time with the telephone poles
afloat in the ditch near the railroad
tracks. The scheme is to try how near
one can come to getting his feet wet
without getting them wet-or how wet
one may get them without drowning or
contracting spell of sickness.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
PACIFIC HOTEL IS SOLD.
M. B. Watts of Oscaloosa
Iowa, the Purchaser.
TRANSFER MADE AT NOON
Mr.. Bullock is Now Out OF the Busi.
ness and Says He is Glad Of lt--Mr.
Watts is an Experienced Hotel
Man.
[From SATURDAYS pally.l

[From Saturdays Daily.1
The Pacific hotel changed hands to-
day, the new proprietor being M. b.
Watts, of Oscaloosa, Iowa, who is now
in possession.
with dinner today am out of the
hotel business, and you may tell the
people that am glad of it," said Il, A.
Bullock. II have had many enjoyable
occasions and sone that were not so
happy since undertaking to serve the
people Of Norfolk and the travelling
public in the capacity of landlord, l
wish further to speak good word for
my successors, They are genial gentle
en.,and are qualified by experience to
give the people first class service"
Mr.. Watts, the new proprietor of the
Pacific, has been for years in the hotel
business at tuscaloosa. He has wide
acquaintance among the travelling men
of Iowa and knows just what they
desire in the hotel line as he has had
experience on the road himself. He is
a pleasant gentleman to meet and will
prove valuable acquisition to the
business interests Of Norfolk. His
family will arrive Wednesday from
Oscaloosa to make this city their home.
He admits that he does not know all
about the business that there is to know
but feels qualified from his years of ex.
perience i'll promising that patrons Of
the Pacific hotel will in the future be
we'll fed and otherwise carefully looked
after.
With the sale of the Pacific Mr..
Bullock is, as he says, out Of the hotel
business. In little more than 30 days
he has disposed of both of Norfolk s
leading hotels, which he has been con-
Quoting for several years. He still has
large business interests here, however,
and his friends hope they may be suf-
ficient to hold him as resident of the
city for years to come.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
JAIL FULL OF TRAMPS.
Motley Mob of Weary WiIlies in Nor
folk Saturday Night.
From Mondays Daily.1

tFrom Mondays DaiIy.J
The city Jail was crowded Saturday
night with motley mob of hoboes who
drifted in and anchored. They were all
on their way to Bonesteel, S. D., where
they hoped, they claimed, to find work.
That may have been what they were
looking for, but it is safe to wager that
they would have gotten out of its way.
They ordered eggs and beef steak for
breakfast and were given hard roll on
the iron hunks. After chapel exercises
behind the bars yesterday morning, the
bunch were driven out, single file, and
shown the way to their destination.
They were incidentally advised to use
the information. They LEFT the city.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
CORRECT WEATHER SIGNALS.
Erroneous Code Has Been Floatec
About Norfolk.
[From Saturday's DailY. !

In order that the people may not be
misled by erroneous weather signals
that have been foated upon the city,
the correct code, as furnished THE
NEWS from the United States Weather
Bureau, is here given:
White flag, clear or fair weather
blue flag, rain or snow; white and blue
flag, local rain or snow; black triang-
ular flag, temperature signal white
flag with black square in center, cold
wave.
When the black triangle is placed
above the accompanying flag, it indi'
Gates warmer weather below indicates
colder.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
Body is Recovered.
[From Mondays Daily.


In perfect state of preservation, the
body of Henry Broer was recovered
from the medical school at Lincoln yes.
terday morning, and has by this time
reached his former home in Hubbard
Ia, to be buried by his wife and six
children. Attorney Burt Mapes re-
turned from Lincoln last night, where
he accompanied the brother, Louis
Broer, in quest of the remains.
The corpse of the man who COM
mitted suicide in Norfolk has been
lying at medical college in Lincoln
for a month and half, awaiting the
dissector's knife. III was feared that
long before this the flesh might have
gone under the blade and Louis Broer
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
READY FOR FREE DEUViiiiii III
Supplies are Here and Waiting
to be Used.
SERVICE WILL START JUNE
Three Routes to Cover the City-.l6
Mail Boxes in Town-District West
of Thirteenth is Cut Outright
Hour Law.
tFrom Saturdays Daily.l

