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, 1908-01-29

Wyo., Jan. 70, 19OS.
To the Editor of The Republican.
Perhaps the best way l can tell you
of the difficulties that present them
selves to the small stockman in this
portion of the state is to go over the
changes that have taken place on the
Laramie plains during the past twenty
years.
, 1908-01-29

Continued on page ~
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29
MEMORIAL SERVICES
REV. EDWIN BOOTH DELIVERS
MEMORIAL SERMON.
BEFORE c. A. r. VETERANS

Rain Marks Memorial Sunday But At.
tendance at First Congregational
Church Services Good-Mr. Booth
Speaks on Place OF Sacrifice.
An eloquent memorial sermon was
delivered Sunday morning at the First
Congregational church by Rev. Edwin
Booth, pastor of the church. Rain in
terfored slightly with the attendance
but a good sized audience braved the
rain for the Memorial Sunday serv-
ices. Members of the G. A. II. post
and the ladies of the W. X. c. attend
ed in body,
The service was marked by special
music. A solo by r. Solomon was
enjoyed.
Mr.. Booths sermon was listened to
attentively.
He took for his text Except a grain
of wheat fall into the earth and die it
abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth
forth much fruit" He said in part:
The law of sacrifice is the price of
birth and of growth in all of nature,
with man, among nations and in the
kingdom Of God.
Earth's greatest debt is due those
who have sOwed themselves to die for
human progress. We memorialze
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29
Gasoline Can ExpIodes.

Mrs. Alonzo MOsley turned off the
gasoline stove in the kitchen of her
home on Pierce and Second street in
South Norfolk. Then she set a can
of gasoline on the stove and went
over to see her mother, Mrs. Luke,
for minute or two.
Mrs Mosley didn't visit long. There
was an explosion. The gasoline was
thrown over the room and the house
was soon flaming. The fire occurred
just at the supper hour Thursday.
The fire was discovered by neigh
bors, who succeeded in removing all
the furniture. The stove was not
saved
Before the fire department put out
the blaze the kitchen had been ruined
and other parts of the house dam
aged. The loss is about $500.
Mr., MOsley is Northwestern
brakeman.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29

this year The size OF next years
freshmen class Is not known on &C.
count Of the students who will come
from the country and smaller towns.
Pupils from the local eighth grades
will bring the class up to forty.
The attendance figures for the Nor
folk schools are not known. The ac'
tual attendance is hard to arrive at,
especially in the Washington school
where the pupils are constantly
changing Only about half the pupils
who were going to the Washington
school at the close of school were en-.
rolled when school opened.
School Personals.
Superintendent Bodwell will remain
in Norfolk for more than a month in
order to leave the schools in as good
condition as possible when he goes
to Beatrice. Mr.. Bodwell will do all
he can to assist Mr.. Hunter, the new
superintendent from Ashland.
Among the Norfolk teachers who
leave the city Saturday are: Misses
Ada and Lois Cutlery, who go to their
home in Piger; Miss May Grimes,
who goes to her home in Omaha
where she will teach next year; Miss
Margarete Lambart of the high school
faculty who leaves for Fairbury; Miss
Rose Shonka who goes to Schuyler;
Miss Julia Hanson who goes to Ere
mont on a visit; Misses Rogers and
Cowen who go to Lincoln.
A. G. Kennedy, who will have
charge of the German department in
the state normal at Speartish, S. D.,
next year, will leave in few days
for Lincoln to take special work in
the state university summer school.
Miss Belle Thorngate will leave
Sunday for a visit in Omaha before
going to her home in North Loup.
Miss Chappell goes to Lincoln Sun
day for visit
Miss Maude Boyd, principal of the
Grant school for the past year, leaves
| this evening for Greeley, Colo, to
attend a normal school.
Miss Mary O'Connor will leave the
| first of the week for Wood River
Miss Anna O'Connor will visit about
the state before returning home.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29
EAGLES INITIATE 29
NORFOLK AERlE ADDS BIG LIST
OF CANDIDATES.
STATE AERIE COMING JUNE "a

