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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
Advertisement for Bids.

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids VII he received at the Office of
the county clerk of Madison county.
Nebraska, on or before the first day
of January, 1909 for. the furnishing of
books, blanks and stationery for the
year following the first day of Jan
uary, 1909
Following Is a statement OF the
probable gross number of each item OF
books, blanks and stationery that will
be required during said year,
BOOKS.
Six Squire records, four 700-page
Mcmillan records, one treasurer's
cash book, one treasurers warrant
book, three tax lists, 5000 tax re.
ceipts, 70 name tabs, 312 poll books,
100 poll book envelopes, 100 ballot
sacks, % assessment schedule bind.
ers, four canvas covers for records
Blanks,
Legal blanks as follows: 1000 81
X2S, $500 Shx14, 1000 SBx7, 1000
SRX3R, 1000 7X3; envelopes: 1000
No. II, 5000 No. 6R, 10000 No. 10,
1000 No. 9, 5000 letter heads, 5000
memo heads, 1000 postal cards, 1000
delinquent tax notices, 10000 perfect
attendance certificates, 200 bar dock.
cts, 200 election notices, 1000 assess.
ment schedules, 1000 sheets court re.
porter paper.
Stationery.
Twelve quarts black ink, six plnts
red ink, two quarts mucilage, five
gross lead pencils, twelve gross pens,
rubber bands-four pounds small
tt,tn
ten reans typewriter paper, seven
steel erasers, eight dozen rubber
erasers, eight dozen pencil point pro-
tectors, twenty-four dozen penholders,
one box staple fasteners, four boxes
Challenge eyelets, 10 dozen document
boxes various sizes, three reams legal
cap, six dozen senate pads, one gross
election pencils.
Separate bids must be made on
books, blanks, and stationery, all bids
must be made on bidding sheets fur.
nished on application by the county
clerk of said court. All supplies
must be furnished in accordance With
specifications on file in the Office of
the county clerk.
All supplies are to be furnished as
ordered Bids must be marked, bids
for Blanks" Books" or Stationery"
as the case may be, and addressed to
the county clerk of Madison county,
Nebraska. Each bid must be accom-
panied by a certified check payable to
the county clerk in the sum of $25. 90
as a guarantee that the bidder will
enter into a contract and furnish bond
If contract is awarded him. The sue.
cessfrIl bidders will be required to fur.
nish good and sufficient bond for the
faithful performance of their contract.
The county commissioners reserve the
right to reject any and all bids. Bids
will be opened according to the re.
quirements of the law at the first
meeting of the county board, January
II, 1909
Dated at Madison, Neb this Sth day
of December, A. d. 1908.
George e, Richardson,
County Clerk
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
A Religion. Author. statement.

For several years | was afflicted with
kidney trouble and last winter was
suddenly stricken with severe pain
in my kidneys and was confined to bed
eight days unable to get up without
assistance. My urine Cotainel a thi"k
white sediment and | passed slme ire
Qucntly day and night. | commenced
taking Foley's Kidney Remedy, and
the pain gradually abatcd and finally
ceased and my urine became normal.
Cheerfully recommend FolcY'S Kidney
Remedy.-The Kicsau Drug company.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
THE NORFOLK WEEKLY Ew-sJOUNAL FRIDAY JANUARY 1909

Alexander
Miss Ethel Luke returned to her
home in Omaha Sunday noon after
having spent Christmas at the home OF
her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Jewel Fountain went
TO Missouri Valley yesterday noon for
a visit with Mrs. Fountains parents
Miss Gladys Altman OF Stuart Is
here visiting at the home of her sis.
ters, Mrs. Doyle and Mrs. Hugh Dick
Charlie Mandelko arrived home
from Long Pine at noon yesterday.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
TRIED IN WRONG STATE.
Editor Of Mine journal Claims
Trial Was illegal.

indianapolis, Dec. 2S.-Sam Sexton,
former editor of the Mine Workers
Journal, in an interview today said he
was editor of the Journal when the
editorial was written which is COM
planned of in the Gompers case. He
says that Mitchell did not know of the
editorial until after its appearance. He
declared the trial of Mitchell held in
Washington was for an offense alleged
to have been committed in Indiana,
in violation of the supreme court de.
cision in the case of Charles A.
Dana of the New York Sun in which
the court declared trial must be held
in the District of Columbia where the
alleged Offense was committed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
Made Il in the Rosebud.

