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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-08-27
months al a lime caused him inde-


months at a time caused him inde-
scribable pain.
Many surgeons were consulted and
some of them subjected him to sur
gical interference, laying open the pa
tents arm from the shoulder to the
wrist, and preventing the large and
deep wound from healing, in the hope
that the exposure of the sheath of the
affected nerve would bring relief. This
treatment proved as unavailing as it
was costly and painful. Gave up his
music, retired from the choir OF the
Second Baptist church, refused all sim-
liar engagements and only on rare oc-
casions and during temporary surcease
of his afiiiction appeared in public and
private concerts.
At last, worn to n shadow and with
a slow and painful death before him,
he came under the care of DR.. w. A
McCandless of this city, who advised
one of the most painful and extensive
operations known to medical science.
the laying bare of the nerve from it's
seat in the spine to the wrist, the re-
pairing of the infected places and sec
IioiiS vi lhc htlNc us llutl anu u
satisfactory test of the operation be-
fore the closing of the long incision
involved in the process.
When Mr.. Porteous was placed on
the operating table at Rochester an
| incision was made on the right side of
the spine, laying bare the diseased
nerve, and this was followed by bur-
rowing under the shoulder blade and
| laying open the arm to the wrist.
| The cheering news has come from
his bedside that he is resting we'll.
that the pain in his arm had, for the
| first time in thirty years, entirely sub
sided, that there was only a sympa-
thetic nerve strain in the left arm and
that the attending surgeon held out the
strongest hope of gradual, but COM
plete recovery.
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MODERN WooDMEN PICNIC.
Gregory County Lodge Men to CeIe-
brate August 20.

Elaborate preparations are being
made by the members of the Modern
Woodmen organization in Gregory
county for their annual picnic and cell
ebration, which will be held at Burke
on Saturday August %. The affair
will be interesting not only to Wood
men, but to other residents Of the
county, and because of this it is ex-
pected the attendance will run into the
thousands. The days festivities will
be inaugurated by street parade in
the morning. This will be headed by
the Bonesteel band, followed by the
uniformed ranks of Foresters from the
various Woodmen camps throughout
the county. Various sporting features
have been provided for the entertain
ment of the visitors. There will be
horse racing, foot racing and other
sports.
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PRESS COMMENTS ON PRIMARY.
Likes Primary; But Suggests Change.

Likes Primary; But Suggests Change.
Boyd County News: The News con-
siders the primary system of nominat-
ing candidates preferable to the old
convention system or to any other
system yet tried or proposed, but the
change from single to blanket ball
lot is serious mistake and the inter-
ests of good government demand that
it be remedied at the first opportunity.
Party men who would not openly call
for ballot of the opposing party can
with a blanket ballot under cover of
the booth vote a party ticket with
whom they are not affiliated and sole
ly to nominate a weak man and thus
more sure of victory at the general
election. This, of course, works
equally as well one way as another,
but in either event it is not in the
interests of good government, and
practically destroys all of the benefits
of the primary system. To illustrate,
we will cite the vote here in Anoka.
At the presidential election Taft got
about twenty-five votes and Bryan
apoul 'hilIy-eiShI Vi lhose cast III lhiS
precinct. There is practically no
change in the complexion of the vote
today, and yet at Tuesdays primary
there were only six democratic votes
among the forty-one votes polled.
Those not voting were about equally
divided. The democrats evidently did
a little foraging on the enemy and in
close contests it would have turned
the tide.
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Knox County Teachers.

