The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-09-29

tion. returned last evening.
l. w. Alter OF Wayne was In tho
city last night on his way homo from
Grand Island, whore he had been to at.
tend the regular monthly meeting OF
the A. O. u. w, lodge finance com.
mittCc.
Mrs. Mary Mathcwson has hcCn con.
fined to her home for the past few days
with throat trouble.
The Gregory county fair at Bone.
steel proved n great success. II was
the first to he held in that county.
There were fast bail games, horse rae.
cs and frolic In the ball games ButtC
and BonCstCcl played and Bonostccl
and Lynch played n series.
The family of J. Baum Is moving to.
day from the Morris Mayer house into
the new Bruce house nt the corner Of
Eleventh street and Madison avenue.
A. n. Anthcs, of the new mercantile
firm who will occupy the Rccs build.
ing, will move into the Mayer house.
q. T. Schoff, who has been with
Baum Bros. for some time, Is arranE-
ing to go to Rapid city. s. D.. where
he will become a member of the Rad
id City Drug company, for which com
pany his son-in-law is druggist Mr..
and Mrs Schoff expect to leave for
their new home Sunday or Monday.
Mrs. ID. Mathewson entertained n
company of thirty-nve lady friends
yesterday afternoon in honor of Mrs.
Collamer of Sioux City Six hand eu.
chre and finch furnished amusement
for the afternoon, the five ladies hav-
ing the highest scores being dcsignat-
ed as the prize winners and being ac-
corded the pleasure of eating supper
with the guest of honor.
"HooliEan's Troubles" drew a prct-
ty good house at the Auditorium last
night for the first play of the season,
and the show pleased the people pres
ent. The farce Is clever and inter
spersed with spccinltics which were
good. Perhaps the ClcvcrCst feature
Of the special work was that of ROscy,
the unicycle expert who performed
wonderfully daring fcats on his ma
chine, riding about on one wheel with
"A small boy perChed on his shoulders,
and doing other extraordinary things
with It, The three little dancing girls,
too, made n hit with the crowd.
The Lincoln line train on the North.
western was dcrailed at the BurlinE-
ton crossing at Lincoln Monday fore
noon. Someone left the derailing con
trivanCe wide open and the engineer
didn't notice it until too late. The en-
gine and two cars jumped the track
but no one was injured and the train
was not badly damaged. The engine
was conveyed to the Northwestern
round house in Lincoln where it under
went repairs, and was put in service
again in the afternoon. On account Of
the accident the afternoon train did
not reach Fremont until 9:15
Football enthusiasm at Lincoln for
the university squad fell heavily Sat
urday and Sunday when it was an.
nounced that Coach Booth was threat
ened with typhoid fever. The coach
was unable to witness play on Ne
braska field Saturday between the uni
versity and Grand Island, and was laid
up in bed. He was taken to a hospital
whore II was later pronounced that he
is suffering from ptomainc poisoning,
which he received in eating poisoned
fish He was feeling much better last
night and every hope is now enter
tanned that there is nothing serious in
his condition.
jeanette Parish, the 13-year-Old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs c. p. Parish,
was injured last evening near the fam
lily homo in The Heights while riding
a horse. A dog that scurried out into
) the street barking at the horse, fright
ened the animal until it reared on
: rear feet and the little girl was forced
to slide off behind In falling she
; twisted her back slightly and at first
it was feared she might have been Sc
riously hurt, but later developments
have given rise to the hope that there
7 is nothing at all serious in the acci
dent She slept well last night and II
J is now thought that after two or three
days of rest and good care she will
: have fully recovered.