The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-30

ucNt Wednesday, Thursday and Fri.
day. August 2S, 20, 30.
Madison county teachers in Norfolk
yesterday afternoon visited the Gc-
rcckc brick yards. The party was talk
en- To the yards by Prof. Gregg, one Of
the institute instructors.
The assault and battery case against
Henry Hascnpnug has gone over to
next Monday when II will be heard
before Justice Lambert. f. L. Trumm
ia the complaining witness.
ON the recommendation of Congress.
man Boyd of the third district, Or.
NJ. " Burus has been appointed pen
sion examining surgeon at Albion, vice
Or, G, A. lcrland, resigned.
George X. Ilodson, who recently
moved from Lynch to Norfolk TO take
| up his work as secretary Of the Nor
| folk pickle and vinegar company Is
just recovering from the effects of n
severe sprnln.
The annual Madison county fair
will be the Madison attraction for four
days from September "a to 81. The
Madison races will be the features OF
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of
fair week. Creston, Newman Grove,
stanton and Platte Center are expect
ed to contest in baseball tournament.
AS result of the efforts of Presi.
dent G. II. Burnham Of the CONNER
cinl club the Northwestern railroad
agreed to attach n passenger coach to
Icastbound train No. 11G from Neigh
Friday evening, and n large number
! of Norfolk people left on the noon
train to attend the Antelope county
races.
Wheat fields Of Nebraska and South
Dakota are pointed out by President
Small Of the telcgraphers' union to be
convenient spots in which the striking
tolcgraphors Of Chicago may earn their
| liyings while the strike lasts. 1t is
said that thirty or forty officers of the
local trainmon's unions are in Chi
cago to watch developments.
William p. Duffy of Norfolk, a prl-
vatc in Company h, the Stanton com
pany of the First Nebraska, was one
of the score of Nebraska militlamen
who made up the Nebraska rifle team
which left Lincoln yesterday for Camp
Perry, Ohio, to participate in the ma
tional rife shoot. Captain e. H. Null
lowney of the Second Nebraska has
charge of the party.
| George +. Strewlow of Long Pine
but until some four years ago a Nor
folk boy, has accepted the position Of
pharmaceutical clerk In the Christoph
drug store. Mr.. Strewlow is grad
uate of the Creighton college or phar-
macy and at the recent examination by
the state board ranked third in the
long list of young men who took the
tests before the board. He arrived in
Norfolk yesterday
Now that the big amateur baseball
game Is no farther away than next
Friday ]. d. Sturgeon. leader Of the
trade boosters, says that he has a vi
sion of lawyers and insurance men be
ing moved down by the battery Of the
trade promoters. But he wouldn't
give the secret of the battery away.
But by next Monday 1t will be posi-
BILE to get line on the two teams that
are going to entertain Norfolk Friday.
Oats will be a somewhat disappoint-
ing crop this season, according to the
opinion of a prominent Norfolk COM
mercial traveller who has been looking
over the situation. He says that while
oats look good in the field, they are
not threshing out as well as would be
expected, and that twenty-five bushels
to the acre will be the average. Corn,
however, is doing splendidly and
wheat will be fairly good. On the
whole it is estimated that the crops
will be slightly under those of last
year,
Halleck f. Rose of Lincoln, attor-
ney for Miss Katherine Hudson of
Humboldt has come out in an interview
denying the Authorization stories that
have been circulated about his client.
treated by the newspapers. Miss Hud-
son filed the complaint against Prof
! j. w. Soarson of Peru, alleging at
tempted assault DR.. Shellhorn of
Peru, a member of the state board of
education for normal schools, stated
that the county attorney for Nemaha
county intends to prosecute the Grim
inal charge against the educator. Miss
| Hudson was elected as teacher in the
Norfolk schools earlier in the summer
but did not accept the place,
The newspapers of Wyoming are
now engaged in a bitter controversy
over the resolutions passed at the
meeting of the Wyoming Press as
ISOLATION in Lander. These condemn
the public lands and forest reserve
policies of President Roosevelt, and
We're adopted by a vote of II to >. The
controversy is whether the press as,
sociaton represents the sentiment OF
the newspapers Of the state and wheth
or the press association acted with
in proper lines when it passed such
resolutions Party lines seem to have
been abandoned and Republican pap