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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20

by way of Cape Horn to join the gold
seekers of California. He attained
moderate success in his mining ven.
ture.
Samuel Warren Hayes was born
September 26, 1920. His father was
John Hayes, farmer of moderate
means whose ancestors came from
Scotland. Young Hayes was given a
good education in the public schools
and academies of Berwick and Ken.
nebunk, Me. He earned his first dollar
as farmer boy selling potatoes and
popcorn. After he reached young
manhood he taught school for several
winters, working in shops and stores
during the summers. In 1871 he was
married to Miss Sarah p. Seavy at
Portsmouth and in 1891 they celebrat-
ed their golden wedding in Norfolk.
There are two children, Aletha Caro-
line McClary of Norfolk and Warren
Etheredge Hayes
Soon after his marriage, Mr.. HAYES
moved to Boston, where he worked
for few years, then to New Bedford.
Mass. In 1S49 he joined the California
gold rush, by way of Cape Horn. There
he spent two years, returning to New
Bedford and later moving to Iowa,
where he secured employment on the
Burlington railroad, settling finally at
Ottumwa.
At the beginning of the civil war
he went south with the Thirty-sixth
Iowa infantry as clerk in the suffers
shop. Afterward he became civilian
clerk in the post quartermaster's Of
flee of the commissary department.
Though not a soldier by enlistment. he
was on the firing line at the battle of
Helena, Ark, July 4, 1868, and again
at the engagement known as the bat
tie of Saline river or the battle of
Marks mill.
After the war Mr.. Hayes settled at
, Fremont, Neb., with his son-in-law, ].
/ w. McClary of this city. They engaged
in the mercantile business at that
place. 1t was in April 1866, that he
moved to Fremont.
| Nebraska was in those days a ter
ritory. At Fremont there was one other
store than the one launched by Hayes
! & McClary. There were $50 people in
town and most of them were engaged
/ in freighting merchandise across the
prairies. In 1872 Col. Hayes went to
the state senate from Dodge county
and again from Norfolk in 1877. Dur
ing his first term, there were fifteen
in the senate. His first. sale at FIRE.
mont was twohoop water pail for
/ fifty cents. Salt was Sc per barrel.
In Fremont Col. Hayes organized
the first lodge of Masons in 1867 and
was first high priest of the chapter for
some years. He had become a Mason
at New Bedford, Mass, Feb. Is, 1S47.
and was elected master of that lodge
in 1S4S. He organized the lodge in
Norfolk In 1875 and was it's first mas
ter. That Office he held five years and
constantly until 1905 he held some Of
flee in the lodge. He organized Damas-
Gus chapter in 1885 and was first high
priest. In 1889 he organized the COM
mandery. From June, 1888, till June,
1884, he was grand master in the
state of Nebraska.
Col. Hayes is Of optomistic tempera-
ment and his efforts towards Norfolk's
upbuilding have always been construc-
tive.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
Storm at Neliuh,

Neigh, Neb., Sept. 1E-Special to
The News: After an unusually 'sultry
afternoon for September this vicinity
was visited last evening by welcome
rain. A large amount of electricity
was noticed before and after the rain.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
LIGHTNING PLAYS TAG
PICTURESQUE PYRoTEcHNIc DIS
PLAY IN SKIES.
HORSE KILLED AT CREIGHTON
Electrical Skyrockets Sizzled and
Tipped Through the Air for an Hour.
Rainfall Amounted to a Half Inch
Here-HaiI at Creighton.

A severe electrical storm gave a
picturesque pyhotechnic display in
Norfolk for an hour last night and the
lightning siz2led and ripped through
the air like giant rapid fire cannon.
The same storm extended over other
portions of northern Nebraska, strilk-
ing buildings in spots. The rainfall in
Norfolk amounted to just half inch
and one-hundredth over.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
$4,000 FARM MORTGAGE
BIGGEST OF ITS CLASS YET IN
ANTELOPE COUNTY.
is ON TWO SECTIONS OF LAND
Emil Belharz and Wife of Antelope
County Give the Biggest Mortgage
Of Its Class That Has Yet Been Re-
Corded In ANTELOPE county.

