The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-28

now has about twenty members.
The first water melons of the season
have passed through Norfolk. Yes.
terday a carload assignment OF south.
ern melons to Rapid City were shipped
through Norfolk over the Northwest
ern.
| O'Neill holds racing matinee today
with four events scheduled on the pro
gram A base ball game between
O'Neill and Atkinson was advertised
as one of the features of the after.
noon.
The Norfolk Brownies have sched.
uled game with the National Bloom
ers," collection of baseball girls"
claiming to hail from the classic city
of Boston. The game will be played
next Thursday at the Norfolk driving
park diamond.
Roy Mccullough, who has been en-
ployed as stenographer in Superinten-
dent Reynolds office, has left Norfolk
to accept position as stenographer
for the master mechanic of the Union
Pacific at Cheyenne. He left yester-
day for Cheyenne.
Mrs. Thomas Bithell Of Norfolk was
reelected junior League superinten-
dent at the Epworth League conven-
ton of the Neigh district meeting this
week at Pierce. Rev. j. p. Yust of
Plainview was reelected to the presi-
dency of the district league associa-
ton.
A. c. Vradenburg, director OF the
Norfolk band, has received a new cor
net which is without doubt the finest
instrument in this part of the state.
The cornet was purchased from the
firm of ]. w. York e. Sons, is gold
plated and is said to be a splendid in
strument.
John Davenport of Elgin was In
Norfolk yesterday, returning home
from Sioux City where he had been
in the interests of the Elgin Fourth of
July celebration. Elgin is going to
spend over $500 on her celebration.
A baseball game between Oakdale and
Petersburg is one of the features.
The Hadar Union band is announc-
ing picnic at Hadar a week from
next Sunday. A ball game is adver-
tised between Pierce and Norfolk and
music will be furnished by the Pierce
and Hadar bands. Next Sunday the
school children of Christ Lutheran
church will have their annual picnic
in Pasewalk's grove in Norfolk.
C. H. Groesbeck says he would like
to compliment the Commercial club
for adopting a resolution to print up a
lot of Norfolk badges to be pinned on
Norfolk people going out of town. AS
president of the driving association,
Mr.. Groesbeck the other day at Tilden
had occasion to watch the effective
ness of just such plan as adopted by
the Tilden people.
Butte Gazette: The A. o. u. w. pic
mic was a big success. The program
was very interesting and the speech
by Grand Master Workman A. M. Wal
ling was exceedingly good and well
received A large crowd was present
the day. The ball game between Butte
and Anoka VS.. Spencer and Lynch was
very interesting and resulted in a vic
tory for the former, the score being
to 6.
Two hundred carloads of gravel
enough to ballast two miles of track
is being taken each day from the
Northwestern's new gravel pit at Long
Pine. Night and day shifts of men are
being worked in the gravel pit and
the big steam shovel which dips up
two and half yards of gravel with
each dip is running almost unceasing-
lly. The gravel forces, hallasting the
Northwestern track, are now atsJohns-
town working eastward. With the
seven train crews at work, 1926 men
are engaged in this work of lettering
the Northwestern tracks.
Butte Gazette: Cards are out an
nouncing the marriage of ]. Earl Sweet
to Miss Nellie Lauman at the home of
the BRIDES parents at Wayne, Neb., on
June 26, 1907. Mr.. Sweet is the well
known oliver typewriter salesman and
his friends in this part of the world
join the Gazette in wishing the couple
much prosperity and happiness. Mr..
Sweet is one of those irrepressible
statesmen who never "forgets the OWL
and if J. E. does not sell the preacher
that ties the nuptial knot an oliver
before he leaves the parlor, he will
not be living up to his enviable and
we'll earned record as salesman.
Butte Gazette: G.. A. Johnson in
company with John Hoffman and Geo.
Yesser were down from Fairfax Tues
day to look over the electric light and
mill project. Mr.. Hoffman is the own
err of the mill at Fairfax. The lights
and mill, both at Butte and Fairfax,
are to be run by 100-horse gas con-
Stunning propelling power engine, which
will cost 100000 These gentlemen
were very emphatic in their statements
concerning the feasibility of the
scheme being a decided success. Mr..
Johnson informed us that in the near
future Butte would again be under the