[From Saturdays Daily.l
Free delivery service will be started
in the mail system of Norfolk on June
1. Everything is in readiness for the
work on the first morning. The sup
plies needed for the scheme are all here,
boxed up in store room at the post
Office. There are iron mail boxes that
will be placed around the city; iron
posts upon which they will be fastened ;
pouches, straps, books and blanks for
the carriers.
Norfolk will be served by three car
riers, to begin with. They will have
three routes. Route No. will be
located east of Fifth street, from the
north side as far south as Bluff avenue,
near the junction. Route No.2 will
include territory west of Fifth street,
and Route will take in South Norfolk.
This carrier will be mounted.
The western boundary of the service
will be Thirteenth street. West Of
that thoroughfare and even on the west
side Of it, there will be no mail delivered
by city carriers. The district will be
covered by rural route.
There will be sixteen mail boxes in
the city, which will be located at street
corners from one end of Norfolk to the
other.
In route there will be boxes at the
Oxnard hotel corner, the Pacific hotel
corner, Baum store corner, Union Pa
cific depot, Northwestern city depot,
and Fourth street and Park avenue.
Route will have boxes ut the
corners of Fourth and Bluff avenue !;
Ninth and Norfolk avenue; Eleventh
and Nebraska avenue; Ninth and Tay-
lor avenue; Norfolk avenue and Thir-
teenth; Park avenue and Thirteenth.
Route 3 will be boxed at the North.
western depot (South Norfolk; First
street and Omaha avenue; Michigan
avenue and Cleveland street; Second
avenue and Cleveland street.
The carriers will be on a purely civil
service basis, and will work under the
eight. hour law. According to this they
are not permitted to labor more than
eight hours per day, and are compelled
to return to the office even though they
are but half through with their routes.
This, with the extreme length of the
routes, will make it highly probable
that but one delivery a day will be
made in the residence portion of the
city. "The entire matter of adjust
ment, however, will be decided after q
period of actual operation, when the
best methods will be adopted" said
Postmaster Hays last night.
Ik = Ill ~
the change the Norfolk Office may be
put into the classified list and get the
benefit of the eight hour system, which
would, of course, be great relief to
the clerks in the office, who are now
penned in from early morning until
nearly midnight, handling the mails.
A civil service examination will be
held in this city on April 2, for appoint.
ments to positions Of clerks and letter
. carriers
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
THEY PLAY WHIST.
Two Teams Meet Once a Week and
Play Scientifically.
[From Tuesdays Daily.l

tFrom Tuesdays Daily.l
There is little crowd of society foll
in Norfolk who love whist for its OWL
sake and who play it scientifically
They play whist for all there is in it
and they get little extra on the side
They are organized into team whist
club, half on one side and half on the
other, and the team that loses after the
seasons scores are counted up, stands
for banquet and pays tribute to the
victors.
Sixteen.men and women-enough for
four tables-make up this club and
meet once week throughout the wint, /
to battle for points over the duplicate
boards. They are "sharks" at this
particular style of art-for they have
Hoyle's law worked into a fine art
and when they play, they play in
earnest. The members never miss the
meetings unless they're out of town or
dead-and they try to be neither on
the night of the tourney. Regard
less of the weather and even in the face
of blasting blizzard, these Is persons
with common interest get together at
8 o'clock, sharp, one night out of every
seven and begin, at the tap of bell,
to pull all possible points with the 1856
cards that they use in the hands.
For three hours and half they sit in
silent study, playing second hand low
and calling by soundless signals for
trump leads in return looking con-
stantly at the board in front of them,
with now and then bite of the lips or
frown of the brow to bring back the
run of trick the first time round-but
always, always, always playing whist
that is whist. After four hands have
been gone around, the members, who
are numbered, move to different tables
and meet new foes-but always with
the honor of their own teams at stake.
At the end of each hand the cards are
blocked into their sockets and system
atically carried to the next table by q
pretty girl who finds that she has
enough to do in keeping straight the
boards. And during this little spell,
meanwhile, the players never talk-they
only whisper for fear the noise Of words
might disturb their whistly inclined
thoughts; and even in whispering, they
speak of nothing except the way the
three spot of spades happened to go in
the hand just played. Each side has a
captain and he, with a set of blank
forms, goes quietly about at the end of
each division to chalk up the marks.
Then he figures ON what his side has won
or lost and the person who is response
BILE for it figures on it also. The end of
the evening comes, the hostess snaps
her fingers and the crowd comes out of
the trance. Then she serves luncheon
sometimes it's too course and some
times it isn't-but's 1t always makes a
hit with the gamists, just the same.
Then the men smoke-that is the men
who dare to smoke, while those who
dare not for fear of their mothers or
their wives, sit by the while and think
the harder over lost chance to finesse
during the early part of the playing.
There are women in the club-but
they aren't thinking about their
Easter bonnets between each play. No
one ever asks Whats trump" because
it's always hearts, and besides they d
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
SO FONTS OF new TYPE.
The News Has Made Another I'm
provement to Job Office.
[From Saturday's Daily.l

