The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-07
THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEwsJoRURNAL FRIDAY JUNE 2 1907

Humphrey of Stanton, and as nigh
be expected they danced, music beinl
furnished by graphophone and vic
IN. The evenings pleasure endet
with generous lunch.
The Norfolk high school Is going L
do its share towards filling up tn,
ranks of Nebraska school teachers de
pleted annually by the inroads of GU
pid. OF the twenty young ladies who
graduated last week from the higl
school at least fifteen have signifiet
their Willingness to instruct the dis
trict school youth. Nine of the class
will attend normal schools during the
summer. The district schools over
the county are beginning to elect
teachers for the coming year.
A Norfolk drayman was fined 81
and costs-the total sum amounting
to over Shy Police Judge Eiseley
in police court yesterday, the dray.
man having failed to display his city
license number on his dray. A city
ordinance requires that all drays,
hacks and like vehicles pay a license
fee and that the number of the Ii.
cense shall be prominently displayed,
One Norfolk dray owner did not heed
Chief of Police Flynn's published no
tice to display license numbers and
prosecution followed. A number of
other city ordinances have been res.
directed for enforcement.
The contract for the construction of
the new church home for st. Paul Ev
Lutheran congregation has been signed
and work on the new church will start
with the arrival of material in the
city, probably within the next week.
The contract was let to Kellner &
Woerth, the Scribner firm who built
the west wing of the Norfolk hospital,
and provides that the building be com
pleted by December /. The new
church will be of Coffeeville pressed
brick of a cholocate brown color. 1t
will be built near th3 present site of
the old church north of the city, the
present structure being moved to one
side. The contract price for the new
church is $16,370. Complete it will
probably cost the congregation about
$4,000.
William Bluecher, jr., young man
of sixteen years, died at O'Clock this
morning at the home of his father
William Bluecher, on South Fifth
street. Death resulted from consump-
ton. VIII Bluecher had been stu
dent at the Norfolk business college,
where he gained a reputation as a
bright and Industrious student. Att
the time illness compelled him to give
up his work some two months ago. he
was assisting in the instruction of
bookkeeping and other work at the |
college. The young man would have
been seventeen on November %, was
BORN in Norfolk and was a member |
Of Christ Lutheran church. The fu-
neral arrangements will be announced.
nterment will take place in the GEM
etery east of the city where his moth
ar is buried
The dandelion has won the first |
'kirmish at Prospect Hill cemetery
md while Tuesdays sun set upon
many deceased dandelions thousands
If the little yellow heads still poked
lbove the earth at the cemetery to
he north of town. The same rain
hat brought the yellow flowers forth
With renewed vigor Tuesday morning
nut damper on the spirit of the hui
nan army of invaders that it had
zen planned to send against the
Prospect Hill cemetery dandelions
tuesday,. Believing that all citizens
hould unite in the determination of
he common pest, the cemetery COM
littee on grounds had issued a dec ,
,ration of war against the dandelions I
nd call for general "dandelion &
ee" at the cemetery grounds. 1t had :
cen planned to have a basket picnic !
the cemetery Tuesday and a days
arfare against the yellow pest that q
arS the cemetery Plans for the :
Oliday battle against the dandelon o
ere brought to nought by the rain
lat drenched the cemetery grounds.
man and boy represented the anti
indelion army during the early part I
Tuesday morning and while re-en- d
rcements came during the day the s
rec was never large enough to Sc d
ously threaten the position of the W
'ndelions or occasion much alarm in s.
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