The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-02-09


sam Roscnthal
Subpocnas were served ON former
Police Omccrs pilgcr and larkin to
appear as witnesses at the trial of
otto Johnson this afternoon
Yesterday afternoon the colder
weather had coated Klug's pond with
u smooth layer of ice, and many OF the
boys and girls spent the afternoon
skating on IT,
| w. IT, Kurtz and family have just
removed from Fremont to Oakdale,
where they will be located for the
| greater convenience of Mr. KurtZ az
conductor on the Northwestern.
Ernest Raasch has bought the fancy
spotted saddle horse which has been
owned and ridden for some years by
Adrian Craig, The animal is said to
be one of the finest in the county.
The missionary supper given Thurs.
day evening at the home OF Mrs. J.
w. Ransom by the Ladies' Missionary
society of the NJ. II. church was large.
ly attended and notted tho society q
nice profit
Conductor Collins of the Northwest.
ern had his right hand crushed in n
wreck near Cordova on the Superior
line. A box car and the way car left
the rails and were bumped along the
track. Conductor Collins was in tho
latter and was given hard fall. He
was In Fremont yesterday afternoon,
being off duty temporarily.
There will he u gay bunch at Mad
lson next Wednesday If all of the Cob.
bers appear on deck who now show
signs of Il desire. From all corners OF
all trains and hotels can be heard but
one word today-"Gobbler. II is said
that Smith, representative for Haley
A. Lang of this city, Is prominently
mentioned for raider OF the roost.
A party was given at the home OF
August Raasch, west of the city, on
Wednesday night for Paul Mas Of
Minnesota who is visiting here. There
were about twenty-five present, Hugo
Fry and Henry Kluge of Hadar being
among the guests. Games were played
and good time enjoyed Mr.. Fry Is
the leader of both bands at Hadar.
II has not generally become known
throughout Norfolk that the cost OF
sending letter in the city is two
cents for which reason the four young
ladies entertaining next Friday even
ing have been paying out large sums
of pennies for postage due. Some
have even sent their replies un-
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burden of entertaining.
The writer had short but very
pleasant visit with Augustus Sattler
while In the City of Mexico week be.
fore last. Mr.. Sattler was making a
tour of the southern republic and
thought he would be in the city ten
days more. He looks as young as he
did ten years ago when he conducted
a law and real estate office at this
place. He is a brother of IL. C. Sat
tier.
A few of the members of the Trinity
Social Guild have planned n produc-
tion of recent play as a surprise to
the members at their meeting next
Tuesday with Miss Maloney. The
full details of the plan and the names
of those interested in II have become
thoroughly known to all the members
of the guild and IL is believed that il
will be more in the way of an enter
tainment and part of an expected pro.
gram than surprise when presented
Tuesday.
UNLESS there is a cold snap during
the present month";" said George
Schwenck, the veteran iceman, there
will be no ice made this year. Ice can
not be made in this climate after
March. Occasionally it freezes for a
day or two in March but it honey.
combs and is not good. We must make
ice in January and February and this
month, with but twenty-eight days,
must do the work this month. There
is chance, however, for many cold
days yet this month"
Another iceman has started business
IN Norfolk. John Ortwich. whose ia.
ther bought the old Schwenck proper.
ty southeast of town, has just now
purchased six acres of land south of
the c. =. Byerly place and will use It
for an ice farm, the same as is done
at the Waldo 4 Dillenbeck place east
of town. Mr.. Ortwich this week
bought and hauled lumber for the pur.
pose of building an ice house and this
will be filled this year with ice from
the river. Next spring he intends to
dig big pond which will be filled
with water from windmills and later
he will use the ice from this pool.
The Nebraska Telephone company
have been putting a cable in for one
block west of the central office during
the past few days. II is expected that
this will relieve the congestion in the
downtown service and eventually do
away with many of the separate wires
downtown. An expert is expected
from Omaha very soon to make a com.
plete study of the local telephone sit
An l. IL.