The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-22

] VIM 10 hNNNuulub SCuOOl lUtIe is quite
III. Mrs. Henry remained in Wahoo
Mrs, +. l.. Loucks and son, Edward
, are in Pilger on a few days visit.
MIR. and Mrs. William 2ulauf Of
Pierce were in Norfolk Thursday af.
tcrnoon.
Ed Dixon is visiting in Kansas
j. ID. Sturgeon was in Newcastle yes
terday on business.
Or. +. A. Long of Madison was in
Norfolk yesterday.
Miss Belle Temple of Wayne arrived
in the city last evening on two
weeks visit with her sister Mrs. c. c..
Cow.
Theodore Jensen and family " ere i'm
Norfolk over night on their way home
to Burke, S. d., from visit with Mrs.
Jensen's parents at Leigh.
Among the days out of town visitors
in Norfolk were: Miss Cora Conway,
Niobrara Mr. and Mrs. c. II. Black
man, David City; Elmer Hedlund, Al
bert Anderson, Bristow; j. e. Arm
view; d. b. Newcomer Bristow; viii.
lam Lloyd, Lindsay; w. Shulthcrs,
Wayne; G. p Beatty, Leigh Charles
Williams, Schuyler.
Robert Broker OF PlainvIew has NOV.
ed to Norfolk, occupying a residence at
l0i North Eleventh street.
Mr.. and Mrs II. Y. Applcby of stan
ton have left West Baden Springs,
whore snow has fallen for warmer
climes. They expect to be gone about
six weeks more
J, u. Sturgeon has disposed of his
millinery store at Madison, trading it
to Mrs. T. \. Waddoll of Meadow
Grove for her stock of ladies' furnish
ing goods at lTOskins. Mayor Sturgeon
will bring the Hosliins stock to Norfolk
and consolidate it with his local stock.
Mrs. Waddell now has millinery stores
at Norfolk, Madison and Meadow
Grove.
The military affairs committee of
the house authorized a favorable re
port on the bin granting the Chicago
change its right-of-way over the aban-
doned Fort Niobrara military reserva-
ton, and giving said railway permits
sion to construct a new bridge across
the Niobrara river in conformity with
the new right-of-way. Congressman
Kinkaid expects to have the bill a law
in a week.
North Nebraska rivers have been
growing with the rest of the country
This statement, little startling, is
set forth by DR.. j. II. Mackay and is
backed he says by the pioneers of this
section. The Elkhorn river in the early
days could be forded at any place. It
is also declared that in pioneer times
the river was the same size here that
it now is above Oakdale. Now it is
four times its original size, Dr. Mackay
AYERS, the growth of the river being
due among other causes to the in
crease of rainfall. DR.. Mackay also
delights to tell about the time the
Elkhorn went dry, the dryness being
caused by an April blizzard filling the
Yellow Banks with dry snow from
bank to bank, the small volume of
water not being sufficient to push
through the drift for many hours
Memories of the early days of little
streams were brought to mind yester-
day by the visit to this city of County
Surveyor A. J. Thatch of Madison,
whom DR. Mackay delights to refer to
as the man who dug the ditch for the
Elkhorn," thereby indicating in
delicate way the fact that Mr.. Thatch
was very early settler and suggest
ing in naive way that he was here
before the river arrived" Needless
to say Mr.. Thatch is really pioneer,
having homesteaded the present Burr
Taft farm near this city. His brother,
Sam Thatch, also homesteaded an ad-
jacent farm. Relative to the growth"
of the rivers, Norfolk early settlers
will recall that on the occasion of the
first Fourth of July celebration in
Norfolk it was possible to construct
a temporary foot bridge across the
river with apparent ease.
Elmer Hardy will enter Ames col
lege next week.
7. G. Hight is suffering from a slight
attack of blood poisoning in one of his
hands.
G. W.. Segrist and r. H. Freeman of
Lincoln left Norfolk in an auto We'd
nesday afternoon for a trip north.
The city Jail has been empty for
some time. Following President
Roosevelt's message, however, it has
been equipped with a new mattress,
two new pillows and four warm
blankets.
Pipes breaking in the Schelly pop
factory threw a stream of water
twenty feet and poured some $40
square feet of water into the factory,
giving every thing a wintry bath not
on the program. Twelve boxes of
labels were water soaked.
Mrs, B. T. Reid, who is on claim
near Farrell. Wyo.. awoke one morn
ing recently and found the claim house
fire She a.,