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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-28

again. Sickness which was so com.
mon last month Is on the decline.
Grip has nearly disappeared although
good many Norfolk people caught
cold in the recent cold weather and
blizzard.
Brief funeral services for the late
Charles Mlhills were held Friday az.
tcrnoon from Trinity Episcopal church,
Rev. j. c. s. Wells, the rector ofiici.
ating The pail bearers were John
Quick, p. NJ. Barrett, c. Hepperly,
Charles Miller Dan Craven and
Charles Dudley.
Perry Freeland arrived in Norfolk
yesterday noon from Greeley, Colo,
for a two weeks visit with his brother
Floyd Freeand. and old.time friends.
He has position the year around with
the sugar factory at Greeley, Colo,
where his parents and one brother.
Henry Freeland, live. Another brother
Roy Freeland, is In Canada
Republican caucauses to send dele
gates to the county convention at
Battle Creek are to be held Saturday
evening. The caucauses for the First
and Third wards will meet at the city
hall, the one for the Second ward at
Mapes & Hazen's Office, and the
Fourth ward caucus will be held at the
Junction. All meet at o'clock.
Martin has written to his sister
that he is having his eyes opened in
Norfolk but because the postal card
was not properly addressed II has not
gotten any farther than the bulletin
board in the postofiice building. This
is what Martin wrote: Haven't had
much time to look around but | am
hearing something that opens my eyes.
Hoping safe return l am, your loving
brother, Martin"
A. f. Groom. living on South Eleventh
street has just discovered that his
house has been visited by a sneak thief
who helped himself to nearly all the
canned fruit in the cellar as we'll as
a good portion of the winters supply
of potatoes. Mr. Groom's family is
away from home and he had not visit
ed the cellar for several weeks until
yesterday, so that he does not know
| just when the house was robbed
One of the first new buildings to
be erected on Norfolk avenue with
the coming of spring will be a brick
store building, one story, with a fifty
foot front to be erected by w. A.
Emery just west of his lumber office
on Norfolk avenue between Second
and Third streets, The building will
be 50XS0 feet and will have a modern
press brick front. 1t will cost from
$4,000 to $4,000. Mr. Emery will move
his paint and hardware departments
from the Eiseley building to the new
building when it is completed and will
carry full line of hardware.
The supreme court reversed the case
of Joseph Skidmore of Holt county,
sentenced to serve five years for steal
ing nine hogs, the property Of John
Ferguson. 1t was shown in the evil
dence that he planned the theft. The
court holds that party charged as a
principal cannot be convicted upon ev-
idence tending only to show that he
was an accessory. One who advises
others to commit larceny, but who is
several miles distant at the time of
the commission of the offense and he
takes no part therein, but assists in
the disposal of the proceeds after the
theft is not principal, but an acces
sorry.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-28
TUESDAY TOPICS.

