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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28
SIGNS Of SPRING HERE.
SPRING TEMPERATURE AND SUN.
SHINE ARRIVED SUNDAY.
YoUNesTERs PLAY SPRING GAMES

Marbles and Base Ball for the Boys,
Jumping the Rope for the Girls,
While Both Sexes Have the Roller
Skating Craze.
"Hooray, the boys are playing mar.
bles! Yes, and baseball"
"Gooddy, the girls are jumping
rope"
Now, doesn't that sound like spring?
Sunday was tinted with the warmth
OF spring. March is nearly week
away and 1t will not be until March
20 that the sun slides across the eoui-
noX, but Sunday afternoon was called
spring by the thermometer If not by
the calendar. And it was called spring
by the small boys who cracked the
Sunday lid by playing marbles and
baseball.
The small boys of Norfolk have been
digging up their old marbles and to-
day were around at Norfolk avenue
stores trying to buy "knee pads"
Baseball hasn't reached its full devel-
opment but zone old cat" is fourishing
on the school grounds.
But all the small boys are not play
ing marbles and all the small girls
are not jumping rope. A small army
of them are rolling up and down Nor
folks cement walks on roller skates.
Roller skating is swinging into pop
ularity in Norfolk in way that sug-
gests the roller skating of the eighties.
Only 1t Is limited to the boys and girls
Just now and the presence Of miles
of smooth cement walks has given it
new turn.
There are Norfolk boys and girls
who are beginning to find it difficult
to walk without roller skates. Save
in the school hours the skates do not
leave their feet. At home they skate
through the house, skate up stairs, out
on the front walk, skate to school, to
Sunday school, skate everywhere and
about all the time. The school author
tiles have not surrendered yet and It
is not within the rules to skate through
the school halls.
A man was in Norfolk Saturday
looking for a hall or store building in
which to start rink. But the boys
and girls have turned all Norfolk into
a skating rink and the fad is still on
the upward swing.
The roller skating fad has swept
all over Nebraska. At Wayne the fad
had become so popular that it was
counted a public calamity when some
one stole the towns supply of skates.
With summer, roller skating will
probably become even more of fad.
And spring and summer are coming,
for yesterday the thermometer touched
fifty-nine degrees.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28

mann, living four miles northeast of
Pierce. She was married on Deem.
Der I, 1907. The family OF william
Boche is naturally grief stricken at
the sudden river tragedy.
William Boche was fifty.two years.
He was raised on the old Boche farm
and grew up along the banks of the
Elkhorn river u couple of miles south
of the city. His father, the late Will.
lam Boche, sr., was pioneer settler
in this region, coming here among the
first of the Wisconsin pioneers. He
picked his homestead on the Elkhorn
about forty years ago.
William Boche's name is signed to
the $4,000 bond that guarantees the
appearance of his brother, Herman
Boche, in the district court at Madison
next Monday to answer to the charge
of numbering Frank farmer on May l..
Funeral Of William Boche.
According to arrangements made
Friday morning the funeral of William
Boche, who was drowned in the Elk
horn, will be held Sunday afternoon
from Christ Lutheran church in Nor
folk. Mr. Boche was a member of this
church. Rev. j. z. Mueller will con-
duct the services. Interment will be
in the new Lutheran cemetery
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28
THREE NAMES N A WEEK
MRS. RICHARD HANNAH BECAME
MISS CHRISTINA pREEssEN.
NOW MRS. ERNEST LueeckE.

Divorced From Her Former Husband
Last Week the Lady Hastily Mar.
ried Aeain-Said That her Former
Husband Had Second Wedding First
From Mrs. Richard Hamann to Miss
Christina Dresser and from Miss
Dresser to Mrs. Ernest Luebcke rep
resented but Il weeks transition for
Mrs. Observation-Disclosures who
secured a divorce from her former hus-
band at the hands of Judge Welch
last week and who married again this
week. Ernest Luebcke is a well known
young farmer who lives near Warner
Vile. He is widower. The wedding
took place in Norfolk.
The Nebraska laws prohibit di-
vorced person from marrying again
within six months, that time being
allowed for an appeal of the case. 1t
is claimed for Mrs. buebcke, however,
that there is no danger Of her divorce
case being taken up any farther, it
having been testified in the trial at
Madison last week that her husband
has been married for sometime and
is now living with another wife in
central Nebraska.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28
THE FUND HAS DOUBLED
ANOTHER SUBSCRIPTION OF $4,000
is ADDED.
CONTRIBUTED BY D. MATHEWsoN

