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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
Letter List.

List of letters remaining uncalled for
at the postoffice at Norfolk, Neb.,
Dec 8, 1907: a
Mr.. G. S. Adler, Mr.. Alleans, Mr.
Lewis Bell 2, Herman Connaughton
Mr.. F. E. Chapman, Mr.. Henry Florey
Ray Falls, Mr.. Jesse Farley care NJ. D.
Smith, Mr.. G. r. Gatewood, Miss Ma.
bel Grant 2, Robert d. McKillips, Mr.
Frank McClaran 8, Rufus e. McMartin,
Mrs. Marry Milligan, Henry Nagol,
Mrs. Laura Penneman, Milo Penguite,
Chester Rector, Frelan ]. Shinn, Mrs.
e. H. Smith, Mr.. NJ. d. Smith, p. ].
Stageman, w. C. Vandermueller, Mrs.
Stella Waller 2, Mrs. Fanny Wilbur.
If not called for In fifteen days will
be sent to the dead letter office.
Parties calling for any Of the above
please say advertised.
John r. Hays, p. M.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
SPORTS
ELkHoRN BOY SOLD.
Woods Cones Sells Fast Stopper
Known in North Nebraeka

Woods Cones Sells Fast Stopper
Known in North Nebraska.
Pierce Leader: Elkhorn Boy, the
race horse which has been owned here
by Woods Cones, has been sold to a
banker and real estate man at New.
ada, Iowa, and last Saturday evening
the animal was shipped to his new
home. Moose" as he was called by
some on account of his ungainly ap.
pearance, is only Ave years old al.
though he is large raw.boned ami
NAL with fine action. During the past
racing season he was raced by his
owner over the Northeast Nebraska
Short Shipment circuit and won near.
ly every race in his class-the 1895
1t would not surprise us to see Elk.
horn Boy do some pretty fast stepping
before his race horse career Is over.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
DIVER TO OMAHA.
Denver Wrestler Making Matches In
Omaha. Meets Hackenschmidt.

M. j. Dwyer wrestling instructor of
the Denver Athletic club, has been
matched to wrestle at the Omaha
Auditorium on December 5, with
Charles Hackenschmidt, The first
bout will be catch-as-catchc can, the
second Graeco-Roman, and the third
style will be chosen by the wrestler
winning his fall in the quickest time,
in case a third fall is necessary.
Dryer has bested some of the best
wrestlers in the game and expresses a
Willingness to meet any man in the
country in a mixed bout, and expects
to compete several times in Omaha
this winter. .. ...
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
MAY GET YALE GAME,
Maroons Figure on Eastern Game if
big Four" Plan Fall THROUGH.

Maroons Figure on Eastern Game if
big Four" Plan Fall THROUGH.
Chicago, Dec. Another big east
ern game for the maroons next season
is the latest athletic possibility at the
University of Chicago. The depres-
sion caused by the maroon boards de-
cisive stand against lessening the ere
form" rule and frightening the foot
ball schedule was lightened consider.
ably today when it was announced that
Chicago might get the long-wished-
for game with Yale or with another
leading eastern team, in case the "big
four plan collapses. President Jud-
sons statement to the effect that the
entire body of reforms" should stand
for another year, was taken by the
rooters to mean that Chicago's vote
at the January conference meeting
will again be against the seven-game
schedule.
1t is believed at the Midway that
Chicago's stand and the unsettled con.
ditions at Ann Arbor look bad for
MISUNDERSTANDING game, and that an
eastern school will have to be taken
on to fill Michigan's place. Pennsyl-
vania petitioned Stage for a game last
winter, but the invitation was not ac-
cepted, and Carlisle was scheduled in
stead. While the rooters believe that
Minnesota and Chicago will meet next
season, no contract has been drawn
up yet, as Stage is waiting to digest
the results Of the coming seance of the
representatives. In case Michigan
stays out, the eastern game will be
scheduled in the climacteric position
of the schedule.
81 have absolutely refused to SEIZED
ule any games whatever so far" said
Coach Stage, at is true that we in
tend to play Minnesota, but it is not
down on paper and no date has been
decided upon. talked over games a
little at the conference meeting, but
1t is clear that nothing definite could
be done until after the next meeting"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

