The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-12-18


Baker, former resident of Fremont
was wound about wheel under the
betting, receiving a terrible crushing
The mans clothing caught in one OF
the shaft wheels.
Ellen Alderman, who with her faith
er, James Alderman, a prominent far
mer near Elgin, was seriously burned
in the explosion of carbide lighting
plant in the basement will recover
Alderman himself was not so badly
burned being in the very center of
the flames. The force of the explosion
knocked him down.
1t will be day or two more be-
fore the physicians can tell just how
seriously Il. n. Vail of this city was
| injured when he fell from chair.
Mr.. Vail was taking some can goods
from a high shelf in his restaurant
and had mounted a chair He slipped
and fell, striking a second chair. In
ternal injuries are still feared.
Ben Bechtel, who was recently ope-
rated on for appendicitis in Lincoln
has been able to return to his work
in drug store at Bennett. He has
not, however, entirely regained his
strength
Rev. J. c. S. Wells has been quite
sick.
ID. b. Reed has sold his restaurant
at Plainview and moved to this city,
renting a house on Madison avenue.
A special meeting of Mosaic lodge
No. 80, A. f. and A. NJ, has been called
for Friday evening for work in the
entered apprentice degree.
The report of the special fire com
mittee to inspect buildings in the fire
district was not ready to be presented
to the council at its last meeting.
Norfolk drinkers, who are consider
ed "habituals" by their families or
friends, are no longer posted" in Nor
folk drug stores since the latter are
no longer supposed to sell any liquor
except on prescription.
Debating will form an interesting
feature of the Junior class program at
the high school tonight The time of
each speaker has been limited to five
minutes. so that the debate will be
snappy and short. The "humana-
phone" is another feature of the pro-
gram about which some mystery has
been maintained.
No new developments have appear
ed in connection with the Office Of
county superintendent, which F. S.
Perdue is expected to resign soon IN
order to accept the deputyship under
the new .superintendent-elec The
county commissioners met at Madison
this week but Mr.. Perdue's resigna
tion was not presented. An effort is
being made to divorce politics from
the appointment when the time comes
for the commissioners to act, which
will probably be January s. 1909.
Madison Post: 7. j. Hunt and wife
came down from Pine Ridge Indian
agency in South Dakota the latter
part of last week and are now guests
of Mrs. Hunts sister, Mrs. George
Richardson. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt are
III the government service, being en-
ployed as teachers to the Indians.
L
Pine Ridge agency to the Apache
agency in Arizona and stopped off
here on their way through. Mr.. Hunt
was at one time superintendent of
Madison county
Madison Chronicles c. S. Smith
with three carloads of thoroughbred
Aberdeen Angus cattle which he ac-
qured in a real estate deal. One car
of forty-siX head of calves was shipped
to Norfolk where Mr.. Smith has made
arrangements to get them wintered.
The rest of them are now Quartered
at the Star livery barn but will be
taken out in the country soon for win
ter. This is an exceptionally fine
bunch of cattle and when placed on
the market will no doubt bring fancy
prices.
The Wichita, Kan, Beacon, in its
issue of last Thursday says, relative
to the Yankton Southern: The state
ment printed in Wednesdays Beacon
that Senator Stewart of Wichita has
gone to London from New York is big
news. When Fremont Hill and Sen
ator Stewart left last week for New
York it was with the understanding
that if the YanktOn and Gulf railroad
proposition was accepted to the Lon
don capitalists New York representa-
tiOn the senator and Mr.. Hill would
have to go on to London to sign the
contract. The information that they
have gone on to London undoubtedly
means that the London capitalists have
signed their final intention to buy the
bonds of the new railroad. Fremont
Hill said to his Wichita friends when
he left last week that he fully be.
lieved that the trip would result in the
financing of the road, and that work
would start in the spring. 1t looks as
though his expectation is being real