The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-12-04

orally signed
Charles Bridge, who is attending
school at Oberlin, Ohio, has been in a )
hospital for some days suffering from
blood poisoning which resulted from
an injury TO mis- knee about two weeks
ago The knee was hurt in a bicycle
TALL Miss Helen Bridge, sister, has
gone to Oberln.
The $4,000 damage suit of w. =.
! Ferguson against A. H. Cross and the
officers of the University Place church,
| growing out of the removal and trial
of Ferguson as pastor of the church,
has been dismissed Ferguson was
charged with immoral conduct with
| Mrs. Cross. During the time he left
the church and the time of his church
trial, a period of several weeks, Fer
guson spent most of his time in Nor
folk as an insurance agent.
The First Baptist churcn edifice has
been furnished with new modern
church seating, pulpit furniture, car
pets and mating which adds very ma.
terially to the attractiveness and com
fortableness of the interior of the
building. This improvement has cost
the church about $500 of which
amount the ladies aid society has pro-
vided $3.50 The young peoples So
ciety paid for the pulpit furniture and
carpets.
Mr. and Mrs. W. ]. Gibson have re.
ceived word from the instructors at
the New England Conservatory of
music, in Boston, that their daughter,
Miss Lois Gibson, was the only mem
Der of large class to receive per-
feet grade in her final examination on
piano playing. BY successfully pass
ing this examination Miss Gibson is
enabled to graduate in three years,
whereas the regular course is four
years in length.
Edward Funk of Warnerville, one of
the men who has adoped little boy
out of the colony that were recently
sent to Madison from New York, had
the lad in Norfolk Saturday afternoon
The boy. Willard Bateman by name,
had never seen a COW MIXED until
a week ago, but now he's picking up
the art himself. He is a bright look
ing little chap and likes Nebraska
His sister is in the Rowlett home and
the two attend the same school.
Miss Belle White, who has not left
an invalids chair for two months
died at $50 o'clock Monday morning
at the home of her father, Abram
White Miss White has always had
heart trouble following an attack Of
inhammatory rheumatism when she
was fifteen years old. She was about
forty at the time of her death. Short
funeral services will be held at the
home Tuesday afternoon and the body
then taken direct to the cemetery
Miss Whites father who survives her
was one of the pioneers of the west
"forty-niner" in California in the
held at 8 o'clock.
District court was convened in
Madison Monday afternoon by Judge
Welch the early part of the afternoon
being taken up with reading the
docket. The cases of Herrick against
the city of Norfolk, of Mrs. Bonney
against J. w. Ransom and of the Ed
wards & Bradford Lumber company
against Minnie Wegener were as
signed for trial in Norfolk on January
6. Among the Norfolk attorneys pres
ent were: Jack Koenigstein, M. d.
Tyler, M. c. HaZen, H. F. Barnhart,
E. P. Weatherby, j. C. Engelman.
Tho 1itt1n 5anuhtar of Mr and Mrc
Ed C. Engle has recovered from an
attack of diphtheria, The little girl
was sick only a week, rallying quickly
under the constant care of her parents
This is the only case of diphtheria
about which there is certainty. A dis
agreement exists as to whether an
other little girl who recently died had
diphtheria or quinsy. It is stated by
local physician that the little girl
choked to death as the result of a
gathering in her throat. The house
was placed under quarantine by the
city physician and health board as a
matter of precaution.
T. j. Hughes, the young man who
surrendered himself to the Sioux City
police with the statement that ne mad
forged his fathers name to check
in Norfolk, has been released. A year
ago the young man was introduced to
the Citizens National bank as w. B..
Hughes. He wished to draw a check
for $25 on a Wayne bank. Call up
and see if | am good" he said. The
Wayne bank said that w. B. Hughes
was good. The trouble was that the
young man was not w. B. Hughes.
The case was referred from Norfolk
to President Toy in Sioux City, who
visited the young man in Jail the last
of the week. Word received today is
that the young man will not be prose
cuted.
Its no wedding bells for j. c. Sum-
mers of Omaha who passed through
Norfolk one day last week on his way
from Crawford to meet Miss Emma
Carroll of Crawford, who had pro-