The Bockelmann Boche wedding took
place on Wednesday afternoon at the
Christ Lutheran church in Norfolk
Rev. J. P. Mueller pastor of the church
conducting the ceremony. The bride
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. vii
liam Boche living south OF Norfolk
the groom, William II. Bockelmann, 8
prominent young farmer living near
Pierce. The wedding was followed by
a wedding dinner and reception at the
Boche home at which 200 guests were
present.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
1T MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BANK
ROBBERY SATURDAY NIGHT.
BUT BANK HAD NO INTENTION
Neither Had the Pair of Men Who
Might Have Attempted to Do the
Robbery-combination of Suspicious
Though Innocent Circumstances,

'HouS'' 'iIloCent circumstances.
There might have been a bank rob-
berry in Norfolk Saturday night pro-
vided of course that the bank had
been willing to have been robbed and
that some one had been aboard with
the intention of robbing the bank.
But as the bank in question had no
intention of being robbed and nobody
had any intention of robbing the bank
the alarm raised Saturday night mere
ly resulted in little police activity
on the part of the Norfolk force.
A combination of circumstances,
which afterwards proved to have been
innocent enough, tended Saturday
evening to throw strong suspicion on
two strangers in the city, one OF
whom had had business with the bank
and both of whom were thought to
have been engaged in wicked plots
against the banks stronghold Satur.
day night, part of the supposed scheme
being to get the cashier of the bank
down to the bank after supper.
One of the suspects was arrested
late Saturday night by Chief Flynn
but was released little later.
Monday the whole affair cleared UP
in such way as to entirely exonerate
the two suspects, both of whom have
been busy during the fall with the
husking peg.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
Deafness. Cnnno, ne Cured

by local appIfcations, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion OF the ear
There Is only one way to cure deafness
and this Is by constitutional remedies
Deafness is caused by an infiamed con-
dition OF the mucous lining OF the Eu-
stachian tube. When this tube 10 in
famed you have a rumbling sound OF
imperfect hearing. and when II IL en-
tirely closed, deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored to It's nom
NAL condition. hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out of ten are caus-
cd by catarrh. which is nothing but an
infiamed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give one hundred dollars for
any case of deafness (caused by ca
tarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars. free
F, J; CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
The ladies guild on Thursday served
dinner in Marquardt hall.
HvmeniaI

Hymenial.
The marriage of Mr.. J. u. Hight and
Miss Mabel Estabrook, both prominent
young people of Norfolk, was consum
mated at 4:30 o'clock Wednesday af
ternoon at the home of the brides pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. f. H. Estabrook
gregational church officiating. The
wedding was a quiet affair with few
guests outside of the immediate fam.
lilies of the bride and groom. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hight left Wednesday evening to
spend their honeymoon on a home
stead near Interior, s. ID.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
THE RAILROADS PAY TAXES
TWO PAID WITHOUT MuRMuR,
THE THIRD oRoucHEp SOME.
U. p. PAYS UNDER PROTEST

