The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19
WEDNESDAY WRINKLES.


c. f. Schulz went to Humphrey.
Mrs. Frank Lowrey went to Colum.
bus.
Mrs Kinkaid of Pierce was in the
city.
William Setback of Hoskins was in
the city
+. j. Pratt of Humphrey was here
on business.
Kimball Barnes has returned from
short visit at Omaha.
Miss Martha May of Hoskins was
here visiting with friends.
John Kruger and daughter of Ha'
dar called on friends here.
Senator F. j. Hale of Atkinson is
in the city transacting business.
Mrs. C. j. Haviland of Sioux City is
here visiting with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. H. G. Brueggeman.
Rev. d. x. Tindall, who has been on
two weeks trip around Ponca. Jack.
son and other Nebraska towns, has re-
turned.
A. c. Stear is on the sick list.
A. A. Corkle is confined to his bed
with pneumonia.
The Ladies' guild of Trinity church
will meet with Mrs. Burnham Thurs
day afternoon at 230.
meeting for boys and girls at the
Christian church will be held by Evan
gelist Clutter Thursday afternoon.
The ladies of the Second Congrega.
tional church will meet in the lecture
room tomorrow afternoon to tie com
forters.
The regular semi-annual eXamnna-
being made by Examiner j. c. Kline
Of Lincoln, who goes to Omaha to.
morrow.
The first sleighbells of the year jim
gled out on the crisp air of last night
in Norfolk. The unusually heavy
snow, followed by cold, has made
sleighing good.
A party of Norfolk hunters, after a
fruitless search of wild geese returned
a few days ago with number of tame
geese, which they purchased at a
camp south of here. One of the party
who obtained two geese when in the
act of killing one, let it escape. 1t
flew as far as the Elkhorn river with
its owner in pursuit in buggy. Up
to this date he is still shy a goose.
Norfolk's unexpected snowstorm was
a boon to the dealers of shoes. One
merchant declares that in the last few
days over $4,000 worth of overshoes,
by Norfolk shoe dealers. Owing to
the delay of some of the trains one
merchant says he is losing sales every
minute, owing to the fact that he has
sold his entire stock of overshoes and
leggins.
Norfolk firemen who are making col
lections for their fair booths, which
will be a feature at the fair at the
skating rink November 20, are making
good. One Norfolk firm has contrib.
uted a ton of coal, another shoes
Lamps and many boxes of cigars are
among the number which will be sold
A meeting of the firemen is called
for Monday, November %. when the
arrangements for the next days fair
will be made complete.
One of the hardest games of foot
ball ever played on the local gridiron
will be contested Saturday afternoon
when the game etween Neigh and
Norfolk is scheduled to be played
Neigh defeated Norfolk early in the
season, but since then Norfolk has
gained strength and experience and a
lively tussle is expected. The Nor
folk men are confident of making a
better showing against the Neigh
boys next Saturday than they did in
their first game with them. That there
are less accidents in football game
than any other athletic sport, or auto
MODELLING, is argued by a prominent
football enthusiast of Norfolk, who be-
lieves that the fatalities in the recent
football games in the east were given
undue prominence as compared with
Fatalities in other sports, and that the
accidents on the gridiron in the east
will not have any effect on football
here whatever.
A letter has been received here by
c. +. Burnham from F. e. Nicoles, su,
perintendent of the Nebraska division
of the c., st. p, NJ. & o. railroad, in
which he says many complaints from
his conductors have reached him in
the Norfolk avenue switching matter
Mr.. Nicoles says that Norfolk citizens
are said to stand at the crossing with
watch in hand and time the freights
and switch crews as they do switching
on Norfolk avenue. Mr.. Nicoles also
says his train crews, when switching
on the Gund or letter brewery tracks,
have been threatened with arrest a
number of times. A warrant for the
arrest of Union Pacific train crew,
according to Mr.. Nicoles, is supposed
to be out. This, however, is not true.
After an investigation Mayor Friday
finds that the car Kicking" incident
on Norfolk avenue some days ago was
due to an accident and the train crew
are not held responsible and will not
be arrested. While slowing down over
Main street coupling pin had broken
which caused one of the cars to go
across the street alone. When the
engineer Whicfla6 FOR bralyo, ~