The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16

are guests at the G. A. Kuhl home on
The Heights. Mrs. Miller and Mrs.
Kuhl are sisters and Mr.. Hirsch is
their nephew
The Ladies Missionary society of
the Congregational church will meet
with Mrs. A. Osborne Tuesday after
noon. The ladies of the church and
their friends are cordially invited to
be present
Hoskins Headlight: A representa-
tive of the state experiment station at
Lincoln was here Saturday to inves-
tigate the cause of the death of o. F..
Clocker's hogs. 1t seems that Mr..
Checker a short time ago shipped a
number of hogs to the Omaha market,
and two Of these were condemned by
the state inspector. A postmortem
examination proved they were infected
with tuberculosis. One of Mr.. Clock
er's hogs was killed and the expert
menter took the internal organs with
him to Lincoln where they will be ex-
perimented on.
Pierce Call: Rev. C. II. Dams has
solved the question, satisfactorily to
himself at least, that Nebraska farm
ers can raise cotton. AS an expert
ment he planted a dozen or fifteen
plants of cotton and showed us a row
of good thrift plants across his
garden and standing two and one.half
feet high. The plants were all budded
and about to burst in blossom. The
flower is very beautiful. In a week
or so comes the boil and this contains
a solid mass of cotton, which soon
ripens, pops open and shows the white
fluffy cotton ready to be picked. To
one who has not seen cotton grow it
is quite curiosity.
Norfolk Saturday evening came near
adding a name to the list of north
Nebraska drownings already swelled
far beyond the usual proportions. Gus
Nitz went into the Northfork for
brief swim Saturday evening after
work. A good swimmer, he was out
in the middle of the stream in a mo-
ment. There he was seized with
cramp and stood to become the latest
victim to the rivers greed had not
his little son waded out into the stream
with long limb.
Effects of the telegraph strike in
other cities has begun to be seriously
felt in Norfolk, although the Norfolk
Western Union Office is still operat-
ing. The demoralized conditions at
Chicago, Council Bluffs, Sioux City
and Omaha had their effect all along
the line and many messages which
sought to get out of Norfolk to those
places were badly delayed No tele-
grams are accepted in Norfolk except
ing subject to indefinite delay and in
many instances patrons are using the
mails and telephone wires as surer
methods of communication. Local
Manager Haviland said that in trying
to send message to Chicago the
chief operator at Omaha informed him
that there was in the Omaha Office a
stack of kilograms a mile deep piled
up for Chicago delivery.
From ancient archives The Nevada
Representative has resurrected an ac-
count of the first ball game played in
Nevada, Iowa. On August 2, 1867, the
game was played and N. A. Rainbolt,
then of Ames, figured in the result
, and helped bring in tremendous vic
tory for Ames over Nevada The fl
nal score in that pioneer game was
66 to So Two hours and thirty min
utes the diamond warriors consumed
in their initial contest. That N. A.
Rainbolt was the prime athlete Of
Ames and Nevada in those ball games
of the sixties is attested by the fact
, that ten of the runs brought in for
the vctors are still credited to him
in the sporting records of Iowa. Not
only did Mr.. Rainbolt score more runs
than any other player-and they all
went some-but he was only put out
once. That ball game of forty years
ago is still talked of in Iowa.
The Northwestern passenger which
pulled out of Omaha for Norfolk yes
terday afternoon carried the smolder-
ing elements of a domestic upheaval.
western ranchman, wife and hus-
band drifting apart, two little daugh-
tiers ignorant of the stir, western
gun and the possibility of gun play on
the crowded train formed the cOnstit-
uent parts of the situation that gave
rise to a feeling of tension on the part
of the passengers who were aware
of the relations existing between the
little group of their fellow travellers.
For two years the man and wife had
worked for the sheep ranchman on
his western ranch. Then, it was
claimed the husband had deserted the
wife who had gone to Wisconsin. Last
: week the ranchman went to Wiscon-
sin to bring the woman and the two
little daughters back to his ranch.
The harmony of the party, however,
was broken by the sudden appearance
of the husband in the union depot at
Omaha. Those who witnessed the
,, "scene" in the big Omaha station fol-
lowed the western Journey with inter-