The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08


proved today She is suffering with
pneumonia.
Charles Harding, a former Norfolk
citizen. was Monday evening elected
president OF the Omaha board Of edu.
cation.
The ladies' guild of Trinity church
will meet with Mrs. A. T.. Chambers
at her home on North Tenth street,
Friday afternoon at $50 o'clock.
Mrs. A. u. Baldwin is seriously III.
Her husband, who was down I'm the
southern part OF the state on business,
was recalled by telephone on Sunday,
Rabbit shooting by moon light es-
pccially after the first clean fall of
snow, has been recognized the last
year or two as being about the latest
fashion in the world of sport. 1t was
not noticeable, however, that the dis.
charge of firearms last night kept any
one awake.
The little fifteen-months-old baby
girl of Mr. and Mrs. A. Yates, 1906
Hayes avenue Is fast recovering from
her dangerous condition of a week
ago. The child contracted cold from
unavoidable exposure on a recent rail
road Journey, Her temperature Satur
day was t05 degrees.
Sheriff j. j. Edwards OF Sioux Falls
in charge of Samuel Rainbow, mus.
cular Indian from Herrick, S. D.,
stayed over night in Norfolk on his
way round to the national divorce
witness in pending liquor case,
Sheriff Edwards stated that it is still
unsafe to attempt to cross the Mis-
souri, at any point.
Exposure alike to burning glare Of
summer sun, cutting rain and driving
storm has with the passing of time
practically oblitcratcd the lettering on
the street sign boards in Norfolk. on
account of the illogiblity of the names
of streets and avenues strangers in
town have considerable difficulty in
hunting up their friends.
More stamps were sold this Christ
mas in Norfolk than ever before i'm the
history of the local postofIice, The
months stamp sales in Norfolk in
December amounted to $l,SS7. This
has never been exceeded save in one
month, last October, when the stamp
sales went up to 81 ,S99. 1t is decidedly
out of the ordinary for October to be
the record sale month.
E'raI n EpnStpr q
cist at the Christoph drug store but
now proprietor of a drug store at
Carroll, and Miss Jessie Drebert of
this city, were married at 10 o'clock
this morning at the home of the bride S
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Drebert
on South Eighth street in The eIIgihts
DR.. Tindall performed the ceremony
| The young people left at 80 for Car
roll.
Fred Zitkowski is back from Rocky
Ford, Colo, where the sugar campaign
has been completed. The beet sugar
season was very poor owing to lack
of water for the irrigated land. The
factory at Rocky Ford ran only seven
| ty days and did the work of both the
Rocky Ford and the Lamar factories
the latter factory, the successor of the
Norfolk sugar factory, not running al
all
The pallbearers at the funeral OF
Mrs. p. o. Hirsch, held yesterday
morning from the Catholic church
were: Herman Gerecke, +. B. Kauff
man, C. f. A. Marquardt, John Weiden
Teller, G. A. Werner and Emil Koehn
Father Buckley had charge of the ser
vices at the church. The Sons of Her
man had charge of the exercises after
the church was left. Interment was
in the new Lutheran cemetery.
W. II. Weekes, the new publisher
and editor of the Norfolk Weekly
Press, this week, will put out his
second issue in Norfolk. Severa
changes take place in the Press. II
politics it becomes a Democratic pub
LEGATION. In price it is advanced tC
$3.50 a year, payable in advance. Mr.
Weekes comes to Norfolk from Ere
mont, where he published the FIRE
mont News, weekly publication. He
is best known as a newspaper man
however, through the ten years he
spent as the editor of the Scribnel
News. In that capacity he gained the
distinction of being the first news
paper man to place Bryans name a
the head of his editorial column. IL
1895, fifteen months before the con
vention, he ran the words, Bryan fol
eePresident" with &c to /" motto a
the top of his paper. Weekes Away.
claims that it was an inspiration
which led him to make the Scribnel
News the original Bryan paper. Mr.
Weekes' family are still in Fremont
but will join him shortly. Mrs. Weekes
is an experienced newspaper woman
Alterations are being made in the
Press building and Mr.. Weekes pu
forth his first issue in the face o.
considerable difficulty.
School in Trip County.