The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-01
IS .ODOFOR NORFOLK GIRL
REWARD FOR ACT OF KINDNESS
YEARS AGO.
NuRsEp SICK MAN IN HOTEL

Miss Anna Olson, an Employe at the
oxnard Hotel Here, Has Received
Word That Stranger In the East
Willed Her Large Sum.
In the story OF the man who did not
forget lies the good fortune Of Miss
Anna Olson, chambermaid at the
Oxnard hotel of this city.
Miss Olson knows what II Is to cast
bread upon the water. For acts OF
kindness rendered hotel guest when
he lay i'll in Sioux City seven years
ago Miss Olson stands to receive a
rich reward. This man did not for
get for on his death II transpires that
the hotel girl is listed among his heirs.
The tale of the inheritance Is a
story of seven years ago. For five
years past Miss Olson has been en-
ployed as chambermaid at the Oxnard
hotel in Norfolk. She is a comely
girl Of Norwegian parentage.
And this hotel girl Is to be among
the heirs of an eastern estate, the
man who didn't forget
Seven years ago a bachelor from
back east" spent four weeks In sick.
ness in the Hotel Oxford of Sioux
City. But those four weeks were
frightened by the attentions and
thoughtfulness of the comedy Norwe.
gian chambermaid. In sick bed
mems thoughts go castle building
Whatever there may have been Of ro-
nance in the sick mans mind and
whatever there may have been OF
thanks on his lips this man wrote his
thanks plainly enough when he came
to die.
The sick man, restored to health
returned to eastern ties. Miss Olson
after a year or so left Sioux City fol
Norfolk. Miss Olson may have forgot
ten but the man back east didn't
And when he thought Of the services
at the sick bed and spelled out com
pound interest 1t measured up to IS,
600 in his eyes.
Miss Olson was apprised Of her In
heritance on the arrival in Norfolk
of a member Of a Cincinnati law firm
having the matter in hand. He traced
Miss Olson from Sioux City to Nor
, folk.
Silent About Her Fortune.
But this fortunate hotel girl Is no
open for congratulations - for sh'
won't receive them. Among her &C
quaintances at the hotel she does no
discuss the matter. A girl more thai
usually reticent she has left the GU
rious minded to guess.
why should l discuss the none,
when I haven't 1t YETI" asks Mis-
Olson. "And whose business Is 1t bu
my own? I am sure to be bothere,
and am not sure Of the money for
have only the news of the inherit
ance."
A curious coincident, which Miss o
son discloses, may interpose temper
airy obstacles between the Norfol
chambermaid and her inheritance
There was another Anna Olson in tn
oxford hotel in Sioux City and Law
yers may puzzle as to whether 1t wa
brown or black-haired Anna Olso
named as heiress to the $4,000. An
the facts which favor Miss Olson c
Norfolk may have to be proven.
Meanwhile the other girl has drol
ped out of sight. And an Anna Olso
lost in the world is a missing needl
| IN ho, II &c na M
in fact even since Miss Olson ha
worked in Norfolk a third Anna o
, son has been employed at the sam
, hotel. And the fact that the testatC
, neglected to indicate the color Of Mis-
Olson's hair or his preference Il
, blondes or brunettes may prove a
annoying incident.
, This Miss Olson isn't hotel girl
: gay colors and she isn't spending HI
= new fortune in advance. An indu
trious girl she has already saved l
- fair sum from her earnings. Al
the new inheritance will be as car
= fully guarded as the $4,000 or so tn
have already been assigned to sa
keeping.
The romance in Anna Olsons Ii
| began rather than ended with h
| coming to Norfolk. It's no secret tn
] the girl, who was this fall remember,
for $4,000 by the eastern bachelc
has been engaged for long time pa
Y to a Norfolk brakeman.
Miss Olson's father and mother Ii
in South Dakota not far from Van
r ton.