The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-02-12


the state.
Miss Clara Baumann OF Loup City
has been the guest of her sister, Mrs
Frank Noehl.
Miss Bessie Richey came down from
Creighton last evening to spend Sun
day at home.
City Superintendent f. NJ Hunter
went to Nlobrara today to speak be-
fore teachers meeting.
Leo T. Biegerot, editor of the Car
lock South Dakotan, has been In Nor
folk the guest of C. J. Bullock, return
ing this morning to the Rosebud coun-
try. MIR. Liegerot and Mr.. Bullock be-
longed to the same college fraternity,
Mrs. Bertha Pilger is home from
stanton, where she attended the fun
eral of August Draube, an old settler
of stanton county, held Thursday Mr..
Draube who died at the age of eighty.
nine years, was one of the first of the
pioneers who made their way into
north Nebraska forty years ago. The
body was taken to Tilden for inter
ment.
Among the days out Of town visi-
tors in Norfolk were: George W.,
Kirk Plainview; Miss Swichtenberg,
Hadar; l.. Il. Liegerot, Carlock, S. d.;
County Attorney James Nichols Madi-
SON. Judge A. A. Welch, Wayne; N.
Clemens, Pierce; Attorney w. A, Me
serve, Creighton; C. p. A. Wimberly,
Osmond; John II. Lindale. West
Point Miss Harrison, Bristow |. n.
Alter Wayne; j. w. Lapsley, Dixon;
II. h. Lawson, Creighton; Matt Clas-
sen, jr., Spencer.
Ray Bennish has rented the f. Y.
McGinnis farm south of the city.
The home of Engineer Pat Crotty
is quarantined on account of
his little son being i'll with scarlet
fever
Rev. Edwin Booth, jr., is so far
recovered from the grip that he will
hold service as usual on Sunday
morning. The evening SERVE will be
omitted.
b. T. Reid, who is home from his
the skin of bob cat which he shot
near his place. The skin will be made
into a rug.
Rev. J. f. Poucher of Stanton has
been made a member of the Stanton
company of militia of which the Nor
folk militia detachent is a part Rev.
Mr.. Klopp was also made member of
the company.
Pierce Call: c. ]. Schroeder Of Nor
folk, has rented the Sphinx building
in the same as soon as Charles Coury,
the pool man, moves into his new
quarters in the Pohlmann building, one
door east
The January record of mortgages
fled and released in Madison county,
Is as follows: Farm mortgages, filed,
%, value, $63,350: released, SO, value,
$6S,OS9.25; town and city mortgages
filed, 26, value, $24,717S3; town and
city mortgages released, 26, value, 1884,
OO4.37; chattel mortgages filed, 1G6,
value, $50 ,6S2,4S chattel mortgages re-
leased, 1855, value $29,67S.54.
The one hundredth anniversary of
the birth of Abraham Lincoln will be
observed in Madison Thursday even"
ing by public program in the opera
house. AS part of the program Sena-
tor Allen and Rev. H. McClenaghan will
deliver addresses.
p. j. Fuesler is in receipt of
letter from his brother, Sigmund, for
merly of Norfolk and now of Okla
homa City, declaring that there are
more saloons than ever before in that
prohibition" city, and that, despite a
doubled police force, crime has in.
creased. Mr.. Fuesler says that taxes
have tripled owing to loss of saloon
licenses, and saloons are making more
money than ever
Pioneers passing through Norfolk
since the burning of the Norfolk
house, or Wagner hotel, invariably
pass comment on the destruction of
this old land marx, which was closely
associated in the public with the early
history of, Norfolk. AS an old land
mark it has shared distinction with
the old DR.. Daniels property on Nor
folk avenue and First street, the first
frame residence of consequence in
Norfolk. This building was also re-
Gently threatened by a fire.
Ben Bechtel, formerly of Norfolk,
where he clerked in the drug store Of
his uncle, George B. Christoph, was
married recently in Lincoln to Miss
Myrtle Graham, whose parents reside
in Winside. Mr.. and Mrs. Bechtel are
living in Council Bluffs, where the
groom has secured a position in
drug store. Miss Graham has been
making her home at Douglas, Neb.,
small town near Lincoln, while Mr..
Bechtel has been employed in a drug
store at Bennett, another nearby
town.
Battle Creek Enterprise: The Madi
son county bridge gang has COM
menced on the new steel bridge across
Battle creek at the Moore place north
of town. The county commissioners
met here Thursday to make prelimin-
airy arrangements. The steel piers
have banD Dlacad and tho work will