The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-09-13

Vahlknmp, Wayne; August Bruno
Wayne; William Nicholson, Sante; II
and H. Frederick, Pierce; Il, j, How
der. Creighton; H. Snmnclsou. Wayne;
A, j. Bccbc aud family Butte; G. w
Bell, BrlstOw; l.. Walla, Primrose
Mrs G. Schulthcis and Miss Schulthcis
Wayne; II. s. Russell, saltwater; Su.
pcrlntcndent j. A. Doromus, Madison f;
II, Grinth, Elgin.
County Attorney Jack KocnIgstcln
was in Madison Friday afternoon at
tending the meeting of the county
commissioners The commissioners
met among other things for the pur.
pose of CanvassinE the election re-
turns and the county attorneys pres.
ence was desired to clear up dark
places in the law If they should run
up against any of the various blotchos
on the primary law.
| A little son arrived yesterday at the
home OF Dispatcher =. II. Donisthorpe.
Fritz Frohloff is on vacation from
A. Degner's store and Ia visiting near
Hadar.
| Norris j. Chamberlain has been APP
pointed postmaster at Venus in Knox
county since A. George resigned.
Supreme Judge ]. u. Barnes will
give his decision in the Boche bail mat
ter at the Madison court house Satur.
day afternoon.
| New vault fixtures OF steel have
been received by the Nebraska Nation.
al bank and will be placed in the new
vault room at once.
| Mr.. and Mrs. e. Jackson, Frank ID.
Jackson, G. b. Jackson, Simon Cassidy,
d. J. Batsner and Carl Pray registered
in Norfolk from Dallas Thursday even
ing.
C. b. Scott, official court reporter OF
the Fifteenth judicial district, passed
through Norfolk Friday morning for
Butte, where special term of court
is being held.
j. f. Dederman has taken his daugh-
ter to Rochester, MINI, for an opera
ton for appendicitis. The Mayo sur
geons will perform the operation.
Charles II. Johnson has just been
offered an advance OF $3.50 on the
residence property that he purchased
in Spokane less than two months ago
The revival services which Evangel-
list II. G. Knowles is holding in the
Christian church will probably con.
tinue throughout the month. Mr..
Knowles speaks this evening on "The
Christian Platform"
At the mission festival which St
Paul Ev. Lutheran church will hold at
Pasewalk's grove Sunday, Rev. Mr..
Redlin of Clatonia will speak in the
morning and Rev. Mr.. Scheips of
Pierce will deliver the sermon of the
afternoon.
Earl Fairbanks Of the Junction, Nor
folks sailor lad, expects to leave the
city Saturday for Boston, where he
will rejoin his ship, the big Illinois.
Fairbanks Is a third class painter on
the Illinois and has been in Norfolk
on a sick leave on account of rheu-
matism.
While Norfolk as a whole has been
gaining rapidly in cement walks in no
part of this city is the form of pro.
perty improvements being carried on
more extensively than in South Nor.
folk. In that section Of the city walks
and crossings are being laid as fast
as cement and sand can be mixed to-
gether.
Stuart Advocate: Mike Hughes of
West Point, and his brotherin-law
Ward Brayton of Stuart, were Atkin-
son visitors Monday, Mr.. Hughes met
with an unfortunate accident several
months ago while getting off a Rock
Island passenger train that nearly cost
him his life and necessitated the am.
putation of his right leg, for which he
has filed a claim of $4,000 damages
against the company.
The following resolution was adopt.
ed at recent meeting Of the Woman S
club of Norfolk: THE library com
mittee of the Woman's club, by a vote
at their first meeting since the pas
sage Of the library ordinance, desire
to express their appreciation of the
interest the mayor and council have
taken in the public library and to
thank the council for their unanimous
vote to levy the tax and make public
library possible in our CITY,"
A meeting of Norfolk clerks for or
ganization purposes last evening went
over to next Thursday. A consider
able number of Norfolk clerks met in
the city hall but no definite action was
taken pending other attempts to get
certain merchants to join the early
closing movement. The object Of the
clerks in planning an organization is
to continue the $3.50 closing agree
ment and to render it more general
among Norfolk avenue merchants than
at present.
Two driving horses and a colt break
ing out of George Benedict's barn yes
terday resulted in an alarm being sent
in to the anti-horsethief association.
| A hOrsethief was thought TO furnish