The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-02-07

W. F. Logan, cashier of the Ne.
braska National bank, was taken III
with the grip Saturday morning.
Monday evening Is the regular date
Of the February meeting of the Norfolk
board of education.
President j. NJ pile of Wayne col
lege was elected to membership In the
Nebraska Schoolmasters club at the
meeting in Lincoln last week.
The Nebraska congressional delega-
ton failed Saturday to decide the in
ternal revenue collectorshlp. Another
meeting will be held Wednesday.
The Orleans hotel at Spirit Lake,
Iowa, has been destroyed by fire. The
loss was $4,000. Many north Nebras-
ka people are familiar with this hotel.
Sheriff Bauman has returned to Ere
mont from st. Josheph, Mo-, where he
found that the little girl held by the
ST. Joseph police was not the missing
Lily Olson of Resale.
THAT Thaw verdict didn't surprise
me-" said one Norfolk man, For saw
that it would be pretty hard to hand a
man for the only sensible thing he
ever did in his foolish evil career"
Mrs. George LaFarge, who was OPP
Grated on last week as a result of APP
pendicitis and gall stones, is now much
better. While her condition was very
critical her friends are now quite con-
fident of her recovery.
Petitions have been circulated over
Antelope county for the organization
of an agricultural society to hold a
county fair. The meeting was called
for the court house at Neigh next
Saturday morning at IL a. m.
Mr.. Robinson, publisher of the new
Norfolk city directory, desires local
ministers to mail him the various
hours of service at their churches; also
that the secretaries of Norfolk lodges
mail him the lodge meeting place and
the meeting nights.
Wesley Roberts is visiting at the
home of his mother, Mrs. Ella Roberts,
because of an injured eye. He is a
student at the Kearney military acad-
envy and in practice drill his eye was
burned the other day with powder,
Just how long he will be kept at home
is not known.
William Thiesen of the West Point
faculty and Roy Rich, Otto Steufer,
Sidney Spillner, Henry Thiesen, Boyd
Sims and Joe Limbaugh of the West
Point high school basket ball team
were in Norfolk Saturday night return
'ug from Madison where they lost a
game to the Madison high school.
Lincoln Journal: State Veterinarian
McKim was called to Aurora to
take action in an outbreak of rabies
that has appeared among both cattle
and horses. 1t is said to be due to the
bite of mad dog that passed through
the region recently. Some live stock
died as result of the disease but
thus far no person has been afflicted,
Sam Kent of Kent Siding was seven
ty-five years old Sunday. And next
July Mr.. Kent and his wife will cele-
brate their golden wedding anniver-
sary. Mr.. Kent is one of the pioneer
farmers of Madison county and one of
its staunch and prosperous citizens.
He was born on February 2, 1888, in
county Wexford in the south of Ire
land.
School directors will in the future,
it is said make short work of tramps
who break into Madison county school
houses to spend the night under COW
er. Miss Helen Irwin of Madison, who
is teaching in the Tannehill school
south of the city, stumbled over man
as she entered the school house the
other morning. A director had to be
called to eject the man.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men and the Order of Railroad Con-
ductors of sixty-five railroads west of
the Mississippi river voted recently
to change the wage system by having
the rate paid per mile travelled by
trains instead of by the month, as at
present. The railroaders on the noun
famous divisions of the east voted
against the proposition as unit be-
cause it would decrease their pay.
There are good many Norfolk peo-
pie who do not know that Manager G.
T. Sprecher's title is really district
manager" in the service of the Nebras-
ka telephone company. The state is
divided into about twenty districts, the
Norfolk telephone Office being the
headquarters for one of these dis
tricts. The Norfolk district has more
miles of poles than any other district
in Nebraska, though not more miles of
toll lines. 1t is the biggest district in
the state in point of territory and in
cludes forty.five toll stations. 1t also
includes $50 sub-license stations.
The town of Columbus has lost its
national guard company on account
of the inefficiency of the organization.
Company X, First regiment, has been
ordered mustered out of the service.
In its place the First separate in
fantry company of Wymore, formerly
the Wymore battery, has been assign
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