The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-12-06


is very ill.,
Charlie Rouse returned home from
Wisner where he had been to attend
Thanksgiving bail.
William Schwirtzfcgcr is ON tn,
sick list.
Mrs Wierd returned homo from
/ Wisner last evening where she haC
been visiting.
Miss Eunice Gallope is quite sick.
Fred Koerber and family returned
| home from a visit in the east las
evening.
| l. W. Wilson is on the sick list.
Harry Clossen of Inman was in the
/ Junction yesterday on business.
Mrs. Muiiley of Bonesteel visited old
Norfolk friends.
Dut Hgginbotham went to Pierce
yesterday on business.
Claude Clark, who Is husking corn
near Stanton, returned to that place
Monday morning after spending Sun.
day with his parents.
Lee Hershiser is now working In
the Owl restaurant.
Mrs Joseph Schwartz has recovered
from a weeks illness.
The city council will hold its first
December meeting Thursday evening.
The Wednesday club will meet to-
morrow with Mrs. N. A. Rainbolt at
2:30 o'clock
December Is is the day picked by
the Norfolk ffremen for their minstrel
show at the Auditorium. Rehearsals
have started
Oswald Reiche, who left Norfolk re.
Gently to take up a homestead near
Hayes, S. d., has erected house on
the claim and Is preparing for the
winter. He writes that he is pleased
with the prospects.
Superintendent e. ]. Bodwell has
been notified by the state superinten.
dent that the Norfolk high school has
been recognized as one of the schools
which can profit by the new free high
school attendance law.
e. II. Kuhleman, who has been trav.
cling out of Norfolk, has given I'D his
position on the road and will engage
in the hotel business at Shoals, Neb.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kuhleman and Miss
Anna Fair will go to Shoals this week.
The marriage of Mr.. William Fl,
Bockelmann of Pierce county and Miss
Helene Boche of near Norfolk will take
place Wednesday. Miss Boche is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William Bo-
che, Rev. j. p. Mueller of Christ
Lutheran church will officiate.
Mrs. S. F. Erskine gave an informal
party Saturday evening, entertaining
eight young people complimentary to
her son, Sam Erskine, who was home
from the state university for the holt
days. The evening was spent at cards.
That the Norfolk schools furnish
their pupils with thorough prepare
ton was indicated this year when
senior in the Norfolk high school was
admitted into the Sioux City high
school with the same grades, her work
In Sioux City since the first of the
year also placing her virtually at the
head of her class in scholarship.
The land of the Sugar City Cereal
mills is being protected from the en-
croachment of the Northfork by $50
feet of woven wire rip-rapping which
Inc mill company is having placed at
the bend in the river. The use of
woven wire for rip-rapping is an innt- |
Vatlon that has been found successful
by the county commissioners and was |
recommended to the mill company by
Commissioner Burr Taft. The mill |
and has tended to hold its own since
he willows were planted at a place
where the greatest washing was taking
place. The new wire work will give
urther protection.
Statistics of the Norfolk library
lave been forwarded to Andrew Car
legie by the library board in response
o a letter from the steel king asking
or information touching the Norfolk
library for which he had been asked
o furnish a home. The present IL
'rary, started and managed under the
auspices of the Womans club of Nor
ok, has been handled so successfully
hat the showing it makes when re-
iewed in a report is quite compliment
airy to the library committee. Def
mite word from Carnegie setting forth
library proposition is expected by
nembers of the library board.
Lamro Is. d. Index: Everything
oints to the early extension of the
abroad on from Dallas in the near
Iture. Late in summer Railroad Con-
ractor Treadway and a railroad man
'ere out looking over this section of
he county and now as winter sets in
IT. Treadway has gone into winter
uarters in Gregory county, having
lied up his machinery just west of {
'allas and taken his horses down by {
urke to winter, taking everything. |
looks like they are very anxious to /
lake the extension this coming sea- a
on. When this extension is made it
ill be the main line to the Black U
ILLS, as it is many miles nearer than \
y the south route and traverses a r