The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-09-27

The marriage of Or. Hewitt Allen
Waggencr and Miss Ethel Miller takes
place today at the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Rome Miller, on
Florence boulevard i'm Omaha.
1t is probable that one Of the mem
bers of the Smith Bros. firm will move
from Newport to Norfolk. They have
real estate business at Newport in
connection with their rangeh orso sale
business.
The Nebraska Telephone company
still has an expert cable man in Nor.
folk repairing the damage done to To-
cal cable lines by the severe electrical
storm that preceded the recent tor
nado by a few days.
The county commissioners have
made change in the road that runs
along the Northwestern tracks just
west of Kent's siding, BY throwing
the roadway south of the tracks the
commissioners have eliminated two
railroad crossings and rendered the
road that much safer for travel. The
Nebraska Telephone company has a
force of men changing their telephone
line to conform with the new road.
Miss Glendoria Snider of Tilden, who
was the guest of her cousin, Mrs. w.
w. Weaver, sang at last evenings SER
vices in the Christian church. Three
additions to the church last evening
brought the number of new members
added to the Park Avenue Christian
church by the series of special meet
ings up to thirty-one. This is the last
week of the meetings. Tonights sub
ject is bible Study" Special music
| Is announced for this evening.
Richard o. Whyman, second son of
II. o. Whyman, formerly of Norfolk
but later of Aurora, H., arrived in the
| city yesterday from Amorilla, Tex,
where he is engaged in real estate
business. His father and mother are
now in Texas, where Mrs. Whyman
has been very i'll. His brother, Rob-
ert Whyman, has position in Cleve-
land with a gas company and his sis
ter, Miss Claire Whyman, is teaching
in Chicago. The Whyman family left
Norfolk about ten years ago
o. N. Stukey deputy internal rev.
enue collector, has succeeded in hav-
ing his headquarters transferred from
Columbus to Norfolk, thus keeping one
more family here and bringing to this
city one more factor. Mr.. Stukey was
formerly railway postal clerk out of
Norfolk and few weeks ago was APP
| ;,,}n o1
lector for northern Nebraska. Column
bus has been the headquarters but as
Norfolk was better located for the
work, Mr.. Stukey had no trouble in
persuading the department to make
the change.
A crowd of Norfolk young people
enjoyed a melo-drama portrayed in
real life Tuesday night. The young
folk drove out for hayrack party in
the moonlight. At the farm of Burl
Reed, southwest of the city, the young
men of the party climbed out of the
hayrack and seized bunch of water
melons that lay conveniently close tC
the highway. Of a sudden the Silly
night was interrupted by dozen ex
plosions. A shotgun began splitting
flame and shot out from the cornfield
The crowd showed signs of fear-oI
at least some of the crowd. Some OF
them knew that it was put up job.
John Elsinger, jr., of West Point
the man who was awarded the con
tract for laying the sewer pipe in sew
er district No. I, expects to begin eX
cavating the first of next week. Ell
singer is here with a force of about a
dozen men. Just now the contractor
and his men are engaged in prelim
mary work but tomorrow they expect
to unload brick and thing. AS soon
as the sewer tile is in place men will
be put to work in the trenches. With
twenty men Elsinger says that he car
finish his contract in three months
About 1900 feet of sewer tile is to be
laid, Norfolk's first sewer district in
Guiding the territory along Norfolk
. avenue from Seventh to Thirteenth
streets, running half block south o.
: Norfolk avenue and block and hall
north.
, Yankton Press and Dakotan: Presi
dent Hill, of the Yankton and Southern
| Railroad company, reached the cit!
J Monday evening from Texas, where hi
has been engaged several months pro
: noting his great enterprise. Texas
has the big end of the great continent
= al project to handle and Texas viii
really get vastly more permanent ben
eft from the completed road than thu
intervening states, not excepting Soutl
: Dakota, though it has been estimated
| that the road will increase the annua
: value of the states winter wheat $780,
000 Texas is a strong state already
} but has only entered upon the thresh
/ old of a career that is destined to LAM
:. it in the front rank of our sovereign
states-possibly first in the front rank
: The sentiment among the Texans i
f as favorable to the building of tn,
= Yankton Southern as is the sentimen