The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-04-03

Jonas. the operation following pre-.
vious operation for appendicitis. Word
received from Omaha indicated that
he came through the operation all
right
/ Dr Thomas Bithell, presiding elder
of the Neigh district OF the Methodist
church, was In Albion this week TO
attend the district conference. At the
close Of the conference DR.. Bithell was
presented with purse as an evidence
OF the appreciation in which his work
was held
Another meeting of the Y. NJ. c. A.
campaign executive committee and a
general conference with citizens will
be held Sunday afternoon in Mapes
a. Hazen's office. An active campaign
for subscriptions was entered on this
week and details OF this campaign will
come up for discussion.
A telegram received from Robert
Utter announced that he has rented
his Rosebud farm near Gregory and
will not move into that county, as had
been planned Mr.. and Mrs. Utter
will retain the cottage on Koenigsteln
avenue which Mr.. and Mrs. B. c. Cen
tie had planned to occupy.
Madison Chronicle: Ed Relneccius
has sold his saloon business to VIM.
Test, the latter to take possession
May 5. Mr. Test sold his saloon a
year ago but has decided again to
enter the business. Ed Reineccius
has bought a saloon In Norfolk, to
which place he will move about May
|.
The Madison Chronicle is now pub
lished by Blackman & Mexican, S. c..
Blackman who has been editor and
publisher of the paper for the past
three years having sold half inter
est in the Chronicle to b. w. Mexican,
until recently editor of the Elgin Re
view. There is to be no material
change in the conduct of the paper.
Columbus Journal: Dan Bray was
at Lincoln this week to contest with
Game Warden Geo. l.. Carter for the
Thorpe Trophy. He was successful in
defeating Mr.. Carter and also a man
from the south part of the state, who
had challenged the winner Of the first
match. Mr.. Bray brought the trophy
home with him and 1t is now on ex-
hibition at l.. F. Phillips store. Now
that he has secured 1t, Mr. Bray will
meet all comers who desire to COM
pete for it.
E. A. Bullock is to operate an auto.
mobile garage in connection with his
threshing machine warehouse. Mr..
Bullock is entering the automobile
business on an extensive scale and
will handle the machines in connec-
tion with his threshing machine bust
ness. He has placed an order for flf
teen jackson" cars manufactured by
the Jackson Automobile company Of
Jackson, Mich. The cars run from
eighteen to thirty-fve horse power.
Mr. Bullock will find market for his
cars over this territory.
Miss Ethel McGawn of Three Oaks,
Mich, a cousin of Frank Beels of this
city, is a student at Forest Park uni
versity, the st. Louis girls school
which was destroyed by fire. Miss
McGawn was down town at the time
of the fire but most of her things were
saved from the building. The princi-
pal of the school had been arrested
several times at the instance of the
building inspector of Missouri but had
always refused to have fire escapes
placed on the building because she
claimed that fire escapes would make
it easy for her young ladies to elope
from the building in dramatic fashion.
Very little was saved from the build
ing, although no lives were lost on ac-
count of the fire occurring in the day
time.
In the list of twenty-five names ad-
ded to the pension list of the North
western road in the last week are
those of J. n. Morgan engineer Chad
ron Joseph Graham engineer, Boone,
Iowa; G. F. Strickland, engineer, Ere
mont, and w. II. Huffman master me-
chanic, Baraboo, Wis. Mr.. Huffman
commenced his railroad career in
Clinton, Ia, as a newsboy on the old
Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska railroad
now part of the Northwestern. Later
he became freight brakeman, machin
ist and fireman, and before he was IL
years of age he was running loco
motive on the road. He was locomo
tive engineer for the government dur
ing the war, returning to Clinton In
1865. He worked for the company In
Omaha for few years, returning to
Clinton as master mechanic. A few
years ago he was transferred to Bara
boo.
) NINETY-NINTH BIRTHDAY.