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

Arrangements are being made
whereby the Norfolk high school lee
ture course, which proved such sue.
cess last winter, will offer another
series of high grade entertainments to
the Norfolk public during the coming
winter Five numbers will be selected,
all of high quality. The lecture
course next winter will be given in
the Auditorium.
Yesterday was the ninety-first birth.
day of Mrs. Kingsbury and an infor-
NAL reception was held for her dur
ing the afternoon at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. N. A. Rainbolt A
number of old time friends called
during the afternoon to congratulate
Mrs, Kingsbury upon her new birth
day and accompanying good health,
and to wish her many happy returns
A table banked high with beautiful
flowers, as tokens of the esteem in
which she Is held, helped to make
the day all the more a pleasant one
for Mrs. Kingsbury.
|. r. Cook, who has the contract for
hauling brickbats from the high
school debris to First street, believes
there will be enough bricks to fill
that thoroughfare for considerably
over a mile, including the whole
stretch between Norfolk avenue and
the Northwestern railroad tracks at
the Junction. He has about a dozen
teams at work hauling the brickbats
to First street.
Governor Coe l. Crawford of South
Dakota passed Through Norfolk on
the early morning train enroute to his
home at Pierre after having spoken at
the May day celebration at Gregory.
1t is said that the celebration was
splendid success, there being 5000
people present. A number attended
the celebration from Norfolk. Gov
ernor Crawford was banqueted at
Bonesteel on his return trip.
A party of Norfolk ladies consisting
of Mrs. J. C. Stitt, Mrs. ]. B. Maynard,
Mrs. C. H. Reynolds, Miss Laura Dur
land. Mrs A. ]. Durland, Mrs. NJ. c.
Hazen and Mrs. J. c. S. Wells left
this morning for Plainview to spend
the afternoon with Miss May Durland
and to tender her a "china shower"
in honor of her approaching marriage
to Mr.. Chess Bernard of Lincoln. The
party of Norfolk friends will return
home on the evening train.
Butte has agreed to enter the North
Nebraska Short Shipment Racing cir
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September 4-6, according to advices
received by officers of the Norfolk
Driving association. The action of
Butte in accepting the invitation from
the north Nebraska association fills
up the entire ten weeks from July 81
to October 4. The races of the North
Nebraska Short Shipment Racing cir
cult begin with the racing meet at
Norfolk, July 31-August 2, and end
with a meet at Stanton the first week
in October.
At last nights meeting of the city
council A.. J. Durland presented a
damage claim of $500 for damages in.
hicted on six First street houses by
the construction of the sewer main
up First street. The damage com
planned of is said to have been caused
by the use of dynamite in the trench
construction last fall. AS a result OF
this Mr.. Durland placed the damage
to the roof, foundation and plaster in
I his houses adjacent to the street al
, $50 a house. Under the contract witt
o. p Herrick the city officials state
that damages like the above claim will
| fall against the contractor
The water mains in front of the
, pumping station were raised yester
day afternoon to permit the passage
of the sewer pipe up First street pas
: the station. Both the big main on
from the station and the branch main!
running north and south for a dis
} lance of something like a hundred
: feet were elevated with jack screws
/ to a point above the line of the sewer
Not only did the strain on the joint
+ of the water mains fail to develol
I er Brummund declares, an old leal
r was apparently stopped up by raising
the pipe. George Stalcop had charg
b of the work. The city's water suppl
S was not affected.
The frost predicted by the weathe
4 bureau arrived in the form of ten
v perature five degrees below freel
ing-twenty-seven degrees above zero
n Another frost is forecasted for Frida
e night, with rising temperature Satul
day. The April which has just com
l. to an end was the coolest April tina
> has been known in Norfolk durin
the eleven years that the government
II records have been kept here by d.
k Salter, The mean maximum tempert
ture for this April was 53.S degree!
r the mean minimum was 29.1 and tn
e mean average was All. The mea
y minimum temperature for the mont
was two degrees below the coldes
n April heretofore. There was ha
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