The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-08-31
ought to save million dollars on this
weather II It would last long enough.

ought to save a million dollars on this
weather II It would last long enough.
One man in Norfolk has these sug-
gestions to make to the coming legis-
lature, now that reform" is saturat-
ing the air:
ut should be made a crime for q
man to take guests home with him
for a meal. 1t is discriminating
against the hotel and restaurant by
cheating them out of the meal-price.
ut should be made a crime for any
one driving in buggy to allow a
friend to ride with him. 1t is discrim-
mating against the hack men, and
beating them out of 25-cent fare"
There are so few young men in
Norfolk, comparatively, that about the
only hope of young woman is to
meet some young man, who will inn
mediately want her, while she is Wis.,
iting with friend in some other town.
Is IL discrimination for county fair
to furnish editors with free passes?
There's a question for the lawmakers.
We don't want to be bribed, and we
have a deskful of county fair passes
right now. Is it right, in your opinion,
to thus corrupt the editors?
Chickens have become so high
priced that for the first time within
memory of the oldest inhabitant, the
nra nhnr Ia fad chiplnn ot 70
houses. The only place that presid-
ing elder can get chickens is at the
homes of the ministers in his district.
What has become of The Heights
base ball team? 1t makes one truly
sad these days to see the lots back
of Gus Kuhls house filling up with
more houses, for there's where The
Heights baseball team and it's rivals
used to have the times of their lives.
A pessimist is man who got up
this morning and said he was afraid
this cold spell would bring frost and
kill the corn crop. An optimist is the
man who said he'd wait till the frots
came, and who declared this kind Of
weather always happens after hot
period like last week.
There is one man in Norfolk who
was never known to have a good word
for anybody or anything, who never
in his life failed to criticise any i'm
provement that was made in the town
or to tell how it might have been done
better, who never has anything but a
gloomy tale to tell about Norfolk's fu-
ture despite the fact that the town
gains little right along, who is al
ways and eternally tearing somebody
to pieces behind their backs and who,
as a result, is always on the ragged
edge in a business way. He has brains
and ability but he has allowed himself
to get so deep into the rut of pessim-
ism that most of the business custom
he might enjoy is driven away be-
cause he is so disagreeable. 1t pays
to boost instead of to knock, and it
pays to smile instead of to growl.
A Norfolk woman went into the
postoffice yesterday and complained
over the loss of $3.50 which she had
sent from Norfolk to some other town
by mail. The money and letter had
failed to arrive. The woman said she
bad wrapped a silver half dollar in a
S. bill and had then enclosed the
whole bunch between two pasteboard
covers and sewed the pasteboards to-
gether. There was no way in the
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of course. 1t would have cost her five
cents for a postoffice money order, or
she could have bought a bank draft,
or an express money order In either
case \she would have so protected the
money that, the letter being lost, she
could have recovered the $3.50. 1t is
pretty good investment to protect
money that is sent by mail, and silver