The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-03-24

is at the oxnard No patients have
yet arrived the plans to send them
last Wednesday having been altered
atterward, aud II is probable that they
may not arrive for some little time
yet, as there Is vast amount of work
vet TO be accomplished at the insttu.
ton
n. *. Hansen OF Tilden * In Nor.
folk on business.
Mrs. u. II Tracy is visiting with
Mrs Edens at aI'IrfaX. Mr.. Tracy re-.
turned this morning,
Mrs James G. Read has returned
from six months visit In Chicago
with her son. Roy Read
Mr.. and Mrs Il. G. Gentle have is.
sued invitations for dinner party
Thursday evening In honor OF Miss
Sharpless, who IL soon TO leave the
city for her new home In Duluth
l.. II. Prichard, leading merchant
of Meadow Grove. accompanied Mrs.
Prichard and his daughter, Mrs. u. o.
Bartlett, this far on their way to Kan
sas City, Mo. From there they will
go to one of the hot springs where
Mrs. Prlchard will take treatment for
symptoms of Brlght's disease.
Roads In Norfolk and throughout
northern Nebraska are in terrible con.
dition as result of the melting snow
and the heavy rain of Saturday. II
Is all that big team of horses can
do, to draw a wagon at snail's pace
! through the streets. Cabs are lucky
! to be even able to move. and no at
tempt Is made at speed. Farmers are
| kept mt their homes and Saturday af.
|. ternoon saw but small crowds of peo-
pie in any of the towns of this sec
| ton. In many places the mud Is feet
deep and horses once mired have
great difficulty In ever getting foot
free again. Not such serious roads
have been known in a long time.
win Hayes of Landers, Wyo,, ar
rived in the city last night from FIRE.
mont and Is visiting at the home OF
|
n nephew of S. w. Hayes, having gone
| to Fremont to attend the funeral OF
his father last week. 1t has been ten
years since Mr.. Hayes was In Norfolk
and he has noted many changes. He
speaks especially OF the growth OF all
of the smaller towns along the Elk
horn, which has, he remarks, been
quite striking. He will remain until
the middle of the week. Arriving at
Casper he must take drive by stage
of $50 miles before he reaches his
home, the trip requiring more than
two days and nights of steady over
land travel.
Northern Nebraska should consider
herself mighty lucky in the remark
able telephone developments that are
possessed here. Especially In the
northwest, where railroads have failed
to pierce, Is the stringing of many
little copper wires "A wonderful thing
Even out on the Rosebud II is possible
to talk over the telephone where O
few years ago there was no commune
cation excepting through a drive OF
several days. Northern Nebraska Is
much better equipped in this regard
than many eastern states, NJ. c. Thei
sen of Creighton. owner of the Camr
Dewey system, who has just been IN
Wisconsin on a visit, was In Norfolk
Saturday and said: wisconsin tele
phone lines are not nearly SO far ad
vanced as those Of Nebraska. Our
systems in the west seem to exec
them" Mr.. Theisen has been instru
mental in developing the northwestern
wires to a great degree and his ser
vices shall have a monument in gen
erations to come, through the poles
and lines that work a web all over
the big prairies.