The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-26

Dental insurance company.
Conductor VIM. Fleetwood. who is
working out of Lincoln. came home to
spend Sunday with his family.
Miss Geneva Moolick returned home
from Pilger last night. She had been
visiting with her cousin, Miss Bessie
Etter.
Bill Darnell, who has been working
out of Missouri Valley returned to
Norfolk yesterday and will work out
of here
Mrs. VIM. Beck and two sons re-
turned home from Battle Creek Satur-
day, and went back to the same place
Sunday.
A number of young friends of Mr..
and Mrs. Dolph Hight entertained her
at her home Saturday night The
evening was spent in games and dane.
ing.
Fred Koerber and his gang of line.
men left for Rapid City last night to
put up the telegraph line between
Rapid City and Pierre
Mrs. Steve Brunette and son Sylves-
ter and daughter Nora and two grand
daughters, returned home from Mis-
souri, Valley last evening.
Miller Mather is building a new
home on South Second street
The board of education will meet
tonight to receive plans for a new high
school building.
A son arrived Sunday morning at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Sled.
schlag on South Fourth street.
C. l.. Daniels expects to return from
Wayne with his family within the next
few days to take a position in the
Lewis bakery.
Presiding Elder ID. X. Tindall of
Norfolk is advertised to lecture at the
Methodist church at Meadow Grove
tomorrow evening on What | Saw in
the Holy Land"
Milking machines will probably be
installed in the dairy barn of Rome
Miller at Norfolk Junction within the
near future 1t is said that one ma
chine will milk three cows in an hour
and do it as well as human hands.
Excavation work has been started
at Sixth street and Park avenue for
the new Christian church building.
BY the terms of the contract the build
ing must be completed by August L.
At present holding services in the G..
A. r. hail. the Christian congregation
expects to be in a church home of
their own by July.
| Working Sundays to rush the sewer
contract through, Superintendent Mar
tin and his force of men have laid the
Madison avenue sewer main up the
avenue past Fourth street. Mr. Mar
tin estimates that three weeks will be
required to lay the remaining four
blocks of mains and finish up the odds
and ends of the system as required by
the contract. Contractor o. P. Her
rick of Des Moines was expected in
Norfolk today.
The dress rehearsal of the band min
strel performers was held in the Au-
ditorium yesterday afternoon and the
show was declared all ready for the
been a large one and the indications
point to a full house. The show is said
by those who know to be an excellent
one throughout, with good songs
bright new jokes, clever specialties
and pretty stage settings. The attrac-
ton is home talent performance and
the funds will be used for the pur
chase of uniforms for the band.
Il used to be the goods at baseball
in my younger days" the tall slim
travelling man remarked. "And | was
the pride of our village" chimed. in
the round fat commercial man. The
memories of yesterday, however, fad
noon when the Norfolk red tops"
trounced the Pacitics, the commercial
travellers losing out to the tune of II
to 6. Seven innings of ball were
played. The red tops" had their line
up filled out with several business col
lege players. Batteries, Rock and
| Walters, Pacific; Haak Hauptli and
Glssman, Norfolk.
Jacob Bernhard passed away at his
home in Hadar at Ais Monday morn
ing, his death being caused by pneu-
monia, from which he had been suf
fering for the past five weeks. Mr.
Bernhard was a pioneer of this coun-
try, having taken a homestead on the
Northfork river in 1866, He was born
in Neusenselten, Germany, January H.,
1886, and came to America in his
younger days. He leaves his wife,
| two sons and one daughter to mourn
his loss The children are all mar
ried, the daughter living near Win
side, Carl on the old farm near Hadar
and August in Madison. Funeral SER
vices will be conducted by Rev. j. p.
Mueller of the Christ Lutheran church
but the time has not yet been an
nounced.
Death of Mrs Rice,