Preparatory to the State Aerie Meet
ing Here June 3-4 the Norfolk Eagles
Hold Big Initiation - Prominent
Eagles From Away.
Preparatory to the meeting of the
state aerie here June and 4 the Nor.
folk aerie of Eagles held a big initia-
tion of candidates Friday evening,
adding twenty-nine members to their
list.
The initiation was followed by a
lunch in honor of the visitors from
away and the candidates.
In addition to State President p. M.
Barrett and Deputy Grand President
J. II. Conley, both of Norfolk, State
Secretary j. M. Tanner of South Oma-
ha attended the initiation. Elk Con
gresham J. j. Mccarthy of Ponca was
among the visitors. Speeches after
the initiation were made by j. M. Tan
ner of South Omaha, J. j. Mccarthy
of Ponca and C. S. Smith of Madison.
Candidates were initiated from Nor
folk, Pierce. Wisner and Meadow
Grove. In addition visiting Eagles
were present from Atkinson, Ponca,
Creighton Winnetoon and Pilger.
1t is thought that the state aerie
meeting will bring 800 Eagles to Nor
folk the first of the month.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29

them as our redeemers, we revere
them as our inspired prophets, who
having seen the vision of "new
earth have gladly yielded themselves
to its realization.
This country is such a new earth; -
revealed, when men were ripe for it
through Columbus and subdued by
proVidential guidance through chosen
GideOns, as was the promised land of
Old. The hand of God and the will
ing sacrifice of men stand out upon
our history as grandly as upon any
sacred page.
Lincoln was raised up of God as
truly as was any Abraham. A con.
trast in every way to Washington but
fitted for his task. Gaunt, ungainly
ill-Clad, rugged, Out-spOken, to the
point, intense and simple, no man
would have selected him. You can,
not explain Lincoln without provi
dence, but with God he stood and be-
cause so standing even when alone he
was a grand majority.
Great captains with their guns and
drums
Disturb our judgment for the hour
But at last silence comes;
These all are gone and standing
like a tower
Our children shall behold his fame,
The kindly, earnest, brave, far-see
ing man,
Sagacious, patient dreading, praise
not blame,
New birth of our new SOIL the First
American"
Respondent to his call there rose
a host of God impelled men to dare
the awful cost of the emancipation
AS Gladstone said, "Cincinnatus be
came a commonplace example" Oh
what an awful cost, no man can tell
What a revelation of the nObleness
and herOism of the ordinary man
With what sudden leap the purpose
less youth of America became a pa
triOt. All discOrds and caste spirit
died in the one controlling motive
Gods terrible and fiery fingers shriv
eled the falsehood from the souls OF
men" Ever since the day in which
these soldiers revived us and saved
us we have had a new America.
There are problems yet before us
but all is different than before. The
national consciousness and the nation
al conscience have come to larger life
We are in a new era impossible with
out that day.
The man who characterized our lanG
of today when he described "the
growth, the irresistible advance, the
Niagara rush of energy of the people
also observed another factor when he
added Like at Niagara l saw the
rising silyery column of spray, nine
tenths of the splendor and loneliness
of the falls, so | see an upward heav
en-aspiring destiny which will emerge
from the distractions of the present
and ! see, as Niagara, the vivid rain
bow, in sight like unto an emerald, Of
Gods blessing"
Oh, fathers and mothers Of our
country and of liberty, your sacrifice
is not in vain. 1t lives a glory, an in
vitatiOn, an inspiration, hanging like
a protecting and refreshing cloud over
the present, The new earth for which
you sacrificed will soon be perfected
1t is time that you and us together
train for the great triumphal Of the
King Of Kings, the first review and
discharge with honors of the Infinite
Jehovah.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29
Home
Carrie Nation Coimna.

Carrie Nation, she of Ratchet fame,
is coming to Norfolk.
Sometime, probably some Sunday
in the latter part of June, Mrs. Ma
ton will deliver one of her temper
ance lectures in Norfolk.
Mrs. Nation will speak under he
auspices of the w. c. 7. U. of this
city. Mrs. Brewer, president of the
local union, is trying to get Mrs.
Nation here on a Sunday but may
have to be content with week day
date.
Mrs. Nation was suddenly thrown
into nationwide notoriety few years
ago by her violent descent TO the
Kansas joints. She is a motherly
looking old lady but she proved her
ability to heave a brick bat with dam
aging aim. And like Farmer Burns
Mrs. Nation thinks that the cigarette
is the first part of toughness.
So some time after Mr.. Bryan has
come and gone, spell after the Eagle
convention has been held, fort
night or so after the street carnival
has subsidized Norfolk will wake up
some quite Sunday morning and find
that she has Carrie Nation on her
lap.
But it is said that Mrs. Nation talks
more and throws less than she did
in the earlier days.
Anyway, she's coming,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29
Valentine Commencement.

