The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-10

Of the Rosebud and with the prospects
for rich region In Trip county.
The Modern Woodmcn will give n
dance Tuesday evening at MarQuardt
hall
Fred Boche has had saw mill
brought To his land south of the city
for the purpose of having some ten
or fifteen acres of cottonwood trees
sawed up.
Mrs. Scott Halbrook has moved to
Wayne where she will make her fu.
ture home. Her son, who is now in
school In Norfolk will go to Wayne
as soon as school is over.
The foundation for the new Chris.
tian church building at Park and
Sixth street was practically completed
today Work on the building Is being
the coming summer
Friday night was colder in Norfolk
than the night before. The tempera.
ture for Friday night sank down to
twenty-five degrees above zero where
as 1t had been only down to twenty
seven during the previous twenty-four
hours This Is believed to have been
one of the coolest May nights ever
known in this section. Showers and
rising temperature are forecasted.
The first open air band concert OF
the season was given at the corner of
Norfolk avenue and Fourth street last
night by the newly organized Norfolk
band, and the event proved a decided
success. The innovation was received
by the public with much enthusiasm
and the series of concerts throughout
the summer promises to be extremely
popular. The band Is making good
music.
The new city administration on as
Stunning charge of city affairs on next
Tuesday will be asked to confirm the
following officers in the city fire de
partment: C. II. Pilger chief of the
department; " A. Nenow, first assist
ant chief of the department; Jess Bee
mer second assistant chief; Charles
Altman and Charles Stoeber, fire po-
| lice hook and ladder company; Ed
| Conley and w. Monsterman, fire po-
| lice Mast hose company; Hugo Paul
and Il. WILDER, fire police Queen City
hose company. Charles Pilger, the
new chief of the Norfolk fire depart
ment, was elected at the annual meet
ing of the department, his name being
sent to the council for confirmation
| The names of the assistant chiefs are
submitted to the council by Chief Pill
ger; names of the fire police by the
several companies.
In order to prevent a legal entangle-
ment with the city, Superintendent
Martin in charge of the sewer CON
struction yesterday agreed to cease
connecting private homes and business
| houses with the new sewer system
pending the arrival of Contractor Her
rick in Norfolk Monday The dispute
that has arisen between Mr.. Herrick
and the city officials involves the
right of Herrick to make the connec-
| tiOns to the sewer without taking out
a regular plumbers license. At a re.
cent council meeting Herrick stated
that he had several contracts for max
ing immediate connections with the
sewer and that his contract for con
structing the sewer gave him a right
to make the connections. Yesterday
when the city learned that one of
these connections was being made
without the Formally of a plumbers
| license a notice was served on Super
intendent Martin.
IlIlt IIttlf hnc tnly tt.,n
| from newspaper work. He will how
ever, still stay about the Office to han
die his work as city clerk and regis
trar of vital statistics. Newspaper
work is dropped for the present, he
says, with the intention Of thoroughly
regaining his health, which Is not in
| the best of condition. Mr. Huff, who
is one of the prominent young men of
| the city, has a great many friends in
| Norfolk who will hope that he may
speedily recuperate from the effects
Of long hard siege of indoor work
What has become Of the metal box,
containing papers and other articles,
which was placed in the cornerstone
of the Norfolk high school building,
| which recently burned? 1t is said that
efforts to locate the box have failed.
1t contained special souvenir edition
Of The News, giving history of Nor
folks school district from 1867 up
until the time the building was be-
gun.
Mrs. Catherine Bockelmann, one Of
the older residents of Norfolk, died
at an early hour Saturday morning
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Ernest Hartman, on West Nebraska
avenue. Mrs. Bockelmann was sew
enty-six years old at the time of her
death. She was born in Wichtenach,
in Hanover, Germany, on April Is,
1881. With her husband Mrs. Bockel-
mann was one of the early settlers of
this vicinity. Mr.. Bockelmann's pre-
coded the wife's by many years. A
member of st. Paul's Ev. Lutheran
church, Mrs. Bockelman held the re-
spect and regard of many friends in