The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-06

Work has started on the roof OF the
new high school building. Some idea
of the progress made on the building
will probably be given the board at
the December meeting Monday.
District court convenes again Mon
day afternoon with the jury assem-
bling for jury work. While interest in
the Boche case is paramount, num-
Der of other cases of importance are
listed for trial
Report from the bedside of Mrs w.
S. Forham at Whitetish, Mont, who
was considered dangerously i'll with
appendicitis, Is that she Is much bet
ter and that the prospects of recovery
have materially improved. Her sister,
Mrs. Martha Brown, has gone to
Whitefish to help care for her.
Lincoln Star: Or. G.. w. Dishong,
who has been appointed first assistant
physician of the Norfolk asylum for
the insane, has been In the institution
since November 1 and his commission
formal appointment was not announced
until today. His salary will be $1,000
per year
Ray Benish, another knight of the
husking peg, can also go some in the
corn field. Working for County Com
and husked 1913 bushels of corn In
thirteen days. Incidentally Benish
met his reward on Thanksgiving day
when he appeared as the groom in the
Benish-Skiff wedding.
Jack O'Leary, the Omaha wrestler
who has had his headquarters in Nor
folk for the past week, has two i'm
portant matches up the Bonesteel line
this week. Thursday at Butte O'Leary
undertakes to throw three local men,
Bobby Ford weighing 140 pounds, Gus
Truth weighing $50 pounds, and G. r.
Curry weighing $50 pounds, in one
hour of wrestling. At Dallas on next
Saturday he goes up against Babe
Coole, a 155-pound wrestler. O'Leary,
who is light but clever, goes on the
mat at 145 pounds.
Pierce Leader: This week a petit
ton to conduct a saloon in the village
of Foster is being circulated among
the freehoders of that place. The
person who is doing this work and
who desires to operate a saloon in Eos
ter is George Pfeifer, of Plainview
In a talk with Mr.. Pfeifer, we are told
that the chances for securing the re-
quired number of feehOlders-a maj
ority thereof-are very bright. This
is the third time an attempt has been
made to get a license to open saloon
in Foster, and the present petitioner
is confident in being successful in
his undertaking.
Fred Hartlieb, a popular north Ne
braska traveller who was called into
the house by his company last Sep
TENDER. made an emergency trip
through north Nebraska last week and
the trip quite naturally made him
homesick for his former territory.
Hartlieb covered the territory tribu-
tary to Norfolk for Krage-Elliott, Oma-
ha wholesalers of shoe findings and
supplies for several years prior to last
Omaha to become city salesman with
supervision over the mail order de-
partment. But it is not all together
impossible but what he will be back
on the road again with the coming Of
the new year.
A $4,000 damage suit that has been
filed for the next term of the Wayne
county district court and one that by
reason of being somewhat out of the
ordinary will no doubt attract cOnsid-
cradle attention, is the suit of johann
nus Hansen VS.. Lars Larson, asserts
the Wayne Herald. The petition is
very brief and alleges that on August
g, 1907, said defendant with intent to
iniure the plaintiff, made a statement
in the presence of others, in effect stat
ing that defendant had killed my
ducks" The petition states that plain
tiff had been greatly injured in his
good name and asks damages in the
sum of $4,000. Both parties reside
about seven miles northwest of Wayne
and are well-to-do farmers.
Local officers and members of the
Norfolk branch of the anti-horse thief
association met Saturday afternoon in
the city, hall transacting routine bust
ness. At the time of the meeting word
had not been received of the recovery
of the horses stolen from the Praeuner
farm south of Battle Creek. Opinion
differs among members of the associa-
ton as to the extent that the horse
grabbers operating in north Nebraska
and South Dakota have organized,
some of the horse thief fighters believ-
ing that the thieves are working in
small gangs, others that they have
close organization. This system, how
ever, seems to prevail in their opera
ton: that horses stolen in southern
South Dakota and western Nebraska
are rushed east while eastern animals