The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-12-08

week NlSlt WIN relatives ana lrlenuS
at Omaha.
sheriff j. J. Clements was in town
from Madison this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. w. c. Davenport of
Sioux CITY spent few days with rel.
atives here, and have now returned to
Sioux City.
Miss Bessie Mcfarland, who had
been visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
S. II. Mcfarland for week. returned
to her home at Lynch yesterday af.
| ternoon.
f. Il. Martin of the Battle Creek
Enterprise was in the city yesterday
for the first time in four months. dur
ing which time he suffered with a long
siege of illness.
| c. ID. jenkins returned yesterday
from Kalamazoo, where he had been
visiting his son, Corl. Mr.. jenkins.
though still quite weak, says that he
| feels better than he has before.
DR.. and Mrs. o. II. Meredith will en-.
tertain at their home on North Tenth
street Friday evening.
II. A. Haley has rented the Beels
store building and will open a wall
paper store on February |.
w. II. Johnson was able to be down
town again yesterday afternoon, after
an illness OF several days.
A son has been born to Mr.. and Mrs.
John Barnes OF Spencer. Mr.. Barnes
| formerly lived near Norfolk and is
manager of an elevator at Spencer.
The regular meeting of the Wednes
day club for tomorrow has been post
poned until Wednesday of next week.
George Ludenick, while working on
schoolhouse at Platte Center Satur-
day, fell from the scaffolding and was
badly injured in the hip, though not
seriously
Rev. and Mrs. j. w. Kidder celebrat-
ed their golden wedding anniversary
at their home north OF the city. on
| Thirteenth street, yesterday. The eel
ebration took the form of family re-
union, there being quite number OF
sons and daughters present from over
the state
Spencer Reporter: Frank Woods
while at Bonesteel Tuesday night dur
ing the storm, had the misfortune to
run into telephone wire, decorating
the flesh near the right eye quite bad
| ly. He had driven to Bonesteel, but
on account of the bad weather, was
compelled to leave his team and re-
| turn home on the train.
The Ben Hur lodge last night elect
| ed officers as follows: Past chief,
Miss Mills; chief, j. II. Custer judge,
w. b. McCune; teacher, Mrs. Mary
Howe; scribe, S. h. Mcfarland; keep
er of tribute, Miss Pearl Widaman;
guide Frank Hamilton captain, e. NJ.
| Clements; keeper of outer gate, f..
A. Amerine; keeper of inner gate, Miss
Freeman.
The railroad boys report that they
have thus far sold nearly 800 tickets
in Norfolk alone for their annual ball
to be given in Marquardt hall on
| Christmas night. And these have been
| disposed without even any soliciting
With the railroad dancing party on
Christmas night and the Eagles fol-
lowing a week later, there promises
to be something doing during the holi-
days this year, from beginning to end.
Skating has begun in earnest for
the season in Norfolk and every night
sees crowds with their nickle plated
runners, bound for the Northfork and
other popular skating resorts. Several
years ago skating rinks were the pop
ular thing in this city, the large rink
in the corner that is now occupied by
the Bishop block affording fun to hun
dreds of skaters, big and little, every
day. Increased building on the bust
ness part of town has put stop to
this and the rinks are a thing of the
past. But the skating goes on. The
Elkhorn, of course, is by far the safer
of the two rivers for skating, though
it is much more distant.
A Fremont report says: "The Floro-
dora theatrical company was attached
here last night on papers issued in
Omaha The complainant is the east
ern syndicate that sold the production
to the present management. The
charge is failure to pay the royalty.
1t is said here today that Woodward &
Burgess of Omaha have just bought
the company and it will be in shape to
continue its engagements soon. Man
ager Riggs went to Omaha to bring
about a settlement of the controversy.
The company was dated to play in Col
umbus Monday night. This engage
ment has been cancelled. In the mean
time the troupe Is here, still intact. 1t
played to a $500 house at Larsons
theater last night"