The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-24

daughter.
The Hadar Concordia band will give
a concert in the Hadar grove next
Sunday.
Mrs. Ballantyne will entertain the
Ladies' Aid society OF the Presbyte-
rian church tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock.
The Pioneer Hook and Ladder com.
pany will hold a special meeting at
the city hall at 1880 this evening for
the purpose of considering a plan to
attach swinging harness to the hook
and ladder wagon for special night
service.
Campbell Bros. circus will arrive In
Norfolk early Friday morning to pitch
their tents for two performances, af-
ternoon and evening.
Charles Kirchhoff is building a ten
ant house at SOB South Sixth street,
just south of his own home. The
house is constructed of artificial stone
A representative of an Ohio steel
culvert company has been in Norfolk
inquiring into the facilities that this
city would offer as distributing point
for this territory.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. X. Boas very pleas
antly entertained small company of
friends at $50 o'clock dinner last
evening in their beautiful home on
Madison avenue.
The marriage of Miss Jessie Waugh,
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Norton
oh of hn h,,t
dents of Norfolk, and Mr.. Walter
Meyer of Crawford Neb., occurred to-
day at the home of the brides parents
in Omaha.
The Norfolk board of education will
meet this evening in the Lincoln build
ing for the purpose of passing final
approval on the plans and specifca-
tons submitted by Architect John Lat
enser of Omaha for the new high
school building.
Prices for THE Wizard of Wall
Street" musical comedy that comes
to the Norfolk Auditorium May 80,
will be csc, 35c and soc. This is the
company in which Mrs. Daye and
daughter, Phyllis, formerly of Nor
folk, will be seen.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. A. Rainbolt, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Butterfield and Mr.. and
Mrs. d. Mathewson left at noon for
Omaha where they go as guests of Mr..
and Mrs. w. H. Bucholz at a house
party. They will return the latter part
of the week. During their visit the
Norfolk guests will see Maude Adams
in Peter Pan"
For the first time in Verdigre's his
tory that town had tight lid last Sun
day when Attorney Frank Lundak of
Niobrara, on behalf of number of
Verdigre women, filed papers forbid
ding the opening of saloons on Sunday
at Verdigre. The matter is said to
have been kept very quiet but on Mon
day it is said one of the Verdigre sa-
loon men went to Niobrara and prom
ised Lundak an egging.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stone of Chicago ar
rived in Norfolk at noon for a visit
with General Superintendent and Mrs.
S. M. Braden. Mr. and Mrs. Stone
were met at Missouri Valley by Mr.
and Mrs. Braden. Mr.. Stone is man.
ager of the mechanical portion of the
Chicago Daily News and is the in
ventor of remarkable improvements
In printing presses. He is recognized
as one of the most advanced press ex.
perts in the country.
The officers of the new Red Men
lodge in Norfolk were installed in Of
flee last night, the final steps in the
organization of the new lodge being
completed ia last evenings meeting.
The new Red Men tribe in Norfolk
has list of thirty-two charter mem.
bers Col. j. G. Albright, the national |
representative of the order who orga.
nized the local tribe, left at noon for
Lincoln to organize fourth tribe of |
the Red Men in that city.
The Nebraska Newspaper Folding
machine, of which c. S. Evans of Nor
folk is the inventor and patentee, is
now being manufactured at a print
ing press factory at Abel, Iowa. A
company was organized in Norfolk |
two or three years ago, of which Mr..
Evans is president, to put the machine
on the market and an attempt was
made to have the machines built here.
The machines that are being built at
Abel are said to be first class and are
giving excellent satisfaction. They
are being put on the market in Iowa,
near the point Of manufacture, and
as soon as those orders can be filled
few of them will be brought to Nor.
folk for distribution around this part
Of the country. The machine is said
to be of the simplest construction pos.
Sible and just the thing for country
offices where professional pressmen
can not be employed. Mr.. Evans says
he regrets that it was impossible to
plant in Norfolk to build
the machines, as it is, he says, bound
to grow into a good sized and sub
stantial industry.
j, H. Van Wagenen of Pierce, coun-
ty attorney of Pierce county, has sue