About $4,000 Goes Into the County
Treasury During the Past Few
Weeks-January 9 Is Moving Day at
the County Court House.
Madison, Neb., Dec. 1O.-From stan
correspondent; Mr.. Big Taxpayer has
paid his 1907 taxes. There are three
Mr.. Big Taxpayers In Madison county.
Together they have dumped about
$4,000 into the county treasury dur
ing the last few weeks. And that
helps some.
Two Mr.. Big Taxpayers paid their
taxes silently IL not cheerfully. The
third grouched considerable and paid
under protest. He didn't protest be.
cause he thought the commissioners
OF Madison county extravigant-for
they aren't-but because he thought
he was getting soaked" all along the
line.
Taxpayer" is the favorite title of
the indignant citizen, big Taxpayer
his most solemn retreat and as the
railroad companies are certainly long
on paying taxes they are quite clearly
entitled to whatever distinction the
act of taXpaying confers.
The three Madison county railroads
have just finished paying their 1907
taxes, delinquent this month, and they
have turned over to County Treasur-
er Chris Schavland the sum OF $15,-
5S93S.
The Northwestern, the biggest tax
payer of the three, paid during Nov.
ember, handing over $S,026.60 to
Treasurer Schavland at Madison. The
Northwestern paid without protest
The Minneapolis C Omaha followed
suit, paying $1,312.37
The Union Pacific waited until this
month to pay it's Madison county tax,
paying $6,250.41 into the county treas.
ury but expressly STIMULATING in con-
sideration detail that the sum of
$1,021.20 was paid under protest"
The Union Pacific filed it's protest
at Madison in the regular printed form
that it is using in the different coun-
ties. One of its principal contentious
is that the state board of equaliza-
ton has refused to recognize that 9TH
er forms of property are "underas-
sessed"
The Northwestern paid Treasurer
Schavland over $4,000. Part goes to
the state and part to the county. Nor
folk however will receive $401.14 for
the city treasurery, $S66.71 for the
Norfolk school treasury and $9849 for
the school bond fund.
The reason that the Northwestern
pays more school than city taxes in
Norfolk is because some of the COM
pany's Junction property is in the
school district but not within the city
limits.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
SOCIAL EVENTS OF WEEK.
HAS BEEN A WEEK OF PLEASURE
.|'t... IN NORFOLK. .
YuLe TIDE SEASON AT HAND
Within a Fortnight the College Vaea.
tons VIII be Upon Us and Students
Will be Coming Home to Make Mer.
ry at Christmas Time.

This Is the season of the holidays.
Thanksgiving past, Christmas and
New Years week are pushing forward
their claims for a share OF the atten-
ton that would otherwise be devoted
entirely to the social activities of the
moment The approach Of Christmas
day is foreshadowed by Christmas
plannings.
Within fortnight the colleges and
schools of the land will drop their
work for the Christmas days and Nor
folk will join the rest of the world in
welcoming home the collegians for a
holiday week or so. And the collegi-
ans as usual will be the advance guard
OF the Christmas visitors whose pres
ence means Christmas dinners and re.
union parties.
Social Norfolk during the week
probably needed the injunction for
early Christmas shopping for the so
cial calendar was light. The week of
inactivity, however, was broken Fri
day afternoon by l o'clock luncheon
followed by a euchre party at which
Mrs. A. Bear and Mrs. Sol G. Mayer
were hostesses. A number of infor-
NAL gatherings took place, including
an afternoon or two at bridge.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
AdvertIsement .Eor aids

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received at the Office OF
the county clerk of Madison county,
Nebraska, on or before noon of the
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
Coming Events.

Mrs Jack Koenigstein and Mrs. e
r. Hayes will give two 1 o'clock lunch
cons during the week, one Tuesday
and one Wednesday, in the Koenig
stein home, corner Seventh street and
Koenigstein avenue.
Mrs. c. p. Parish and Mrs. w. G.
Baker will entertain at o'clock lunch
con in the Parish home, Eleventh
street and Madison avenue, Thursday
The firemen's home talent minstrel
show will be given at the Auditorium
a week from next Wednesday evening
The Elks dance for December is set
for Friday evening, December 20.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Boy talk; Two boys met on Com.
mercial street today. One OF them
said; Wen ahve company at our
house tomorrow. Twill you have
anything good to eat?" the other boy
asked, well" replied the first boz
with fine scorn, guess wen -
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

the scene of the Nethaway tragedy
has been an object of considerable
curiosity along the Columbus line
Passengers peer at the blood stained
seat and the bullet marks in the cal
wood work and in the seat that shield
ed Mrs. Fred Harder from Nethaway's
second charge. Any number of pass
engers sit in the seat occupied by Mrs
Nethaway to "try their nerve" and fol-
the chance of afterwards recountine
their experience. The marks made
by the shot are grim reminders of the
tragedy.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

young people at small dinner party
Sunday afternoon at her home in The
Heights.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

To write copy for a classified ad.
and pay for few insertions of It GER
tainly reduces "tenant.hunting" to a
simple matter.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