Miss Glennie Shippee returned to
her school near Tilden Sunday even.
ing, after spending Saturday and Sun
day with her parents.
Mrs. Walter Rrssell went to Pierce
Saturday.
Miss Maude Whitla returned to her
home in Battle Creek last evening
after a short visit with Norfolk
friends.
Miss Bessie Lee is on this week S
sick list.
Mics Bebecca Duggan returned to
her school near Pierce Sunday noon,
after spending Saturday and Sunday
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Axtel
Johnson.
Mrs. Robert Craft went to Pierce
Saturday noon on business.
Master Roy Barrltt is on this weeks
sick list.
Mr.. Alexander Of Oakdale came
down Sunday noon for a short visit
with his son, Harry B. Alexander, and
family, and returned to his home Sun
day evening.
Miss Ella Hauptli returned to her
school in Meadow Grove Sunday even
ing after spending Saturday and Sun
day with her parents, and friends.
A farewell surprise party was given
in honor of Miss Leila Craft at her
home on South Second street Satur-
day evening. Supper was served and
the evening was pleasantly spent in
many different games, and much en-
joyed by all present. Miss Craft left
Monday morning for Wayne, where
she will attend college.
Mrs. Fairbanks arrived home from
Scribner Monday evening after spend.
ing Sunday with Mr.. Fairbanks, who
is working there.
Herman Mai has resigned his posi-
ton at the crossing.
Mrs. Lubke of Pierce is here on a
visit with her daughter, Mrs. William
Christian.
Mr.. Levijohn returned to his home
in Lindsay Monday after a short visit
with his daughter, Mrs. C, r. Kamp'
man.
Arthur Thurber Of Missouri Valley
is in Norfolk on a visit with friends
and relatives.
Miss Martha Christian is now work
ing in the Owl restaurant.
Miss Bessie Williams, one OF c. S.
Hoar's clerks, is again able to be at
work after brief illness.
Mrs. NJ. c. Howell, who has been i'll
for some time with intiammatory
rheumatism, was able to walk around
little yesterday.
Little Philip Kampman is able to
be at school again after an illness OF
week.
Miss Bennett returned TO her school
in Tilden Sunday evening, after hav-
ing spent Saturday and Sunday with
her parents, at the Junction.
Carl Christian celebrated his fifty
ninth birthday Sunday evening at his
home on South Fourth street. A large
number of friends, neighbors and rel
atives were present. Supper was
served, after which a dance occurred
All present had a splendid time.
w. n. Cheney went 10 ONeill last
evening for a visit with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs E. d. Perry spent Sun
day with their son, Frank Perry and
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-28
WON'T Hold CONVENTION
MADISON co. DEMOCRATS DIS.
PENsE WITH PRELIMINARY.
COMMITTEE SELECT DELEGATES
The County is Entitled to Twenty.one
Delegates In the Coming State Con.
Vention and They viii All be Chosen
by the Committee.


The Madison county democracy will
hold county convention to select
delegates to the state convention
This was decided at a meeting Of the
county central committee at Madison
Thursday afternoon. Chairman j. f.
Flynn attended from Norfolk.
Madison county will have twenty-one
delegates in the state convention and
the delegates will be chosen under the
direction or by the different commit.
teemen. In Norfolk six delegates will
be chosen at mass convention held
in the city hall Monday evening. II
is understood that Norfolk is the only
place where the delegates will be sc
chosen.
The principal rule that will be oh
served by the different committeeman
in getting their delegates will be tc
find men who will promise to go to
Omaha when the state convention
meets. BY Monday evening Chairman
Flynn will probably have been notified
of the complete delegation, good part
of which was outlined at the Madison
meeting.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-28
TREE PLANTING FOR SCHOOLS.
The Making of School Houses More
Attractive, is Advocated.

Tree planting, compulsory school at
tendance, free high school attendance
and teachers contracts are sub
jects touched on by County Superin-
tendent F. S. Perdue Of Madison
county in a circular which he has
sent to the school directors Of the
county.
The circular is:
am enclosing you a copy of Tree
Planting on Rural School Grounds"
which is furnished by the U. S, De-
partment of Agriculture. 1t is hoped
that this little pamphlet will be of
some use to you in the way OF sug-
gestion. There is growing feeling
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-28
Democratic Mass Convention Call.

The democratic electors of Norfolk
will meet in mass convention at the
city hall Monday evening at s o'clock
for the purpose of selecting six dele
gates to the state convention.
John f. Flynn, chairman county
committee
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-28

Tenantless property-the wealth OF
nowadvertising landlords-will soon
make rich man poor!
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-28

To sell what you have to sell and
to buy what you have to buy in the
best markets is to prospect
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-28

The merchant who expects much
from his advertising should give much
adequate attention, adequate expendi
ture, adequate newspaper space.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-28
FEW HERE KNOW THIS
SAYS HOME MADE TREATMENT
CURES RHEUMATISM.
HARMLESS HOME REMEDY

