The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-01-04


candy factory OF Faucet Carney Hager
company
Mrs Dan Blue, who spent Christmas
with her parents at Wahoo, returned
ut noon.
Miss Lucy Carbcrry left Saturday
for Sioux city to visit her sister, Mrs.
Henry Kennedy.
Bert Weston and his sisters have
returned from visit to Mr. and Mrs.
TuXebcrry at Albion.
Miss Ruth Mount has gone to Den
yer to spend the rest of the holidays
with her uncle, DR.. Watson.
Mrs. Il. =. Hummell and son re.
turned to Sioux city at noon, after a
visit with her parents Mr.. and Mrs.
August Brummund.
The engagement of Miss May Dur.
Lincoln Is announced Miss Durland
Is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G.. r.
Durland of Plalnview and has scores
of intimate friends in Norfolk, where
she has made her home for several
years. Mr.. Bernard is commercial
traveller representing a Kansas City
house.
Word has been received from Miss
Jessie Sturgeon that the condensed
milk company at Buena Park, Cal, by
whom she has been employed. have
bought n new factory at Tempe. near
Phoenix, Arizona, and she has gone
there as their bookkeeper Miss Roxie
and Myron Sturgeon will follow her
soon to the new location, to accept po
sitlons.
A daughter was born last night al
the home of Mr.. and Mrs II. A. Blake
man.
A literary society has been formed
In the Pleasant Valley school district
and the first meeting was held in the
school house Friday night 1t was
largely attended and good time was
enjoyed.
Yesterday was one of the warmest
days of the present mild season, the
mercury rising to 81 above zero. The
lowest point reached up till s a. m
was "a, or one degree above freezing
A falling barometer indicated atmos
pheric disturbance.
George Carson, the young man who
confessed to having robbed a slot ma
chine in the Junction railway station
was given a county jail sentence and
taken to Madison yesterday afternoon
He did not break the lock to the slot
machine. hut removed the screws ant
thus secured the $3.50 in pennies.
AS n result of the generosity of farm
ers living around Norfolk, the five ri
raj mail carriers out of this city re
ceived large quantities of Christmas
remembrances. Many received sacks
of oats, wheat corn, etc, and handker
chiefs, money, chickens, raspberry
jam, and the like. The carriers say
that the farmers around Norfolk are
the most generous lot in the state.
Norfolk people are getting ready tC
pay higher box rent for postofIicC
boxes after January /. On that dat,
an increase over the United States
goes into effect. Boxes that were for
merry fifty cents will now be sixty
per quarter; those that were sixty viii
be seventy-tive; those that were sew
enty-five will be 81. The box rents
hereafter will have to be paid in ad
vance instead of at the end of a quar-
ter, and notice will be given ten days
in advance of the quarters beginning
so that boxes upon which the rent ha,
not been paid by the beginning of tn,
quarter will be closed, The order 70
increase came from Washington.
A Washington dispatch says: "In
spector James Mclaughlin, who is on,
of the most successful agents of tn,
interior department, arrived in Wash
ington today to make report to the sec
rotary of the interior as to the prog
ress of his negotiations with the In
dams of the Rosebud reservation IL
South Dakota for the opening of Trip
county in that state to homestead set
Element. Major Mclaughlin, who hal
written into the statutes more treaties
made with the Indians than any living
man, said today that he believed tn,
Indians of the Rosebud band would &C
cept the conditions presented by tn,
government. He had a four days
council with the Indians and with pri
vate talks thought the conditions yer.
favorable to the opening of the entir,
county of Trip in South Dakota t,
white settlement"
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