Two Subscriptions to the Fund, those
of w. n. 8utterfieId & Son and D.
Mathewson, Give $4,000 as a Starter
Towards the Building.
The Y. NJ. c. A. fund has grown to
double the size it was Saturday, now
amounting to $4,000. The contributor
to cover the amount subscribed by w.
II. Butterfield & Son, who had an
nounced a $4,000 subscription, is d.
Mathewson who gives a like amount,
making the total subscribed to date
$1,000. With this fund as a basis the
committee is looking for other big
subscriptions and 1t is hoped few
more of like size may be added to the
list in a short time. A number OF
smaller subscriptions are now in sight,
and the committee feels encouraged
to believe that the desired fund of $25,
900 may be raised in Norfolk with
which to erect a Y. NJ. C, A. building
Tomorrow morning the large dial
will be displayed in the window of
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28
ATTACKED BY VICIOUS HOG
Erich Henderson Narrowly Escapes
Death in Pig Sty.

Hoskins, Neb., Feb. 22.-Erich Hen
derson, an old homesteader living near
Bega. narrowly escaped death in the
pig sty. He attempted to pass through
the pen, when a vicious hog violently
attacked him, throwing him 10 the
ground and innicting severe wounds
before he could make his escape,
Hopes of his recovery are now enter
tanned.
John Weatherholt has purchased the
livery barn. 1t will be fitted out with
a new supply of horses, harness and
buggies.
The revival meetings at the Nj. e.
church are still in progress and a good
attendance is reported.
The dance last Saturday evening was
we'll attended. Two weeks hence the
club will give masquerade ball.
Henry Ziemer, who is attending the
Wayne normal was home over Sun
day.
Miss Eta Miller entertained com
pany of friends at Mrs. G. Schroeder S
on the evening of the 10th inst,
Misses Pauline Schroeder and Ida
Fuesz were Norfolk visitors over Sun
day,
4 petition to bond the district for a
new school building is being circu'
lated,
Meier Henry and Aug. Deck shipped
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28
STRONG TAFT SENTIMENT
NORFOLK CAUCUSES ARE PRAC.
TICALLY UNANIMOUS.
ADMIRE THE BIG SECRETARY


Convention at Battle Creek, Where
State and Congressional Delegations
Will be Selected.
The sentiment of Norfolk voters
who met in caucus Saturday evening
to choose delegates to the county con-
vention at Battle Creek, was found
to be virtually unanimous in favor of
Taft for president. While in only one
a presidential preference vote taken
advantage of, the same trend of senti-
ment was evident in all the ward eau
cuses.
In the Second ward caucus a vote
on presidential preference was taken
and resulted In sixteen votes being
cast for Taft and one for Fairbanks.
The First and Third ward caucuses
were held in the city hall, the Second
ward caucus in Mapes & Hazen's Office,
the Fourth ward at the Junction.
The caucuses selected the following
! delegations to represent Norfolk at
the republican county convention at
| Battle Creek next Saturday, when del
egates will be chosen to the state and
congressional conventions.
First ward: j. S. Mathewson, Jack
Koenigstein, NJ. d. Tyler, p. F. SPEECH
err, A. G. Lindsay, Judge Isaac Pow
ers, w. A. Witzigman.
Second ward: Burt Mapes, join
r. Hays, w. n. Huse, l.. NJ. Gaylord
f. A. Bullock, c. E. Burnham, j, NJ
Covert, S. d. Robertson, George d
Butterfield, C P. Parish,
Third ward: George y. Beels, j
II. Van Horn, J. B Maynard, r. II
Reynolds, j. S. Jackson, f. NJ. Hunt
ington, NJ. c. Hazen.
Fourth ward: C. S. Hoar, Mr.. kits
f. b. Taylor, w. II. Livingston, r. j
Eccles.
In the various caucuses it was voted
that no proxies be allowed but tina
the delegates present cast the full
vote of the delegation.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28
SMALL POX PATIENT HUNT
OLD MAN WITH DISEASE SAID TO
BE IN NORFOLK.
FLYNN COULDN'T FIND HIM