January is moving day" this year
at the court house. On that day the
results of the November election be,
come operative and new faces appear
in the county Offices. .....
Fate is kind to the old officers for
their term is this year projected as
far into the new year as Is ever poss-
ible under the law. There is no fixed
date for the transfer of authority, the
law fixing the day for the transfer
ION the first Thursday after the first
Tuesday in January" Next January
the first Tuesday in the month is the
seventh day to arrive and this serves
to give to the retiring officers a few
more days of grace than usually al
lotted.
The changes at the court house will
not be many. Treasurer Schavaland
will be succeeded by his deputy, f. A.
Peterson; County Assessor Rynearson
by his deputy, p. w. Ruth; and County
Commissioner John H. Harding by
Henry Sunderman. ~
State Superintendent McBrien while
in Madison last week visited the Madi-
son city schools and found many COM
plimentary things to say to City Super
intendent Doremus.
Senator Allen is plain ordinary
lawyer" not an "attorney-at-law" nor
even an attorney" This fact is pro-
claimed from his new Office building,
from his stationery and his brief paper.
County Superintendent F. s. Per-
due is a thorough office man and he
has devised many ways of simplifying
and rendering more available the re-
cords of his Office. In recognition Of
his ability along this line Mr.. Perdue
has ben asked to come a day early to
the state teachers association meet
ing in Lincoln in order to help devise
plan to handle the recording of the
results of the teachers examinations
for teaching certificates. Where ex-
aminations have been taken in differ
ent counties, as in the case of many
teachers attending summer normal
schools, considerable confusion has
resulted in getting the grades together.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

State Superintendent McBrien while
in Madison last week visited the Madi
son city schools and found many com
plimentary things to say to City Super
intendent Doremus.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

The last name on our roll of the
dead is that of Brother Byron L. Wool
verton, a resident of Pierce at the
time of his initiation. His death took
place on the 5th of October in Spo-
kane, in the state of Washington.
He came to Pierce from Pontiac,
ILL.,, in 1884, and for eighteen years
was there actively engaged in bust
ness. He was through those years
deeply interested in everything that
tended to the advancement of his town
and was ranked as one of It's leading
citizens. His efforts, enthusiasm and
continuous push did much toward the
upbuilding and development of Pierce
county and he will long be kindly and
lovingly remembered by all who were
favored with his friendship. He was
genial and sunny in disposition and
drew around him many friends. He
was most courteous in bearing, and
honest and upright in business, and
commanded the respect and esteem of
the entire community in which he
lived. He removed from Pierce to
Spokane In August, 1902, and there
again engaged in active business upon
a larger scale and in larger field.
The particulars of his death have not
been obtainable.
Today, my brothers, we commemo-
rate these our departed members.
During the coming year other names
no doubt will be added to the roll
henceforth to be called, Who Of us
shall be the first to meet those gone
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Senator Allen is a plain ordinary
lawyer" not an "attorney-at-law" mol
even an attorney" This fact is pro
claimed from his new Office building
from his stationery and his brief paper
The daily sentinel., 1907-11-22

Glenwood Post: John Schoepfe.
manager of the Grand Junction suga:
factory, made brief stop In Glen
wood this morning and, in company
with Field Manager Brown, left for
the CarboLdale country. to explain
to the beet growers in that section
the issue of scrip which the company
has felt Obliged to make. Mr..
Schoepfe says that the company
found itself absolutely unable to re-
alize cash on its securities or other
collateral, and this scrip issue is the
very best they could do. This paper,
however, will be accepted in payment
of store bills throughout this coun-
try, as the grocers can pay their
wholesale bills with 1t and in turn
the wholesalers can send II back TO
the company in payment for sugar,
and in this circuitous way, says Mr..
Schoepfe, much of the scrip will find
its way back to the company and thus
redeem itself. The scrip bears per
cent interest and the beet growers
are as rule accepting 1t without
complaint, some of them who do not
need the money saying they prefer
1t to the cash on account OF the IN
terest feature.
The daily sentinel., 1907-11-22