Creighton News: County Superin-
tendent Murphy has sent out the an
announcement for the Knox county
teachers institute, which will be held
at Bloomfield August 20 to o. A full
corps of expert instructors and num-
Der of prominent lecturers will instruct
and entertain teachers and visitors.
The eighth grade graduation exercises
will be held on Monday afternoon. The
Knox County School officers associa-
ton will hold their meeting on Wednes-
day afternoon, August %, and all
school officers are requested to be
present. The School Folks club will
hold their annual banquet on Wednes-
day evening. The August teachers ex-
animation will be held at Center and
Bloomfield August 20 and 81, and no
special examination will be given at
close of institute. The law requires
that all teachers attend institute and
permits the county superintendent to
excuse only experienced teachers for
satisfactory reasons. Every teacher
expecting to teach In the county should
attend the institute.
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the state for some time. The temper
allure Monday throughout Kansas Is
SO TO. 49,.
Next Sunday at Stanton the German
Lutheran church of that town will
give a missionfest which will be at
tended by many people from Norfolk
and other surrounding towns. Several
good speakers are expected to deliver
mission speeches.
The Country club golf links record
has been broken again. Mr.. Cullis.
gardener at the insane hospital, yes
terday made the course in 55. The
previous best record was 81, which
had been made by Spencer Buttertield.
Mr.. Cullis made the first hole in 4, the
second in 4 and the fourth In 3.
The German Relief association gave
a picnic at Pasewalk's grove yesterday
which was attended by large num-
Der of people. Much pleasure was de-
rived Mt the baby rack and foot races
were run by the young people. Lem
onade, ice cream and pop were served
In the grove. The band was feature.
The library board is called to meet
at the library room Tuesday afternoon
at 4 o'clock for the purpose of taking
action on the new library. Now that
Mr.. Carnegie has been heard from and
it is definitely known that $4,000 is
the limit of his donation, plans for the
building within this limit must be
worked out.
Ernest Fenske filed complaint in
Justice Eiseley's court Monday against
Ernest Korth, charging him with lar
ceny. Fenske claims that while play
ing cards with Korth in local saloon
he was touched" for $40 by Korth.
The case was continued till September
Z. Korth says the charge is without
foundation and he will fight it.
Invitations have been issued for the
marriage of Helen Margaret Bridge of
Norfolk, daughter of c. S. Bridge, to
Clyde Johnston Bullock, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. E. A. Bullock. The wedding
will take place in the home Of the
brides father, 1903 Norfolk avenue, at
80 O'Clock Saturday evening, Septem-
Der II.
DR.. C. ]. Verges was badly hurt by
falling from his bicycle at the corner
of Koenigstein avenue and Ninth
street. He was rendered unconscious
by the fall. A severe bruise on his
head and eye, and badly gashed face.
| were the results. DR.. Verges felt bet
ter in the afternoon. The breaking of
the sprocket on his bicycle was the
cause.
A. l.. Killian returned yesterday
from New York City, where he had
been attending the Style show. AL
though many new styles were shown,
Mr.. Killian says many Of the visitors
who came to the show especially to
see the newest fashions for women
were disappointed as most of the
styles shown were in mems apparel.
A change in the operating room at
the automatic telephone Office is being
made, Guy Peyton, who has hereto
fore had charge of this department, Is
forced to leave the city on account of
Mrs. Peyton's i'll health. w. F. Weav'
err of Omaha, who has had charge OF
the Richmond, Ind, plant, will be here
to take Mr.. Peyton's place tomorrow.
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GOLDEN'S HARD SNOWSTORM.
Incident In Career Of Actor Famous as
Old Jed Prouty.

via Jeo FTouty.
Richard Golden, the actor, who re-
Gently died ON q private yacht which
was anchored off the Brooklyn On. "
Yacht club, Gravesend bay, achieved
fame in the role of Jed In a comedy en-
titled "Old Jed Prouty." AT one time
he was an actor in stock company.
zone night at the old fremont thea
ter In Boston," he remarked some time
ago, III speaking Of the experience, 1--WE
were putting on the old melodrama,
Storm Beaten in which l was COM
PEELED to play the aged father. 1t was
of Importance that l had being in a
snowstorm, when i had to grope
around with my face upturned to
heaven, murmuring, My child, my
child, where are you tonightr
IL got fair start, and was looking
heavenward and reading TIE lines with
all the pathos at my command when
suddenly something about the size Of
toy balloon, 1t seemed to me, struck
my front teeth and passed on into my
throat. stopped, coughed, choked.
got red in the face and threw myself
forward in a spasm, and. to my great
relief, an object struck the stage with
a sharp click and bounded out into the
audience.
1.-THE darned property man had put
rock in the snow After the audi
ence quit having Mysteries l continued,
but I refused to look squarely at
heaven again during the run Of that
Diayu
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COLLIDE IN BALL GAME
Emil Wilde Rendered Unconscious,
Frank Fox Bruised.