In Response to a Pointer the Chief of
Police Spent Fruitless Night Hunt.
ing an Old Man With Grey Beard
and the Small Pox.
Chief Flynn spent Sunday night in
a wild chase for a smallpox stricken
visitor in Norfolk, man Of seventy
years, who had alighted from the even
ing train from Fremont at the juno
ton. All morning Monday the chief
continued on his old man hunt, chas-
ing after every strange man whose age
appeared to approach the designated
three score and ten.
The chief was notified Monday even
ing from the headquarters of the
Northwestern that small pox victim,
an old man Of seventy years, with gray
hair and a gray full beard, with a new
black suit of clothes, black overcoat
and soft black hat, had gotten off the
train at Norfolk. In the interest Of the
public health Chief Flynn was request.
ed to find the man and hold and fumi-
gate him.
The list of old men found by the
chief would be long and varied He
found them everywhere, at the hotels,
at the depots, around town. But none
answered the description and none
confessed to small poX. The original
old man was said to hail from Clarks.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28
DROVE NAIL INTO KNEE.
Arthur Clark of Battle Creek III with
Blood Poisoning.

Battle Creek Enterprise: Arthur
Clark, employed as harness maker by
the Battle Creek Hardware company
was the victim of an accident last
Saturday morning which will lay him
up for some time. Mr.. Clark was
breaking kindling across his knee, not
noticing that the board contained a
long nail. With a terrific blow such
as Click" can deliver, he drove the
protruding nail full length into his leg
just above the knee. The nail split
when it reached the bone. After apply
ing common remedies, Mr., Clark suf'
fered little until a few hours later,
when the wound began to cause him
pain. Blood poisoning set in and dur
ing Sunday night he suffered untold
agony. For a short time it was feared
the results would prove serious. At
present, however, he is getting along
as we'll as could be expected and
there is no further danger that the
wound will seriously affect the entire
limb.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28
ALL HAVE SMALL POx.
Two Girls Communicate the Disease
to Twenty.four Men.

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 21.-The popular
ity of two young women of North Bend
is responsible, according to the state
health inspector, for the prevalence of
an epidemic of smallpox in that vicin.
ity. There are now twenty-four cases,
and each one of the twentyfour is de.
clared to have been contracted at one
of two dances which were recently
held in that vicinity. And all of the
twentyfour victims are young men
who danced with two girls.
The young women had been visiting
in Omaha, and when they returned
home they were attacked with what
the physician said was a skin trouble.
When they recovered in a few days,
they went to two dances. Each had
full card, and now, says DR.. Wilson,
the smallpox has been spread in IL
different directions.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28
TIE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Y. M. c. A. BUILDING COMMITTEE
is NAMED.
BURT MAPES is CHAIRMAN

National Bank Window to Mark the
Progress of the Subscription Cam
Paign-Joint Meeting.
The executive committee of the Y.
Nj. c. A. building campaign was named
Friday. 1t consists of the following
named: Burt Mapes, chairman; G. d.
Butterfield, c.. H. Reynolds, C. F. Shaw,
Frank Davenport, A. j. Durland and
d. Mathewson.
The committee was named by the
special nominating committee acting in
conjunction with the officers of the
general Y. M. c. A. committee.
The officers of the general commit
tee are: c. S. Bridge, chairman; G..
T. Sprecher, secretary; Will Stafford,
treasurer.
A big dial is to be placed in the win
dow of the Nebraska National bank to
mark the progress of the subscription
campaign soon to be entered upon.
The campaign will be for Y. NJ. G.
A. building costing not less than $685.
900. This was decided at the initial
meeting of the executive committee
Friday.
Friday afternoon arrangements were
made for joint meeting to be partici-
pated in by members of this new com
mittee and members of the city library
board. The conference was to be
held during the evening.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28
A NEW BocHE STORY.
A Norfolk Man Argued the Truth Of
lmplausable Story.

