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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

The girls of Smith college are
sporting the most unusual variety of
millinery that ever adorned college
campus. 1t was discovered that at a
hat factory in Amherst fearful and
wonderful array Of untrimmed hats
could be purchased at fifteen cents
each. 1t became the fad to wear these
hats, and the cars running between
Amherst and Northampton have been
crowded with girls who have laid In
supply of ten or twelve of these
gorgeous creations each. At present
the fad is to have hat for every
hour of the day.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04
THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEws-JoURNAL FRIDAY JUNE 1908

special privilege and their ilk, be sub.
dued. II we have learned the lesson
Memorial Day should teach us, we will
smother selfishness and give our loyal
devotion to the promotion of right,
truth and honor in the land for which
the heroes we honor today laid down
their lives. They did the duty placed
before them nobly and their names
are written in the Book of Remem
brance. A country saved and bro
therhood established make an abid
ing memorial.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Forty-four years have passed since
the civil war closed and yet the ma.
ton is paying in pensions to union
soldiers the sum of $160,000000. 1t
seems like large sum, and yet it is
we'll spent. Those men who wore the
blue, confronted by their brave broth
ers who wore the grey, were wit
nesses and sharers in the greatest
saddest tragedy of modern times
The life of the nation was at stake
States discovered and discordant'
threatened the estrangement of the
people of one blood. By their conse
Grafton and devotion the union was
saved, slavery was wiped out and
they have handed down to this and
succeeding generations the priceless
heritage of great, free, united re
public where liberty enlightens the
world and happy prosperous people
are busy in the upbuilding of a splen
did civilization. 1t is we'll that we
honor the old veterans. We can never
pay them for that they did.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Some one is attempting to awaken
an interest in the return to civilized
society OF the celluloid collar. It is
true that the celluloid collar proved
q friend in need to the impecunious
student who could not afford laundry
bills. But the abnormal glitter of the
conspicuous circle proclaimed its
identity as far as one could see and
the occasional accidents when they ex
ploded from over heat made many
look upon them with die favor. and
they will have hard time regainine
the favor they once possessed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04
THE WOMAN WHO WAS ROBBED

THE WOMAN WHO WAS ROBBED.
When will people learn the use of
banks or the postoffice? A Duluth
woman who went to Seattle to visit
had $4,000 in currency shipped to her
by express, intending to deposit the
currency in Seattle bank. She kept
the money in her sisters house for a
week, procrastinating from day to
day for various reasons. Monday she
couldn't deposit the coin because
banks were closed on account of Me
mortal day. So she tucked it in be-
tween bed sheets and she and heI
sister went to town.
Burglars entered the house, searched
high and low, found the secreted
money and got away with it.
How foolish it was to transport the
actual cash to Seattle, the woman
herself now knows best. For a few
cents she could have bought bank
draft or postoffice money order, and
today she would be $4,000 ahead.
1t takes an incident like this tt
arouse people to their senses-ant
even then some will stubbornly de
cline to be aroused.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

The first rural free delivery route in
the Panhandle was started from Can
yon City this month. Nothing could
make the progress of the Panhandle
country clearer. A very few years
ago a rural mail carrier would have
had a hard time finding enough
rural residences in days journey to
in anyway justify his employment.
But the big ranchmen are giving way
to the "nesters" as they call them, and
the frontier is moving on to the sun
set. The plainsman who few years
ago lived a days journey from his
nearest neighbor, will soon be able
to borrow his next door neighbor's
morning paper.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04
NoRFoLK's FIRE PROTECTION.

Norfolk has just taken another val
liable step toward fire protection,
which should be appreciated by every
citizen and property owner. A team
of fire horses with a paid driver are
now stationed at the central fire sta
ton twenty-four hours day. the
horses already having been educated
to run from their stalls to the fire
wagon for the harness to be auto
matically dropped, when an alarm is
turned in.
This saves many minutes of val
liable time in getting to a fire-and
that means a saving of thousands OF
dollars in the course of a year.
There is no better volunteer fire de-
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04
MUCH BUILDING ACTIVITY.

