The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-07-12

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hours later In the afternoon.
one death and one proslratIon from
heat are reported from Valentine In
n dispatch to the Omaha Bee The
| lour.y oarOld daughter OF Mr. ana Mrs.
johnson of that place succumbcd A
crippled man from Lincoln, who was
helping to initiate u balloon prior to az.
ccnsiou, was overcome from heat and
the gas, and for time was In crit
zeal condition, but win recover.
j. G, pngolor, farmers limo agent
for the Nebraska Telephone company
and Miss Lillian y. Neal Of Peru were
married I'm Peru ON June 20. MT
rogclor has been stationed In Norfolk
since the first of May and has made
many friends In the city, Mr. PaE
olcr and his bride have arrived in
Norfolk and are making their homo
with A. IT, Bohanon ut 200 South
| Ninth street
Another soaking rain, just at the
right time, drcnChcd Norfolk and-vi.
entity Saturday night An inch and
ouo.hundrodth of water fen In short
time and crops were greatly benefited
| While the air was sultry, nothing of
the violent storm which ragged In the
country northwest Of Norfolk, touch.
ing Long Pine, Niobrara ana Gregory,
was felt here Tho temperature
reached only 80 ON Sunday. The at-I
mosphcre was intensely sultry Mon.
day morning.
Clearwater Record: Plans for the
watcrworlis system are rapidly being
completed. 1t is understood that the
tank will be placed in Chas. Ncidcr.
hcido's carpenter shop SO his gasoline
engine can be used 10 do the pumping
The finance committee are meeting
with good success In soliciting dona.
lions, as the business men aud proper.
ty owners seem very willing to donate
sums of fifty or twenty-five dollars for
the enterprise Another meeting will
he held in the near future.
| Mrs. O. II. Meredith Of this city is
in receipt of letter from her brother,
Byron McKibbcn, who was sent to the
Orient in the interests of the lnterna-
| tiOnal Fisheries company Mr. Nc
Iiibbcn wrote from Yokohoma in Japan
and was preparing to depart for
Shanghai China. Mr.. McKibbcn will
have his headquarters in Japan during
the year or two that he will spend in
| the east Mr. KibbCn is a Hastings
boy and for three years was manager
of the Western league baseball team
at St Joseph.
The Brink farm near PonCa, where
lives Frank Brink, the young man re-
leased last week from the Norfolk in
sane hospital after having been an
inmate just three months, and who
was tried for numbering Bessie New.
ton was visited by two lightning bolts
Saturday morning and the barn was
burned. A report from POnca to, the
Sioux City Tribune says that supersti-
tious folk up that way who disapprOvc
of the acquittal of Brink believe that
the lightning was indicative of the
wrath of the Almighty.
The Norfolk city council this even
| ing will decide whether or not Norfolk
Is to have an Independent telephone
exchange At this evenings meeting
of the council the Independent fran
chise will be up for third reading and
final action. Other items of business
will come before the council but w.
j. Stadelman's application for an in
dependent telephone franchise in Nor.
| folk represents the principal business
of public moment 1t Is probable that
the council meeting will be attended
by many Norfolk citizens interested
in the telephone situation.
Bassett Leader: The music loving
portion of Bassett was given an ex-
cellent treat Friday evening by the
Altman Concert company. Mr.. Her
man Altman, pianist, assisted by Miss
Isabelle Ravens and Miss Lizzie ALL
man, vocal soloists, gave the program.
Mr.. Altman is young man of great
musical ability, and music is his life
study. lie has devoted several years
to its study and is now proposing to
continue his musical education as far
as possible in this country and then
go to Germany to the masters. His
execution was superb, and expression
good. Miss Ravens and Miss Altman
did creditable work in the vocal num-
bers in which they appeared The
company has talent and is worthy of
patronage.
Charles H. Groesbeck Of Norfolk,
general agent for the Gund brewing
company in this territory, has been
doing a land Office business since the
new clause regulating the sale of
wholesale liquors went into effect
Under the new law keg beer can not
be sold by retailers since this is held
\ to be wholesaling, and retailers are
not permitted to wholesale. The
Gund distributing house in Norfolk is
the only wholesale beer institution in
the territory radiating out of Norfolk
to Omaha, Sioux City, Columbus, the
Rosebud reservation and the Black
.