The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-27

ard Beymer on the coast, has returned
to Oakdale.
w. II. Bucholz and family and Mr.
and Mrs. w. NJ. Rainbolt and little son
will spend Christmas in the Rainbolt
home in Norfolk, Mrs. Bucholz arriv
ing in the city Friday evening from
Omaha.
Lieutenant and Mrs. r. c. Hand and
little son will spend the holidays in
| Norfolk at the home of Mrs. Hands
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Weaver
Mr. Hand is on a two months leave
of absence from his regiment, which
is stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Miss Pearl Reese arrived in Norfolk
last evening from st. Joseph, where
she recently underwent an operation
for appendicitis. While she has not
yet entirely regained her health, she
is recovering from the effects of the
operation. Miss Reese is at the home
of her sister, Mrs. L. M. Beeler.
w. A. Moldenhauer has been suffer
ing with bud cold.
The new hall at Enola is not to be
a Woodmens hall but is being erected
| by Enola citizens.
Henry Klug has bought out his part
ner's interest in the implement firm
of Klug & Paul. Mr.. Klug will con-
| tinue in business on East Norfolk av-
enue
Pasewalk avenue in the vicinity of
the Union Pacific track intersection
was ordered opened by the city coun-
Gil Thursday evening. The necessary
property will be condemned.
Beemer Times: Mr. and Mrs. r.
c. Simmons of Norfolk stopped off
here Thursday for a short visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Head. They were
on their way to Kansas for a holiday
visit with relatives.
Frank Harmon will go to Sumpter,
Ore, to become manager of the FIRE.
mont power canal, which is being
built by Fremont capital for the op-
Grafton of the machinery Of the ia
nous Red Boy mine. Mr.. Harmon was
until a few years ago the superintend
ent for the Northwestern railroad
company at Chadron, on the western
division. Subsequently he was engaged
with the Union Pacific. He gave up
the latter position to assume the head
of the power canal undertaking.
The Good Roads Paving company
of Kansas City wants to interest Nor
folk in new kind of pavement that
has come to the front in the last three
or four years. The new pavement re-
quires no foundation and is made by a
process of grinding liquid asphalt
binder" into dirt road to depth Of
from six to ten inches. The pavement
is said to give tough, tenacious and
gritty surface. City Engineer Salmon
says that this pavement has been
used good deal on the Pacific coast.
Judge and Mrs. I. Powers and their
daughter, Mrs. Whitney, left for
Rochester, Mimi, Friday morning,
operation at the hands Of the famous
Mayos for gall stones. 1t is expected
that two of their sons, l. Powers, jr.,
and Frank Powers, will join them at
Sioux City and continue the journey
with them to Rochester. Mrs. Powers
has been suffering from gall stone
trouble for many years and it is hoped
that an operation will restore her to
health. When the party left, it was
planned that the operation will be per-
formed on Tuesday morning.
The stretch of board walks on Nor
folk avenue just west of the Queen
City hotel is creating some dissension
among the members of the city coun.
Gil. Thursday evening two council.
men declared that patience had ceased
to be virtue and tried to get the
council to have the walks in question
taken up and the approaches boarded
up. They said it was better to have
the people walk in the cutters than
on the walks, which they said were
unsafe. Five members of the council
thought, however, that the matter had
better go until another walk building
season arrives. The walk in question
were ordered replaced with cement
walks a good many months ago.
A prominent Norfolk citizen is en-
gagged in a lively row with the stree
, department of the city council. The
council ordered a walk laid in from
of piece of property belonging to the
citizen in question, who interposed va
rious objections against putting The
walk down. The council stood pat
= Then came a peculiar move. The citi
t zen decided all save a ten-inch strip o
: the lot to his wife, retaining the stril
: next the sidewalk line in his owl
y name. The council was plainly "ul
D a tree" for while, for If they put IL
the walk and taxed it to the adjacen
: property the ten inches Of land woul,
j be surrendered to them and the,
k would have the costs of the walk t.
pay. Recently they have been invests
d eating aldsthey now think they bav