A pickup team from Norfolk went
to Stanton and played the Stanton
Juniors, being defeated by the score Of
IL to 2.
Emil Wilde was knocked uncon-
scious and badly bruised and Frank
Fox was badly bruised about the eye
when they collided with each other
endeavoring to catch a high fly.
The feature of the game was the
pitching of Fox, who only allowed
Stanton two hits, the runs being made
by Stanton being on errors of Norfolk.
Score by innings: R. H. E..
Norfolk 20 0 0 OOO2 20 o. 8 IL
Stanton % 2 1 900 l *-12 2 4
Batteries: Norfolk, Fox and Lucas;
Stanton, Holstein and Peterson.
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the country, and the supply companies
are re-employing many statesmen who
were discharged during the panic
which occurred in October. 1907,
The orders by the Northwestern
road for equipment and power and the
order OF the Santa Fe for steel rails
are among the largest Of the kind II,
not the largest in the history of those
two roads.
All-steel Car Adopted.
In connection with the Northwest
ems orders, the company has adopted
an all-steel car for it's passenger SER
vice and will replace the present equip
ment with such cars as rapidly as pos
sible. The present order for passenger
equipment is for 125 all-steel cars, to
be placed in service on different por
tions of the road. These cars are as
near fireproof as it is possible to make
them and as nearly indestructible as
they can be built under the present
state of development of the car build.
ers' art.
There will be forty passenger coach.
es, fifteen smoking cars, twenty chair
cars, twelve parlor cars, five dining
cars, seventeen baggage and sixteen
mail cars.
The cost of this equipment will be
approximately $2,2O0,O0O. The new
dining cars will be longer than usual,
seating six more persons than the pres
ent standard car.
The company also has ordered 1875
locomotives. of which fifty will be
freight engines of the consolidation
| type and the rest passenger engines of
the Pacific type.
The freight engines will weigh lis
tons and the passenger engines 116
| tons. The latter are guaranteed to
haul train of fourteen heavy Pull
man cars at a speed of sixty miles an
hour. They will have driving wheels
seventy-five inches in diameter. This
item will be nearly $2,250,000.
Delivery to Be Early.
The third items Of the Northwest
ern's order Is made up of 5000 freight
| cars. vi JulS O,OUV Will DS Doh
cars, $500 gondola cars, 600 refrig-
orator cars, 500 ore cars, 800 fiat cars
and 800 stock cars. The expenditure
for this item will be approximately
$7,2O0,0O0.
The delivery of the passenger cars
will begin in October and end in jan
uary. the locomotives will be all in by
December, and the freight cars will be
several months in being delivered.
All of the passenger equipment will
be additional equipment, and rs per
cent of the freight equipment and OF
the power will be additional and not
in the. nature of renewals.
The Santa Fe's order for steel is for
delivery during 1910 and is purposed
for 700 miles of new road and for re-
newals. 1t is all underground rail and
large portion of it is purposed for
Texas. In that state there is new
line 300 miles long in process Of con
struction from Colman to Texico. A
great deal of new construction is being
prosecuted in California and the grad
ing will be ready for the laying of rail
by early in 1910.
The new Texas line will connect the
Santa Fe's California line with its Gal
weston line.
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Persistency Draws Big Wages!

Enough persistency to make some
thing else probable Of accomplishment
will almost always finish the task in
want advertising. This quality of per-
sistency draws it's biggest rewards in
want advertising-wins its surest lau-
rels.
To know when to quit" is import
ant in some things. To know when to
keep on is important in want adver-
Using. It's the secret of the person
who is called fortunate"
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RULES FOR HosTEssss.
Miss Mabel 5oardnnan, Taft's, Adviser,
Tells How to Entertain.

