The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-03-31
TUESDAY TOPICS,

y, y. buIIHnu went 10 OHlbnd JOudS.
NJ. Nichols is in the city from Fos
ter.
VIII Hoot was down from Tilden
yesterday.
Chas. Viterna was in town Monday
from Lynch.
J.. A. Shane was here yesterday
from Belgrade.
G. W. Cover was in the city yester.
day from Schuyler
Dan C. Brown was in the city from
Spencer on business.
Hanna Krings was in town from
Humphrey yesterday.
j. NJ Buckmaster was down from
Creighton yesterday.
l.. Marshall was a Norfolk visitor
from Center yesterday.
Il. NJ. Gray was in the city yester.
day from Meadow Grove.
Lawrence Thompson came down
from Creighton yesterday.
w. G. Wilberger and r. A. Mallory
were city visitors yesterday from Mad
ison.
Hoskins yesterday doing some shop
ping.
w. M. Robertson left today for a
business visit to his ranch in Knox
county.
DR.. and Mrs. A. Bear went to Oma-
ha today to see the presentation of
"Parsifal" tomorrow.
Miss Gracia Kidder, the Stanton pho
tographer, is visiting Norfolk relatives
and friends for few days
Mr., and Mrs. Il, Peterson and Mr..
and Mrs. Nj, p. Stenger were in the
city yesterday from Madison
Judge and Mrs. Isaac Powers ar
rived home on the noon train after
winters absence on the Pacific coast.
Mrs. A. J. Durland left yesterday for
Lincoln and from there expects to go
to Omaha to attend the "Parsifal" per-
formance.
Miss Leorena Creal, teacher in the
Newman Grove schools, is in the city
to attend the teachers meeting, and is
the guest of her cousin, Mrs. NJ. ].
Romig.
j. w. Humphrey has just returned
from an extended trip through the
west, and reports that the conditions
are much improved throughout that
territory.
w. S. Howell, travelling passenger
agent for the Milwaukee railroad, was
in the city last night from Omaha, the
guest OF Commercial Agent Glover OF
the Union Pacific.
Tracy 4 Durland have sold 240
acres of unimproved Stanton county
land, twelve miles southwest of Nor
folk, 10 S. NJ. McCurdy OF Emerson
for $4,000
Mrs. Rainbolt and Mrs. D. Mathew
son will entertain the Ladies Aid So
ciety OF the Congregational church
Thursday afternoon, March 80, at the
home of Mrs. d. Mathewson. The la
dies OF the Congregation are cordially
invited to be present.
Mrs. Wilkinson, who had been par
alyzed for more than a year and who
had been blind for a considerable por-
tion of the time, succumbed this morn
ing at the little home on Eighth street
and Norfolk avenue. She suffered a
second stroke last Friday which
proved fatal. She was lame at the
time of her death.
The Nebraska Telephone company
has been forced by the cutting into |
the road of the Elkhorn river, seven |
miles west to remove eleven big |
poles. A half dozen poles which stood |
twenty feet away from the waters
edge last Friday We're today almost in
the middle of the stream. 1t is esti,
mated that the river has cut OFF about |
120 feet of land.
G. w. Lyman, lineman for the Ne
braska Telephone company, was in.
Jured yesterday by gashing his ankle
and cutting an artery with the sharp
spikes of his climber. He was work
ing west of the city, helping lift
big pole which was swerved consid-
erably in the wind, when, in stepping
aside, his climber of one foot came
down upon the ankle of the other
sashing a hole two inches long and
deep, He was cared for by DR.. fash