Shake the ingredients Well IN the
Bottle and Take Teaspoonful Dose
After Meals -- Healing, Cleansing
and lnvgorating,
When an eminent authority an.
nouncod in the Scranton PaD Times
mat he had found new way to treat
that dread American disease rheuma.
tism, with just common, everyday
drugs found in any drug store. the
physicians were slow indeed to attach
much Importance to his claims This
was only few months ago. Today
nearly every newspaper in the COun.
try, even the metropolitan dailics. liz
announcing II and the splendid results
achieved. II is so simple that any
one can prepare II at home at small
cost II is made up as follows: Get
from any good prescription pharma.
cy fluid extract dandelOn. onc-halt
ounce; compound kargon, one ounce;
compound syrup sarsaparila. three
ounces. Mix by shaking in a bottle
and take in teaspoonful doses after
each meal and at bedtime These are
all simple ingredients, making an alb
solutely harmless home remedy at lit
tie cost.
Rheumatism as every one knows,
Is symptom of deranged Kidneys
II is condition produced by the fail
ure of the kidneys to properly filter
or strain from the blood the uric acid
and other matter which. if not cradi.
Gated, either in the urine or through
the skin pores, remains in the blood,
decomposes and forms about the
| joints and muscles, causing the un.
told suffering and deformity Of rhcu.
| matism.
This prescription is said to be a
splendid healing, cleansing and invig-
Grating tonic to the kidneys, and gives
almost immediate relief in all forms
of bladder and urinary troubles and
| backaChe He also warns people in
a leading New York paper against the
discriminate use of many patent medi-
cines.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-28
Western Grown Garden and Field

Western Grown Garden and Field
Seeds, including snake and other GU
cumber, prehistoric and other corn,
both sweet and field. penclaria,
squash, melon, mammoth sunhower,
and hundreds Of other seeds, cent
and up per packet, (also sell in bulk)
direct from grower to PAINTER. Gar
den Guide and descriptive price list
free. Address H. NJ. Gardner, seed
grower, Marengo, Nebraska.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-28

Sometimes removal of home or
business would solve many hard prob.
lens. Think it over, watching the ads
the while!
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-28

that If the country schools are "a ful.
NIL their mission in preparing our
boys and girls for useful citizenship
it has become our imperative duty to
provide attractive and comfortable
school houses. Much has been done
in Madison county during this school
year in the way of painting, repairing
and adding to the equipment of the
schools. May we not have a number
of districts that will make a begin
| ming this spring in tree planting and
general school ground improvement.
1t is not necessary to spend much
money in this matter. The important
thing is a little intelligent interest
and care on the part of the school
board and the community in general.
A treeless school ground, with I'M
painted school building, and dilapidat-
ed out buildings is serious reflect
| ion upon the community in which
such a condition of affairs is found.
Compulsory Attendance.
The school law makes it the duty Of
the school officers and teachers to re-
port all violations of the compulsory
attendance law to the county superin-
tendent. If there are any cases Of
parents or guardians in your district
who are not sending their children or
wards to some school either, parochial
or public, you are requested to send
me the necessary information and
steps will be taken at once to enforce
the law
Free High School Attendance.
Districts having pupils in attend.
ance at high school under the provis-
ions of the Free High School Attend
ance Law will receive from the high
schools attended by these pupils an
| itemiZed statement showing the at
tendance by weeks of such pupils. The
districts are liable only for the actual
attendance of the pupils and no more.
Directors will draw orders in the us
ual way payable to the secretary OF
the school board of the high school
district where pupils are attending
school. The levy for high school pur-
poses was included in your general
fund. Make all orders for tuition pay
able out of the general fund OF your
district.
Teachers Contracts.
There seems to be a tendency on
the part of many teachers to attempt
to annual their contracts for trivial
reasons. A teacher can terminate
contract only with the consent of
majority of the board. While the
school law does not give the county
superintendent the right to revoke a
teachers certificate for breaking her
contract | will consider it a favor il
directors will report all cases where
teachers attempt to break contracts
without sufficient reasons. Such
teachers will not be recommended for
positions in the future.
| F. S. Perdue,
County Superintendent.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-18
POINTS FROM THE PIG PEN