A man argued on Norfolk avenue
the other day that Herman Boche had
killed three men. Some of his hear
ers were inclined to dispute his state
ment but he spoke with so much con-
viction that he convinced several men.
He claimed that Herman Boche had
murdered a man in Germany and for
that reason had had to come to Amer
lea.
Herman Boche as a matter of fact
was born in Wisconsin and when still
small boy was brought to Norfolk
by his father the late William Boche,
Sr. For about forty-five years he liv-
ed on the Boche farm just south of
Norfolk
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28

the condition of the fund. 1t will be
a dial three feet in diameter, similar
to clock face, on which will be fig.
ures commencing at $1,000 and run.
ming to $4,000. In the center will be
printed the words, watch the clock
See the Y. NJ. C. A. grow" The first
announcement of the clock will be
that $4,000 has been subscribed
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28
ROBINS HAVE ARRIVED.
Red Breast Birds Declare That Spring
is Really at Hand.

is Really at Hand.
The robins have arrived.
Mrs. w. j. McNamee is the first per-
son to report having seen these I'M
questioned heralds of the springtime.
1t was Saturday that the first robins
came to Norfolk.
Graceful, happy in the sunshine
cheerful as of old, the robin red breast
brings the same word of peace and
good will and contentment that he has
been bringing for these many, many
years.
And in answering present" to each
mornings roll call, he tells the people
of Norfolk that the ground hogs shad.
oW has lost its effect.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28
Mr.. TURNER WILL LEAVE
ACCEPTS CALL TO GO TO SHEN
ANDoAH, IOWA.
FINAL DECISION ANNOUNCED
At the Mid-Week Meeting Of the Con-
ereeation, Mr.. Turner Announced
That He Had Decided Not to Recon.
slider His Resignation.

Rev. w. j. Turner, pastor of the
First Congregational church of this
city, will leave Norfolk to become pas
tor of the Congregational church at
Shenandoah, Iowa. This follows the
announcement of Mr.. Turner's final
decision to the members of his con-
gregation at the mid-week meeting of
the church.
When Mr.. Turner's call to Shenan-
doah, Iowa, was first announced men,
bers of the Norfolk church sought to
retain their pastor and adopted reso-
buttons asking for a reconsideration
of the resignation offered them.
Mr.. Turner took two weeks to con-
slider the matter. Following his an
nouncement at the mid-week meeting
the resignation was accepted.
Mr.. Turner with his family will
leave Saturday morning for their new
home in Shenandoah The First Con-
gregational church for the time being
will be without pastor.
Mr.. Turner's friends have been in.
vited to the church Thursday evening
when something in the nature of a
farewell reception will be held COT
fee and sandwiches will be served.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28
LINCOLN CASES.
a Surgeon and One Newspaper Man
to be Prosecuted.

Lincoln, Neb., Feb 20-Special to
The News: Attorney General Thomp-
son is to prosecute DR.. f. A. Graham
of Lincoln, surgeon for the Union Pa
cific on the charge that he is pass
holder. One Lincoln man is to be
prosecuted as test case. Other anti
pass prosecutions are to be held in
allegiance awaiting the outcome of
these cases.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28

car loads OF fat hogs to Omaha during
the week.
+. S. Benscr will soon begin the
erection OF dwelling house on the
site opposite his store.
Chas. Ohlund has begun to move
his household goods into his new prop
Crty.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28

Visiting cards neatly done In the
latest approved style at reasonable
prices. Huse Pub. Co.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28

Write it about as you would write
telegram or memorandum-that want
ad. of yours.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28

To keep in touch with real estate
values IN this city you must keep "in
touch" with real estate advertising.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28
FOR $4,000
JURY GIVES MRS. kuRPGEWElT
HEAVY JUDGMENT.
SUIT BROUGHT FOR $4,000

Sensational Case From Battle Creek
in Which Farmer Kirby is the De.
PENDANT is Charged With Having
Made improper Advances.
A $4,000 verdict against Edward Kir.
by, farmer living near Battle Creek,
was awarded Mrs. Ida Kurpgeweit
Thursday afternoon in the district
court at Madison. The jury's verdict
was announced in the afternoon after
the jury had been out the greater part
of the day. Mrs. Kurpgeweit sued for
$4,000.
The case was sensational. Kirby
was alleged to have called at the
Kurpgewet home to take Mrs. Kurg.
geweit to a neighbours home whom he
claimed was sick. He was accused OF
having made improper advances. The
woman jumped from the buggy and
made her way to the neighbor who had
been reported i'll.
Kirby was arrested at the time and
came to Norfolk and paid fine of
$25 in a justice court. The big dam
age suit was instituted later. 1t is
thought that the case will be appealed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-02-28

The suit of Mrs. Hannah Bryant
against the Modern Woodmen will
probably be the last case heard this
week. The case against the Battle
Creek saloon keepers has gone over
until later in the term.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-11
DREDGING IN THE POTOMAC.
Plans for Deepening Channels and
Digging in Tidal Basin.