Valentine, Neb May 23,-Special
to The News: The commencement
exercises were held last evening in
Churchs opera house. The stage was
very prettily decorated in the class
coors Of cardinal and black. the
background being set off with the
class pennant brilliantly illuminated.
The principal address of the evening
was by Hon. Chas. Weston of Hay
Springs, Neb, whose subject was,
Historic Ideals
There were seven graduates Ed
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29
THE SENIOR SONG.
Glass Song of Graduates Was Well
Sung and Made a Hit.

'N'"SS SS"S W Nhauua'es was "eh
Sung and Made a Hit.
The class song" sang by the grad
vIates at the close of the commence
ment exercises Friday evening scored
IA "hit" with the audience The song
was compiled nv the seniors with the
Assistance of Mr. Konnedy of tbo Ep,-
,I,sn dnnor,mon+ ma sn,n ;s .1o A' .
@'A'i' f"' nc @ons 49,
Freshies. when you hear them saving
Go to work and quit your playing,
Then you'd better mind each little rule
For the course of freshies ne'er ran
smooth,
We've learned at school.
When your head swells so your bonnet
Gets too small and won't stay on it.
Then it's liable to burst someday.
~ ma! lru.c YOU n"iIlesS
e. YOU s.oM 700 I"itless,
oo '"''' '"l! '"'S ~ say
We're sorry, sorry,
Honest We are sorry as can be-
Sorry. sorry.
And it's all because we see
That you'll miss us
And you'll have no chances more to
hiss us.
We know we wouldn't feel so blue
If we only knew that you'd get safely
through
While the sophs have learned to utter
Way back with the eggs and butter
Things that sound so wonderfully
bright,
Yet the course of sophs is sometimes
rough
We've learned at school.
Even juniors have their trouble,
sometimes single, sometimes double.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29
GET RATES 70 CHICAGO.
ONE AND oNE.HALF FARE FOR
ROUND TRIP.
no REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
The Fare From Norfolk to Chicago
and Return, Beginning June IL and
Ending June 80, viii be $3.50.
Many VIII Attend Convention.

Announcement has been received
-5n Norfolk that there will be special
passenger rates to and from the Chi.
cage national republican convention,
beginning June II and good untn June
30. The round-trip fare will be one
and one.half regular fare. From Nor.
folk this will make the round trip
fare to and from Chicago $3.50.
There is every indication that a
large number of people from this dis
frict will attend the convention. Del
.egatCs to the convention have re-
.ceiycd many requests for tickets but
unfortunately will have but one ticket
apiece to give out.
The coliseum, where the conven-
ton is to be held, seats slightly over
1900 people. There are about 1000
delegates and as many alternates.
With the one additional ticket al.
lowed each delegate this will cover
5000 tickets Then 500 tickets go to
the white house and the presidential
possibilities undoubtedly get large
number The press has to be pro.
vided for.
Chicago people who contributed
cash to the fund, will have tickets, it
being estimated that Chicago has re-
served about 5000 tickets. 1t is not
impossible that some of these may
be sold on the street.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29

To Miss Richey he also presented a
scholarship certificate valued at 800.
The program ended with the class
song, rendered by the graduates. The
song closed with the class yell"
The members of the graduating
class are: Lydia Brueggeman, Verna
Coryell, Edith Evans, Edna Loucks,
Agnes Matrau, Bessie Richey, Linda
Winter, Ralph Luikart, Claude Ogden,
and Herbert Haupti.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29
The Genuine Fan,

