The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-25
THE NORFOLK wEEkLY NEWsJcURVAI FRIDA JUNE 25 1yO9

r. l.. Beveridge now occupies the
cottage on Madison avenue between
Second and Third streets recently va.
Gated by ID. ID. Brunson.
John Krantz was kicked In the
head by horse In his barn yester.
day and was rendered unconscious for
a short time. He was not seriously
injured however.
The building of Il. s. Schoregge
formerly occupied by the Walton sa.
loon, is being painted and remodeled
and will be occupied by an Omaha
firm for billiard parlor.
kid" Jensen, who was in Mullen
Neb., visiting relatives, returned Tues
day and will start training immediate.
ly for his fight which is to take place
here on the third of July.
Ed Olson, who has been working in
Norfolk for several months, was call.
ed to Sioux City Sunday on account
Of his wife's Ill health He expects
to bring his family to Norfolk to live.
| A son of A. j. wilkins, living on
South Eleventh street, fell fron.
haymow yesterday and was rendered
unconscious by the fall. He suffered
no serious injuries. The lad is about
IL years old.
Tuesday morning at the home of
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Grauel, east of the Junction, Rev. ].
Il. Craig of the Second Congrega-
tional church united A. p. Larsen,
night chief train dispatcher for the
Northwestern here, and Miss Thelma
Grauel. Mr.. and Mrs. Larsen left at
noon for Chicago.
Miss Edna Howe, assistant post
master at O'Neill, was in Norfolk
Monday visiting the Norfolk post
office to familiarize herself with the
office of the second class. The Of
fee at O'Neill will become an office
of this class July 1. The change in
creases the salaries Of both Miss
Howe and the postmaster and makes
a number of changes in the office. A
new location will be secured.
Mrs. Bauerman, wife of the late c.
F. Bauerman, died at her home two
and half miles east of Norfolk Mon
day afternoon at p. m. The funeral
services will be held Wednesday at
the Reform church seven miles cas-,
Of here, after which the remains will
be inferred in the Reform cemetery
on the Bauerman farm.
The street commissioner was busy
yesterday pulling up the hitch posts
and chains on side streets off Norfolk
avenue. All hitching posts except
those in the alleys and on vacant lots
are to be taken up. People who have
been wanting to put in cement walks
and cutters have complained to the
commissioner that unless the hitch
posts are taken away they will not
build the walks. The posts were put
in about two years ago at the instance
of business men for the benefit of
the farmers coming to town, but now
that livery rent can be had as low as
ten cents the posts are not deemed
to be so necessary.
The Norfolk Fourth of July COM
mittee has had to get a new balloon
ascension man, the performer who was
booked for wild slide for life" from
nearly a mile elevation having met
with an accident while giving a per-
Torrance which will lay him up for a
month or two. The new balloon man
will use a parachute to reach the
earth. The Fourth of July celebra-
hu
cial club directors Tuesday noon, al.
though new committee reports and
new business went over until the even.
ing meeting of the committee at the
city hall. Interesting reports were
expected from the parade and conces.
sions committees. A general an.
nouncement will be made following
the committee meeting.
The marriage or John A. Johnson
and Miss Clara Rudat Monday after
noon at the Rudat home on Koenig-
stein avenue represented the culmi-
nation of pretty romance of high
school days. The wedding was pre-
Il coded by an intimate friendship of
more than ten years. The bride and
groom were members of the same
graduating class, leaving the high
school at the 1903 commencement.
They had been boy and girl sweet
hearts duping the four years in the
high school. Miss Rudat since gradua-
ton has been school teacher, teach
ing both at Meadow Grove and in the
city schools of Norfolk. She was
both successful and popular as a
teacher. Mr.. Johnson has been away
from Norfolk since leaving the high
school and now is at Rockford, ILL.,,
with the Underwood Typewriter COM
pany. Rev. Edwin Booth performed
the wedding Monday afternoon. The
bride is daughter of Mrs. Augusta
Rudat, the groom son Of Mr.. and
MrS T Johnson