The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-02-24

a result of the flow.
The work Of clearing away the
wreckage aud rubbish of the burned
Turf Exchange saloon and restaurant
has commenced and II Is understood
that the work of rebuilding will he
undertaken as soon as the weather
will permit. A handsome brick block
will doubtless take the place OF the
burned frame structures.
Frank Massick was given farewell
party at ais home on South Eighth
street Saturday night. He expects to
leave tomorrow for Lamar, Col, where
he will be employed in the new sugar
factory which is being built there and
into which the machinery shipped
from Norfolk Is being installed. Mr..
Massick has been in the Norfolk plant
for a number of years.
The boys and girls have a chance
during portion Of the day to again
put their skates into use. The block
ing of drainage channels with snow
and ice and the melting of the snow
banks create numerous ponds that
during the night are covered with
smooth coating of ice and afford good
sport for the Youngsters until the sun
bites into the surface later in the day
Miss Faith Johnson was hostess at
party in the home of her parents.
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day afternoon. A large number of
little folk enjoyed the fun with unique
games and enjoyed also the dainty re-
freshments that were served. Cute
little pasteboard hatchets served as
favors for the afternoon, within the
handles of which were bits of history
printed.
Mr. and Mrs. w. II. Brakeman and
Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Koenigstein will
entertain this week at three different
social affairs. On Tuesday night at
$50 the first party of friends are in
vited. The second function comes on
Wednesday evening and number of
ladies will be entertained on the fol
lowing afternoon. The parties will all
be given in the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Brakeman.
Coasting on Dexter's hill proved rare
sport up until Saturday night for
few. The track leads from Eleventh
makinga distance of about five blocks
through which the long racing sleds
speed with the swiftness of lightning.
Danger at guiding the long racing
bobs through a narrow gate but in
creases the sport. The rising genera
ton however has had so little train
ing of late years in the coasting stunt
that the hill was not crowded this sea-
son as of old.
The sleighing is at an end The
sun killed it. With one backhanded
stroke it slew the sleigher's path of
snow yesterday afternoon and there'n
be no more this winter large num-
ber of the streets in town have lost
almost all of the traces of snowfall
and are as bare from whiteness as on
a hot September afternoon. The bob
runners that had been fastened to the
vehicles of all sorts and shapes, have
been taken off and relegated once
more to the hayloft, while freshly
oiled wheels have been spun on again
The epidemic of la grippe continues
with unabated fury in Norfolk and
there is today scarcely a home in the
bers of the family have not been or
are not, afflicted with this dreaded
aching. Doctors report that people
are i'll with the attack literally by the
hundreds 1t is just bad enough to
make the patient feel the limit in
meanness and yet not severe enough
to be given the sympathy that real
illness ought to have, The germs
seem to have spread considerably dur.
ing the past week
few letters of the alphabet are
frequently of inestimable value, and
the editor of the Madison Star-Mail was
ldSl week one Ol llle men WHO WOulU
give considerable to have few little
type in the place they were calculated
by the editor to go. In an article or
the finances of the county the editor
| intended to say that "the county roads
are in bad shape" but the compositol
made roads" into "records" and the
proofreader let it go at that, the con
sequence being that quite a serious
statement was made from one intend
ed to be a nominal complaint. Mr.
Donovan has taken prompt measures
to correct the impression that the
article conveys in portion of his ed
! ition.
1t is springtime, for fair. The gold
en- sun came up over the eastern hill
tops this morning like gilded sum
mer's day. The air is crisp and swee
and fresh, just balmy enough to drinl
in with long, deep breathing, and fra