The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-09-13

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stcr petition for Sunday train. VIII,
not take It up at once and do some
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| The dance given Saturday night was
u repetition Of the one given two weeks
ago. There was good attendance.
good music and all enjoyed themselves
until about o'clock, when a storm
came up and the lightning struck about
n mile south OF town and set the grass
on fire. The wind blowing from the
south drove the flames directly toward
town Tho men one and all went out
to fight the fire demon and by o'clock
they had the fire out II II had not
been for the dance the Are might have
burned the whole town as Mt that time
OF the night the chances are that no
one would have seen II until II was
too late.
Lincoln Journal; You would be sur.
prlsed," said n travelling man who has
recently returned from the northwest,
"at the amount OF work being done on
the line OF the Northwestern west O.
Norfolk. and reaching all tho way to
Chadron and Rapid City. The road
has been improved with new ties, new
steel, raised grades and ballast. The
bridges In many instances have been
made more permanent with steel and
concrete construction. The line Is rap.
idly reaching the standard set for
through lines. and the business that
Is coming down from that country
would appear to more than warrant
any amount of improvements that has
been made"
Word has reached Bancroft that
Congressman Boyd has recommended
the appointment OF Edward II. Mack
as postmaster at that place to succeed
10. j. Burke, who has resigned to move
on a homestead in Oklahoma. Mr.
Mack is Bancroft boy; graduate
of the high school. He had the con
fldencc and solid support OF all the
leading republicans. At present Mr.
Mack Is n mail clerk from Missouri
Valley and Chadron, running from
Norfolk to Long Pine, but will resign
at the end of this week and return to
his duties as deputy postmaster, taking
| charge of the Office with the beginning
of the next quarter.
The William II. West mlnstrels will
appear at the Norfolk Auditorium to-
night. Manager Ricaby says that the
attraction this season Is the best It
has ever been and 1t * believed that
a large audience Of fun-lOvers and
muslClovers will greet the show to-
night The company has brand new
costumes, new music, new songs and
new jokes. The attraction will be
one of the minstrel treats of the year
| for Norfolk. George Van and Billy
| Graham are noted fun-makers who
will be on deck, to say nothing of
several dozen other well known com
edans soloists and specially artists
The curtain rises at $50.
A reunion Of brothers, all in the
army of the north during the rebellion
was held at Chadron with Judge viii
liam Wilson, the eldest Five of them
answered the roll call They were:
| William Wilson of Chadron, "A years
old, was in Company II, Seventy-nlnth
| Indiana Volunteers; John Wilson Of
! Alanthus Grove, Mo- 73 years old, was
in Company d. Seventeen Indiana
Volunteers; Thomas j. Wilson of
Chadron, GS years old, was in Company
b, Sixty-seventh Indiana Volunteers;
James M. Wilson of Liberal, No. aged
63 years, was first in Company G.,
One Hundred and Fifteenth Indiana
| Volunteers, then in Company b, First
Indiana Heavy Artillery; Alexander
Wilson of Savannah, |. T., CT years
old, was with Company H. One Hun
dred and Thirty-seventh Indiana Vol
unteeTs. The sixth brother, Alfred
Wilson, left for the war with them
from Morgan county, Indiana, was
wounded unto death at Chancellors-
vile, dying at Washington, d. c., in
1863.