The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-11

to the channel catfish, which is the
only good fish in the waters In d ma.
jority OF the streams OF the state.
Mrs. w. A. Emery is visiting in EN-.
erson.
Dr. p. II. Salter was in Omaha yes.
terday.
w. J. Stadelman was called to Oma.
ha on business.
p. Whitney, townsite agent for the
Northwestern, was in Norfolk over
night.
Mrs. ]. Clements of Madison visited
Wednesday and Thursday with Mrs
G. Nethaway.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. M. Culbertson were
called to Fairbury to attend the fu.
neral of an aunt.
Miss Floy Engelman, who has been
attending school in Iowa, is in Nor.
folk to spend the summer with her
| father, j. G. Engelman.
A. p. Young, who was in the butter
business in Battle Creek, is in Norfolk
visiting James Campbell, on his way
home to Clear Lake, la.
Col. Fred Gegner of Madison, one of
the four republicans who are seeking
the nomination for sheriff this sum.
mer, was in Norfolk Friday.
Miss Linda Winter, daughter of
Acting Mayor H. w. Winter, left this
morning for visit at st. Paul, Mimi,
her stay there to be followed by visits
in New Ulm, Mimi, Houston, Mimi,
and Sioux City. Miss Winter taught
a school near Norfolk during the past
year, but will teach in the Hadar dis
trict, just west of Hadar, next year.
The board of education will meet
Monday evening next.
The city council will hold its June
meeting next Tuesday.
H. G. Sattler has just sold two run
about Maxwell automobiles, one going
to Wausa and one to Pierce.
little son weighing 91s pounds
has arrived at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Covert on South Fourth
street.
Rev. Edwin Booth, jr., has gone to
Fullerton, where he gives the opening
address to a convention of Young Peo-
pies Societies of Christian Endeavor
this evening. He will be back for Sun.
day.
Bids will be opened this evening in
the office of the Durland Trust COM
pany for the construction of the club
house of the Norfolk Country club.
Eynprtc bayo fpicbad ;,,fa1I;,,r ~,
additional section to the central
switchboard in the Norfolk station of
the Nebraska Telephone company.
Eight operators are now required to
operate the switchboard. In addition
to the four local boards there are now
four long distance sections, the num-
Der having been increased from three.
City Clerk Harter returned last
night from Madison, where he went
to investigate the amount of special
taxes that have been paid since 1902.
He found $9,427.6S which had been
paid in, which amount should have
been placed in the general fund, as the
money was originally paid out of the
general fund. The amount due the
general fund out of the general taxes,
after deducting the apportionment that
the general fund has already received
will amount to about $3.50. This
amount will be sufficient to call in all
outstanding certificates of indebted
ness and leave a small balance in the
general fund, if it can be legally used.
Word that 12-year-old nephew had
died of a rattlesnake bite on the South
Dakota prairie was the sad news
brought to Mrs. Johnston, in charge
of the ready-to-wear department of the
A. L. Killian store, Friday morning.
Mrs. Johnston left at noon, shortly af-
ter receiving the telegram, to attend
the funeral, going by way of Sioux
City. A fact that made the death of
her nephew doubly sad to Mrs. John.
ston was that she had taken care of
the little fellow for several years fol-
lowing his mothers death. When the
father married again, the boy, May
nard Sheldon, went to live with his
father. The Sheldons live on a home
stead near Capa, S. D. Relatives are
said to live in Stanton.
Madison county corn is making good
progress, local farmers say. Good
growing weather, plenty of sunshine
and hot weather, is needed Wheat is
turning out better than was expected
earlier in the season. The outlook for
winter wheat for a time was not alto
gether encouraging, as winter wheat
was killed badly in places on account
of the alternating periods of warm
weather and freezing temperature.
Late oats promise good yield, al
though the condition OF some fields
planted early was not good on account
of the peculiar spring. Sandy fields
were blown about good deal. A lit
tie corn was planted very late this
year, a few farmers not having quite
finished their planting when the rains
set In.
An immediate extension of the
Beeler block owned by A. G. Taylor
of Cedar Rapids, Ia, to the corner of
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