The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-26
FRIDAY FACTS.

Il. =. Olmsted was in Ewing yester-
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. d. Rees left yesterday
for Blencoe, Ia, to attend the funeral
of Mrs. Rees' mother
J. r. Smith and daughter, Miss Flor
ence Smith, of University Place are
/ visiting Mr.. and Mrs e. II. Brewer.
Miss Kathryn Wilson of Meadow
Grove is at the home of her sister,
Mrs f. II. Brewer, recovering from
| injuries received in runaway last
| Christmas.
Among the days out Of town visitors
in Norfolk were: Hannah Bryant,
, Madison; NJ. Hart, Silver Greek; w.
A. Bowker, Harrington; w. w,
Weaver, Madison Mr.. and Mrs. f.
Click, Verdel; F. j. Brown, Tilden;
George d. Rich, Wisner Raymond
Woods, Fullerton; w. C. Carrell, H.
e. Cook, c. L. Fraser, Madison;
Charles Atkinson, Creighton; o. c.
Anderson, West Point; w. A. Mer-
serve, w. II. Holmes, Creighton; W..
H. Thomas, Carlock, S. D.. Fred
Hines, Naper; F. A. Morse Plainview;
W. T. Weis, Butte; p. G. Barnum,
Carroll; Victor Anderson, Wausa
Ed Porter, formerly a butcher at
Anoka. has left there for parts un-
known. His wife is still there.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Stadelman are
in Omaha.
E. A. Evanson left at noon to visit
friends in Des Moines.
Miss Williams, sister of w. R.
Williams, is in Norfolk representing
the Nebraska orphanage association.
The funeral of C. j. Chapman will
be held at Dunlap, Ia, Sunday after
noon. Mr.. and Mrs. p. F. Bell and
Charles Hyde and family will attend
from Norfolk.
Norfolk people counted by City
Clerk Ed Harter at noon, $3.50. Nor
folk was given 3,SS3 people by the
1900 census. Mr.. Harter as yet in
his census taking has not been south
of Pasewalk avenue.
Norfolk friends have just received
word of the death of c. B. Sprague
an early Nebraska settler, who started
>, the Blair Times in 1880, who died II
Pawnee, Okla, last Sunday. He was
. seventy-one years old.
;, Mayor ]. d. Sturgeon is confined tc
u, his home with a severe attack o'
uuinsy He was taken i'll yesterday
afternoon and had to call cab tC
= get home The mayor was no better
!, today. He is supposed to have con
. tracted cold on coming from Arizona
into the cold air of Nebraska Wednes
day.
\ The pallbearers at the funeral .
: the late A. E. Groom were: H. NJ
Il Roberts, w. II. Widaman, George
Il Dudley. ST.. A. N. McGinniso H. c
! Matrau and Smith Grant. S. d. Wig
ton. the Presbyterian minister at FL
gin, conducted services in the Presby
- terian church. The body was laid 4
u rest in the soldiers lot in Prospec
Hill cemetery.
y The Norfolk hog case is going u
~ higher. Andrew Nord has appeale
.e from Justice Eiseley decision declal
10 ing the hog was rightly the property G
viii Reed. Justice Eiseley was tn
u Judge of Nords own picking, he hay
ing transferred the case from Justic
Lambert. Meanwhile the hog in di'
pute has been done into hams an
sausage all these weeks. The cost
:. in the proceedings are, however, COZ
~ y, siderable and are at issue. Nor
-, claims that he owned the hog but tha
- he owed Reed for him. Reed said tn
~ -, hin, oil the timI
n Nord sold the hog, which Reed
~ once replevined and straightway sol
n again.
1t is now denied in Yankton thu
ve one John Naughton, a Vermillion raj
&C road contractor, lost anything in II
in Pierce crash when the Yankton-No
ne folk project fell through some yea1
ago. 1t is claimed there that ever
,g. body was paid in full for work don
to the losers in the whole transactiC
as being the English capitalists who a
lie vanced the money. 1t is claimed
he Yankton that the crash was caused
the Englishmen Withholding furth
ne funds. having been seized with an
ie- tack of timitidy. AS a matter of hi
III tory not eHllItlN lOl SpI'Sh' i'NS'iN
IN, ton is held in Norfolk of local peop
who were short more or less consi
es cradle sums of money in the Pier
as crash. Memory of old Yankton-NC
is, folk obligations which were not m
does not entirely agree with the
fm cent statement made in Hankto
at Pierce is supposed to he in Sou
llS America at this time. His fraudule
lto transactions were supposed to ha
ih amounted up to several millions, T.
ne Yankton-Norfolk suffered a backs
az from the Pierce frauds which it h
DO been years in recovering from. VIII
,or Pierce, who was an Englishman al
Ia who used English capitalists as
90 dupes, decamped, the right-of-way W
tti. ready for the rails nearly to PierC
md Even bridges had been built.
-ag William Zulauf, the Pierce hori
ne. man, according to the Madison po