The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-03-20

Col. T. ID. Preece OF Battle Creek
and Col Strain OF Creighton were in
the city yesterday.
Miss Mamie Ward is home from
Madison where she spent the day with
Miss Bess Perdue.
District Judge A. A. Welch was in
Norfolk over night, leaving on the
morning train for Pierce, where he
convened court.
Mrs. w. II. Bucholz and son Arden
of Omaha are in the city, guests at
the home OF her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
N. A. Rainbolt.
Among the days out OF town visit.
ors in Norfolk were: George Engel-
mann, Miller, S. d.; j. c. Ecker, Win
side; w. NJ. Mcconnell, Plainview; f.
w. Blatz, Randolph Robert Appleby,
Stanton; John ID. Eggers, John Boyer,
Humphrey; George M. Russell, Fuller
ton; David A. Brewer, Hoskins; j.. A.
Morton, Enola; John Horn, Madison.
Miss Hazel Fairbanks, formerly OF
came up last evening for few days
visit with old friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Rouse went to
Meadow Grove last evening on bust
ness.
Miss Ida Krake went to Sioux City
Monday for visit with relatives.
William Hill was able to 60 to work
yesterday morning after having been
laid up for some weeks on account Of
his eye.
While riding horseback Monday
evening Harvey Clark was caught by
the brace Of telephone pole, by the
neck, the horse going on the wrong
side OF the telephone pole. His neck
was cut and burned very badly on the
wire. He had very narrow escape
from being killed. He would not have
fallen off, but Norris Cummins was on
the Junction but now of Scribner.
the horse behind him, and the animal
will not carry double. Norris escaped
the wire and was not in the least in
jured
Mrs. Ed Mullen has recovered from
an attack Of the grip.
Born to Mr. aud Mrs. Andrew Stann
of near I1oskins, daughter
Mr.. and Mrs. Gwyn have taken the
house formerly occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Powers, on North Ninth
street.
The Methodist church and the par
sonage are being reshingled. Other
repairs are being made about the
church.
According to Bradstreets reckoning
the general cost Of the things people
must buy is now twelve and a half
per cent lower than last year at this
time.
Little Donald Conley would push
any other little boy in Norfolk just
now in a contest for the "happiest
boy in Norfolk" A new express
wagon and a shepherd dog have salts
fed all his ambitions.
Word was received in Norfolk that
Miss Clara Younger, formerly of Nor.
folk, who has been very i'll in Omaha,
had been given up by the physicians.
A sister, Miss Laura Younger, who is
called to Omaha.
The final details OF a general can
vass of the city in the interests of the
Y. M. c. A. fund will be outlined next
Sunday afternoon. Fifty Norfolk men
will participate in the canvass which
will be carried on next week. Each
of the fifty men will be given a list
of men to call on for subscriptions.
A custodian school of instruction
will be held under the auspices of
Mosaic lodge, No. 55, A. F. G. A. NJ,
in Masonic hall March 23, "a, 25.
Three sessions will be held daily, at
$3.50 a. M, 2:30 p. m. and 1880 p. m,
except the first day, when the first
session will be held at 1880 p. m.
The past few months have been dis
astrous to plate glass windows. Run
away horses the last few days have
broken two Norfolk avenue windows.
Stores where plate glass windows
have been broken within the last few
months are Mrs. Joseph Schwartzs
millinery store, the Marquardt saloon,
Beeler Brothers, Frank Davenport,
Antilles & Smith.
Mrs. John Collins of Marcus, Iowa,
a former Norfolk girl and a bride of a
few months, died very suddenly Sun
day morning at her Iowa home. Mrs.
Collins was formerly Miss Lulu John
son and worked as a saloglady in the
Johnson store for about two years.
Her home was in Winside. She was
married on August 20, 1907, to John
Collins of Marcus, the ceremony oc-
curing in the Norfolk church of the
Sacred Heart. Mr.. Collins is known
in Norfolk through his connection
with the Collins harp orchestra. Mrs.
Collins has been in Norfolk several
times since her marriage. The funer-
al was held Tuesday morning. Mrs.
Collins was popular in Norfolk.
The Roosevelts got into the political
game early. Back in the eighteenth
century they were mixing in New
York politics and getting mixed up in
the ward contests n MathewSOn NJ