The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-03-16

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Joseph pclk of Chicago. travelling
representative for Leopold a. Co. was
at tho Fair store yesterday and this
morning displaying line of samples
Tor madcto.mcasurc clothing. Mr..
POLK was well satisfied with the pa
tronngc accorded him here.
G, A. Martin and A. A. IIedman OF
Battle Creek have purchased a pair
OF English settlers which VIII be used
Tor Improving the canine stock of the
town. At n large expense these anI-
malls were purchased In Clay city,
Ind, and the owners intend that Bat
tie Creek shall take front rank In the
county In the matter OF fine bird dogs.
Miss Evelyn Stnnncld has Issued
unique little invitations for her eighth
birthday party, which viii he given
at the home of her parents, 81 South
Firth street, Saturday afternoon The
invitations. which are printed In
script type. just like wedding invita-.
tions. read: Evelyn Stannold invites
yourself and dolly To be present at
her eighth birthday party Saturday
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South Fifth street From 9 TO G."
G. +, Parish has installed what is
quito an innovation In the way of an
electric coffee grinder, II IL small
compact motor and grinder mounted
In single iron casting, which IL quito
| small and neat In appearance. Tho
| motor IL set nt right angles TO tho
| grinder and communicates with tho
grinder by II spur wheel The arma.
turo weighs about 100 pounds and acts
as ily-whocl to keep up the speed
when the load IL put on the motor. by
n turn of the button the motor Ia set
In motion and the mill ready to grind
| coffee.
The Ice situation I'm Omaha Ia being
relieved by shipping in large amount
of Ice from Minnesota. Trainloads
are being brought into Omaha from
the Minnesota lake country, and ar.
rangomcnts are being made by some
other Nebraska cities TO get ice from
| the same source The ice, which is
clear ns n crystal and eighteen inches
thick, is being laid down in Omaha at
cost of $3.50 ton, which IL little
more than the cost of ice harvested
In Omaha. The retailers of ice are
the ones who are purchasing this ice,
and they expect to ship in between
10000 and 10000 tons Of lake ice
The finding of an ice source in Min
ncsota Will probably do much to re-
liCvc the ice shortage in many places
In Nebraska, AS the railroads are max
ing great concessions in rates to help
the iccmcn get the ice into their hous-
cs at n reasonable figure. II is re-
ported that some Nebraska iccmen
have been figuring on shipping ice in
from Wyoming and even Montana.
As the Minnesota fields arc much
nearer they will prove quite relief
to those who are extremely short OF
frozen water. More ice Is being put
up in Norfolk while the cold weather
lasts George Stalcop got out his
force of men yesterday and renewed
their work of cutting on the slough
near the sugar factory. They believe
in making ice while the "sun Shines"
and will probably be in shape to ship
ont great deal Of the commodity.
The sugar factory question has
again become Of interest in the North
Platte country Last summer the
Standard Beet Sugar company through
Mr.. Lcavitt, its agent, entered into a
contract To erect factory here, says
a report from there, for operation in
the fall of 1906. and contracts were
entered into with farmers TO raise
5000 acres of beets for three years.
The American Beet Sugar company
saw at once that If the Standard com
pany erected a factory here the Grand
Island factory would get no bcets from
this locality, whence it has been draw
ing large part of It's supply during
the last three years. The agents OF
the American company got in their
work very effectively with n number
OF the farmers who had contracted to
grow beets for the Standard and sue
ceeded in getting a sufficient number
Of them to cancel their contracts with
the Standard company AS soon as
that was done the Standard company
announced that no sugar factory would
be built here this year. Then the
agents OF both the American and the
Standard companies reduced the price
of beets here from $5 to $3.50 per ton
and started in to obtain contracts to
supply their respective factories at
Grand Island and at Ames. Now Gu
genheimer has an agent here with a
that he will complete a
factory here for opera
ton this fall if the citizens here will
put in $4,000 worth of land at cur.
rent prices and take stock in the COM
pany for the same and he guarantees
to pay So per ton for all beets, and a
40 per cent dividend to the stockhold-
ers The matter is being worked I'D
and the probabilities are that they