The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-03-05

Midland organization Is expected in
the city in a short time to take up the
matter with the Commercial club dl.
rectors in person.
Ducks northward bound marked the
passing Of the last winter month and
the arrival of March. Several tlocks
of ducks in long lines passed over
Norfolk Sunday. Monday the first
day of March, was pleasantly sug.
gestiye of spring. The thermometer
during the night fell as low as twenty
six degrees but with daylight as.
cended rapidly.
Mrs. sherman Wiley is very i'll.
The infant daughter of MIR. and
Mrs. John Napier is very i'll.
The board of education will hold
its March meeting this evening in
Secretary Matrau's office.
The Ben Hur lodge expect to initi-
ate a class of ten or twelve members
this evening at the regular lodge
meeting,
Madison has named Mayor George
A. Wycoff and A. NJ. Koechig as dele
gates to the commercial club conven-
ton here this month.
A. Degner was elected member
of the executive committee of the Ne
braska Retail Hardware Dealers as
sociation for three year term at the
recent convention in Omaha.
Florence Dodge. a Fremont girl who
| was arrested in Norfolk last summer
/ for running away from home to join
| a show at Winside, has been again
| restored to her mother, this time by
the Omaha police the young lady hay-
ing decided that life in Omaha was
| preferable to Fremont. She is six
| teen.
Miss Belle c. Clark of Bellevue has
| been appointed superintendent Of
nurses at the Norfolk state hospital
succeeding Miss Sinclair who re-
signed some weeks ago. The train.
| ing school for nurses is to be con-
| tnued at the hospital. AS previously
announced Miss Graca Kidder of
Norfolk is the new matron at the hos
pital.
The ladies' guild of Trinity church
will serve the banquet to be rendered
the visiting delegates to the annual
convention of Nebraska commercial
clubs to be held here March II and
Is. The banquet will be held the
evening of March IS. The ladies'
guild in the past has served several
convention banquets which have added
much to Norfolk's fame as Nebras.
ka convention city.
The Madison county mortgage
record for February, as prepared by
County Clerk George f. Richardson
is as follows: Farm mortgages filed
% amounting to $71,G72.5O, released
80 amounting to $64,S50; city mort
cages filed 13 amounting to $10,S25,
released 21 amounting to $12,251.39;
chattcl mortgages filed 146 amount
ing to $50, ,472.2S, released 105 amount
ing to $26,59S,42. Until last week the
mortgage record for the month showed
decrease, but the large number filed
during the last week turned the scale
in two of the classes and made an
increase in the total mortgage indebt-
edness of the county. A large number
| of mortgages are always filed around
March l, which is moving time on the
farm and the time when most farm
land changes hands.
The unearthing of the Council
Bluffs fake sporting gangs, one of the
biggest swindling organizations this
western country has produced and
which took hundreds of thousands of
dollars from its victims, failed to sur
prise a good many people in north
Nebraska. From time to time rumors
of strange transactions have fioated
down from Council Bluffs. For in
stance an Atkinson man, not long
ago, was taken to Council Bluffs on
show of force escaped from the
framed-up transaction. A "cop" was
on hand and instead of going back
with the Atkinson man to face the
gang turned his energy to hustling
the Nebraska visitor out of town be-
fore the wicked men could get" him.
Mark Coad, the Fremont capitalist, is
! IepOIIeu W nave contributed SoS,UUU
to the harvest. John Hermel-
brecht of Bancroft is another north
Nebraska man in the published list
of victims. The published descriptions.
of the method of operations tallies
exactly with what was generally
understood in nOn-pOlice circles to be
going in the Iowa city. Police CON
nections is shown by the fact that the
gang secured Tip" in time to
escape arrest in Council Bluffs and
that similar Tip" nearly prevented
the arrests made in Little Rock last
week. Not few north Nebraska peo-
pie who were next" thought that the
Hadar bank robbery could be traced
to the Council Bluffs gang, but recent
events have proved that this bank
/. robbery at least is not to be placed at
their door
Branch Line Was Also showed In
Albion News The Northwestern
passenger train got stuck in a snow
drift Just east of Bradish Tuesday