The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-10-07
THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEwsJoURNAI. FRIDAY,
,rs came back to their old quarters

ers came back to their old quarters
Friday morning.
c. +. Haase, guardian of Emil Pillar,
returned from Watertown. Wis, where
he placed his charge in the German
Evangelical Lutheran institute for the
feeble minded. MIR. haase was sur
prised to find such a comfortable
place, and he says that Emil likes his
new home and will receive the best of
care. There are about sixty inmates
| in the institution.
Guy +. Smith of Fort Dodge, Ia, the
contractor for the waterworks exten
sion, reports the completion of the
| work. The contractors equipment has
been loaded on cars and is being
shipped to Stanton, where Mr. Smith
| has a contract to put in a waterworks
extension. Ernest Sasse, who has
been acting as inspector for Mr..
Smith, has resigned his position and
will 90 to Hoskins to move his family
here.
Enough gravel to pave the roads on
the mill grounds has been found in
Cereal mills have put to work scrap
err, which is piling the banks of the
river with the gravel taken from the
river bed. 1t was discovered recently
that some very fine quality gravel lay
on the river bottom, when the steam
pump had taken large quantities of
water from the river to enable the
workmen to make repairs on the apron
of the dam. About 100 loads of this
gravel will be used by the mill people
for use on their grounds.
/, Mr. and Mrs. John Koenigstein and
DR.. r. A. Mittelstadt will make their
home in Norfolk. Mrs. Koenigstein
accompanied by DR.. Mittelstadt, her
son-in-law, left at noon yesterday for
Fort Smith, Ark, the former home, to
J pack up their household effects and
return to Norfolk. Mr.. Koenigstein
= will remain here. DR.. Mittelstadt will
make his home with his mother. Work
! on the new home which was being
built for John Koenigstein at Fort
Smith up until the time of the death
Of his daughter, Mrs. Mittelstadt has
t been stopped, and will not go on.
). A mad dog scare kept the residents
: on Madison avenue and Eleventh
r street in intense excitement for a few
hours Friday noon, when a telephone
i call came to one family to keep their
h children indoors on account of the es
cape of dog which was believed to
d he mad. The mother of the two chill
n dren, who received the telephone mes
sage had just taken her children into
O the house from the yard in which they
n were playing when she discovered the
dog lying on her front porch DR.. o
e Il. Meredith arrived on the scene and
il drove the dog from the premises.
DR.. c. A. McKim has gone to .Long
$ Pine in answer to a call from owners
t. of cattle there, who say many of theil
cattle are dying. 1t is believed the
e cattle are suffering from the same dis
r. ease that has attacked cattle in Nor
folk, but to a larger extent. This dis
q ease comes from the cattle eating {
q weed in the pasture which makes the
mouth of the animal sore. If not at
a. tended to Immediately the animal!
@ mouth is soon swollen so large that i
cannot eat and it dies. One COW ha!
q already died in Norfolk from this dis
q. ease, while a number are sufferin.
from the effects of the poisonous weed
n James and George Craig of thu
p. Katz-Craig Construction company ar,
in the city looking over the paving sit
is Lation. James Craig declares that hi
h company is doing everything in it
r. power to hurry the Norfolk avenue
paving. Some difficulty is being e2
~ perienced in getting the grader to eA
-, cavate, but this machine is expecte
y, any day from Battle Creek. In tn
meantime the excavating is bein
!, done by the laborers, of whom tn
contractor says ne is very short
~ George Craig stopped in the city er
route to Valentine, where the CON
pany has a contract for the water
.. works.
~ Chairman M. F. McDuffy of Madiso
y called to order the meeting of tn
:, democratic central committee held i
- Winters hall Friday afternoon. TIL
:, coming campaign was briefly dis
cussed. H. C. Matrau addressed tn
committeeman on the various issue
~, of the campaign. According to Secrt
:, tary F. e. Martin of Battle Creek, VIII
49, was present at the meeting, severa
10 speakers from the state committe
will soon be here to stump the cour
- ty. The meeting was of short dur;
49, ton and was adjourned until Octobe
" IA, when the committee Will meet a
~ Madison. Among those present were
~ NJ F. McDuffy Madison; F. E. Ma
tin, Battle Creek; James w. Hughes
=" Deer Creek; William Rockefellov
49, Gross; A. E. Craig, Valley; Henri
- Sunderman, Tom Cantwell, j.
49, Flynn.
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