The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-03-12
TUESDAY TOPICS.

are expected home this week from
their Cuban trip. They left Havana
last Thursday
J. w. Ransom was In Lincoln yester.
day.
j. u. Maynard was In Sioux City
on business.
J. Il. Carter has been in Omaha the
past few days.
Miss Alice ogden is home from
short visit in stanton.
Mrs W. =. Cannon of Fremont Is
visiting Norfolk relatives.
Misses Laura and Hattie Heitzman
were in Pierce yesterday attending a
party.
Miss Florence Holden of Omaha Is
visiting her brother. DR.. II. T. Holden.
Miss Minnie Rasmussen of New
Mrs f. E. Coleman.
Among the days out of town visi
tors in Norfolk were: Il. A. Leahy,
Wayne; Herman Vollstedt, Madison;
j T. Needham. Gregory, s. D.; How
ard Whalen, Wayne; C. II. Mohr,
Plainview; NJ. ]. Tumess, Verdel;
Ellen Kerr, Fairfax. s. D.. N. S. West
rope, Plainview; f. G. Auringer, Ne
ligh; e. E. Erickson, Newman Grove;
G. II. Pearson, Creighton; Il. ID. King,
Winnetoon: p. N. Peterson, l.. We'd
helm, ]. Wedheln, Humphrey.
c. w. Hacker has removed from
Omaha to Norfolk for a month and
later will move to Gregory. He can
not get rooms in Gregory at this time.
He is a brother of JOY Hacker, the
Gregory banker,
An afternoon bible school for men
only to meet every Sunday afternoon
at o'clock at the Lyric theater is a
new departure along the line of adj
vanced Sunday school work planned
by the Christian church of this city
The first meeting will be held March
20. The class will be known as the
Century bible class" and it is hoped
that the membership will reach 100.
Boys over sixteen may join.
Among the prominent Nebraskans,
not on the program, who have ac-
cepted invitations to be present at
the banquet given by the Norfolk Com
mercia club next Tuesday evening
to the state convention of commercial
clubs, are: F. Walters of Omaha,
general manager of the Northwestern;
G. +. Miller of Omaha, general pas
senger and freight agent of the North
western; II. T. Clark, jr., of Omaha,
state railway commissioner, and J. A.
Williams of Pierce, a former member
of the state commission.
Obed Raasch is i'll with an attack of
pleurisy.
Miss Alice Barrett has been i'll for
several days.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. r. o. Webb,
daughter.
The Wednesday club will meet with
Mrs. A. Bear.
Miss May Harrison, who has been
quite sick, is much better today.
Bert Bonner is being urged by Re.
publcans of the Fourth ward as an
available candidate for the council
manic race.
A business meeting of the Christian
Endeavor society will be held this
evening at 1880 at the home of Miss
Durland
N. j. Jensen, formerly engineer at
the electric light plant at Holdredge
has moved to this city to become wire
chief for the Norfolk Electric Light
and Power company.
Joseph Lampe and family arrived
yesterday from Emporia, Kan, where
they have been making theil
home. Mr.. Lampe expects to either
buy or rent farm in this vicinity.
Bristow Enterprise: Ernest Danes
who has been living south of town or
the old Henry Wiedman farm, loaded
his household goods and farm ma
chinery into a car and left for Nor
folk where he will farm the coming
year.
The Norfolk detachment of militia
will undergo a regular government in
spection Thursday evening, Captain
Winans of the Fourth calvary being
the inspecting officer sent here by the
government. The inspection will take
place at the armory.
The Pierce county officials, in Siou,
City with nearly dozen men anC
women as witnesses against the three
bank robber suspects, are meeting
with an even harder fight than wa.
expected against eXtradition. Monday
instead of being given over to the
case, was taken up with arguments OF
demurrers filed by the prisoners. The
demurrers set forth the allegation tina
the extradition papers as presented
are not sufficient, and ask that the
prisoners be released. In the demur
rers, Attorney Sullivan, acting fol-
Riley, Joyce and Morrison, alleges tina
no true indictment was shown to the
governor of Iowa when the demand
for extradition papers was made. Il
also is claimed that no showing has
been made that the defendants were
actually in Nebraska at the time anC
that they are fugitives from justice
Judge Mould withheld his decision