The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-03-08

Miss Ida Squire is among the sick
The surveyed line for the new rail
road which passes east OF the Junction
passes through the center of Chas.
Longs house. This, however, may not
be the permanent line, as many chang.
es may be made
Jack McGrane is in Chicago on bust
ness.
Little Carrie Crotty is quite sick.
Leo William has returned TO lnman
after a weeks visit with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. b. p. Pippen.
Fireman Woodbury. was hurt quite
badly yesterday while at one of the
stations on the Bonesteel line. Fire
man Cox was sent up to take his place.
Mrs. Fred Hodson of Winside visit
ed her sister Miss Lulu Johnson on
Saturday.
A. Tompkins came down from In
man Saturday morning to spend Sun
day with his daughter, Mrs. e. l..
Loucks.
Mrs. e. Bush who has been visiting
with Mr.. and Mrs. A. d. Howe for sew
eral days, left for her home in Bloom
field Friday.
Little Helen Doughty, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. II. l.. Doughty, Is very i'll
with lung fever
Mrs. Stanfield, who had been suf-
fering from an attack of typhoid fever,
Is able to be up and around.
j. S. Jackson of Nebraska City ar
rived in Norfolk last night to take a
position on the reportorial staff of
The News. Mr.. Jackson graduated
last year from the Nebraska state uni
versity.
The Norfolk Transfer and Storage
company has just finished installing
a large freight elevator in it's three
story warehouse.
j. e. Haase, cashier of the Citizens
National bank and city treasurer has
succeeded to the management of that
institution, vice w. A. Witzigman, re-
signed and will remain in active
charge for the present at least
]. Baum is just getting about after
a two weeks attack of the grip. Mr..
and Mrs. Baum and their little son,
Edwin, were all suffering from the ep-
idemic at the same time and Mr.. Baum
is feeling none too well even now.
The gypsy camp held in the parlors
of the Congregational church last
night was well attended Pop corn
was served from large copper kettles
swung in gypsy fashion. In one cor
ner of the room fortune teller held
forth. Quite a number came dressed
in gypsy costume. A program was
given during the evening.
The mems club of the Congregation
al church, which was organized a
month ago. will hold a reception in
the parlors of the church this evening.
A program has been arranged and
lunch will be served.
The telegraphers on the Nebraska
division of the Omaha road are very
much interested in the Murphy bill
now before congress providing for an
eight-hour day for telegraph operators.
The chairman here of the Order of
Railroad photographers has a message
from st. Louis saying that there are
$50 messages per hour coming to
Washington asking that this bill be
passed. The Nebraska division teleg-
raphers wired the congressional dele
cation to do all they could to have this
bill become a law. Over forty signed
the message.
Meadow Grove Press: A deal was
closed Monday whereby H. d. Weygint
and son Davo of Clao rua or n,rnh q god
Of H. w. Winter the harness business
which has been conducted by D. E.
Cottrell, and the new firm took posses
sion Tuesday. The business will be
run under the firm name of Weygint
& Son and will hold forth in the same
building occupied by Mr.. Cottrell and
will carry everything in the line of
upto-date harness. Dave left Tuesday
evening for Clearwater and will return
in few days with their household
goods and the rest of the family and
will move into the Walt Palmer house.
The Madison Star-Mail reprints an
affidavit made by George Gebhardt,
the horsethief just sentenced to the
penitentiary from Stanton county by
Judge Graves, in which the prisoner
maintains the charge that he was as
sisted in his escape from the Stanton
Jail by August Mueller, the man who
was sentenced to fifteen years in the
penitentiary for shooting his wife, his
father-in-law and his mother-in-law
the Hohneke family. Gebhardt says
under oath that Mueller agreed to tell
the story that outside parties had as
sisted Gebhardt in escape. Gebhardt
claimed that he knows something of
the hold-ups that occurred in Madison,
and says that he could tell some things
which would send several Madison
guys over the road"
Madison Star-Mail: On complaint
of Mrs. George Milligan a warrant was
issued from Judge Eiseley's court in
Norfolk and placed in the hands of
Sheriff Clements the first part of last