Not in twenty years has there been
such building activity in Norfolk as
there is this summer. And more is
in the air.
Almost countless number of new
houses are being built, and there is
not a vacant desirable residence in
the city.
1t is rumored that more business
blocks may be added to the present
quota.
All in all, Norfolk never has been
healthier, and never was there such
pronounced substantial growth.
Norfolk's future looks pretty good
after all.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04
LAW ENFORCEMENT.

James j. Hill in Seattle made a
plea for more law enforcement and
less law-making. In New York at
the same time we are told that there
have been almost 1000 lynchings in
the United States within the past
twenty-five years.
1t is apparent we have too many
laws that are not enforced. We have
too many laws too stringent for en-
forcement. And on the other hand
we have crimes again and again FOL
which there is no adequate penalty
even though the law be enforced.
Mr.. Hills suggestion is good one
that impractical laws be weeded on,
and that those laws left On the stat
utes be drastic enough and enforced
so invariably that a respect shall
grow up for the state.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04
DICKINsoN's NOTABLE SPEECH

DICKINSON'S NOTABLE SPEECH.
That was a notable utterance that
came from the lips of Secretary of
War Dickinson on Memorial day at
Gettysburg, when, southern man
himself, he declared that he realized
and that the thinking, dispassionate
men of the south, itself, realize that
victory for the north and for union
was, after all, the only result that
could be permanent, and that it was
best for all concerned that the war
should have ended as it did.
Secretary Dickinson saw that had
the south been victorious, a confed-
eracy would have been established
which must, even by now, have disin-
tegrated and crumbled.
Coming from southern patriot, the
speech was momentous. And 1t will
do much to erase any dividing line
that may still exist between north and
south, in sentiment.
1t was a speech which made 1t ap-
parent, as Mr.. Dickinson said, that
love does rule" and that the whole
nation may now grow together, more
strongly and more tremendously than
ever before in its history.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

The law of New York forbids book
making as it has been carried on, but
they are still permitted to have oral
betting providing there are no stakes
posted, While it might be possible TO
carry on quite business i'm this way,
1t will appeal to many as rather silky.
When the other fellow loses and tells
you he'll settle when he has the
money, what are you going to dc
about it?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

1t Is reported that the wild animals
in that section of Africa where Roose-
velts are hunting are rapidly disap-
pearing. Those which are not killed
by the keen aim of the Terrible Ted
dy" are dying from the fumes of the
deadly cigarette imported by Kermit
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

There Is no field of endeavor in
which the gutter suffers so quickly as
way to make money so easily or quick
ly as through carefully arranged
advertising campaign of a useful arti-
Gle or business
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

A scientifically trained musician is
at work under the direction of the
Smithsonian institute preserving the
old Indian music, war and medicine
songs before 1t dies out or becomes
contaminated by civilization. The
photograph has been called into serv
ice for this purpose and after much
study of their habits and the use OF
clever diplomacy they have been in
duced to. sing for the photograph
About 800 records have been made.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

With the closing OF the school year
Saturday came an end to the first
years work in Norfolk as superin.
tendent of schools of F. M. Hunter
and it must be said of Mr.. Hunter
now that the first year has gone by
that he has been a good find" for
Norfolk. The schools of the city have
progressed at highly satisfactory pace
during the past year. Norfolk won
first rank in an arithmetical test
among high schools of the state. show
ing that the elementary studies are
not being neglected under Mr.. Hun
ter's administration. High school ath
letics have been put on a plane un
known before and all in all the whole
machinery of the public school system
has moved tremendously and steadily
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04
PREsIDBNT TAFT's SPEECH,

Speaking extemporaneously, as has
been his custom ever since he became
president of the United States, Taft
on Monday at Gettysburg said several
things of particular interest to the ma
ton at large. On his way to Gettys'
burg he declared that be hoped the
tariff bill would be finished within a
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

A cigarette antidote has been in
vented. 1t is merely roll of cotton
waste made into the shape of a cigar.
cite which burns slowly and emits
such a vile odor that the cigarette
fiend is glad to get relief by surren-
dering Internationally.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

A knocker is defined as a person
who is afraid that his neighbor should
make a dollar or two and who would
gladly do the same job for thirty
cents If he could only keep his neigh.
Dor from making anything. In fact
some men would do It for nothing
and throw in travelling expenses in
order to beat the other man out of a
good job. Men of this class are of
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