lrfoHh SATURDAY DARYL
The job office department of THE News
has this week installed SO fonts of
beautiful new type-the latest produc-
tions of the foundry. A font of type is
complete case of one face, so that
something Of the proportions of the new
addition may be appreciated These
new styles will be used in all sorts of
job work and a number of advertise.
ments in today's paper have been reset
with it.
A set of more improved letters in the
art of printing can be found no where
in the country than in THE News office,
for the simple reason that the stuff ism t
made. Printing is fine art and the
fashions of its lettering change the
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
FIRE NEAR ROUND HOUSE.
Flames in Coal Shed Give Firemer
aBad Run.
[From Saturdays Daily.]

[From Saturdays Daily.]
A fire alarm was turned in from South
Norfolk at 2 o'clock this morning The
trouble lay in the roof of a coal shed
near the Northwestern round house,
but no damage was done. The South
Norfolk hose company played stream
of water upon the flames and had them
extinguished long before the uptown
department. could arrive. The hook
and ladder department and the Mast
hose company made the run. Fourth
street was too muddy to be used, and
the carts had to be swung around to
Fifth. 1t was bitterly cold night for
the firemen.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
GEESE HOVER OVER LIGHTS.
Flock Cronks in the Misty Clouds.
Confused and Lost.
tFrom TUESDAYS Dailv1

tFrom Tuesdays Daily.1
Confused by the clouds Of mist that
hung over the sky all day yesterday and
through last night, thousands of geese
struck Norfolk about dusk and lowered
above the arc lights Of the city, swing
about in q continual circle and cronking
loud enough to keep people awake.
They were evidently lost and knew not
which way TO 60 Toward South Nor
folk big flock flew when suddenly
there was a shot and heavy bird fell
to the earth with thud. A few other
attempts were made to drop winged
weather signal but were unsuccessful.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20

-. III things else. When fellow
'ate historical "ew idea that
is pu,,. society it into lead, it
is the aim of THE A. IS to buy it,.
This week it has bought 90 of those
notions in a bunch-notions that give
pleasure and delight to discerning ones
who understand, and that's why the
work is well done.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
PACIFIC TO Be RENOVATED.
New Proprietor Will Make Change:
Throughout in Every Way.
[From Mondays Daily

M. B. Watts, new proprietor of the
Pacific hotel, announces that the hostel
ry will undergo complete change. II
will be renovated throughout, the din
ing room will be reI a2ered, new staii &
and carpets put in and an improvement
made in the bill of fare. Mr.. Watts is
an experienced hotel man and former
commercial traveller himself. He thinks
he knows what the public wants and
has gone into the kitchen to make the
coffee, in order to have it started Just
right.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
C0OPERAGE PLANT BURNED.
Big South Omaha Concern Totally De- =.
stroyed This Morning.

South Omaha, March 17.-Special to
The News The cooperage plant in
this city, one of the largest Of its kind,
was totally destroyed by fire here this
morning. The loss was $4,000. There
were some narrow escapes by the fire.
men, but no one was injured. The loss
is covered by insurance
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1903-03-20
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
Quietly Observed in Norfolk With a
Wearing of the Green.
[From Tuesdays Daily.

[F'rom Tuesdays Daiy.l
st. Patrick day has been quietly OBJ
served in Norfolk. There have been
green spots lodging about the city all
day long on the button holes of loyal
people, but that is about the extent of
the recognition the day has received.
The saloons may do little bigger bust
ness tonight than usual, and there may
be fight or so but nothing more.