The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-02-05

Friday night and will be more humor-
Gus than those that have gone before.
Messrs. Melcher and Irwin have tC
ceived new Ave passenger four.
cylinder Overland touring car which
they purchased recently. Their North.
ern touring car was sold last fall, after
three months service, to a man who
wanted car for immediate use In
Trip county and who paid the
original purchase price.
! Ice has about surrendered to the
! rain and warm weather in Norfolk
The Northforli is reported to be large
! ly clear of ice Before the ice went
out G. w. Schwenk had filed his
house John Schclly still lacks about
! two layers of having his ice house
/ filled. The Pure Ice company were
going to put mp 500 tons Of natural ice
| but were forced to wait for the com.
. p!e,ion of the First street bridge until
the weather made it impossible tc
harvest ice. Cold weather may bring
another ice gathering season.
Friends of Mrs. Kezie McCully of
I New York City, who made her home
in Norfolk during the past year, have
received word of the tragic death of
her father, who was accidently killed
as he was returning from a duck hunt
ing trip at Portsmouth, N. H. Mr..
Cooper was stepping out of motor
boat when the trigger of his gun
caught on the side of the boat, the
load taking effect in his right hand.
The party, which consisted of a son
and two friends were ten miles from
IA physician or hospital. When the
hospital was reached after two hours,
tne hand was amputated at the wrist,
but Mr.. Cooper did not rally from the
shock.
Norfolk school property is insured
for $46700. One of the recent acts of
the board of education has been
to raise the amount of insurance
carried $4,000, half of that amount be
ing added to the Grant building, the
other half to the books and supplies
kept in the high school. The insur-
ance carried since these additions
were made is as follows High
school building $4,000. supplies and
furniture, $4,000 additional; the old
Lincoln building $500, furniture 5000
additional; the new Lincoln building,
$4,000, furniture and heating plant,
81 900 additional: Grant building $4,000.
furniture $500 additional; Washington
building, $4,000, furniture 5000 addi-
tional Edgewater building $1,000, fur
niture 500 additional, The amount of
insurance carried on the old high
school building when it burned was
$15 900.
: Veterans of three Of the historic
wars of Germany took part in the flag
= dedication Wednesday Of the Norfolk
Landwehr Verein. All who belong to
: the verein are eX-members of the Ger
; man army and many in the ranks of
; the veterans took part either in the
war of annexation of 1864, of the cam
paign of 1866 against Austria and of
the war with the French in 1901.
The Norfolk verein now has nearly
seventy members. In addition to these
veterans and their local guests, there
were present veterans from West
Point, Columbus and Omaha. The
Norfolk membership includes former
soldiers from Norfolk, Pierce, Hos
kins and Hadar and as far away as
Ainsworth, Meadow Grove and Corn
lea. The Norfolk verein is nine
months old. The extensive program
carried out Wednesday is it's first
formal celebration. Other regular re-
unions will probably be held in the
future. The lodge flags dedicated
Wednesday were an American flag OF
silk and fine German flag, such as
= the veterans once marched under. A
( feature of the parade Wednesday was
: squad of the veterans carrying rifles
as of old. German songs and old Ger
+ man dances marked the ball and ban
=, quet at Marquardt hall in the evening
, The reunion was one of the jolliest III
l fairs ever held in Norfolk.