The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18
rHE FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1908

son; Mrs. 5. w. Ray Oakdale; Mr.. |
and Mrs. l.. o. Lizer, Fairfax. s. d..
f. w. Rathman, Gregory S. D.. Aug
ust ziemer, Hoskins Mr.. and Mrs.
John Meister. Wayne.
Glenn Green returned from Hoskins
Thursday
w A. Witzigman was in Madison
Thursday.
Miss Anna Palm returned from
Sioux City Thursday evening.
Mrs. Fred Chandler of Columbus il
visiting at the Fred Leu home.
Thomas O'Shea of Madison has de-
cided to move to Oklahoma and Is ad
vertising his residence property for
sale.
1t is reported that a north Nebras.
ka merchant in one Of the towns ad.
iacent to Norfolk had offered to bet
that Taft will carry the state by
5000 majority.
b. r. Reid, while in Minnesota last
week, was an eyewitness to the
tragedy of man hurting himself
from a bridge 500 feet above the Mis-
sissippi river and committing suicide
George La Fargo died at s o'clock
last evening at the Norfolk hospital
He is survived by a wife and three
children. The funeral was held at
o'clock this afternoon at the home on
Prospect avenue.
Announcements have been received
in Norfolk of the marriage of Miss
Anna Louise Mattingly to Edward II.
Beal on September at the home Of
the bride in Cedar Falls, la. Mr..
Beal is mail carrier at Waterloo,
Ia, and has spent his summers in
Norfolk for the last few years.
NJ. b. Huffman of Neigh, for many
years mayor of that city, has been in
Madison this week starting the Madi-
son county fair races. Mr. Huffman
is a big. jovial brOad-guaged fellow
and he has been drawn into service
as starter at three race meetings in
northern Nebraska this fall. He
started the O'Neill races. those at Ne
ligh and now those at Madison.
Next week it is the Stanton county
fair, the fair dates being September
Is, 16, II and 49, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday are the racing days
| Excellent train connections, combined
with an obligation Norfolk owes Stan
| ton in the way of a Norfolk crowd is
expected to result in a good sized
Norfolk delegation visiting Stanton.
Peter Kantz of Hoskins says that
the young man who was sent to the
penitentiary for seven years for
stealing a horse from Ernest Behmer
near Hoskins, worked at the carpen-
ter trade in Hoskins about nine years
ago and also lived in Norfolk for a
time. The man gave the name Of
William Wallace. His real name was
not known. BY good behavior he can
reduce his sentence to five years.
Nine candidates for initiation into
the A. o. U. w. lodge resulted from
the first days work in Norfolk of
Deputy Grand Master Workman A. B.
Dillon. 1t is hoped that a class of
100 may be raised, and from the pre-
sent prospects this seems easily
within reach The A. o. U. w. is
the oldest of fraternal protective in
surance orders, and one of the very
best Norfolk already has a large
lodge in the order.
Ex-Governor Frank ID. Jackson of
Des Moines, well known in Norfolk,
received two votes for United States
senator in yesterdays attempt of the
Iowa legislature to select successor
to the late Senator Allison. An early
morning report that the "standpat
ters" had decided in a conference to
support Mr.. Jackson in the senatorial
primary in November was denied by
later press reports.
J. C. Engelman of Norfolk, Demo
cratic candidate for county attorney
; was made fearful that something
might have happened to his little
daughter. Flora Engelman, aged
twelve, by reason of a telegram thai
5 came to Norfolk from Dallas, S
D., stating that man there has the
trunk check and the trunk of Flors
Engelman. The message says thai
the party got the check through mis-
take at Sioux City and that the little
: girls trunk had been sent to Dallas
while the mans own trunk has beer
lost The little girl has been staying
with an aunt in Des Moines and hel
e father here was not aware that she
had plans to leave Des Moines fol
any journey whatever. Consequent!
he was deeply concerned when thu
telegram came from Dallas with in
formation that his daughters trunl
l check and trunk were in the Soutl
" Dakota town as the result of an error
: He started the wires going in thu
: hope of tracing the mysterious Incl
> dent to a solution and soon founC
that the child had gone from De-