The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-05-03

health at his home eight miles south
of Norfolk, is not so well.
Steven Stork of southeast of Nor.
folk who has been very sick, was able
to be up yesterday for the first time
In five weeks.
O'Neill and Valentine are rejoicing
in the fact that they have been Sc
lected as points for junior normal
schools during the coming summer.
Eight towns in the state have been
chosen. The term has been reduced
from ten weeks TO eight.
The Trip County News is new
newspaper in the Rosebud reservation
of South Dakota. The first issue ap.
peared in the form of a daily, and was
printed in the Office OF the Gregory
County News at Bonesteel. G.. M. Rose
is the editor. The first issue has a
splendid appearance and contains much
live news matter.
A. X. Barnes, son of Supreme Judge
and Mrs. j. b. Barnes of Norfolk, has
removed from Kearney to Wahoo. He
has been appointed secretary to Judge
commissioners. Mr. Barnes was Sc
lected for the position because of his
experience in this work and because
Of his superior ability.
A shadow social" for the purpose
of securing school dictionaries is to
be given on the evening of May at
the Pleasant Valley school house in
school district No. SO. Young ladies'
furnish the shadows and a supper.
Following a program the shadows are
to be sold to the highest bidders. Miss
Mabelle Friend is the teacher in dis
trict No. SO.
A. F. Stearns, the new fifth vice
president of the T. p. A. in Nebraska,
vention, returned to Norfolk and has
already started out on his route, hav-
ing gone to Lynch yesterday. Mr..
Stearns lives at 1904 Madison avenue
and is one of the prominent and pop
ular commercial travellers in this part
of the state. He is a constant booster
for the Y. P. A. and for Norflk.
With the mercury registered at fif-
teen degrees above zero, Norfolk
passed another cold night and fur
naces were forced into greater action.
The cold wave comes from a heavy
snowstorm that fell all over the terri
tory northwest of Norfolk. 1t is said
by passengers arriving in this city
from the west and from the north that
the snow extends from O'Neill west
and from Creighton north. 1t was
thought that the sunshine of today
would melt it away. In some places
the snow was a foot deep. Norfoll'
escaped without flake.
Butte Gazette: ID. NJ. Stuart of Stu
art, Neb., has recovered the metal cash
box that was taken from his safe
which was blown up and robbed or
the night of July %, 1906. The boy
contained S125 in cash and about ST.
in checks and charge slips when taken
The checks and slips together with {
one. dollar bill which had evidentl!
been overlooked, were found in the
box. The discovery was made alons
the railroad track at the edge of towr
by a school boy. Mr.. Stuart is al
ex-Butte citizen and his many friend!
will be pleased to know of his luck!
find.
Firm in the belief that summer i:
still printed in Nebraska's calendar
and that the wintry blasts from the
north will not blow far past the lin
its of April, the soda fountain men o
Norfolk have prepared to celebrate
| the first real signs of the genuine ar
rival of spring by throwing open thei
fonts" In some parts of northern
Nebraska the fountains have been run
ming for several weeks but with Apri
and March turned topsy-turvy the mel
who pinned their hopes on the few
summer days sprinkled into Marcel
have found little profit in their earl.
, opening. Most of the fountains owe
the state as we'll as those in Norfoll
are now stocked up, however, an
l ready to take advantage of the frs
5 few days of warm weather. At tn
candy factory of the Faucett-Car
t Candy company Saturday 1000 pound
, of crushed fruits and fruit syrup wer
received as an extra shipment fror
y Rochester, n. Y, to fill up the hole
r made in the company's wholesale stoc
by spring orders. Forty to fift
|. pounds of crushed fruits and fruit S!
l. rups serves to carry the average -four
tain through the ice cream season.
y The new Methodist Episcopal churc
at Plainview was dedicated under au
r picious conditions Sunday. The ne
house of worship was erected at a cos
a of $4,000 and is a beautiful structure
Although the weather was cloudy an
t. disagreeable, the cold did not int
fere. The church comfortably seal
It 500 persons but COO packed into tn
n house of worship and many wei
IS turned away, Bishop Luther b. WI
son spoke on "Co-workers With God
r and asked for a contribution of $500
e, with which to clear the church fro
a debt. The response was little MOI
IN than $4,000, In the evening DR.. Hun
T. ingtOn of Lincoln preached TO a crow