Tells How to Entertain.
Boston, Aug. 24-It is easy to be a
successful hostess In the opinion of
Miss Mabel Boardman, social arbiter
of Washingtons exclusive set and con-
fidential adviser Of the presidents fam.
lily in the matter of entertainment.
Only recently honored by the gift
of golden crown from the Italian
government for her work In relieving
the Messina earthquake victims, Miss
Boardman now is resting on the north
shore from her social and philanthropy
ic duties.
my success as a hostess" said Miss
Boardman, lis due to the fact that |
have studied the art and always have
made an effort to make every function
more successful than the previous
one.
There are many duties required of
n hostess. One of the most important
/ things for hostess to remember is
to do everything in her power to make
her guests feel perfectly at home.
Il always have made 1t a practice to
keep informed Of all my friends little
likes and dislikes. l always try and
invite people that will be congenial-
people who will like and are in touch
with the same things. This makes
them enjoy the general line of CONVEX
sation, for you know yourself that you
would much rather talk with per-
son who likes and understands the
same things you do than with one who
doesn't know the least thing about
your hobby subject.
when entertaining in Washington
| find it much harder than l do here,
although it never is what | would call
hard. You see, the number of guests
is larger there, thus keeping one on
the alert.
"a hostess never should show par.
TALLY.
"The instant she does that there is
bound to be an unpleasant feeling
lurking around, and when that hap
pens the pleasure for some guest is
tainted, If not spoiled entirely.
"She should, on the other hand, be
just the same to every one of her
guests, doing everything in her power
to make them, one and all, want to
come again.
Devotion to one more than to an.
other shows poor taste and is an
enemy to success.
Zone of the greatest steps toward
being a successful hostess is the
ability to have a special affair go off
smoothly without having your guests
feel that they have put you to the
least bit Of trouble or thought.
THE clever hostess never permits
her guests to realize or even to imag-
inc that she has gone out of her way
to entertain.
ut is bad policy to let your friends
feel that you have put your house
and servants to a whole lot of trouble
because of their coming to stay week
or so.
"The hostess should make it plan
to enjoy her own social affairs. I
always make this a rule, and believe
me, do enjoy them in every sense of
the word.
81 do not permit myself to become
worried over getting up function.
go into it heart and soul, but do not
for one fraction of minute deprive
myself of the good time
81 enjoy entertaining because I do
not work myself up into fever over
the question Of whether everything is
going off all right"
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DEATH OF LEON MANVILLE.
Well Known Young Man Of Dallas
Expires Suddenly.

Expires suddenly.
Fremont Tribune: At $50 o'clock
Friday morning the body of Leon Man
Vile, former Fremont boy who was
stricken with spinal meningitis While
at the bedside of his sick wife in
Omaha last week, was brought to this
city for burial. Services were held
at the Ridge cemetery a half hour
later, Rev. G. NJ. Jones of Louisville,
Neb., Officiating. Mr.. and Mrs. G. A.
Manville, parents of the deceased, ar,
rived in the city late Thursday after
noon from their home near Herrick, S.
D., to attend the funeral Their daugh-
ter and her husband from Colon were
also here.
For the past year or two Leon Man
vile had been principal of the schools
at Dallas, S. D. A few weeks ago he
left his South Dakota home In COM
pany with his wife for Omaha, where
she entered a hospital and was OPP
Grated upon for appendicitis. After a
sinking spell during which she was
near death, Mrs. Manville began to
recover. Last Friday when the pros
poets were all bright, Mr.. Manville,
who was working in Omaha, was
stricken with sudden illness. The
following day he was seriously i'll.
His death occurred Tuesday night.
The deceased was we'll known here,
being a graduate of the Fremont high
school. His father was county clerk
of Dodge county for several years,
before moving to Spencer, thence to
Herrick. Manville is survived by his
widow, a bride of two years. He was
| "a years of age.
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We, the undersigned have known II.
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believe him perfectly honorable in all
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able to carry out any obligations made
by his firm
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
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and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price rs cents
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Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
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ATTE NTInN

Buffalo Bits wild West and Paw
nee Bits Far East show will exhibit
at Columbus on September 3. ~,
These two great shows form n COM
bination that you cannot we'll afford
to miss You will see master horse
men OF the east and west. together
with the re-cnactment of exciting and
historic scenes from the Orient and
Occident.
For information relative to train
service. etc, call upon your local
agent.
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD,
The Safe Road to Travel"
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MORE TRAINMEN GO.
Burlington Railroad Has Evidence I'm.
pIicatjnu Other Employees.