Wayne Democrat: Mike Healy,
who drew a claim and moved to the
Rosebud country four years ago, yes.
terday sold his half section near
Burke to Chris Weible of Winside for
$40 per acre, making NJ. H. small
fortune in very short time. The
Healeys want to move where there
are better school facilities. Relatives
here think it unlikely they will come
back to Wayne.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01

There is no case on record of cough
cold or la grippe developing into pneu-
monia after Foley's Honey and Tar
has been taken, as ii cures the most
obstinate deep seated coughs and colds
why take anything else.-The Kiesau
Drug cOmpany.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01

WANTED-Success Magazine re
quires the services of man in Nor
folk to look after expiring subscrip-
lions and to secure new business by
means of special methods usually eff
fective; position permanent; prefer
one with experience, but would con-
slider any applicant with good natural
qualifications; salary $3.50 per day,
with commission option Address,
with references, II. c. Peacock, Room
lO2, Success Magazine Bldg, New
York.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
ROCKEFELLER ON CHARITY.
Would Organize Trust to Deal ir
BenevoIence

New York, Dec. 2S.-John d. Rock
efeller's article in the January num-
known today, says:
Let us erect a foundation for a
trust fund and engage directors who
will make it life work with our per-
sonal cooperation to manage this
business of benevolence properly and
effectively"
He pleads for the organization of
a benevolent trust and insists that
charity is possible only through a
trust.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
SECRETLY SINK BARGE.
Drainage Commissioners steal March
on Injunction.

Peoria, ILL.,, Dec. 2S.-Fearing an in
junction prohibiting the closing of the
upper canal from the Illinois river to
Spring Lake, the drainage commits.
sioners yesterday sank a barge at
the mouth of the canal near the Cop.
peras creek lock where the barge
was secretly built.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
Trunk Not a REFRIGERATOR.

A trunk on the Sioux City train,
marked by the unmlstakable odor of
decaying flesh, spread alarm among
the baggage crew on the evening
Sioux City train into Norfolk. When
Norfolk was reached the trunk, which
had been checked from an Iowa point
to Burke, S. d., was gladly dropped
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
STILL PROBING PACKERS.
Evidence to be Used for Anti-Rebatins
Proceedings.

Chicago, Dec 2S--The federal grand
jury today resumed probing the pack.
Ing industry. 1t was said that evi.
dence secured will be used for indict.
ments in rebating and for tn pur.
pose of instituting contempt proceed.
tngs for the violation of the old Kohl.
saat injunction, prohibiting rebating
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
Wants Spelling Match.

A. d. Willberger of Anoka, who is
seeking championship spelling honors
in north Nebraska. publieally defies
the sellers of Lynch, Butte, Bristow,
Spencer and Naper to meet him in n
spelling battle.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
[Seal.1

Seeds, including snake and other
cucumber prehistoric and other corn,
both sweet and field, pencilaria,
squash, melon, mammoth sunhower,
and hundreds of other seeds, cent
and up per packet, (also seed in bulk)
direct from grower to planter. Garden
Guide and descriptive price list free.
Address II. NJ, Gardner, seed grower,
MarengO. NebraSka.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01

the fable that "she will be back again
tomorrow" This week, however
things won't be so strenuous. Com
mencing today all the stores close Vt
$3.50 sharp.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01

If you will take Foley's Orino Laxa-
tive until the bowels become regular
you will not have to take purgatives
constantly as Foley's Orino Laxative
positively cures chronic constipation
and sluggish liver. Pleasant to take
The Kiesau Drug company.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01