Too big bones in pig are often weak
and will not support their weight as
we'll as many of the finer boned ones of
the same size.
For the first few months of a pigs
life we must feed such feed as will
produce bones and muscle, but at the
same time, if necessary, we should feed
enough corn to keep it in good con-
dition.
To produce fat there is nothing more
economical than milk and corn. But
when finishing them off for market it
is best to give water in place of the
milk.
There is no farm animal so easily
affected by cold as a hog. You can
never freeze a hog fat. But it is easy
to freeze one lean.
When little pigs come during the
winter it is necessary that they be al
lowed little run for exercise outside
OF the pen. for they will not exercise
enough to be thrifty in a small pen.
To raise pork at a profit breed from
nothing but well matured hogs; use
judgment in all your work. Feed and
care for your hogs in an intelligent
manner, save all the manure and sell
your hogs in the best market.
The time to market pigs to the best
advantage is at a time when other buy
ers have sold, and thus avoid the glut
in the markets that is sure to come
every year at certain times
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-18
NOTES BY A WORKING FARMER

Work that is not done in time re-
quires double the labor to perform aft
erward and then the results are never
so good.
The COW is the machine, the food is
the raw material, milk, butter and
cheese are the manufactured articles.
The dairyman is the manufacturer
The process of grading up brings one
continually nearer to the full blood,
which is source of all satisfaction and
profit in stock feeding.
1t requires a faculty of closer appli-
cation and study along single line to
make a speciality go, but when it does
go it usually pays best
The man who works so steadily that
he never has time to stop and make
his plans ahead does not often produce
the best results.
If there We're no other argument in
favor of keeping stock the single one
of helping to market the bulky prod
ucts of the farm should be considered
A source of income which brings in a
little ready money every day or every
week is a great benefit to the farmer,
as it enables him to pay as he goes.
There is no luck about farming.
livery success is the result OF we'll
laid plans, and the failures, with rare
exceptions, are because of the lack of
them.
Commercial fertilizers do not perma-
nently benefit the land. They have their
legitimate uses in helping to produce
larger crops, but they do not make the
land any richer. They should be used
in connection with other manure.
There is no profit in the average
crop. If you cannot produce more
corn, wheat or potatoes from an acre
than the average yield reported to the
Department of Agriculture then you
would better reform your land and
your practices, for surely there is
something wrong about them.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-18

the larval form of the tapeworm of the
dog toen1a echincoccus) and the con-
dltlons produced by them are tech
nically called "echinococosis."
A turkey affected with this disease
is unfit for human use, for it is pos
s1ble that some of the cysts are alive,
or, in other words, contain the heads
of undeveloped tapeworms or eggs that
might on being transferred to the HUI
man body cause the disease, which
may affect not only the liver but the
lungs and heart as we'll as some less
important organs.
1t also affects cattle, and the other
day we examined the liver, spleen and
lung of a COW which had been killed
as 'piner,' and thought to be affected
with tuberculosis
There is no cure for the disease. 1t
is contracted by the voided eggs of
the tapeworm from the dog getting
into drinking water and food When
the eggs pass into the stomach the
embryo tapeworms bore their way
through the walls into the blood cir
culation and are carried in the blood
stream to various parts of the body.
The liver stops most Of them and
they there proceed to develop; some
however may carry past to other or
gans. as the lungs, heart and spleen.
Affected livers may enlarge to an
immense degree. Some cattle livers
have been found to weigh as much as
$50 pounds, while the hogs liver, nor
maly but four pounds in weight, may
increase to SO or 100 pounds.
AS dogs spread this disease, which
in Iceland is blamed for from to
10 per cent of the deaths among the
population, precautionary measures
should be adopted by destroying worth
less ours, treating useful dogs at least
twice a year for the destruction of
tapeworms they may harbor and TAX
ing care that they are not allowed to
consume affected offal of animals. Es-
pecial care is necessary in the neigh
borhood of slaughter houses, to which
dogs are apt to go for food thrown
out as waste. Affected turkeys should
be destroyed by burning.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-18
THESE HINTS MAY HELP

