The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-03-26

Trip county. In company with her
brothers she has been looking over
the Rosebud.
tors in Norfolk were: S. j, Main,
Butte; Il. Click, J. c. Burton, Verdel;
Joseph Thieman, Butte; A. Il. Ward,
Neigh; John O'Shea, Newman Grove /;
Ed O'Shea, Madison; Deputy United
States Marshal j. f. Sides, Dakota
City; W. w. Young, Stanton; j. +,
Perks, Plainview; Mrs Press, Win.
side
uorn to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Skiff, a
SON
The city council will meet in regular
session next Tuesday evening.
Till Waller, living seven miles north.
east of Madison, is to remove to Nor.
folk
The Epworth league of the Metho.
dist church will hold "A handkerchief
bazaar on April ;.
Fred Haase has charge of the har-
ness department of the Battle Creek
Hardware company,
James A. Read, for many years a
resident of Norfolk, has decided to
move to Alberta. Canada.
w. 4. Shively has let the contract
to S. f. Heitzman for a $500 resi-
dcnce on South Fourth street
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Ander.
son living in Wayne county seventeen
miles northeast of Norfolk, daughter.
County Attorney James Nichols has
been confined to his bed at his home
in Madison for more than a week
past.
The Methodist church will hold a
revival meeting in Norfolk next
month. Evangelist Mahood will assist
DR.. Ray.
George Grogan, brother of Mrs.
Jake Brinkman, is now at Egbert,
Alaska with company &c" of the Sec
ond infantry.
e. S. Bley, the drayman, has traded
his Madison avenue home for a large
farm five miles southeast of Spencer.
He will move on the farm April /.
F. H. Forest of Rapid City, S. D.,
has moved to Norfolk with his wife
and child. He is in the employment
of the Nebraska Telephone company.
The new Methodist church at Croft
ton will be dedicated on April 10. DR..
ID. K. Tindall of this city and DR.. J. w.
Jennings taking part in the services.
A guardian, it Is understood, will be
appointed to look after the affairs of
Jacob Behler, whom the county com
missioners Of insanity refused to com
nit to the state hospital on the
grounds that while Behler might be
old and rather feeble he still had his
| faculties.
Mrs. Goodwin, who has been an
operator at the 4,ebraska telephone
office here for several weeks, left at
noon for South Omaha her mothers
home.
Herrick Press: Mr.. George Vos-
burg of Norfolk was home for a short
visit with friends before taking up his
work at Adabolt, Ia, as manager of
the Independent Exchange at that
place.
Norfolk council No. 1870, U. c. T.,
will meet tonight in regular session
at 8 o'clock. Annual election of Of
ficers will be held. Seven candidates
for initiation will appear and Secre-
tary George H. Spear requests full
attendance.
The sophomore class at the high
school will give class entertainment
at the high school auditorium on next
Thursday evening This will be the
last of series of four class entertain
ments given for the benefit of the high
school piano fund.
Mrs. Frank Banner, who is on trial
| in Omaha for the murder of Fred Ban
ner, the young South Omaha COM
mission house man, spent her early
life on a ranch near Newport, Neb.
She was married to Fred King when
she was eighteen years old.
A meeting of the Norfolk fire de-
partment will be held next Wednesday
evening. At this meeting report will
be made by the committee appointed
to see whether the business men de-
sired to hold the state firemen's
tournament in this city the coming
summer
The fire whistle blew last night at
about o'clock, the home of r. l..
Doyle, Northwestern trainman, hav-
ing caught fire from a defective flue.
The fire was put out by bucket bri-
gade without the aid of the fire de-
partment. Mr.. Doyle lives at 1900
Cleveland street.
Ewing Advocate: Fred Wilson has
traded his farm for property at Nor.
folk and expects to take possession in
the near future. We are sorry to see
Fred go as he is one of the early set.
tiers and the best of neighbors. We
cannot recommend him too highly to
those he may meet in his new home,
THE Man from Nevada" will be
given at the Auditorium on April 16
/ by a Norfolk company of amateurs
under the auspices of the Ben Hur So
ciety. The proceeds above expenses
viii go to the city library. A COM
pany of fourteen is now practicing
under the direction of Mrs. r. S. Nets