Those who have put orr a good
deal OF the gift buying until now
should save their time by making a
quick study Of the ads.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01

When a store has a bargain to Of
fer-one that will stand the test of
publicity-you will learn about it in
the stores ad.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01

Make your want-advertising the
most important part of your work
hunting-and it will make your work
hunt shorter.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
SIMPLE REMEDY FOR Ia GRIPPE

Packing Ia Grippe coughs That may
develop into pneumonia over night are
quickly cured by Foleys Honey and
Tar. The sore and infamed lungs are
healed and strengthened, and "A dan
gerous condition is quickly aVerted.-
The KieSau Drug company.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01

You can do lot of things "out OF
season" almost as well as i'm
through want advertising Renting
that house is one OF these things.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
BAIL REFUSED.

slayers Of Senator Carmack Have to Go
to Jail.
Nashville, Dec. 2S.-Judge Hart to.
day refused to accept bail for Colonel
Cooper, his son, Robin, and John
Sharpe, who are held for killing Sen.
ator Carmack.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01

The work-hunters who will answer
your want advertisement are the class
from which you should choose.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
Northwest Weddings

Northwest WeddlngS.
August lander and Miss Effie Hoff-
man of Stanton were united in mar
riage last Wednesday evening.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-17

study of them in order that their merits and dement's
may be determined In cases this means long and
continued study is not at all unusual thing to
find committee chairman giving the joys OF the
home life on Christmas day to presidents and to
formulate arguments be used for against some pro-
posed legislation, and to find him doing this in the Sc
clusion of a stuffy office Christmas day.
good many Washington people, especially those who
here from the SOUTH over into Virginia to hunt
Christmas day. In parts of the Old Dominion fox
hunting still the order of the winter day, and If the
fox is il evidence there always rabbits and quail
while the lower Potomac and in the marshes along
Chesapeake bay winters the ducks and the geese
fairly abundant The outdoor life appeals strongly
the souherner, and in many the northerners
who have the Potomac country have formed the
hunting habit join the Christmas day outing parties
of their southern cousins.
Christmas is the great holiday of Washington From
high low the people make the of it. There is good
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-17
AMERICAS CHRISTMAS
THE BEST OF ALL

An occasional Jersey commuter familiar with the re-
gious section of Barclay street. is commonly the only
of American in New York who knows presepio by
sight Yet the presepio is the sign of the Latin Christ
mas the fir tree is of the northern The manger OF
Barclay windows only the inside of the
stable with the figures and the cattle done in Italian ter
Gotta the real presepio in its native land may
show the whole countryside WELL and If the pilgrims
vending way the manger good Sciian peas
ants, bearing good Scilian wine and cheese their
donkeys, they only the more interesting.
ST. Francis born in the quaint little town OF Assist
among the Umbran hills, in 1852, invented the
presepio make the Christmas plain to the simple
iiterae people During the 800 since it
has remained favorite devotion in Latin Europe. The
and Spanish the presepio the manager; the
French the creche the cradle; and the Hungarians and
Belgians, Beteim, Bethlehem
Only few since not carpenter could be hired
in Rome or Naples for weeks before Christmas. They
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-17

