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

gon They will see the big exposi.
tion, visit relatives and former ac-
quantances and may decide to locate
permanently in the far west.
Mrs. F. p. Wigton and Cora will be
home this evening from Bellevue,
where Miss Wigton has just gradual.
ed from the Presbyterian college
They expect 10 move to Elgin next
week where MIR. Wigton has accepted
the pastorate of the Presbyterian
! church.
Carrier Fred Sprecher is busy en-
joying his vacation-a brief rest
I which Uncle Sam grants each year TO
his employers Mr. Sprecher has uti.
! lized part of his time in moving his
family into their new home on South
Seventh street, which he recently pur-
chased from G. j. Hahn.
The last reports from the bedside
OF Mrs. s. G. Dean are to the effect
that she is no better. and her family
and friends are practically prepared
for the worst, though they continue
to hope that she will rally and re.
cover her strength. Mrs. Dean and
! II. L. Spaulding are brother and sis
ter, and both being very low the fam
lily Of neither is able to aid the other
in this hour of distress.
Reports from the bedside of II. L.
! Spaulding are that he is very low and
unless there is a change for the better
! he Is not expected to survive more
than about twentyfour hours. He has
! been sick for months, but has had
ups and downs. At one time it was
supposed that he was dying but was
| revived and afterward recovered suf
| ficiently to be up and about, but has
| gradually grown weaker, and in his
family fear the worst within a short
space of time He is now unconscious
much of the time.
J. T. Thompson is moving into the
new house built by C. f. Shaw on
Pasewalk avenue in The Heights.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Parker, formerly
of Norfolk when Mr.. Parker was en-
! ployed by the Harding Creamery COM
pany, welcomed a new daughter to
their home in Omaha yesterday, of
which event Norfolk friends have
been duly notified.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. II. Carbery have
! issued invitations to the marriage of
their daughter, Miss Agnes Monica
! Carbery to Mr.. Thomas James Dona-
hue of Sioux City, which will take
place at Sacred Heart church of this
city at 10 o'clock a. M. June 21.
They will be at home in Sioux City
after September first.
The Sugar City Cereal mills are
running night and day to catch up
with the orders that have accumulat-
ed during the high water when the
power couldn't be used in operating
the plant. The plant is running
smoothly and satisfactorily and a fine
grade of products is being turned out
for the people who have been waiting
for supplies.
The town of Gregory, which is one
of the new towns in the ceded portion
of the Rosebud Indian reservation, is
one of the first towns in the ceded
lands 10 arrange for the the voting of
bonds for the erection of a public
school building. A call has just been
| issued for special election, which
! will be held at that place on June II,
for the purpose of voting upon the
proposition of issuing bonds in the
! sum of $4,000 for the erection of
school building.
Surface water in Norfolk continues
/ strictly on the surface, and shows no
! inclination to retire Immediately, the
ponds and filled cellars seeming to
have a permanent supply The
! ground was never so soaked up with
moisture in the memory of the Oldest
inhabitant. There have been floods
before, but the surplus water has dis
appeared in the course of a day or
two. 1t is now almost two weeks
since the last rain and flood and the
water has not been reduced more than
a few inches from the level it as
sumed at that time. Cellars will not
drain, and if pumped dry they will fill
again completely in a few hours.
A hole dug in the ground a
few inches almost anywhere in Nor
folk off the hills will rapidly fill with
water and there is no immediate
prospect that it will drain away. The
fact is apparent therefore, that there
is a food of subterranean streams
and that they are carrying no water.
The surface streams are getting down
to normal level but they do not seem
to drain off the water that is standing
in the mudholes about town and some
of them under the warm sun have
grown very filthy.
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