A Norfolk fan" has pasted the fol-
lowing base ball poem in his hat and
wants Norfolk fandom to memorize
it:
Anyone can laugh and holler when
the home teams in the lead
And the score is all lop-sided and OPP
ponents "off their feed"
But commend me to the fellow who
can smile and still stay sweet
When the visitors are winners and
the
Home
Teams
Beat!
We contract a tired feeling when we
hear a noisy fan"
Knock the home team when it loses
like a premium Zimmerman
Stead of cheering up the locals with
enthusiastic shout
And boosting like the mischief till
the
Last
Mans
Out!
o. it's easy to be cheerful when the
home team is abroad
And the kalsomine in plenty on the
visitors is spread;
And it's easy for our faces to expand
in joyful grins.
When we've got the foemen going
and the
Home
Team
Wins!
But the man we love the greatest is
the man who smiles and smiles
When the visitors are hitting our
home pitcher miles and miles.
He is always optimistic and it does
us good to meet
With the man who keeps on boosting
when the
Home
Teams
Beat!
Say, you fellows in the grandstand
and you on the bleachers. too
Stop your knocking: Go to boosting!
Help to pull the home team through
Always be a cheerful Discriminating
bears most bitter fruit
Though the goose eggs come a
plenty for the
Home
Tear
Root!
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29

it'll Adamson, Mary Easley John
Gould. Gertrude Quigley, Harvey
Horribly, Estelle Nicholson and Charles
Helgcr.
Harmony baseball team and the Val.
entine high school team played a good
game of ball here. The score was G
to Z In favor Of the locals.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29
DAD" FRENCH is HURT.
Ewing Hotel Landlord Suffers Frac
tured Rib.

Dad" French, landlord of the Elk.
horn Valley hotel at Ewing, fell down
stairs Thursday night and broke rib.
Mr.. French is a well known character
in the Elkhorn valley. He is sixty
seven years of age The fall has used
him up badly.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29
Fairfax Commencement

Fairfax, S. d., May 23.-Special to
The News: The Fairfax public
school closed another successful year
Wednesday evening with commence
ment exercises in Starcher's opera
house.
Misses Stella Moses and Ella
Nachtigal two popular and exception
ally bright young ladies, being the
graduates this year
Hon. John A. Davies Of Butte, Neb.,
made the commencement address on
the subject, Education" after which
the chairman of the board, U. G..
Stevenson presented the diplomas.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29
The Glad Vacation Time.

Hoo-ray School is over. To the
woods; to the creek; to any old
place. Play ball or do most anything
but study, What's the use?
Johnnie is smiling with a smile
that won't come off until next Sep
TENDER. Susie is smiling A score
or so of teachers, it must be admit
ted. are also smiling.
Friday was smile-day in the Norfolk
schools. 1t was the last day of school
The boys and girls came to school tC
get their report cards" and their
grades" Some of them didn't smile
for a while after they got the ere
ports" but even their grief was of a
short life in their general gladness OF
Vacation-time.
Eighth Grade Exercises.
Thursday afternoon the eighth
grade rooms carried out a special pro
gram in the assembly room of the
new high school building. 1t marked
the completion of the grade work and
the entrance into the high school OF
what will be the class of 1912. Ger
tificates setting forth these facts were
presented to the eighth graders By
Superintendent f. ]. Bodwell. Mem
bers of the class took part in the
afternoon program.
This Years Attendance.
The enrolment at the high schoo
This year was 149, The figure falls
short Of last years enrolment by
about ten. The temporary schoo
quarters were responsible.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29

Seeds, including snake and other
cucumber prehistoric and other corn,
both sweet and field, pencilaria,
squash, melon, mammoth sunhower,
and hundreds of other seeds, cent
and up per packet, (also seed in bulk)
direct from grower to planter. Garden
Guide and descriptive price list free.
Address II, NJ. Gardner, seed grower,
MarengO, Nebraska.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29

