The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-11-20

F.. BdXton has been in the livery and ic,
business in Sioux City and Is well
! known.
Madison county farmers should
make a good showing at the Omaha
national corn exposition Judging iron
! past performances. At the Portland
exposition Frank Tannehill, living
south OF Norfolk, took the silver medal
on white corn, the medal indicating
| that the corn exhibited by Mr. Tame
! hill ranked second among the exhibits.
At the st. Louis exposition Al Fish.
! back, who at that time lived south OF
Norfolk, secured bronze medal for
corn exhibited.
Chris Weisor of Butte died of
| typhoid fever leaving wife and -four
! little children.
r. w Mccormick, a plastorer, was
found dead in bed at Butte. Heart
failure was the cause.
The case against William Eaton at
Neigh, charged by his step-father with
cattle stealing. went to the jury Tues
day night.
The ladies guild of Trinity church
will meet with Mrs. Baldwin on South
Fifth street, Thursday afternoon at
2:3O o'clock.
A dangerous hole in the middle of the
street has been caused by the falling
in of a sewer ditch on North Eleventh
between Koenigstein and Nebraska
avenues.
The Jolly Dozen" social organiza
ton formed in South Norfolk last win.
ter, will resume their card parties at
Railroad hall. The first party is given
Thursday evening, November 10.
The ladies' aid society of the First
Congregational church will meet in the
| church parlors at 2:3O o'clock Thurs
day afternoon. A large attendance is
desired as business is to be transacted
The test of hospital milk COWS and
beef cattle for tuberculosis made by
the government inspector, William
Thompson, showed that the herds were
not infected. Mr.. Thompson departed
yesterday.
Johnson, an alleged desperate who
stole a team from Dallas during the
last days of the rush and who broke
Jail at OacOma only to be recaptured
at the same time that his partner was
killed, is being carefully guarded in
the Gregory county Jail at Fairfax
S. ID.
w. A. Riley, formerly Northwest
ern brakeman who married a Norfolk
girl, will have to answer for the MUIR
der of Ritts, the Rosebud homesteader
whom he killed at Burke, at a special
term of the district court called to
meet at Fairfax on December s. The
term takes the place of the term post.
poned on account of the rush.
Asa X. Leonard bagged seventeen
quail yesterday
e. p. Weatherby, bankruptcy com.
missioner for this district, held a hear
ing in the George II. Boose case at
Creighton Tuesday.
The w. c. T. u. are making arrange
ments for $500 pledge cards to be dis.
tributed over the county by the County
Sunday school superintendent on
Temperance Sunday.
The wooden wedding anniversary of
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wachter occur
red yesterday and was celebrated
last evening with gathering of
friends. Forty couples attended. Re-
,reshments were served, after which
cards were played.
Friends of Tom Brice are somewhat
alarmed over the seriousness of his
condition. Mr.. Brice has been i'll at
his room in the OXnard hotel for about
three weeks, suffering from typhoid
fever and complications. He is now
being attended by two nurses. Mr..
Brice is one of the best known com
mercial travellers in this territory. He
is partner in the mercantile business
of Brice e Green at Plainview.
There is a wide discrepancy in the
statements of Jack Koenigstein, c. p.
Parish, George Burton and w. j.
Stadelman, who hunted quail on the
c. c. ranch in Pierce county yester-
day. Mr.. Koenigstein claimed today
that the party got thirty-two quail,
Mr.. Burton asserted that they got
eleven, Mr. Parish was more modest.
He said that one quail was shot, but
not found. Mr.. Stadelman admitted
that not single quail was killed, al
though many were shot at. And
there you are.
Six young men of this city aspire to
become either pOstotfice clerks or mail
carriers for the government. They are
d. T. Hodson, Herbert l.. Wichmann,
Myron NJ. Farley, John w. Decker,
Herbert NJ. Hauptli and Adolph H.
Brauchle. They took the civil service
examination during the morning at the
government building, the examination
being given as usual by the local Sc
cretary of the examining board V. V.
Light. On November % the civil SER
vice examination for rural carriers will
be given at the federal building. This