The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-14
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c. c. Wright of Omaha, North
western attorney, was in Norfolk yes
terday.
S G. Mayer Is expected home
Wednesday evening from short visit
to Lincoln.
John Friday went to Licoln Tuesday
to attend the state hardware mems
convention.
Mr. and Mrs. j. Foreman of Orchard
were in Norfolk, taking their little
five year old son to Omaha to be ex.
amined by Omaha medical specialists.
Sioux City physicians thought the lit.
tie lad had cancer.
Among the days out of town visit.
ors in Norfolk were: c. Horst, Madi-
son; Mrs. o. f. Strubeck, Newman
Grove; Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Rail, Bee.
mer; c. NJ. Lester, Bancroft; C. f.
Peters, st. Paul; c. II. Mohr, Plain
view; Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Henderson,
Madison; Louis Chaser, Stanton; C. E.
Linn, Hoskins; j. A. Duncan, William
Mas, ]. ID. Duncan, jr,, Wayne county.
Butte after two years In darkness
has electric lights again.
II. A. Haley has come in from the
road for the time being at least.
b. f. Woods new Bonesteel paper
is the Gregory County Herald" 1t
is democratic.
A number of alterations and i'm
provements are being made in the
Sturgeon music store
The Fremont Commercial club is
making an effort to revive the aban-
doned sugar factory at Leavitt.
1t Is said that the city is filed with
more peddlers of needles and such
other odds and ends than for long
! time.
A box social was announced for
"Wednesday night at the school house
| In the Raaseh district, two miles west
of the city.
Mrs. Nj. A. Weber, formerly of Nor
folk, in writing from Fullerton, Cal,
to Norfolk friends, says that she is en-
joying health and prosperity.
Thomas B. Walker, for twelve years
postmaster at Atkinson, has turned
the Office over to his successor, Dell
Akin, editor of the Atkinson Graphic.
Wednesday morning dawned with a
warm, wet snow taxing. With the
Streets already very soft and muddy,
the additional dampness did not tend
in any way to improve conditions in
Norfolk.
Norfolk tennis fiends will get an
early start on the game this spring.
Rev. John NJ. Kinds and Frank Beels
were talking tennis this week. 1t is
said that tennis will be played more
Systematically this year than ever be.
fore.
The family of w. H. Bridge, former
ly of Norfolk, are now located in their
new home in Spokane, 260 East Ninth
street. John Bridge is employed in
a wholesale grocery house at Spokane
with the privilege of buying an inter
est in the establishment
Fremont Tribune: Bert Thomas
left for Norfolk. last evening where
he will enter the employ of the Ne
braska Telephone company as line
man. Mrs. Thomas accompanied him
as far as Wisner, where she will spend
a month with relatives before joining
her husband at the former named
place.
Examinations will be held at various
points of the United States February
&c and April Is for federal veterinary
inspectors. Notice to that effect has
lust been received in Norfolk by V
V. Light, clerk of the civil service
board. There are forty vacancies t.
fill. The position pays $1,40O for two
years, $1,000 for two years and $500
thereafter.
Friends of B. W. Jonas who hap
pened into the vicinity of the genera
delivery window of the postoffice
smoked good cigars yesterday-if the!
smoked. 1t was day of double cele
bration with Mr.. Jonas, just as is
EVERY February II. 1t marked the fiji
ty-seventh year of his life as well as
the thirty-second wedding anniversary
He was born on his wedding-day-elec
March 8, the first Tuesday in March
is the next exchange day. On account
of the approach of spring when farm
horses and implements will be in &C
tive demand this exchange day is ex
pected to be the most active of the
exchanges held so far. Members Of
the committee are satisfied with the
hold that exchange day has taken or
the people of this vicinity and looi
for some lively buying next month.
Hooper Sentinel: John Thompson
Iof this city has recently had patented
a coupling to be used in connecting
the heavy steel rails on railroads, thus
doing away with the old method o.
boiling them together. 1t Is said by
those who investigated the device tha
it is complete in every respect. Fol
several weeks it has been in use il
the railroad yards at Scribner and ha:
| been pronounced by the roadmaster o.
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