They are talking very earnestly of
making Roosevelt mayor of New York
city. Why not give him a rest for a
while and cleo William Jennings Bry,
an? 1t might prove stepping stone
many more friendly. The scheme is
certainly worth trying.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

In at least one particular Abdul
Hamid and Castro are alike. They
both had an eye to the main chance,
while they were in office and their
private fortunes are reckoned in mil
lions.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Atlanta, Georgia, recently had a
musical festival and cleared $1,000.
Music certainly hath charms to touch
not only the heart but the pocketbook
of the south.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Very radical changes are being ad.
vocated in division of grades and ar.
rangement of the curriculum Of the
public schools in some cities, so that
more time may be devoted to the
manual training. 1t is argued that at
present a great percentage of pupils
leave school with the completion OF
the eighth grade and under the pres
ent system those leaving school at
the close of the eighth grade are not
fitted properly for work of any kind
Under the new division advocated the
aim is to make the early years of the
students life of more definite and
practical value in fitting him to &c
out into the world and earn his own
living.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

The Grand Army men show the
stuff that soldiers are made of when
they declare that they will continue
to march on Memorial day as long as
any of them are left to march.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

The governor of Rhode Island was
arrested for exceeding the speed limit
In two states. He began the trouble
in his own state, but ran over into
Massachusetts before he could stop
his automobile.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

The gutter is a commercial suicide
whose burdens become more than he
is willing to bear, and this is the
worst sort of cowardice. A policy
once adopted must be persisted in
Be sure the policy is the right one
then don't be gutter. This means
success spelled with 5.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

thon races. He says they are physi-
cally injurious. A safe and sane con-
stitutional according to the veteran
pedestrians idea would be walk of
forty miles day, four miles an hour.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

no value to themselves and are worse
tnan useless to the unfortunate COM
munity where they get in their dead
~ work.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

A sage remarks that when you are
right you can afford to keep your
temper. When you are wrong you
can't afford to lose 1t.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

There is certain young man who
is engaged and who is vcry much in
love. We were. therefore, shocked to-
day to see him laughing with dining
room girl and apparently enjoying
himself.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

The paramount issue in Philadelphia
is whether the Liberty Bell shall be
mended or keep the crack which is its
highest honor
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

George Meredith, the English novel;
list, wanted to live to see England a
part of the United States. Shades OF
George III!
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

yes. It is very hard to bear"
an Atchison widow sobbed when a
friend attempted to console her.
Johns death occurred when all the
girls and myself had just bought new
party dresses"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

1t will be a great shock to young
mothers, but most Of the men We
knew as boys, who developed into
pretty good men. learned to chew to
bacco a good deal more readily thar
they learned to play the plano.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Look yourself over Do you bore
people? A good many do, and you
are not above suspicion.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

No truer words were ever spoken
than those OF an elderly man that II
takes a life time to learn to be kind
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

By their own confessions there's u
are trying to break into the peniten.
tiary just as fast as the law will allow.
And some of them will succeed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

If reform keeps on at its present
gait, they will be arresting a man for
failure to wash his teeth.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Wouldn't it be exhilarating to hit
a G. b. hard enough to make it stay
in the air as long as the Zeppelin II
stayed up this last time?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Every so often bunch of boys has
to be rounded up and sent to the re-
form school just to keep those that
follow out of devilment.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

The dogs and the petty thieves
ought both to be cleared out.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

No gift to baby would be more
appreciated by the baby's parents
Just now than a half dozen golf balls
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Nebraska School Review: II. II.
Watson, after twelve years successful
work as superintendent OF the Val.
entine schools, has decided to rest
from his labors after teaching gram
mar In the summer school OF tho
state university this summer. Mr..
Watson has managed to amass what
seems to teacher quite n large for
tune and can take life easy hereafter.
He is rated at over $4,000.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Men may be divided into two
classes-those who would have made
great baseball players, II they had
been allowed to stay with the game
and those who are acquainted with
some player who did win fame.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

The girl graduate and the arm,
veteran have had their days. Nov
usher in the June bride.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

A newly married man in town,
whose wife never learned to cook
decently, is suffering with a Goldfish
ball in his vermiform appendix.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

The class in arithmetic will please
figure out how many 50-cent water
cored golf balls Mr.. Patten could buy
with his profits on May wheat
amounting to something like $780,
600.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

There's said to be something brew
ing at the Norfolk insane hospital
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

The first week of vacation is half
over. First thing you know school
bells will be ringing again.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04
ATcHIsoN GLOBE SIGHTS.

