The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-07-27

one of the leading offices in the city.
Miss Fitzgerald visited with her cous-
in Mrs. j. M. Brown in Madison.
The hot damp weather OF the past
few days has made corn boom.
The families of A, E. Moore and IL.
C. Engle are spending the day at the
Elkhorn on fishing excursion.
A new shipment of books has been
received at the Norfolk Public library
and will be placed ON the shelves to-
day.
The little A-yoars.old son of Gus
Nitz, living on Braasch avenue, fell
from a horse last evening and sus.
tanned a broken arm.
The passenger from Shoshoni
which should pass through Norfolk at
midnight, was six hours late this morn
ing on account of washout near Sho.
shoni.
There is not much change In the
condition of Ralph Braasch, who has
been sick some time. He has many
friends who are anXiously hoping that
he may soon be better.
There is pile of bricks on First
street between town and the Junction
that has practically formed an OBJ.
struction in the road and the teams
must pass around it. In so doing the
teams must 90 up to their knees in
mud.
1t Is said by returning Elks eXCur-
siOnists that Mapes rolled out of bed
at o'clock every morning while on
the trip, under the impression that 1t
was time to get up and milk the COW.
Habit becomes very firmly fixed some
times.
At the meeting of Deborah Rebekah
lodge, No G3, held last evening, Off
GERS were installed as follows, Mrs.
S. f. Dunn acting as installing officer:
Mrs. Harrington, n G.. Mrs. Adams,
| V. N. G.; lneX Satterly, secretary, and
| Mrs. Macy, treasurer, held over. The
noble grand announced the names of
appointive officers, but all were not
present to be installed.
Parker's White City closes it's en-
gagement here tonight. The show
leaves tomorrow morning for LeMars,
| Iowa, where they remain a week. The
attendance last night was good and
tonight with the nice weather and the
country people in town, the crowd will
be record breaker. The manage.
ment has arranged for two perform
ances of Beautiful Bagdad tonight if
the attendance justifies it. The first
one will begin at 1880 and the second
at 9:15. The elephant will walk the
wire as usual at 10:45 p. m.
THE Missourians have been shown"
that they are actually catching fish at
the Davenport camp. Frank brought
three.pound cat to the Office this
morning, which is an ocular demon.
stration that fish have been caught.
He said he thought a three FOUNDER
would be enough for a family, but that
he might just as well have brought
forty-pounder. The News is forced to
admit that there is now no further
reason to doubt the three-pound kind,
but as to the fifteen and forty pound
variety told about there is still much
skepticism.
The new Shoshoni train which has
now been running a week, has thus
far had much lighter travel than was
anticipated, although the last few days
the number going has been increasing
each day. 1t is believed that the slack
travel at the outset is caused by the
length Of the trip, and that those who
intend to go and file for land are wait
ing until toward the end of the time
for filing and that they will remain
until after the drawing, to save max
ing the journey again in case they Sc
cure farms. Following the usual GUS
tom at frontier towns, the gamblers
came early to ShOshoni and they have
been running things with a high hand
for several weeks They started out
doing business very quietly but be-
came much bOlder as time progressed,
and now comes the order from Mayor
Quintal that they must shut up shop
at once and get out. This order from
the mayor comes at a good time for
it will save the citizens of that place
: much of the trouble that ensued at
Bonesteel from this character of law,
= lessness. II is proposed by the mu
J nicipal authorities of Shoshoni tc
: make it perfectly safe for strangers to
come to that town for registration.
Parker's White City, which closes
its weeks engagement here tonight
has certainly made good in Norfolk
The attraction has been appearing un
! der the auspices of the city fire de
= partment, and the firemen are vel
J pleased with the result of their mid
summer festival, The White City con
e sists Of half dozen shows of various
2 kinds, a merry-go-round and a wire
e walking free act that is truly wonder
ful, the two persons who do this ac
= being skillful and absolutely fearless