The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-29
SATURDAY SETTINGS.

r.. II, wilson OF NlODrara was III lne
city enroute to Omaha on business.
County Clerk s. h. Mcfarland of
Madison was in the city ON business.
Rev. J. Jeneries and wife, formerly
of South Norfolk but now of Albion
were here visiting with the w. c. Ro-
land family.
Mrs. Harry b. Rhodes returned to
! Sioux City today noon, after several
days visit at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. f. l.. Estabrook.
Henry Whitehall of Hoskins was in
the city on business.
Mrs. John Quick went to Des
Moines, Ia, to visit friends.
Among the days out.oftown visitors
in Norfolk We're: W. f. Mcconnell,
Plainview; j. S. Mcconnell, Plainview;
O, Lenvier, Dallas, S. D.; Lornda Feg-
erbush. Niobrara; II. Leball, Beemer;
j. p. Anderson, Naper; Dick Knight,
Naper; George w. Kirk, Plainview;
f. Nj. Hubert, Gregory, S. D.; S. M.
Wyatt, Anoka; Oscar Lewiver, Dallas;
w. G. Mallory, Platte Center; A. Mer-
rift, Creighton; II. A. Monroe, Homer.
The census man is doing great work
in Norfolk. Il surely must thank The
News for what it has done in getting
the people ready for u.s." said one man
taking the census here. Il have no
trouble at all. At many of the homes,
the people are all ready to answer all
my questions the minute | knock at
the door. Many of them have the
questions and answers all written
down on paper"
Police Judge Eiseley received an
envelope through the mail few days
ago i'm which was enclosed newspa-
per clipping taken from the funny side
of some paper in which the writer
gives the history of a judge who con-
siders everybody guilty, waving all
evidence, so long as the prisoner has
already been put behind the bars.
The sender omitted his name, but
the judge says he has an excellent
idea who the sender is
Most of the horse sheds at the Coun-
try club grounds have blown down in
the high wind of the past few days.
The regular meeting of the Won
ans club will be held with Mrs. Buck
ley, 1000 Norfolk avenue, Tuesday af-
ternoon at 2:3O.
Banker delegates to the Neigh con
vention were given badges emitting
them to the privileges of the city, in
Guiding free soda water, cigars and so
forth.
The Jenny Wren club, No. 24O3, will
meet at the home of Shirley Engle,
81 North Ninth street, Monday after
noon at 4:3O. Several new members
will be taken into the club.
James Allen, stock buyer of the Cud-
ahy Packing company of Omaha; A.
l.. Williams, cattle salesman of Will
Jams and son of South Omaha; Charles
Vanalstein, e. NJ. Eckman, also stock
buyers of Omaha. were in the city Fri
day night. The Omaha men, it is said,
are buying stock in this territory.
At a special meeting of the Norfolk
fire department held at the city hall
last night, two entertainments of the
Lyceum bureau were contracted for,
to be put on at the Auditorium by the
firemen. A ten-piece all-star ladies
orchestra, which comes in October,
and a troupe of grand opera singers
in January are the two numbers con
tracted for.
Our money was no good at Neigh,
said a banker Neigh citizens took
the bankers to their homes because
hotels were filled and every place
we entered a box of the best cigars
was opened and ready for us. At one
place, after paying So for various pur-
chases, the proprietor of the place,
with a shotgun in his hands, returned
the money saying, your money is no
good here" Such is only one of the
incidents that met the surprised bank
ers at Neigh, who not only declare
the convention a success, but are
ready to fight at the drop for Neigh.
The Carnegie building is insured for
$4,000 six different insurance agents
of the city having a policy of $1,000
on the building. This was done by
the library board at their meeting,
which was held in the library rooms at
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. New
books were also ordered by the book
committee. The secretary was in
structed to look into the matter of
getting more substantial books for the
library. On May the board will meet
to take up the matter of furnishing
the new library building, but it is be-
lieved on account of being short of
money this proposition will not ad-
vance as fast as it was hoped.
What might have been a disastrous
fire was prevented by the quick action
of number of firemen who are en-
ployed at the Northwestern yards at
South Norfolk yesterday afternoon,
when they eXtinguished flames which
were making speedy progress in the
oil house The fire was discovered
burning in a vat containing oil and
waste. When the men entered the
building the flames shot up as high as
the ceiling and the windows were de-
} stroyed. With the aid of water close
at hand the men made short work of
the fire which, il it had gained head
way, would have consumed two cars