When Charles b. Hanford first an
nounced his intentions of making a
revival production-the word ''re-
vival" being at the present day
significant of lavish costuming and
enormous agricultural display
friend and advisers hesitated. Keen
and reliable as Mr.. Hanford's judg-
ment has been in the past. there
were fears that his great affection
for the role of Marc Antony had
misled him into an enterprise
whose outlay represented reckless
extravaganza instead of the liberal
investment such as this star has
made from season to season. But the
crowds have followed Marc Antony
through Egypt as they followed him
through the Roman Empire. The
Hanford public is no less royal to
the hero whose star has begun to
fade than 1t was to the favorite of
the court and the idol of the forum.
Mr.. Hanford's estimate of the popu-
lar interest in Marc Antony has been
indicated. and this season, although
but slightly advanced, assures the
production one of the most success
full tours that any tragedlan ever en-
joyed.
The daily sentinel., 1907-11-22
THE POWER
OF PRESS

The man who is inclined to sneer
at the expressions of country edi-
tors should read the following from
middle-west congressman. who
doubtless knows whereof he speaks:
During my two terms have been
impressed with it constantly. l doubt
'if there is single calm utterance
in any paper in the United States
that does lot carry some weight a
mong the members of congress at
Washington. You might think that
what some little country editor says
does not amount to anything, but
1t means great deal more than
most people realize. When the
country editor, who is looking after
nothing but the country printing,
gives expression to some radical idea
about national question, the man
off here in congress knows that 1t
comes from the grass roots. The
lobby, the big railroad lawyers and
that class of people realize the power
of the press, but they hate It. I've
heard them talk about 1t and shake
their heads and say: Too much
power there. The press is more pow
erful than money"
The daily sentinel., 1907-11-22
THE CROPS
OF 1907

The last of the preliminary crop
reports for the year having Just been
issued by the department of Agri-
culture at Washington, the country
is equipped to make close guess
at the volume of its leading farm
producets for this season. We will
have 1854 100000 bushels of corn.
625, ,567 900 bushels of wheat. 741.-
$4,000 bushels of oats. 147.1e2,OOO
bushels of barley, 292,427 900 BUSH
els of potatoes. and 1S.911,OOO BUSH
els of buckwheat. The leading states
rank in corn production in this order
beginning with the head of the list.
Illinois, Iowa. Missouri, Nebraska,
Indiana, Texas, Kansas, Ohio. These
states produced more than two-thirds
of the country's corn crop for 1907.
and more than double the amount of
the world outside of the United
States.
While the crops Of 1907 are below
the record of one or more previous
years, they are fair average of the
past half dozen seasons. In moLey
value they will rank ahead of any
previous year. as prices are some
what higher than they were in 1906,
which produced the largest aggre-
gate farm yield. The value of the
agricultural products of the country
for 1906 was placed at s6.794,OOO,-
600 by the Department of Agricul-
ture, in its estimate on December /
of that year. 1t is probable that the
$1,000, 100000 mark will be touched
by the farm products of 1907.
Unusually when the farmers have
good times the country is prosperous.
The farmers are assured of good
times uLtil the next harvest at least
and the chances for that 1908 will
be more favorable for them than
1907 has been, for in backwardness
of the planting time 1907 broke all
recent records. Prices of farm crops
like prices of commodities of nearly
every sort, will come down, to some
degree, as consequence to the
money scare and the temporary
shrinkage, but the farmer, like every
other wage Garner. will be in good
shape to meet this brief setback The
agriculturist is in a position to look
the future In the face with confidence
Science is equipping him to over
come such drawbacks as lateness of
planting season and droughts, and
he can count on commanding hence
forth a good many of the prizes of
fortune.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The daily sentinel., 1907-11-22

"Chic" Perkins is starring this
season in THE Little Prospector," a
sparkling four act comedy-drama
which is admirably adapted to the
style and methods of this fascinating
little actress. and in which she is
fast making an enduring reputation.
The play has the merit of being abb
solutely new, as it has positively
never been seen on any stage until
presented by this company. THE
Little Prospector" was secured by
Manager Frank G. King, for "Chic"
Perkins on heavy royalty from the
American Amusement Association. of
New York City. which is a guarah-
tee in itself of its superior dramatic
qualities. This play, gorgeously
equipped with scenery and complete
acting company, Will be presented at
the Park opera house on Saturday
November 23.