Give the pillow points and the harrow
disks light coat of oil with a little
lead in it.
There is much valuable time lost
each spring in repairing broken parts
of plows, cultivators and getting the
plow points to scour nicely.
How much better it is to scatter on
the snow a few nice, dry bundles of
bright, sweet fodder for a COW or two
and few horses that are kept in a
warm well-bedded stall than to catch
UP the old mare that has been stand
ing out in cold, drizzling rain, shell
tered only by an old tree or tall rail
fence, harness her and haul out shock
of fodder that has been blown over and
is thoroughly wet and a part of it
moldy, and give it to few cows and
calf or two that are standing in the
fence corners all drawn up and with
hardly life enough in them to move.
This is not an overdrawn picture
am sorry to say, and I do not have to
go many miles to find just such cases.
have seen a farmer haul up the
shock, corn and all, and put it into a
pasture field and stack it up in April
so as to break up the land for an
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-18
CARE OF DAIRY UTENSILS

All the utensils used in handling
the milk and cream should be made of
the best grade of tin. Never use wood
Ell c. galvanized pals.
See that all joints in the pals, cans
and strainer are well made and filed
with solder.
Do not put cream in an old can that
has the tin partly worn off. The can
may rust and this has deteriorating
effect upon milk or cream and imparts
a peculiar metallic flavor. Utensils
that come in contact with milk or
cream can best be cleaned by first
rinsing in cold water and then wash
ing with brush and hot water Some
believe that washing powder should
be added to the wash water This
should not be done unless you have a
powder that is free from grease. Soap
should never be used. In buying wash
ing powder get a brand that is guaran-
teed to be free from grease or get or
binary sal soda and use it sparingly.
After washing the utensils with hot
water, rinse thoroughly with boiling
water and place them where they can
come in contact with the direct rays Of
the sun. In washing the ordinary five.
eight or ten gallon milk cans be sure
that the inside of the shoulder of the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-18
POULTRY POINTERS

Regularity is an essential in the feed-
ing Of fowls.
Cold water tastes good in winter;
just remember that with the chickens
and note how they will leave the best
food and crowd around the fountain.
Skim milk has a high value in egg
production. Don't waste a bit.
Fortunate are they who grow their
own feed. Much of the imported
ground meal or bran is poor stuff,
When you get your own oats and corn
ground you know you are not feeding
sawdust.
If you have screenings feed them and
count yourself just that much ahead.
But it is rarely economy to buy them,
as much of the weed seed is worthless
and even the grain is SO imperfsctly
developed as to furnish little nutri.
ton.
The chick once stunted never fully
RECEIVERS.
If the hens do not eat with a relish
something is wrong. 1t is up to you
to find out what-and that in short
order.
Weed out the culls, even if they must
be sold at what seems to be a sacri-
flee; and by thus getting rid of all
but the best avoid having culls next
year.
Let the turkeys have some range;
even when fattening. Feed literally all
the grain they will eat three times
day and they will lose less flesh in ga
little exercise than they would while
chatting under confinement.
Even if red does promise to be the
coming fad in color do not let thi.
swerve you from your chosen breed
providing it is satisfactory in other re-
spects. All fads finally grow a finale,
If the turnips are not eaten try.
cooking and mixing in the bran mash.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-18
A GOOD STYLE OF HENS NESTS.

This is the hens busy season. Even
II they have not been laying during
the winter the early spring starts them
in, or should do so, and if they are not
laying now there is something wrong
with the management and care they
are receiving. For the laying flock the
nests should be clean, secluded and
plentiful. There is enough of the wild
nature still existent in the hen to make
her want to secrete her nest, SO the
more secluded you make her feel the
better she will like it. Have the nests
rather dark, as then there is less like
lihood of them learning the egg steal
ing habit.
One of the most essential points to
consider in putting up hens nests is to
have them so they are easily cleaned
Lice and mites will get into them and
unless they are taken down and cleaned
these pests will drive the hen away. It
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-18

the most productive in that section and
grew immense crops of red clover.
Years ago his successor on the land
MS son, believe-reported that after
forty years from the original marling
OF the land he could get no further
ERECT from another marling. The soil
had been changed to regular lime
stone soil and the effect of the heavy
applications of the shells, many of
which are still slowly decomposing, was
continuous for half a century and per-
haps longer
Some of the stations, like that in
Rhode Island, have been making a
study of lime, but there is still a great
deal to be learned in regard to it's use,
for we find that the best results from
the use of burnt lime are often on land
known as limestone soil