The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-04-30

bingham of post Il. II. ID. McFadden of
post G and NJ. N. Barnes of post II,
Beatrice.
Frank McNeely is quite Ill.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. s. w. Ran
som, a son.
The city council will meet tomor.
row evening.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Grif-
| fitn, Twin. on South Tenth street,
Saturday afternoon, daughter.
Charles Rice this morning bought
the Martin Palm farm three miles
east of the city. The farm is an
eighty.acre tract. Mr.. Rice bought 1t
! as an investment.
George Davenport came up from
Madison Sunday night and. accom-
panied by ]. b. Maynard, left Monday
for Rochester, Mimi, to consult the
Mayo brothers relative to the condi-
ton of his arm, which has been
troubling him for year or more.
Robert /. Elliott, formerly OF Nor
folk and later student at Wayne
college, has been appointed principal
of the junior normal at Broken Bow
this summer. He will also be SUI
perintendent of the Broken Bow city
schools, beginning next September.
The funeral of Mrs. Anna Frede-
ricka Schaffer, the mother of Adam
Schaffer. was held Sunday afternoon
at Christ Lutheran church, Rev. j. P.
Mueller officiating. Mrs. Schaffer,
who lived on South Eleventh street,
died Friday at the age of seventy
nine years.
j. e. Cooper, who has ben connect
ed with the Hobson real estate firm,
has secured a position with a harves-
ter company which for the present
will keep in at the Sioux City office
as stock keeper. Mrs. Cooper, who
is the choir leader at the Methodist
church, will remain in Norfolk for the
present.
Wisner Chronicles: Capt c. l..
Siecke came down from Norfolk to
look after some business matters and
visit his son, Theodore o. Siecke and
family. Mr.. Siecke has bought a
home at Norfolk and he and Mrs.
Siecke will soon be settled and house
keeping again.
John F. Klug, who recently moved
here from Spencer, trading for the
residence property of Ed Bley, has
purchased the insurance business of
j. H. Conley and will engage in the
real estate and insurance business in
Norfolk. Mr. Conley has already
rented an office in Presho, S. D.. his
new location. and will leave Norfolk
to engage in the real estate business
in Lyman county.
At noon today the membership
committee of the projected country
club had fifty-seven signatures to the
charter membership roll. Arrange
ments are also being completed to Sc
cure definite written agreement for
the leasing of the Bishop eighty acre
tract of land on North First street to
present to the new club on its regu-
lar organization. The proposed coun-
try club grounds are on the west side
of North First street just byond the
first bridge over the Northfolk river,
after the M. & o. tracks are passed.
The grounds have been used for pic
mic purposes and were the scene of
the U. c.. T. picnic two years ago.
Lying in the bend in the river and
on the west side, the grounds may be
reached. either by driving straight out
First street or by taking slightly
more winding route out Third or
Fourth streets.
Work will begin in a short time
on new laundry building on South
Third street which Councilman Dan
Craven, proprietor of the Norfolk
Laundry company, is to erect in place
of the present frame building occu-
pied by the laundry The new build
ing will be of cement blocks and will
be 45xS5 feet in siz. The present
frame building, which is 35x65, will
probably be moved to another loca-
ton, Mr.. Craven not having quite
enough room on his South Third
street lots to accommodate the two
buildings. One of the objects which
Mr.. Craven has in mind in the i'm
provements is of course to obtain adj
ditional room for an expansion of
business. An important improvement
will be the installation of a water
purifier, having a capacity of 1900
gallons an hour or $4,000 gallons a
day. The laundry pumps its own
water and the new machinery will
render the water soft" A new
steam boiler and other new equip
ment will be added.
In point of population Madison
county ranks sixteenth among the
counties of the state. In point of
deposits in its national banks, how
ever, the county ranks sixth. Adams,
Buffalo, Cass, Custer, Dodge, Doug
las, Gage, Hall, Lancaster, Otoe,
Platte, Richardson, Saline, Saunders
and York counties are all counties
having greater population than
Madison county by the last census. But
only Adams, Dodge, Douglas, Lancas-
ter and York counties are ahead of