Pierre
w % srnau indeed believe that "le petit Jesus or lie
are els tb little Jesus" or 1.-The little Christmas
have brought the gifts But the average Plenc niu
is as SOPHISTICATED young America ana felie nas ~
~ = vorv te how indeed to believe In lie petlt Jesus
NJ ronob or italian child hears or Santa Claus I'LL
he comes to America; by which 1t may De eatnereu n'
that good saint was strictly German ana Wheh ne ei
grated came to America like all the rest OF the Ter
mans r,.u;,.,,o, with ;+o
The growth of the typical American Christmas win us
universal Christmas greens and presentgVlng Is cul
o,s phenomenon It has roots in American history.
The original settlers New England never observed IT,
The Dutch of New Amsterdam scarcely noticed IT, out
made New Years the great joyous popular tesuva.
Within the memory of old people still living christmas
nassed unobseryed in New York. while all holiday mer
rymaking centered in New Years day. Modern America
has built up Christmas festival Oh lts own ana mas
rejected definitely religious feast in favor of the
cia and domestic In way. however, the Ameri-
can Christmas is religious than and all the Lat
in feasts put together One who mas lived through
years changing round of saints days in ITALY, in all OF
which no work done and the people take holiday, Will
observe that the thought of the people goes out to
those in need. The Astounding giving of an American
Christmas the uneasy, uncomfortable feeling that every
child least must have If possible good dinner ana
present Christmas day. is quite unknown in the Lat
in countries.
The feeling that poor old buns and hoboes. the
criminals in their prisons the in their aims
houses the beggars, the unworthy-al ought to have
something good to eat that day. and little Christ
mas cheer FORMS part OF the American Christ
mas.
The that come to the melting pot of America
keep their home Christmas for only few after
they arrive Then they drift off into more or less
Americanized Christmas.
For few years after they come, also, they try to
eat their traditional dishes at Christmas time The Hun
earian householder makes the Christmas cakes which
long line of cooks made before her
They are round balls of dough- covered with honey and
ponpy seed and then baked The Bohemians and Poles
also make poppy seed cakes, each in different style
The Sican housewife, too has traditional Christmas
cake It is ring of dough with hole in the middle
the Italian doughpu in factwhich is fried sprinkled
with sugar and eaten hot.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-17

DAY time he spent in the fields armed only with an opera
Sass with which he studied the winter BIRDS always
VIII an eye sharpened to the possibility of finding
species that was
PRESIDENT Taft loves nature too, in way, but he is
not much of tramper excepting where the walk leads
over the golf links which he spends his holiday after
oons christmas included for in Washington because Of
the comparative mildness of the climate the o.
soH is possible nearly every day in the year.
There are several hundred officers of the army and
Wy stationed in Washington most of them being detailed
for office work in the departments for term of four
years. The naval officers perhaps enjoy their holiday
making In the capital than do their brothers of
the army for the sailors have been compelled to spend
many Chrstmases at away from their wives and
families, while here they gather their families about
them and not break regulations in doing The
army officer, whether he goes to the Philippines to
distant frontier post ordinarily takes his family
with him and so Christmas day does not to him
sary bring with it the of loneliness and homesck
ness that it brings to the at
In the biological survey which is bureau of the de-
partmen of agriculture there scientists at
work. Most of these have spent large part of
their lives in the wds studying birds and mammals, and
shells, plants and fishes, to nothing of reptiles The
Office life is rksome these scientists They belong
the free air. the barren plains and the pine forests So
it is that hoidy that brings with it release
from office cares they take to the fields About the
hills in places about Washington Christmas day
there to be the little camp fires of the scientists
who cooking their midday Christmas dinners under
the open sky.
Some time ago all the bird students in the United
States asked, they could to make trip aed
Christmas day and to make list of the birds that they
found Thousands of bird lovers followed the suggestion
and still following it. Each of the students
in report to central headquarters giving the
birds that Christmas day fell observa.
on AS result of this practice the Washington sci
entsts have valuable notes concerning ou of
birds For instance the report Washington
on a Christmas two ago, that the holiday four
hooking birds and positively identified in the
fields near Boston, Mass. Other birds reported
other northern localities, birds that in the ordinary
of things ought to have been far south of the Ma
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-17