plicating Other employees.
Wymore, Neb., Aug. 23.-Following
the discharges at this place Of thirteen
trainmen in the employ of the Chica-
go, Burlington & Quincy railroad on
charges of persistent rifling of freight
cars, comes the statement this even.
ing that further discharges are to be
made and that sufficient evidence has
been secured against twelve or fifteen
other men to warrant their discharge.
The thefts, it is asserted, have been
going on for several months and the
men accused embrace most of the de-.
partments of the train-moving crews,
some of them for years in the service
of the company.
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SURGEONS BARE DISEASED NERVE
Mayo Brothers Perform Remarkable
Operation on Railway Man.

st. Louis, Aug. 24.-William NJ. Por.
teous, local agent of the Canadian Pa
cific railway and for many years one of
the leading singers and musicians of
st, Louis, submitted this week to a
heroic surgical operation at a sanato-
rum at Rochester, Mimi, and is now
in a fair way to recover his health,
after more than thirty years of suffer.
ing. Late in the seventies, while still
young man, Mr.. Porteous was at.
tackled by an affection of the nerve OF
the right arm, which for weeks and
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-08-27

The worst feature Of this Iceberg
situation is that all the bergs and
foes are now drifting south into the
track of New York liners. The more
ice there is the more fog will follow,
since the mist that always overhangs
the Grand banks is due to the steam
generated by the commingling of the
gulf stream with the arctic current
and its burden Of ice. The bergs.
moreover, are Of monstrous size. and
the larger they are, OF course, the
longer they take to melt and the far
Their south they are carried before they
disappear. There are always during
the summer months more or less OF
these silent destroyers cruising to-
Western Kansas world., 1909-04-24

Good morning. Mr.. Pratt she says.
I'm very glad to see YOU"
Same here, ma'am, I'm sure,' says
l. "How's Redny?"
who? Dennis? Oh, he's almost
we'll We left James in charge of the
children. Aresyou all well here? Is"
Yes, ma'am. He's doing first-rate.
You'll find him in the dining ROOM
She Redeemed up like a climbing
rose-bush in June, but she left me and
headed for the house. The minute she
stepped her foot on the porch, that
wise critter Eureka lodged out of the
kitchen door. She knew her business,
that girl did, and whether it had come
to her by instinct or from Home Com
forter reading don't make an atom of
difference.
About 20 minutes after that I hap
pened to have an errand in the kitch-
en- 1 made a dickens of racket on
purpose when I went in, but twas
good work wasted. Hartley and the
Page girl was standing by the parlor
window looking out, and didn't appear
to hear a sound. They'd left the doors
open and 1 could see 'em. Martin
hadn't only one whole arm, but he
seemed to know what to do with that.
Van Brunt come into the kitchen
after a drink of water. He see the
tableau in the parlor. When we was
outside again he spoke.
WELL" he says, with kind of
sigh, that settles it. And yet, by
George! I'm glad. Yes, sir; it's as it
should be and I'm thoroughly glad
of it,
1 couldn't think of nothing to COM
fort him moor Teller But / squeezed
his hand hard. 1 guess he knew what
Western Kansas world., 1909-04-24
Do You Aoree with Him?

President Taft, in an address deliv-
cred in Carnegie hall April 1, 1908,
said: In the progress of civilization
you cannot overestimate the immense
Importance of Christian missions. II
in China to-day you try to find out
what the conditions are in the interior,
you consult in Peking the gentlemen
you are supposed to know, and where
do you go? You go at once to the mis-
sionaries. Those men who are
doing a grand good work. don't mean
to say that there are not exceptions
among them, that sometimes they
don't make mistakes, and sometimes
they don't meddle in something which
it would be better for them from po-
litical standpoint to keep out of. but 1
mean as a whole, those 5000 mission
aries in China and those thousands in
other countries, worthily represent the
best Christian spirit of this country
and worthily are doing the work that
you have sent them out to do"
Western Kansas world., 1909-04-24

Apparently South America, which is
rich in material possibilities if not in
ready cash, finds little difficulty in get
ting capital with which to prosecute
promising enterprises. The latest
proof of this is the arrangement with
foreign financiers for constructing a
line that will be an important link in
the Longitudinal railroad, which when
completed will traverse practically the
entire length of Chile, a distance of
5000 miles or more. The Longitudinal
road will be sort of backbone with
numerous side connections and must
have an important effect in developing
the interior of the country. Moreover.
and of still more consequence in an in
ternational sense, the line will be a
great addition to the three Americas"
system which is certain to be COM
p1eted at no distant day.