bldl Gust .. . -. 20 -
This is a pretty good sum of money
but it would make a macadamizod road
from the Junction to Norfolk avenue
and would be well worth the eXpcn.
diture. 1t would be a road that would
not get muddy, though it would have
to be taken care of like anything else,
but the benefit to the whole city would
be grcat-almOst as much as paving
and this could be done at once. You
may depend upon IL that the admins
tratiOn that builds an absolutely good
road from Norfolk avenue to the juno
ton will have done the best thing for
Norfolk in a material way ever ac-
complished by any administration.
Why the Junction people don't get
after this is strange to me as they
generally get what they go after, and
this road, when properly sidewalked
and lighted, would furnish what they
have always been asking for
Now as to the advantage of taking
First street rather than Fourth or any
other: First and foremost 1t IS
cheaper and easier to do. Second
the county recognizes its obligation to
help with it. Finally and the greatest
reason of all-Every business man and
tax payer has an interest in First
street that they have in no other be-
cause the Improvement of this street
tends to make more stable the bust
ness and values on Norfolk avenue
Bring the people up First street and
you materially help to hold business
where it is; bring them up Fourth
street and you help its movement to
the west. See what has gone across
the tracks the past year. For in
stance, business values between Sec
ond and Third streets are worth
something, fairly good, today for di-
rect results, but their best value is in
their support to the frontage between
Third and Fourth; that is to say, if
you were to dry up the block between
Second and Third as it is between
First and Second, that part from Third
to Fourth drops back to where the
block east is now, so that a better
ment of First street betters the east
end of Norfolk avenue and thereby
supports the whole street and bene-
fits every business man and practic-
ally every tax payer in the city be-
cause it tends to steady business and
values.
NOW the administration can do this
big thing for the city-it is within
the means at hand and can be finished
in ninety days. The cost of it is only
bagatelle and less than what it would
cost the city to pave the street inter-
sections from the Northfork to Sew
enth street, and it would mean a good
hard road-a boulevard if you please
from the Junction to Norfolk av-
enue, not only for our own citizens
but for our visitors who in the past
have not only said unkind things about
Norfolk's mud, but have undoubtedly
in many cases kicked themselves and
their prospective business for Norfolk
to some other location.
A. J. Durland.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29
FIRST STREET IMPROVEMENT
A. J. Durland Believes City Should
Maeadamize First Street.

A. j. Durland has set forth his views
on the improvement OF South First
street in the following letter to The
News:
1t appears to me that there is no
possibility of paving Main street this
year. Why not put First street in
order-make Il maCadamizcd roadway
of it that will be free from mud at any
and all times.
Roughly estimated, the cost would
be about as follows:
Cost of 500 loads of gravel $1,000
YARDS to drop one load every
fourteen feet from Norfolk av-
enue to c. q n. w. depot, 5000
feet ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 425
Cost of grading and surfacing
the road, bringing the dirt from
the cutters and along side next
to the Observation-Disclosures. 100
Cost of 1000 yards of crushed
stone covering the whole $500
feet of roadway inches deep
and Z feet wide. ............. 1000
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29

If you've got anything vacant" try
4 tenant-hunt through the want ads.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-11-17
AMUSEME EN- rs.

Hall Gaines famous story 1.-THE
Christian" the dramatization of which
created a furOre in annals of the east
ern play houses, will receive its
initial presentation at the Orpheum
tomorrow night There are few, if
any, who have not seen this play or
read the noyelist's master effort, aud
its subtle charm, its great story, al
ways leaves a memory of better things
within the hearer. In Gloria Quayle
the author has given the stage a
heroine of a type that has never been
excelled, and the ability to success
fully portray this type is rare gift.
Miss Bryan who will make her ap-
pearance with the new company at
the Orpheum tomorrow night will be
seen in the part, and the press of the
cities in which she has appeared,
have been unanimous in their praise
of her rendition of this difficult role.
Assisted by capable and well trained
company, all of whom are In every
way a valuable adjunct from an act
ing point of view to the successful
production of the piece, the play
goers of this city will witness care
fully staged play with all the care
fulness of detail necessary TO the
correct Interpretation of the story.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-11-17
NO OPERATORS ON
NEW TELEGRAPH
Typewriter At Receiving End
viii Record Messages
Ready to Deliver.

RENO, New, Nov. 16.-The last link
in Clarence H. Mackey's Postal Tele-
graph company, making 1t a trans
continental service, will be finished
by the connection with the Southern
Nevada and Nevada Consolidated
systems, which already have lines
constructed from Rhyolite to Tonopah
and from Carson to towns a hundred
miles south. This consolidation has
been planned in secret for months,
and Key Pittmapn, president of the
Southern Nevada company, left for
New York to complete the details with
Mackay.
The enterprise will cost the new
company about $4,000. the reorgani-
zation to be complete. The telegraph
system will be operated with self
operating typewriters, invented to do
away with operators. The typists
press the machine keys, sending the
message, which is received by a type.
writer at the other end of the wire.