The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-12-04
WEDNESDAY, WRINKLES.

Burr Taft returned last evening
from Madison.
S. NJ Braden returned last evening
from omaha.
c. j. Smith has gone to Buffalo
Gap, s. D., on business.
| y. A. Rainbolt arrived home from
short visit in Omaha last evening.
Among the days out of town visi
ors in Norfolk were: Mr.. and Mrs
\nson Wagar, Gregory, S. D.; b. A.
Tullis, Harrington; c. Bordl sssson,
| Hamil, Bloomfield; A. G. Anderson,
Lyons; E. G.. Hamilton, st. Charles,
S. D.; f. II. Wilcox. Tilden; S. II.
| Mcfarland, Madison; Hans Gottsch,
| Hoskins.
| The Whist club will meet with Mrs.
J. Baum tomorrow evening.
d. f. O'Brien has accepted posi-
tion as deputy in the Modern Wood
| men of America order.
Miss Mae Barrett yesterday took
possession of Mrs. SchwartZs millin-
cry store, which she recently pur-
chased.
The box social to be given at the
Friday evening and not on Wednes
day evening.
p. J. Barnes has gone to Mclean,
Tex, to spend the winter. He left
Wednesday morning and will remain
until about the first of April.
Scarlet fever has been added to the
list of contagious diseases in Norfolk
Only one case, however, has been re-
ported to the health department.
Chief of Police Peters will probably
take up his office in the room op-
poste police court in the city hall
vacated by City Clerk Harter when
he joined offices with Mayor Sturgeon
Within the next few days the date
for the annual convention of the
North Nebraska Anti-Horse Thief as
sociation in Norfolk will be announc-
ed The convention will be held dur
ing the holidays.
c. s. Bridge yesterday received a
postal card from the hospital to which
his son, Charles, was taken for treat
ment when attacked by blood poison
ing at Oberlin college. The card says
that the patient is constantly delir-
ious and very sick.
The News has had occasion to test
its own want column with surprising
results. Four issues of this paper
were missing from the files. They
we're old issues, and the loss was not
| discovered until time came for bind
ing them. A little want ad went
searching for the missing issues and,
like a magnet drew them all in from
various parts of the country COM
pleting the files.
Edwin Morrison and B. C. Paine
ter of Gregory were in Norfolk yes.
terday afternoon on business. They
are members of the Homestead Land
company at Gregory and Lamro.
They report an old fashioned blizzard
| in the Rosebud country Monday, snow
drifting four feet deep in Gregory.
Land business in that region is ac-
tive, Mr.. Morrison said.
A marriage license was granted yes
terday to Oscar c. Hauptli, a train
dispatcher at the Northwestern June.
ticn depot and Miss Nettie G. Nenow
of this city. The marriage license
was issued from the county court at
Madison Although friends have
known Of the approaching wedding
for some time, the young people have
refused to disclose their plans.
DR.. p. H. Salter of this city, divi-
sion surgeon of the Northwestern, has
a place on the program of the second
annual meeting of the surgical as
'0ciation of the Chicago and North
western railway. The subject of DR..
alters paper will be abdominal
Confusion, With Injury to the Under
wing Viscera." The meeting is held
n December II in the assembly room
the Palmer house in Chicago.
Today Postmaster John r. Hays
~ in an order to Washington for a
supply of the new 1908 stamps. Up
o this time none of these new stamps
ave been received in Norfolk through
mails and save for general des.
'o'iCns everybody is more or less
! norant of the appearance of the
r"V stamps. Save for the one cent
amps all the stamps will have the
lad of Washington. The one cent
wDs will have the head of Frank
lin.
twenty-five years a resident in Nor.
go K and VI Gid no. $50, 'l'i,.
lex, who is both . bachelor anG a car.
ter from be.Tg Tnrd in pu'ice
''urt yesterday on the charge of be-
in" drunk, Stapu.'g in wat," m -
Is knees in the ditch over near Edge
w"'er park, calH ~ for help and dc
laing himself unable to get to the
shore, lex waited until rescued by an
Edgewater resident. Later the po-
lice were called. lex said the drunk
was not of his own buying, that he
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