The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-28


next Tuesday.
The First street bridge over the
Elkhorn has been closed for repairs,
the recent rains having left the bridge
I'm dangerous condition.
IL. II. Miller has been acting as
special police officer at the Junction
pending Onicer Livingstone's recov-
cry from the effects of a severe fall.
The Baptist chapel car In charge Of
Messrs. White and Davies will be in
Albion after June 20. The car was at
Tildon after leaving Norfolk.
Yesterday the Black Hills train ran
through Norfolk on schedule time, In.
again restored its western train SER
vice to schedule time following the
recent disastrous rains and floods in
the Black Hills country
Rev II. b. Foskett of Fremont will
speak Sunday evening at the Baptist
church. The subject for the evenings
address will be THE Making of a
Man"
Miss Nellie Bridge was suddenly
seized last evening with slight at.
tack of appendicitis. The case is not
thought to be serious and 1t Is hoped
that the patient will be up and about
shortly.
Arthur Stevens of Boone, Iowa, has
arrived In Norfolk to become stenog-
rapher in the Office of the general SUI
perntendent in the local Northwest
ern offices. Mr. Stevens succeeds
Paul Lynde.
The base ball game between Pilger
day by the rain, has been postponed
for two or three weeks. On the Fourth
the Brownies encounter the Neigh
Juniors at Neigh.
Martin Raasch, who graduates this
year from the Northwestern universi-
ty at Milwaukee, has accepted call
to the Lutheran church at Leaven-
worth, Wash. He will be in Norfolk
next week for visit home.
A meeting of the library board will
be held next week to discuss plans for
the new $4,000 Carnegie library
which is to be built in Norfolk. The
city must furnish the lot for the IL
brary building and the books to go
into 1t.
Rev. ]. p. Mueller pastor of Christ
Lutheran church, Is in Carroll Dur
ing his absence from Norfolk tomor-
row services at the church will be
conducted by Paul Gutknecht, a stu
dent at the Lutheran college in St.
| Louis.
DR.. A. Bear and N. A. Rainbolt have
| discovered delightful fishing pool
near Norfolk. The location of their
favorte fishing place they refuse to
divulge but say that 1t yields forth
strings of fish of satisfactory length
to fishermen Of proper experience and
polse of mind.
Edmund Winter the son of Herman
Winter of this city, graduates next
Tuesday from DR.. Martin Luther col
lege in New Ulm, MINI. Mr.. Winter
has been preparing for the Lutheran
ministry and has received a call from
city next week for visit at home.
Summer band concerts for Norfolk
have not been given up. During the
next few days w. r. Hoffman and c.
j. Reed, appointed by the Commercial
club, will solicit subscriptions to a
fund that Is being raised to to hire
the Norfolk band during the next
three months to give one concert a
week.
During the six months beginning
July l mail handled at the Norfolk
postoffice will be weighed in accord
ance with a special act of congress.
Norfolk is one of a number of repre-
sentative postoffices in which the mail
will be weighed. The extra work of
weighing the mails will be handled
by the present force.
An important partition sale of Madi-
son county land takes place this af-
| ternoon in Madison, when $40 acres
of farm land near Madison belonging
to the Kertson estate will be sold at
auction. The land will be sold by M.
c. Hazen and Jack Koenigstein of
Norfolk and II. Halderson of Newman
Grove as referees.
Friday was the last day Of school
for the school children of Christ Luth.
eran church and Sunday afternoon the
closing of school will be celebrated by
the annual picnic at Pasewalk grove
near the church. The Norfolk band
has been engaged for the afternoon
and program and games for the chill
dren will be arranged.
"Bang!" It was the revolver Of
Chief of Police Flynn. 1t was a dog
that fell dead. And it was in South
Fourth street, in front of the fedora
building, that the canine slaughter
took place. Then the dead dog wa!
dragged away up the street. The in
cident furnished early morning excite
ment in the neighborhood.
Season tickets for the Norfolk race
meeting and street carnival, to b,
held July 81 and August l and 2, ar,
now on sale at a number of bushes
places in Norfolk The tickets admi