The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-14

Creek to take ten days course OF
treatment for her eyes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Horner have
gone to Boston to attend the thirty
second annual convention of the Or
der of Railway Conductors.
Mrs. Il. S. Cummings leaves to join
her husband in Great Falls, Mont,
were her husband, formerly a North.
western conductor, is now with the
Great Northern.
The j. ID. Sturgeon music and racket
store will be moved to its new loca-
tion tomorrow.
The hot weather has brought the
Panamas from the closets and shelves
onto mems heads.
Mrs. A. Rogan is having an addition
of Ave rooms put on to her residence
at Third street and Madison avenue.
Also, Norfolk had its first taste of
the delightful summer girl attired in
her neat white dress and dainty OK
fords.
The board of county commissioners,
Burr Taft, John Malone and Henry
looking up county affairs.
The members of the Household
Economic department will hold their
annual social session Monday after
noon, May 10, at the home of Mrs. F.
G. Coryell.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. M. Macy were call
ed to Belleplaine, Ia, on the noon
train Friday by a message announc-
ing the death of Mrs. Mays mother,
Mrs. .,lerrill.
w. A. Porterfield, local manager Of
the Herbert Gooch grain commission
company, today expressed the opinion
that the farmers in Nebraska would
realize more this year from their crops
off the thresher than for many years
past, which would have a tendency to
make money plentiful in the state.
The state railway commission has
permitted the Nebraska Telephone
company to reduce it's toll rates from
Norfolk to Meadow Grove, Tilden, Bat
tie Creek, Enola, Hoskins, Madison
and Warnerville, according to the Lin
coin dispatch. The company desires
to make the reduction to compete with
the Norfolk Long Distance Telephone
company.
The sale of the August Karo resi-
dence on Norfolk avenue and Ninth
street to Fred Braasch for $4,000, of
the E. Drummund residence property
on South First street TO Mrs. Ada
branch, of the northeast quarter of
section II, township %, range 1 west,
Pierce county, to julius Foecks for
$5,250 and of the southeast quarter Of
the same section to Carl Mittelstadt
for $4,750 are sales reported by the
Ransom & Anderson agency
DR.. p. H. Salter, the newly elected
president of the Nebraska Medical So
ciety, has returned from Omaha. DR..
Salter was taken completely by sur
prise when he was elected to head the
state organization. His friends feel
particularly well pleased over his Sc
lection, in view of the fact that there
| were four other strong men nominal
| ed, among them some of the most
prominent physicians in the state.
A party of young people who hied
themselves to the Junction last night
| for the purpose of greeting Mr.. and
Mrs. Seymour, newly married couple
| from Long Pine, who are well known
in Norfolk, were disappointed when the
bride and bridegroom failed to put in
an appearance. However, they loaded
up their supply of rice and old shoes
and will be prepared to do full honors
when the bride and bridegroom do
appear.
| Giving information desired by Nor
folk subscriber, The News will state
that the temperature for February IL
as shown by the local weather report
for the twenty-four hours ending at
O'Clock the morning of the thirteenth
varied between 3 degrees below and
IL degrees above. During the TWEEN
ty-four hours ending at o'clock the
morning of February II the mercury
was as high as 43 degrees, but dropped
to above. The big blizzard occurred
on February and 8.
Herbert S. Daniel, former Norfolk
boy who has been city prosecutor in
Omaha for the past three years, will
not retain his place under the new
Dahlman administration. Daniel
fought Dahlman at the primary and
under the circumstances does not as.
pire for to stay with the cowboy
mayor Daniel was originally elected
by the city council three years ago
IA .er the mayors own appointee had
been turned down. Daniel was an
active Berry man in the democratic
contest for the nomination.
E. S. South, who recently retired
from the firm of Coleman & South
and who was previously engaged in
business in Newman Grove, has pur-
chased the business of the Norfolk
Plumbing and Heating company, con
Quoted by Beck and Dignan, heating
and plumbing contractors. The in
voicing of the stock, preparatory to
Mr.. South taking possession, will be-
gin Monday. s. Beck and James Dig
nan, who retire rom business here
have not decided just what they will