Corded In Antelope County.
Neigh, Neb., Sept. 17.-Special to
The News: The largest farm mortgage
of its class ever recorded in Antelope
county. has just been placed on record
in the county clerks Office. 1t was
for the sum of $4,000 and was given
by Emil Belharz and wife of Audubon,
Iowa, to life insurance company. The
land is situated in Grant township
and is included in what is known as
the old Converse ranch, amounting to
two sections of very choice improved
land.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20

Advertised goods are the best-that
is why substitutes are offered in place
of them. Insist on having the best and
YOU will get IL
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
KNOX COUNTY FAIR.
Fast Horses and Good Ball Games viii
Be Features,

Word from Creighton Is that the
Knox county fair, which will be pulled
off there this week, will be the best
ever Fast horses and good ball games
will be features.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
BROWN COUNTY PLANS.
Fair Begins Wednesday and viii Be
the Biggest Ever.

Ainsworth, Neb., Sept. l6-Special
to The News The Brown county fair
begins Wednesday with good pros
poets of being the best in the history
of the county.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
THREE BIG COUNTY FAIRS
AT eoNEsTEEL, CREIGHTON AND
AINSWoRTH.
ALL ARE BOOKED FOR THIS WEEK
Knox and Brown Counties In North
Nebraska, and Gregory County In
Southern South Dakota, viii This
Week Hold Big Annual Events.

Three big county fairs will hold the
attention of the new northwest this
week At Boncstcel Gregory county
people will hold their county fair ut
Creighton the Knox county fair Will
be held and at Ainsworth will be pull
ed on the Brown county fair. The
weather is ideal for the three big
events and there is every prospect of
success for them all. Each has big
exhibits of farm products and races
and other amusements will feature on
the programs.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
Drives Into River.

Yankton, S, D., Sept. 17.-While go
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-20
NebraSka'S Oldest Mason
Pioneer of Norfolk

***
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-28
Defeated Candidate for Demo.
cratic Nomination Wins Place
on Republican Ticket
MUST WITHDRAW HIS NAME
City Clerk is Directed by the Attorney
General to Place Names of Men
Written in on the Legal
ballot for Election

There is some balm in store for
John ]. Langan, the defeated candi-
date for the Democratic nomination
for the Office of assessor, as the can
vass of the votes cast at the primary,
which was completed this afternoon,
shows that Langan will be the Re
publican candidate for the Office if he
desires to accept this honor. The
canvass of the vote showed that there
had been twelve votes cast for Mr..
Langan as the Republican candidate
for assessor, and an equal number
were cast for Matthias K1eist. The
mem bers of the Board decided that
the only way to decide on a candidate
by law was to draw lots and coin
was dipped. Langan was more lucky
in the chance game than he was in
the primary election, for heads came
up on the coin and Langan was de-
clared the nominee Of the Repub-
lican party for the Office. 1t is not
thought that Langan will be willing
to make the run for the Office on this
ticket, as he is one of the old line
Democrats. He could not be found
this morning after the result of the
canvass had been announced.
If Langan does not desire that his
name shall go on the ballot as the Re-
publican candidate for the Office he
will be forced to file with the city
clerk a written notice that he does not
desire to act as the candidate of the
Republican party. Until such doc
ument is filed he will be the Republi-
can candidate. Clerk Harrington,
just before the primary election, ask
ed the Acknowledgement at Madison
for an opinion on just such cases and
letter has been received notifying
the clerk that the names of candidates
written IN must be placed on the Off
cial ballot. This decision will make
some difference in the Kenosha ticket
and many of the vacancies will be
filled as a result. Not a single
vote was cast for any Republican
for Alderman or County Supervisor in
the First ward where the ticket had
been left blank at the primary, but
in the Second ward DR.. J L. Cleary
received the votes of the Democrats
for the nomination for school commits
sioner and his name will go Oh the
ticket. In this ward the Democats
nominated Jerry McCarron for county
supervisor and while he filed no petit
tons before the primary he has been
declared the candidate of the party
for the Office. Arthur Linstrom has
been placed on the city ticket as the
Social Democratic candidate for
supervisor in the Second ward.
In the Seventh ward Herman Brock
haus received both the Republican
and Democratic nominations and it
will be necessary for him to decide on
which ticket he will make the run.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-28
Science Or It's Stills.

