The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-06-16

that she may recover from the Sc
riouS sickness.
Miss Jennie Miller is in the city
today from Orchard.
Mrs. J. II. Allen of Battle Creek
was shopping in Norfolk today.
George Marsh and OFT Bailey were
In the city today from Orchard on
their way to Blackfoot, Idaho.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. II. Blair of Chicago,
who have been visiting at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. w. II. Butterheld,
left on the noon train for Denver,
where they will visit their son. Mrs.
Butterheld and Mrs. Blair are sis
ters.
Ralph Garvin and Miss Wittnable
won the So prize for being the best
dancers at the Freythaler park Fri
daysnight. Ralph generously divided
the reward with the young lady.
The condition of II. l.. Spaulding
continues critical showing at times
an Improvement and at others re.
lapse into state of semi-conscious.
ness. He has taken some nourish-
ment recently and may show a fur
ther improvement
Madison Chronicle: George Daven-
port of Norfolk will put shoe store
in Madison in the building recently
vacated by Fred Soltow. Mr.. Daven.
port has rented the Mcbride house
and will move here as soon as the
necessary arrangements can be made.
Reports from the bedside of G. d.
Jenkins are to the effect that he has
very much improved in health and is
considered practically out of danger.
He has had a serious sickness, and
his friends will be glad to learn that
he is surmounting all difficulties to
his complete recovery.
Yesterday was a day that attracted
the people from their homes into the
open and every available livery rig
in the city as well as many private
conveyances were employed in taking
the people through the streets and
into the country which is now assum-
ing it's most beautiful attire. The
temperature was very pleasant, the
breeze mild and balmy and the clouds
failed to precipitate on the seventh
Sunday following Easter.
Stanton Picket: At the Iowa state
firemen's tournament held at Council
Bluffs this week Louis Sonnenschein
and Frank Mayer, for the Carroll
team, won the fifty foot coupling con-
test, making the coupling 3-5 slower
than that made by Marks and Hakl
two years ago at Norfolk when a
new worlds record was created is
seconds. They were up against all
the fast men from all over the coun.
try including the winners at Norfolk
last year.
F. A. Crissey, who has been sick
for a long time with a serious attack
of typhoid fever at his home on North
Ninth street. during which his life
was despaired of, has been passing
| through the crisis of the disease dur.
ing the past day or two. and he seems
to have retained a remarkable vital.
ity. so much so that his family and
friends expect him to recover if he
can show good results during the
next few hours, when he will he prac-
tically out of danger. His sister, Mrs.
Myrtle Bruce of Rockford, Iowa. ar
rived Saturday and will remain until
he is better.
J. B. Barnes, jr., left last evening
for Capser, Wyoming, where he will
engage in the practice of law in com
pany with John NJ. Hench. formerly
of Ponca, who has been in Casper
several years and has already built
up a lucrative practice. Mr.. Barnes
is son of ]. B. Barnes, judge of the
supreme court of Nebraska, and the
law comes naturally to him. He was
eral years ago but has been follow
ing the footsteps of his illustrious ia
ther in his younger days, by teach
ing school in the early part of his
career. Judge Barnes taught school
for number of years at POnca when
he first came to Nebraska from Ohio.
He was a good teacher, too, as the
writer had ample opportunity to
know having been one of his pupils.
Young John has taught in Norfolk
and Tekamah, closing his last term
there week ago. He left that town
carrying with him the good will of
the people and many tokens of love
and remembrance from the students,
There is no reason to doubt that Mr..
Barnes will develop into as good a
lawyer as his father when he reaches
the same age, and as the field he is
now entering is still young and with
great possibilities for development a
bright future is predicted for him
.GAIIIE RIL2NER Chilly