A man laughs when he is amused ;
a woman laughs when she thinks she
ought to.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Several Norfolk households are
threatened with domestic troubles
over the fact that golf makes late
suppers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

When a man WALKS by a grocery
store and takes an apple, the propri.
etor would be justified in protesting,
but as a matter of policy. can he af-
ford to do it? Would 1t not be better
for him to smile, and pretend that he
enjoys being robbed? There are hun
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

The Wayne Democrat urges the
county commissioners to succeed her
husband as county superintendent of
Wayne county.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Are there train robbers in Norfolk
A lot of playing cards and other par.
aphernalia, believed to have been stol
en- from a freight car, was unearthed
at a local beer vault. Was that the
work of real train robbers in the max.
ing?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Bet it seemed like old times when
Shallenberger struck Norfolk. Prob
ably hadn't been called ash" before
in twenty-five years.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Guses who told us about the drouth
we were suffering from?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Captain Charles Fraser of Madison
may be advanced to the post of major
at the election in the First regiment
to be held soon.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

The work of sinking a test oil well
near Bloomfield, in Knox county, is
to be started at once.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Chadron, which has been one
newspaper town for nearly four years
is to have second newspaper, thu
Chronicle.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

An Atchison man thinks he Is en-
titled to the Carnegie hero medal. His
daughter, princess, had company in
the parlor; the young man was her
hearts desire, worked in a bank, and
always wore good clothes. But the
father walked boldly into the room
and sat down, and he had on his barn
clothes, too. His daughter gave him
such a look of scorn it stopped his
watch, but he stayed any way.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Yes, sir, you can go barefoot, ever
If it freezes your toes Off. But il
won't.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

City Supt. w. M. Davidson of Omaha
will deliver the high school commence
ment address at Wayne next Friday.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

The Fourth of July is only month
and three days distant.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

There remain only little over 81:
months in which to do your Christina
shopping.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

John A. Ehrhardt of Stanton deliv
cred the Memorial day address a
Plainview Saturday.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Nebraska School Review: Miss Ce-
liza A. Gorby has been unanimously re-
elected superintendent of the O'Neill
city schools for the coming year ut
$1,000. All the grade teachers at
O'Neill were reelected also and will
remain. The high school teachers
have secured better positions. 1t is
the general comment at O'Neill that
the city schools were never In better
condition and that Miss Gorbys ad.
ministration has never been surpassed
in the history of the school there.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

There once lived in our neighbor-
hood very worthless boy. Every
morning we could hear his folks try
ing to get him out of bed to eat his
breakfast, and to get to his work In
time. We are, therefore, glad to hear
good reports about him. He has late
lily been advanced by his employer
and is coming out all right. There is
one good thing about worthless boy:
he often comes out all right.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Notice there weren't any bee
vaults robbed last night?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

S. S. McAllister, an attorney, ha
moved to Colome.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

dreds of annoyanoes In life that you
should bear as matter of policy.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

B. F. Lyle of Spencer is seeking {
saloon license at Pierce.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

One newspaper is unkind enough tC
call it the June wedding present sea
son.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Why not bar dime novels from the
mails?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Lincoln Star: The fact that Ne
braska was dry in 1855 is no argu
ment. We hadn't grown anything
even thirst, in those days.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

w. I. Kortright, who has edited the
defunct Fairfax Sun-Review and the
late Randolph Reporter, has gone to
Breda to establish new paper.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Winside Tribune: Boys were born
to four democrats at Emerson last
week, which undoubtedly means four
more votes for Bryan in 1882
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Decoration day is past, the rain
ought to be willing to let up.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

J. II. Emery, living north of Bone
steel, sustained several painful burns
in rescuing three horses from his
burning barn. Three other horses
persisted. The fire started In chick.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

"Foozling" is part of the game.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-04

Did you get in out of the wet?