The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-08
FRIDAY FACTS.

Henry Marquardt and Darius Raasch
are In Omaha on business
NJ. ID, Tyler was in Madison ycster.
day
Miss PAUL Of Kcarncy Is the guest
of Miss Georgia Brakeman.
w. A. Kingsley and family are home
from a holiday visit in Stanton.
r. -. Hall is home from a visit to
David CITY.
Jean Morsch of Herrick, S. ID, camc
down to spend New Years with his
sister, Mrs. Il. o. Webb
Mrs l.. A. Brown and children If
Meadow Grove came down to spend
New Years at the T. H. Brewer
home.
Miss limo Huntington viii return TO
her home in Fremont tomorrow after
having spent the holiday vacation
with Miss Birdie KuhL
Mr. and Mrs John McKeen and
daughter Of Blair, who have been Wis
iting with Mr. and Mrs Fred Eller.
brock, returned home today.
Among the days out of town visi.
tors in Norfolk were: Mrs. w, l..
Boyer, Miss Maudc Osborn, Battle
Creek; A. J. Nervig, Harrington; II. j
Mas, Battle Creek; Charles Whittig.
Butte; c. II. Reed, Madison; Miss
Mabel A. Bowen, Wakefield; f. n,
Weaver, Dallas, S. d.; George Cor,
Osmond; Mrs. l.. Calender Miss NJ
Calender, Dallas S d.. NJ. Il. Sehif-
fel, Gregory S d; Gould Andrew,
Pierce; w. w. Law, Bonesteel, S. d.;
George Logenvell, Naper; |. w. Alter,
Wayne f. W. Baker c. G. Baker, Til.
den; Thomas Stevenson. Albion.
George Freeman and VIII Evans
have given up their places as line
men with the Nebraska Telephone
company
The temperature dropped below the
zero mark Thursday night, the gov
eminent thermometer registering l
degree below in Norfolk.
Pierce has selected Chief }. A. Long
and l.. II. Pheasant and Reinhold Stein |
kraus as delegates to the state fire
mems convention her next month.
The funeral of little Johnny Fink |
was held from the Zion Congrega |
tion church in West Norfolk. Rev |
Carl Wichelt, pastor of the German !
Evangelical church, delivered the fun |
eral sermon.
The funeral of Mrs. Carl Braasch |
was held at o'clock today from the |
family home in Edgewater park and |
later from the Congregational church. |
Rev Carl Martin of St Johannes |
church had charge of the services.
Pierce Call: Mrs. Henry Miller re-
turned Monday from Norfolk where she
was called last week on account of
her mothers illness, who is in a SER
ious condition from brain fever. Mrs
Miller returned to her mothers bed
side Tuesday evening.
o. L,JHyde, who has represented the
Interstate Rubber company of Omaha
in thgs territory for the past seven
yeaU has secured like position with
the Hamilton Brown Shoe company of
st. Louis. The change brings a de-
cided advance to Mr.. Hyde, who left
for st. Louis yesterday to become
acquainted with his new house. Mr..
and Mrs. Hyde will continue to make
their home in Norfolk.
The Nebraska Telephone company
yesterday was granted permission to
make its requested reductions in tele-
phone rates in Norfolk by the state
railway commission at Lincoln Under
the cut rates the price for four-party
line residence telephones is reduced
from SIS to $l2 a year The yearly
al 1innS iG rplnpnl |
from $21 to SIS. The new rates, the
Norfolk office announces, so into eff
feet today. In lowering its rates the
Nebraska company announced to the
state commission that it desired to
meet competitive conditions in Norfolk
and to forestall possible loss of sub
scribers.
The Darlow Advertising agency is
the name of a new corporation in
Omaha. succeeding the c. ID. Thomp-
son Advertising agency. a. b. Oar
low is president, A. S, Borglum secre- t
tary and ID. NJ. Carr manager. The
late Alfred Darlow, who resigned his
position as advertising manager of
the Union Pacific just before his l,
death, to assume active management
of this agency, owned a majority of
the agency stock. c. d. Thompson,
for whom the old company was
named, formerly conducted a drug
store in Norfolk and went from here ,
to Omaha to engage in the advertis-
ing agency business.
The Fremont police last week were =
called to look for a mother who left
her infant in the hands of another
woman passenger on a Northwestern -,
train there and failed to return for it.
Although the supposed mother got off
the train as soon as it stopped, the
authorities were unable to find any
trace of her identity. All that was
known about her was that she got on !
the train at Omaha, and occupied a
seat with an elderly woman all the
way to Fremont. When the latter sta. .
ton was reached she asked her COM
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