With the great Columbia university
establishing a well equipped school Of
domestic science it looks as though
science had at last concluded that
something besides bugs, atoms and
theories of the universe may be worth
while. That aWfully commonplace and
simple thing called housekeeping is of
enough Importance for science to turn
the microscope upon. The boomers Of
domestic science say that it fills a
twentieth century want. The profess
or who would dare to say that it meets
long felt want would surely run
against trouble Our mothers looked
after that branch of education In the
years and centuries past
Of course there is room for improve
ment in most things, but when it
comes to turning the long established
arts Of making bread and making beds
and banishing dust and keeping the
carpets from fading or wearing out
upside down the reformer will have to
show more than credentials Knowing
something new isn't proof Of knowing
something better. Trifing shortcom
ings have long been known, but socie-
ty has gone on, getting up in the world
in spite Of them. Many a man has
said, MY wife is a good cook, but
and let the rest Of it be taken for
granted. Sometimes it is, MY better
half is a tidy housekeeper, but '-and
the mystery is deeper than in the case
Of the good cook" If the professors
Of domestic science will confne their
cadicalism to the making of all round
housekeepers, the new education can
be talked about at every Preside with
out precipitating domestic war Most
wives own up that there are some
things they cannot do as well as some
one they know. Here, If anywhere, is
the want to be filed by schools Of do
nestle science broader training, with
the elimination Of specialists, so that
the "good COOK and the ''tidy house
keeper" will show up well in all de-
partments.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-28

EVERY citizen who has any regard
for the future of Kenosha will help
along the movement started by the
Civic Federation to secure another
park for the city in every way posi-
BILE. The tract of land which the
Federation proposes to secure is
beautifully situated for park pur-
poses and now is the time to get it
when it can be bought at a reason
able figure, but few people seem to
realize how fast the city is growing
and how soon more parks will be
needed. If through any lack of in
terest this project of the Federation
is allowed TO fall through it will not
be many years before we will have to
pay more money for an inferior site.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-28
STEVENS WAS THIRD
Allen Brown West, of Milton College.
Gets Rhodes Scholarship

The final decision in regard to the
award of the Rhodes scholarship for
Wisconsin students was made at
Madison on Thursday and Harry
Stevens, the Kenosha boy who sue
cessfully passed the examination,
was placed in third place by the col
1ege presidents Of the state who made
the selection. Allen Brown West, of
Milton College, was named as first in
the contest and Philip A. Knowlton,
of Madison, a graduate of the Uni
versity of Chicago, was second. The
only chance that Mr.. Stevens will
have to go to Oxford under the schol-
arship will be for the two other men
to decline to accept the scholarship.
There is little chance that either of
them will take this action. Notwith-
standing the fact that Mr.. Stevens
was not awarded the scholarship his
standing IN the examination is high
tribute to him as a student.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-28
HENRY JENSEN DEAD
Employe of Balm Wagon Shops for Years
Died at His Home Wednesday


Henry Jensen, one of the best
known residents of the North side and
an employee of the Balm Wagon Com
pany for more than quarter Of a
century, died at his home on Broad
street at eleven O'Clock Wednesday
evening. Death resulted from COM
plication of diseases. Mr.. Jensen had
been ailing for more than two years
and for the past week he had been
confined to his room.
The deceased was son of the late
Henry Jensen, one of the pioneer
residents of the city, and he was born
in Kenosha March 10, 1857. He1earn-
ed the trade of machinist when a
young man and went to work at the
Balm factory. He was retained in the
employ of the company until two
years ago when bad health forced
him to retire from active labor. The
widow is the sole surviving member
of the family. A brother Fred Jensen
of Chicago and sister, Mrs. Peter
Metty, also of Chicago, also survive.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-28
PIONEER RESIDENT DEAD
Mrs. Sarah A. Bailey Died at Hinsdale,
Ill. Wednesday