Early In the coming month, IL is stated.
the Maryland Dredging and Contracting
Company Of Baltimore will start the work
of the deepening of the channels in this
vicinity and the digging out OF the tidal
basin. under contract with the United
States army engineer Office. and during
the coming year the work will be pushed
vigorously along in order, If possible, to
complete ii before next winter In the
tidal basin the contract calls for the ex-
cavation of about 100000 cubic yards OF
material. so as TO give a depth Of from
seven to eight feet over the entire area
of the basin. which is about III acres.
In the Virginia channel TO Georgetown
the contract calls for the removal OF
about 100000 cubic yards of material.
which will be pumped on the Potomac
Park in the vicinity of the old 18th street
canal. which is to be filled. and on the
section of the park near Easbys point.
where the land is low. The bulk o. the
dredging will he done on a bar which
has formed i'm the river near the site Of
the old wooden Long bridge, and i'm the
draws of the new railway and Highway
bridges. but the entire channel will be
made twenty-one feet deep and $50 feet
wide. The length of this channel is 700
feet. and the depth Of the cutting to be
done varies from one to nine feet.
About 100000 cubic yards of soft ma
terial and 2l.OOQ cubic yards Of hard ma
teral will be dredged from the Anacostia
river below the Navy Yard bridge. This
channel is to be given depth OF twenty
feet at low water. and is to be widened
near Buzzards point. nea- the navy yard.
and in the vicinity of Washington bar
racks. Several kinks in the channel to
the navy yard will be made straight The
work will cost more than 100000. but
when 1t Is completed the Potomac IN the
vicinity of this city will be deep enough
for any vessel that may come up the
Potomac with ice or other cargoes aboard
or to take coal from Georgetown.
1t is stated that there is now only
about eighteen feet of water near tho
site of the old Long bridge, and coal
laden vessels coming down from George
town struck the bottom several times last
summer The shoaling of the stream has
been caused by the material brought down
by the numerous freshets in the past
three years since the river was last
d-edged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-11
Tribute to Prof. E. A. Tibbetts.

At a meeting of the Secular League,
which was held Sunday afternoon at
1912 9th street northwest. tributes were
paid to the memory of Prof Edgar A.
Tibbetts. whose sudden death on Thurs
day, February 6. has already been noted
in The Star. Prof. Tibbetts was de-
clared to be a scholar of vast and varied
attachments: a master of many languages.
ancient and modern; student of his
tory; an independent thinker and YER
satile writer. whose death will be dis
tinct loss to the world
He was man, it was said. who loved
learning better than gold, whose mind
was stored with a knowledge of the
myths and superstitions Of the past. but
whose face was ever turned toward the
sunlight of reason and science. He had
always been in sympathy with the ef-
forts of the Secular League Ito free the
human mind from the domination of
priestcraft and the bondage Of traditional
creeds and dogmas." Resolutions We're
adopted stipulating that the Secular
League place OH record its appreciation
of his character and achievements. his
lofty intellectual ideals and his disinter-
ested love of truth; that his loss is
mourned and sincere and heartfelt SYM
pathy is extended to his bereaved family
and that copies OF the resolutions be
transmitted to his family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-11
Mrs. McSherry Wins.

FREDERICK. Md. February lin
the Frederick county court yesterday Mrs.
Cornelia Ross McSherry, former wife Of
]. Roger McSherry. was awarded $4,000
damages against Mrs. Eva August Hen
ley. alias Mrs. Eva August Stanley, for
alternating the affections of her husband.
The defendant is now the wife of Mr..
McSherry. The courts award was based
upon the testimony taken in the divorce
proceedings of Mrs. McSherry against her
husband. Originally Mrs. McSherry sued
for $4,000 damages. When the case was
taken up. some days ago. counsel on both
sides agreed to submit il to the court.
During the proceedings none OF the par
ties interested appeared personally. 1t is
understood that the defendant will take
advantage of the bankruptcy law to avoid
payment of the judgment. She being a
resident of Chicago. the bankruptcy pro-
ceedings will be conducted in that city.