The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-01-31
WEDNESDAY WRINKLES.

r. b. Hall and Will Hall went to
David City on business.
Mrs. Tate Willie was called to Co.
lumbus by the illness of relatives.
Frank Simon of Mapletown, Mimi
was a guest at the Schwartz home
j. T. Wolfkiel is confined to his
bed with severe attack of tonsilitis
Miss Elizabeth Sharpless Of Fergus
Falls, Mimi. is visiting her sister
Mrs. Jack Koenigstein.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. c. N Jacobson
ron.
Halbert Johnson has a position with
10. A. Bullock.
Mrs. l.. e. Trumm has been very
sick with the grip.
The chess club met with Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Degner Tuesday evening.
The West Side Whist club will meet
Thursday evening with DR.. and Mrs.
A. Bear
A number of Norfolk people were In.
vited to a dance at the Norfolk hos
pital Tuesday evening.
The b. Y. p. U. of the Baptist church
is planning a basket social to be Civ
en- Thursday evening at the G. A. X.
hall.
J. +. Dunhager, who travels for
hide house, has moved to Norfolk from
Randolph, renting a house on North
Ninth street.
Trinity social guild will meet with
Miss Clara Rudat on Thursday even
ing. 1t is announced that all members
should be present.
The firemens convention which
comes to Norfolk next winter will
convene in this city on the third
Tuesday in January, 1909.
A new card club was launched at
the Junction Tuesday evening. The
first meeting was held during the
evening at the railroad hall.
Miss Lulu Mather is in Norfolk to
escape the smallpox scare at Omaha.
She states that there are 500 cases in
Omaha at the present time.
George Stalcop has received an or.
der from the Union Pacific for 500
carloads of ice, but is unable TO furnish
il on account of the lack of supply
near Norfolk.
F. Flick, Northwestern agent at
Humphrey, had his first finger on his
left hand amputated by DR.. Salter in
Norfolk Tuesday. The finger had
been crushed.
A. Virgins, cashier of the Ameri-
can express company in Norfolk, has
rented a house on West Madison av-
enue. Mr.. Virgins was transferred to
frnp, Grand PaniIC
Mich. His wife accompanied him to
Norfolk.
"A Forwad Step in the Treatment
of the insane" was the title of pap
err read by DR.. G. A. Young, superin-
tendent of the Norfolk hospital, at the
Tuesday morning special session OF
the Nebraska conference of charities
and corrections held at the Rome
hotel in Omaha.
do bears have tails?" This was
one of the questions created in Nor
folk by the presence in town yester-
day of real live bear with "The
Moonshiner's Daughter" show com,
pany All bears have tails, but the tall
of the bear is so short that in some
species the animals appear almost
tailless.
On next Saturday representative
of the North Nebraska Live Stock Pro-
tective association will be in Pierce to
help organize an anti-horse thief club
there. Another representative of the
north Nebraska horse thief fighters
will be at Clearwater Saturday to as
sst in the formal. N of a local asso-
citation there.
The government is sending out cir
culars asking patrons on rural routes
not to put loose coin in rural boxes
in place of stamps. If there are no
stamps on hand the government asks
that the coin be placed in a small box
for the convenience of the carrier.
Coins are hard to pick up in the bot
toms of boxes and necessitate the car
riers taking off their mittens and los
ing time. This is a good suggestion.
IEnumerators for the new city direc-
bry which is to be issued, have just
completed their first round of the city
and will now start on a second round.
In one addition outside the enumer-
ator met with an obstacle. "We're
4 not in the city limits" the housewife
objected. But you will be some
day" said the enumerator. well,
Wen show you whether we will be or
not" said the housewife, slamming the
door.
Mark L. Felber, several years ago
connected with the Pierce Leader and