Mrs. Sarah A. Bailey Died at Hinsda1e,
ILL.,, Wednesday
Mrs. Sarah A. Bailey, aged IS years,
widow of the late William Bailey, and
one of the earliest of the pioneer
women Of Kenosha, died at her home
in Hinsdale, ILL.,, Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Bailey had been Ill but short
time and the natural break down due
to advanced age hurried her death.
The deceased was born in Ireland
March 1st, 1928. She came to Keno
sha in 1912 and had resided in this
city until 1885, when she went to Kan
sas City. Later she came to Hins-
dale, where she made her home up to
the time of her death.
Mrs. Bailey was well known TO the
older residents of the city and her
death will scanse sorrow in many
homes in Lthe city. She is survived
by five children as follows: Norva1
d. Bailey, of Kewaunee, Ill, Fred w.
Bailey, Of Chicago, James G. Bailey,
Of Fl. Atkinson, Edward H. Bailey,
Of Hinsdale, Ill, and William d.
Bailey, of Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-28

MAYOR GoRMAN can assist the street
commissioners in carrying out his or
ders to keep the paved streets clean
by issuing another order to the police
to enforce the city ordinance against
loaded wagons dribbling dirt and re-
fuse on the streets. The ordinance
has been dead letter so long that no
one thinks it necessary to pay any
attention to it and you can trace the
course of the wagons working on
almost any job by the trail of dirt
they leave along the streets.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-28
MAY BE GILLETT
Body of Unknown Man Found Floating
in Lake Near White Fish Bay

DOOy OI OuhuOWu N1&n - OuHu
in Lake Near White Fish Bay
The search for the body of John
Gi1lett was given new impetus this
morning when the police were noti-
fed that the body of an unknown man
had been found floating in the lake
off Whitefsh Bay just north of Mil
yankee Wednesday afternoon. The
coroner of Milwaukee county stated
this morning that the body had been
in the lake about seven or eight
weeks. It was the body of : man
about fifty years of age and the cloth
ing was that of a workman. lie
police at once communicated with
Milwaukee believing that it was pos
sib1y the body of one of the men miss
ing from Kenosha but the description
seems to indicate that it could not
have been the body of either John
Gillett or George Fay. The case,
however, will be investigated further
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-28
WILL SAVE CATTLE
State Legislature to Pass New
Laws to Stamp Out Tuber-
cuIosis Among Cattle
LOCAL FARMERS INTERESTED

Ia order to protect the 1000 dairy
herds Of Wisconsin against further
ravages of tuberculosis, a bill has
just been introduced into the legis-
lature providing for the testing of all
cattle before they are sold. The
existing laws, which make necessary
the inspection Of cattle before they
are brought into the state, protect
dairymen and breeders against infect
ion from outside the state. The pro-
posed law is designed to afford similar
protection by preventing the spread
of the disease from one herd to anoth.
er within the state through the buy
ing and selling of tubercular cattle.
The provision of the law on this point
is as follows: mo cattle shall be sold
within this state which have not been
tested for tuberculosis within one
year previous to the SALE
Certified copies of the results of the
test, which must be made by disinter-
ested persons, are to be filed with the
Sanitary Live Stock Board, and no
transfer is to be regarded as legal
until the certificate has been approved
by the board and returned to the
seller. The person who sells cattle,
the law further provides, shall deliver
to the purchaser an affidavit stating
whether tuberculosis has been found
to exist in his herd within twelve
months prior to the sale; and if so,
how many cattle we're affected, and
whether any of the cattle sold have
been exposed to the tubercular an
imals or infected stables within three
months of the time when the cattle
to be sold have been tested for tuber.
cu1osis.
The bill is pare Of a vigorous cam
paign which has been started against
bovine tuberculosis during the past
two years BIZ the University of Wis
consin Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton in cooperation with the Wiscon-
sin Live Stock Sanitary Board. By
means of demonstrations to hundreds
of farmers at the ten days farmers
course, and by full explanations of
the tuberculin test given to all the
students of the college of agriculture,
DIR. H. L. Russell of the department
Of 5acteriology of the university, who
is also a member of the Live Stock
Sanitary Board, has explained the
dangers of permitting valuable dairy
herds to go INFESTED.
Bulletins have been issued from
time to time by the University Agri-
cultural Experiment Station explain
ing the methods of testing, and show
ing the disastrous results Of permit
ting the dread disease to get a hold on
valuable live stock The University
of Wisconsin Agricultural Expert
ment Association, consisting of 1900
young farmers all over the state who
have attended the college of agricu1-
ture, have also taken up the work
this year, and over half of them have
already tested their own herds, and
are now doing similar service for
their neighbors. Thus the campaign
of education is being pushed all over
the state with view to protecting the
thousands of valuable dairy herds for
which Wisconsin is famous.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-28
Two Gents a, Mile.

