The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-10-22

1
Mrs. G. M. Peyton was taken tn
Sioux City by DR.. Brush YESTERDAY,
Mrs. Peyton has been quite III for some
time. DR.. Brush returned MondaS
night.
city Engineer Brown and City CIerss
| larter and their families were I'm thO
country and spent the afternoon hunt.
ing ducks. They say they succeeded
in killing Il good number.
William Mulligan of Austin. Mimi.
is In the city locating the lines for the
purpose of putting up the new 10000
feet of cable for the Nebraska Tels.
phone company.
n carload of fine stone, which viii
trim the windows and corners of the
new Norfolk library, has arrived and
already wortmen are busy putting
some of the stone in place
c. j. Bullock was at the MarshaIu
Field ranch, eight miles east OF Mad
ison yesterday. The last part of thU
Field ranch will probably be disposed
of at Stanton today at public auction.
w. T. Denny, grand chancellor of
the knights of Pythias, of Omaha. WAS
in the city and, in company with =,
w. Fetter, grand inner guard OF the
order, went to Winsde to visit the X.
p. lodge there.
Mrs G. J. Hibben entertained n COM
pany of ladies at o'clock dinner Iase
evening in honor of Mr.. Hibben'S
mother, Mrs. S. !. Hibben Of Wabash,
Ind, who expects to return to her
home next Saturday.
c. s. Hayes, who returned from
Humphrey Monday evening, says he
made record trip from that town ton
Lindsay, a distance of eleven miles. i'm
an automobile. Mr.. Hayes says that
distance was made by him in twenty
minutes.
c. p. christensen, whose livery and
feed barn was destroyed here last
week by fire, has made settlement
with the adjuster of the insurance
company and will commence clearing
away the burnt lumber and start build.
ing new barn Immediately.
The sewer on North Ninth street
was found to be completely clogged
with dirt, never having been flushed
out when 1t was built. 1t cost the city
about $50 to dig down and clean out
the mains, owing to the carelessnesS
of the contractor who built the sewer.
Rev. j. c. S. Wells of Norfolk went
to Omaha to be present at the laying
OF the corner stone in the new Clark
son hospital, and also to attend tho
banquet rendered Bishop Williams
upon the tenth anniversary OF his work
as bishop. A purse of $1,000 was pre-
sented to Bishop Williams.
After waiting patiently last night for
one more member, to enable them tn
get quorum, Mayor Friday and five
councilmen adjourned until the nexe
regular meeting, which comes on No.
vember l. Three of the councilmen
were out of town and the train On
which Councilman Fischer was duS
from Emerson was late
G. T. Sprecher returned YESTERDAY
from Stanton county, where he sub
licensed the Spring Branch line, Wilhelm
Is now connected with the Nebraska
Telephone company. The new line
has EIGHT subscribers including Aug
ust Kollam, Ole Larson, August
Schultz, Peter Nelson, Otto Brum-.
mund, julius 2ellmer and Mrs. Field
hahn.
The Mission Circle of the BantisR
church will meet with Mrs r.. F.. Cole
man Wednesday afternoon instead or
Thursday. Miss Brishmerr of Chi
cago, representative of the Woman's
American Baptist Home Missionary
society, will be present and address
the meeting. A full attendance of the
ladies' of the church and their friends
Is desired.
Neigh Leader: John KrantZ. the
vice president Of the Anti-Horse Thief
association, contemrlates coming to
Ante'oDe county to organize branch
)f the association. In view Of the re-
cent events it would seem that he
should receive a cordial welcome and
general announcement There Is moth
ng that will stop horse stealing more
than strong organization
II horse owners.
announcements were made from the
'ulpits of the churches in Norfolk that
he campaign for the new Y. NJ. C.. A.
building had begun and a hearty Good
grafton was asked by the ministers or
he members and congregation in the
movement for financial aid. Members
md cartains of the teams of tens are
that Norfolk reople want the
Z. NJ. c. A. and although thew will
'nly have a week to do their cam
'ai@ninG in, they say they will make
,ood
The Commercial club held their reg
liar meeting Tuesday afternoon. The
GOD roads prorOsition was discussed
nd it was decided that at this late
late the farmers could hardly be able
o do any work on the roads and IL
vas decided the Commercial club
you'd buy road drag for the use ON
Dads tributary to Norfolk. The meet
ng with the farmers was POSTPONED
o later date. A general meeting OF
ne Commercial club members will be
cid about October 2S.
The building cOmmittaa ~ tbo n;