all busy erecting presepios in the homes of the
quality while the poorer folk were constructing their
own. AS the mainland grows more sophisticated the
quaint old devotion is fading away; but in conservative
Sicily people still make the presepo year as they
Christmas in New York. All over the island
families busy from December to Is putting their
old presepios in order making and there Is
much calling and fro to results and admire
elaborate specimens of the art. The presepio
may be little thing stand in corner or it may
occupy the whole side of ROOM
1t may represent whole mountain sde made OF the
rough flexible bark the cork tree Peaks, and
nrecpces abound with winding trails houses and castles
of coored cardboard forests OF twgs and sometimes tiny
mines to furnish brooks and lakes In the center is the
grotto with the holy family within. sky of blue pa
ner is stretched above with the Star of Bethlehem
snicuous and over the hills the shepherds bearing
the gifts to the babe.
both Spanish and Scian cities there booths for the
sale of miniature shepherds mag and all the accessories
of the art In the creche is not made at home
in the southern countries but used to be part OF the
Christmas decorations of every French church. and is still
so in the rural districts Many polished cosmopote or
paris can remember working busily for days before
Christmas in his childhood to help reshen and reu-
venate the of his parish church in some little vii
age of France the villages close by Paris to-day chill
carry little creche in upon their shoulders.
The manger ypies the difference between the Latin
and the Teuton Christmas The Latin Christmas is a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-17

green and so are
the wild honey
suckle and the lau-
rel, trees and
plants that are
abundant along the
Potomac.
President Roose-
welt was, as every
one knows, a nat
ure lover. He took
every opportunity
that offered to get
away from the
city. His daily
walks and rides
took him far into
the country, and on
Christmas day dur
ing the last four
years of his term
of Office he went
to Pine Knot, a
wooded, mountain
country place that
belonged to his
wife. Mr.. Roose-
welt stayed in
Washington until
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-17

their axes in the direction of the lines
OF force; in other words, the growth
of an individual takes place. In fact,
the similarity in aspect and behavior
between certain liquid crystals and
bacteria is remarkable, and scarcely
can be accidental.
Prof. Lehman suggests that in
life the directional force is that mys-
terious essence so much discussed,
and so little understood, the SOUL" In
support of this bold hypothesis" he
puts forward many arguments and
marshals an array of facts. It is de-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-17

utilization is the agency made use Of
by living growth. A glass of jelly, or
any other noncrystalline substance,
doesn't grow. On cooling it passes
gradually from the melted to the solid
condition, and forms about a large
number of nudei, just as happens in
the condensation of vapor.
Capitalization is quite different.
The growth is rapid, and the nudei are
comparatively few. Prof. Lehman
noticed that liquid crystals, when un-
der the influence of magnetic fluid.
coalesce and range themselves with
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-17
HELP SOLVE LIFE PROBLEMS

that of the surrounding air, and thus
obtained access to an almost virgin
field.
That crystals, when placed in the
saturated mother liquor, grow and
Lave the power Of healing fractures
have suggested to many that crystal
lized matter is a form of life. Prof.
Lehman ventures with some conf.
Gence to assert, not that crystals
themselves are living, but that crys-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-17
500 Reward, 500.

The readers OF this paper will be pleased to learn
that there is at dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure In all its stages and that b
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure s the only positive
cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease requires constitu.
tionai treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken IN
ternally acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. thereby destroying the
foundation Of the disease. and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and assist
ing nature in doing its work. The proprietors have
much faith in its curative powers that they ouef
One Hundred Dollars for any that 1t falls %
sure. Send for list of testimonials
Address F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Q.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-17

ship was closed and their head CALI
ing the would-be neophyte before the
out word an urn so filled with water
that not single drop could be added.
The neophyte, reading the message.
bowed silently, started to withdraw.
but hesitated and returned. Picking a
petal from a flower. he dropped it on
the trimming bowl so dexterously
that it floated without dislodging the
slightest particle Of the liquid. The
membership of the academy of silence
became 101 -
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-17

The South American people make much Of Christmas
great feast day in all LatinAmerican countries
ambassadors and attaches and their families do
forget the customs of their native lands simply be-
for few they have been ransplanted to
The open house is the order of the day in
nearly every official residence in Washington after the
family has had it's intimate celebration of the ho
day Large families the rule rather than the excep
ton among the ambassadors and ministers from the
southern European from the Central and South Amer
lean countries The children have gala time of 1t at
and then the visiting begins. The presents that