The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-02
was returning from Sioux City visit
Mr. Hull boarded the train at Wake


field.
The Norfolk lodge of Elks held its
annual election of officers Saturday
night. Jack Koenigstein was elected
exalted ruler, succeeding J. b. May
lard. The other officers elected are
as follows: c. b. Salter, esteemed
leading knight; e. h. Hayes, esteemed
loyal knight; L. IS. Nichola esteemed
lecturing knight; b. C. Gentle, secre-
tary; c. Il. Burnham, treasurer; l.. p.
member board of trustees,
J. b. Maynard was elected delegate
to the grand lodge meeting to be held
in July in Los Angeles, Cal.
The Norfolk fire department will
elect officers for the coming year on
April IA.
John Bond of Norfolk, formerly of
Atkinson, has bought the restaurant
of Yantzi & Shoemaker at O'Neill.
Mr.. Bond has been operating resta-
urant here for the past year.
NJ. Mihills, formerly of Norfolk but
now demonstrating at Viewfeld, s. D.,
is in the city looking after property
interests. He will be here about ten
days. Mr.. Mihills says that he is very
much pleased with western South
Dakota The climate is agreeing with
him and his wife.
At the organization meeting OF the
mems bible school class held at the
I nj of fn1 mo
temporary officers were elected:
Chairman, DR.. o. r. Meredith; vice
chairman, William BurtZ; secretary,
DR.. r. C. Simmons; treasurer, c. F.
Hartford; teacher, Rev. Roy Lucas
The appointment of committees was
indefinitely postponed, it being the ex
pressed opinion of those present that
time should first be allowed for the
members to become familiar with the
work. There will be an employment
bureau in connection with the class
which will endeavOr to place those in
want of occupation. From now on
there will be meetings every Sunday
at the Lyric.
Next Sunday is Palm Sunday the
Sunday before Easter, and will as such
be the occasion OF the annual confrma-
ton exercises at the Christ Lutheran
and at st. Johannes Lutheran church
st. Pauls Ev. Lutheran church,
which in the past has held confirma-
ton on Palm Sunday, has adoped an
innovation and will not confirm its
class until next June, thus making the
confirmation uniform with the public
school graduation and making the
school year of both the city schools
and the st. Paul parOchial school end
at the same time, just before the sum-
mer vacation. The practice of con-
firmation on Palm Sunday was brought
over from Germany, where the school
system is different. Christ church
next Sunday will confirm a class of
about thirty-nine, st. Johannes church
a class of twelve. The classes were
examined for confirmation Sunday.
John F. Flynn, who was sheriff of
Madison county twenty years ago and
chief of police under the Durland ad-
ministration but whose local police
honors at this time consist simply of a
constableship, took another dip into
police life last week, serving as a
special night officer at Gregory, S. D.,
for three nights. Gregory has been
handling a huge crowd on account of
the government land sale which
started Thursday and which does not
close until tomorrow. Mr.. Flynn
came down from Gregory over Sun
day. He did not invest as the land
was selling high, the bidders figuring
that when land close by was worth
$35 and $40 an acre, the land offered
even if not so desirable must be
worth at least IS or Sc an acre, Greg
DRY has had even bigger crowds
tnan during the rush days, Mr.. Flynn
says, and has been able to keep good
order.
On Tuesday night the Auditorium
will offer Buster Brown" a musical
comedy which has withstood the
crucial test of repeated presentation
throughout the country. No better
little chap, and no better known than
r. F. Outcalt's Buster" has ever
been given the fun.loving world. And
yet all of the boys popularity must
not be attributed to his own person
ality for there is "Tige," the sharer
of Busters joys and sorrows as Bus
ter has grown, There is also MARY
Jane" completing trio that has
never been surpassed in the realms OF
the cartoon. They are still in the lime.
light of popularity in the play with
the delightful girl background. This