Not less important to the mass of
Americans than square deal in rail-
road freight rates is the question Of
passenger rates. Thousands and tens
Of thousands Of people seek to reduce
the cost on their purchs ses by going to
favorable markets to buy. They may
carry their goods home on their ticket
privilege and escape the freight tariff
or get the freight deducted in the dicker
If the purchases are shipped to their
destination. Sometimes the buyer saves
both fare and freight by close bargain
ing in a market where there is competi-
ton.
A vast army Of men travel to work
on railways. Low fares are boon to
them, and in the crowded centers Of
population the fares to regular COM
muters are often below cents a mile.
The passenger who takes a trip for
pleasure will choose the cheapest route,
other things being equal But protests
from this class alone would not be
likely to make legislators listen and
urge this new demand for rate reduc-
ton. Already fifteen states of the
Union have taken action to bring the
rate down to 2 cents a mile. Half
cent or cent more seems much or
little according to the use made of
the ticket. Sometimes the fare Is a
mere bagatelle, and but for the cases
where 1t Is a vital question bearing
upon the daily cost Of living probably
there would be no agitation for cheap
fares. The railroads meet this agita-
ton by various warnings. 1t is said
thar two cent fares on long rides will
compel the roads to exact 2 cents from
commuters In all cases, and that freight
rates will have to be increased In or
der to keep the earnings normal and
that II transportation rates decrease
even III fraction all along the line div
blends will be wiped out on the strong
est roads, causing halt in railroad de-
velopment and that many minor lines
now competing with the stronger roads
and keeping rates down will be forced
into bankruptcy. Both sides appear to
nave case, and In the end the prin-
ciple Of flair and reasonable will
doubtless 10 applied to passenger rates
that Is, fair and reasonable under
particular circumstances,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-28
NEW LAW ON MARRIAGE
Wisconsin May Demand Certificate of
Health Before License Is Issued

Wisconsin May Demand Certificate of
Health Before License Is Issued
A bill requiring medical examina-
ton as a requisite to marriage was
introduced in the Assembly at Madi-
son Thursday by the Assembly COM
mittee on public health. The bill re-
quires an examination only with
reference to nervous disorders, and
not physical examination as did the
drastic bill introduced and killed two
years ago.
The measure presented provides
that marriage licenses, INSTEAD of be-
ing issued by the county clerk, shall
be issued by the judge ofthe. county in
which the woman resides, and if she
is not resident of the state by the
judge of the county where the mar
rage is to take place. Persons, to Sc
cure such licenses, must be of legal
age and neither of sthem insane,
idiotic, feeble minded, or. epi1eptic, or
have other legal impediments to mar
rage. A certificate to that effect
must be presented to the Judge by
some reputable physician or physi-
clans and the judge may, in. his dis
erection, require additional evidence.
The licenses must besstaken out FIVE
days before marriage and shall re-
main in force no longersthan.a month.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-28
MINISTERS NOT PAID
Presiding Elder Lean Says They Aver
age $3.50 Day

Presiding Elder Lean Says They Aver
age $2.55 Day
Presiding Elder Lean, of the Mil
waukee district, takes exception to
current mag azine article in which
minister of the Wisconsin conference,
points out that salaries of clergymen
look srns II in comparison with wages
of working men, and maintains that,
although the increase in salaries of
ministers has not kept pace with the
rise in the living expenses, he does
not consider clergymen in impover
ished circumstances by any means.
In the table OF statistics of the
Wisconsin conference salaries fur
nished by the clergymen, it is claimed
that the highest. salary paid in the
conference is 81, 300, most of the pas
tors being given the use of parson-
age amounting to about 500 in addi-
ton. He says, further. that the aver
age daily wage of the loo ministers in
the conference is $2.55 for 300 work.
ing days, which is less than the wages
of many laborers In Wisconsin.