The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-12-27

can what 10 drink ana what not 10
before taking his seat on the water
wagon.
1t is not all summer in Missouri.
Snow has fallen thickly here for two
days.
William Bruce of Bassett, Neb.,
prominent stock buyer, who was
brought here very dangerously sick
and who was not expected to live n
few nights ago, is much improved to-
day and there are hopes of his re-
covery. Mrs. Bruce is here and also
VIII Colfax and Dick Hunt of Bias
sett, who came to look after the sick
man.
Mr.. Colfax can't get along, even
down here in Missouri, without The
Norfolk News He reads 1t every day
at home and he feels lost without it.
And speaking OF The News, S. F.
Erskine, the well known Norfolk com.
mercial traveller, found out in Bone
steel the other day one reason why
Norfolk's daily paper is so popular
throughout the vast prosperous terri
tory tributary to Norfolk. II buy
hogs" John Harms told Mr.. Erskine,
ION the strength of The Norfolk News
market reports. They get to US in
The News just twenty-four hours
ahead of any other paper-a whole
day" And so it is, every day, that
the northwest is coming into closer
and closer touch with Norfolk through
Norfolk's newspaper.
| What Excelsior Springs needs is
advertising. Last year this town had
100000 visitors. If these springs were
advertised in magazines and news
papers, there ought to be a milliSn
visitors a year. There Is CONNER
cial club here, but it doesn't carry on
an aggressive, effective campaign of
presenting the towns advantages to
the world. Some day Excelsior
Springs will advertise-and when 1t
does the town will grow as It's ma
tural advantages entitle 1t to.
N. A. Fl.
Where is there a better sight than
the face of the small boy on Christmas
morning who knows that Santa Claus
has been around?
There is no event in Norfolk in the
course of each year that attracts more
interest or gives more genuine pleas
ure than the annual railway mems
ball that is given each merry Christ
mas night.
If there is any one thing more than
another that makes Norfolk's heart
glad, it is to see her railroad boys en-
Joy themselves. Norfolk's railroad
boys are mighty factor in the max
they get out of life, the better Norfolk
feels.
Although the Sunday cid" is sup
posed to be nailed on fast at Kansas
City, where the real Gid" wave was
started by Judge Wallace, it was par
ticularly noticeable that a Pullman
conductor coming out of the nailed up
town Sunday night had taken on a
pretty fair sized package, in spite of
handicaps.
my husband is a railroad man and
he was out on his run all day Christ
mas" she said. 1.-THE family couldn't
be together, so we lost a good deal of
the days pleasure. It's hard life at
best, this railroading. And yet there's
a fascination about it. 1t seems that
man who has once railroaded isn't
contented in any other work. My hus
band feels just as safe in his engine
as he does in his own home and
never worry about him excepting when
the nights stormy and the trainmer
can't see the signals. Then l worry
: But after all, railroading is a life thai
the railroader loves my husband
: wouldn't think of doing anything else.
Employees in the Omaha union depo
=, are not long on civility or decency
The other day sick woman lay on {
couch in a waiting room waiting for {
. train due out in a short time. An ugl!
+ old woman came in with her broom
b and swept. In spite Of protestation
y and pleadings she swept dust into thu
sick woman's face and then roughl.
G showed the couch across the room
G Immediately afterward a surly negr'
. followed with a scrubbing pail. De
- spite kind words, pleadings, demand
3 and threats, he scrubbed around tn
o sick woman, splashing water into he
face and then roughly jolted her coucl
It aside. 1t mattered little whether sh
d was alive or dead. give got to do m
s work." he growled. All of whicI
. didn't tend to give the onlookers
particular pleasant opinion Of Nebras
ka's metropolis. A housecleanin
down there, with a new set of en-
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