The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-01-03

candidate for vice president was In
Norfolk last winter, making a speech
in the Auditorium at the time of the
Woodmen class-adoption. He was for
merly Bryan's law partner.
Sometime next week ballots will be
mailed to commercial club members,
who will be asked to participate in an
election of commercial club directors
by mail. The ballots must be In by
January and will be sent out by the
club secretary a few days before that
date One vote will be sent to each
club member
January is expected to mark the
completion of c. Il. Burnham's new
Norfolk avenue home. The house was
designed by j. C. Stitt and is being
built by Contractor M. l.. Ogden. The
house is finished in dark oak and has
handsome double hall which runs
the full length of the house as one of
its chief features.
While more or less credit for the
prosecution of Gottlieb Niegenfnd, the
Pierce county murderer who hanged,
has been given to Attorney II. F. Barn
hart, who was shot and wounded by
his wife Christmas night, it is stated
that much of the real credit belonged
to Judge N. d. Jackson of Neigh who
was employed by Pierce county in the
Niegenfind prosecution.
Nellie Howard, "hello.girl" in the
Nebraska Office, has the biggest Teddie
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something huge" 1t came by express
as a Christmas gift and for the last
day or two has had a chair in the
hello Office" Mr.. T. Bear is light
brown animal and fully as big as one
of the smaller phone answerers. The
bear came with a chain and dog col
lar and for two days was one of the
exhibits at the Nebraska Office. The
donor of the Teddie bear was not dis
closed.
The Northwestern has it's snowplows
ready for the winters snow, which is
expected to begin to arrive with jan
uary. AS in recent years the plows
are not attached to The engines but to
*. b." cars loaded with gravel to give
the necessary weight. These cars
will be pushed out by special engines
in case of heavy SHOWS threatening to
block travel. The only rotary snow
shovel owned by the Northwestern
west of the Missouri : is at ChadroD
and is kept for use in the hills. Few
years have given as little trouble with
snow as last year.
A number of $3.50 pieces are in cir
culation in Norfolk just now as a re-
suit of two Norfolk stores having pres
ented each of their clerks with one
of the little gold pieces as a Christmas
gift. The $3.50 gold coin is a very
rare coin. SO seldom are these coins
even seen in banks that a Norfolk
banker said that he thought that the
$3.50 piece had been eXterminated or
rather were no longer coined until
he saw the recent importation. The
little gold pieces were brought to Nor
folk for the express purpose of being
used as Christmas gifts and were Of
the government issue of 1907.
A number of the new $40 pieces have
been seen in Norfolk but the first $40
piece of Saint Gaudens design was
received yesterday by the Nebraska
National bank. 1t is on the twenties
that Liberty" has been accused of
kicking too high, the raised knee of the
goddess being elevated to such an
extent that the coins will not stack"
The new coins have a simpler and
more artistic design than the old
double eagles and the motto "In God
We Trust" is of course omitted 1t
is said that the treasury department
has a Saint Gaudens design for a
penny but that the die for the new
coppers has not been prepared.
While the river is frozen over and
the small ponds offer inviting skating
; the ice has not formed to depth to
make ice gathering feasible for some
time. Norfolk icemen usually count
on beginning the annual ice harvest
, the middle of January or some time
, in February In the larger rivers
where the river blocks rather than
freezes over, the slush ice freezes rap
? idly and the ice harvest begins almost
as soon as the river blocks but on the
: Northfork a couple of weeks of cold
weather is required to give the ice q
5 satisfactory depth after the river is
J first coated. Recent weather would
!; almost have permitted of blowing ant
), hasn't been ice-making weather
/, d. X. Small of Norfolk is to change
/ his residence to Hastings, travelling Out
=, of the latter city in the interests Of
:. the Remington typewriter company
Mr.. Small has been in Norfolk about
: two years with the Pacific and Ameri
:, can express companies, only recently
: resigning as Norfolk agent. He says
:. he leaves this city with a great dea
of regret on account of the two pleas
( ant years he has spent here and the
number of friends he counts in the city
0 Mr. and Mrs. Small will leave Sunday
g morning for their new home in Hast
ings. Mrs. Small who was principa
r of the Norfolk high school before hel
< marriage to Mr.. Small, will also leave
a circle of friends in Norfolk.
: Battle Creek people in another jai
e dilemma have appealed to County At
= torney Jack Koenigstein. A young
man on a Christmas drunk was con
9 signed to the village Jail to serve 6
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