The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-22
THURSDAY TlDlNGS.


ton in the Ward cigar store.
Part of the machinery for the new
creamery was received yesterday.
John II. Gee and Miss Almira Smith
of Albion were married in Omaha.
The ladies aid society of the Pres
byterian church will meet with Mrs.
Hagel tomorrow afternoon.
DR.. II. j. Cole of Norfolk responded
TO the address of welcome delivered
at the opening session of the state
dental society in Omaha.
A pound-and-a-half rock bass" was
pulled out of Kent's slough by n. A.
Rainbolt. j. S. Mathewson about the
same time landed a two-pound black
bass. Fishing is said to be good
The brick building occupied by the
MoeIer saloon is being altered so as
to bring the windows down to the re-
Turf exchange have been lowered.
Smith 4 Son, sewer contractors,
have a force of men working on both
the Fifth street sewer and the Heights
sewer. The former will probably be
completed in a week, the latter in
about month.
DR.. +. A. Long of Madison, for
mer president of the state medical
society, responded to the address OF
welcome delivered by Governor Shell
don at the fortieth annual meeting OF
the state association in Lincoln.
of I innnln
rived in Norfolk to take the position
of office manager of the sale and
collection department of the Realty
Advertising cigar company. Inc
company has offices in the Bishop
block.
Mrs. Anna Madsen received a check
this morning for $2021 from Special
Agent Petit of the Bankers Life in
surance company, covering the
amount of insurance on the life oil
her son, Charles Madsen, carried IN
that company.
Suits for the Norfolk base ball team
were ordered yesterday by the base
ball directors. The new suits are To
be gray with blue trimmings. The
base ball prospects are beginning TO
look encouraging. The directors are
looking for a game to open the local
season.
Uncle Billie" Pringle. the old or
gan grinder who is over hundred
years old is back in Norfolk again
with his ancient music box, which is
nearly as ancient as Uncle Billie him
self. Pringle's stay is never long III
any one place. He will be in Norfolk
until next Saturday.
b. F. Bierer and L. r. Sheldon
passed through Norfolk last evening
with a big twenty-five horsepower
Rambler touring car for Grin Hail,
a Neigh liveryman, who is to use
the machine in connection with his
livery business. Mr. Bierer, whose
home is in Oakdale, has a real estate
office in Omaha,
Wayne Democrat; Winside played
bah here on Sunday, defeating the
Hoskins boys 5 to 2. The most stir
ring event of the day was bout not
on the bills between a Norfolk young
\
folk man being put under $40 bonds
to appear here Monday morning,
which he forfeited,
The Nebraska state pharmaceuti'
cal association will meet in Omaha,
June 1918. The state board of phar-
macy vii meet the first day of the
convention for examinations. Last
summer the druggists camped out in
the beautiful park in Seward but a
downpour of rain turned their minds
TO the Omaha hotels.
This weeks democratic convention
in California was controlled by eX-
Congressman Theodore Bell, the ma
tional president of the Eagles. There
has been considerable interest taken
here. especially on the part of Norfolk
Eagles, in the factional fight in the
ranks of the California democracy
because of the efforts which have
been made to bring Mr.. Bell to Nor
folk on the occasion of the state con-
vention of Eagles next month Yes
terday's dispatches told of a victory
for Bell over the old machine forces
The convention endorsed Bell for
temporary chairman of the national
convention at Denver.
Lincoln Journal: Assistant State
Engineer George Bates has returned
from a trip 10 the Niobrara river,
where he established a gauging sta
ton. He found a narrow channel,
only $50 feet wide at the Whiting