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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10
May Pave 80 Blocks.

Norfolk may pave thirty-nine blocks
this summer instead of only the seven
already provided for.
There's a race on between residents
of Fourth street and those of Third
street, to see which will be paved to
South Norfolk street, Two new pc
titions are In the field and already the
Fourth street document has a big
bunch of signers. Third street resi-
dents have made arrangements to
call mass meeting at once and take
action In the hope of getting under
the wire first.
J. w. Ransom and II. Z. Hardy
started out yesterday with a petition
to pave Fourth street from the NJ. &
O. tracks on the north to the North
western tracks at the Junction, on the
south. This district covers fifteen
blocks. The plan was to get the re-
quired signatures secretly, without let
ting any other street know, and to
present the petition next Monday
night to the council. Among others
the Pasewalk estate signed for 1000
feet. Mr. Ransom and Mr.. Hardy are
very heavy property owners on the
street, as starter.
But the air has ears. Within a few
hours after this petition had started,
Third street people got wind of it.
| Already a petition for two blocks of
| Third street had been signed up and
the plan was to gradually push the
paving south until that was the paw
ed street to the Junction. When that
street heard of the Fourth street
movement, however, things were stir
ring a mass meeting was arranged
for and petition planned. The pc
tition will call for paving from
Braasch avenue south to Michigan,
then one block east to Madison street,
| then south to the Northwestern prop
erty, then east to First street and
south to the depot. The paving would
run two blocks north of the depot and
block west, surrounding one entire
block. This would make eighteen
| blocks.
And the question is, which street
will win the race?
Weddings at Stanton.
! Stanton, Neb., June Especial 10
The News: The following marriages
took place at this place during the
past week:
Oscar Moritz, aged 26, to Cora wy.
att, aged 80, May "a, both from Mead
ow Grove; Marcus Gotlieb Bruhn
aged 21 to Dora Wiebold, both from
! Platte county; John Karman, aged
%, to Emma WainscOtt, aged 10, both
of Stanton county
When you buy an advertised article
you buy something which the mer
chant himself has implicit faith in
else he would not advertise it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10
Battle Creek.

Harry the 14-year.old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Tony Anderson, who live
nine miles southeast of here, died Sun
day morning at o'clock of appendl-
citis. He was sick only a few days.
The funeral was held Tuesday noon
and the remains laid to rest in the
Fairview cemetery. The funeral was
conducted by Rev. r. j. Callow of the
Battle Creek Methodist Episcopal
church.
The Lutherans here will hold their
annual missionfest next Sunday Meals
will be served in a large tent on the
church ground. The members of the
Lutheran congregation at Norfolk, Til
den, Buffalo Creek. Green Garden and
Madison are invited.
Miss Julia McDermott, who is max
ing her home with her uncle, NJ. j.
Rooney in Highland Park, is serious
ly i'll with appendicitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Miller are here
from Omaha on visit with her pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. j. w. Risk, and
other relatives.
Through the agency of j. \. Wright
Arthur II. Parsons sold his SS0-acre
ranch north of the Elkhorn river to
Henry Schepler of Wilcox, Neb. The
consideration was $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rooster went to
Brunswick Tuesday for a visit with
their son, f. G, Rooster, and family.
The latter is in the drug business at
that place.
John Magner is putting a cement
block foundation under his dwelling
in Highland Park.
Herman Hogrefe and Henry Mass
man, ST., made a business trip to Or
chard Friday.
Fred Hansen, Ernest Scheerger and
Paul Moore three Battle Greek youths,
started Thursday for a trip around
the world. In Norfolk they changed
their minds and went up on the Bone.
steel road
Mr.. and Mrs. John Aldag and baby
and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Schinkus and
two children drove to Pierce Friday
for visit at the home of Louis Wich'
man and other relatives.
Bernard Langhoop has moved to
Schuyler, where he has bought a gen
eral store.
Frank Hanen was here Saturday on
business from Meadow Grove.
Chris Neels came up from WisneI
Saturday for visit with Frank Lid
milla and other friends.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hintz came
down from Neigh Saturday for visit
at the home of his sister, Mrs. Der
nard Warnke.
DR.. Hess reports the arrival of q
little daughter Saturday at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Shipley at Dry
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10
What PEOPLE Do in a Fire.

Several were slightly injured in a
fire panic at the Crystal moving pic
ture theater last evening. The STAN
pede followed the burning of three
reels of films, which caught fire from
crossed wires.
from the fire and water, but the seats
and other furniture were saved by
the firemen. Three rooms in the Pa
cific hotel, four rooms in the Queen
City and the South plumbing shop
We're also slightly damaged from
smoke and water. All the damaged
property was covered by insurance.
Three Films Explode; House AbIaze.
Richard Baker, the young moving
picture machine operator, and his as
sistant, Emil Mathews, who were
winding up reels, say the fire came
from the transformer which set ablaze
loose piece of film lying on the
floor of the operating room. From
this blaze the reels which were being
wound up caught fire and exploded.
Mathews was slightly burned about
the face and hands, but Baker escap.
ed injury.
House Packed; Women and Children
A panic followed in the packed
house of people, consisting mostly OF
women and children. Seats were
thrown into the aisles and escape was
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10
Real Estate Transfers.

Transfers of real estate for the past
week. Compiled by Madison County
Abstract q Guarantee company, Office
with Mapes a. Hazen, Norfolk.
=. II. Salter to Ada b. Salter, quit
claim deed. 81, lots ., 10, II and IL,
block 4, Kocnigstein's Second addition,
Norfolk.
Ella Wisemau to Claud w. Switzer,
quit claim deed, $4,000, swA and siA
sea Il and neh nwA and nwA neA
23.224.
Aerie Griffin to Claud W. SwltzeI,
quit claim deed, $1,000, swA and So
sea IA and ne a nwA and nwA neA
23.22.4.
Carl Zessin to c. w. Switzer war
ranty deed, $4,000, nwA 1924,
G. A. Hubble to II. G. Sattler. war.
ranty deed, 81 800, lots and 10, block
2, Pasewalk's Second addition, Nor
folk
Halvor Halvorsen to Axel Johnson,
warranty deed $500 lot 4, block %,
Il, X. addition, Newman Grove,
Nancy j. Young to Maudo Duerst,
warranty deed, $1,000 sig nwA block
4, Mandamus addition, Norfolk,
Robert r. Channer to Gilbert II.
Texley warranty deed, Sl,70O, lot 4,
block /, S. d. Gains First addition,
Newman Grove.
Adam Pilger to John Kruger, war
ranty deed, $3.50, part nwA nwA %.
PAL.
Adam Pilger to Carl Fax, warranty
deed, $4,000 part neA neA 26.24-l,
Adam Pilger to Ferdinand Henkel,
warranty deed, $3l95O, part nw14 neA
26-24l
Vernon w. Copeland to r. NJ. Clark,
warranty deed, 81 ,533, part nwA nwA
S.221.
John Crook to Frederick c. Werner,
warranty deed, $9,095, part swA so
PAS.
w. b. Hight to Julia l.. Monroe
Baldwin, warranty deed, $1,000, lots
and 3, block 5. Koengsteins Second
addition, Norfolk.
e. NJ. Clark to Vernon w. Copeland,
warranty deed, $500, n1s nwA S-22-1.
John A. Dewolf to Margaret L. KIM.
man, warranty deed, $1,000, part of
block 1, McComb suburban lots, Til
den.
John S. Collins to Eli H. Collins.
warranty deed, 81, nwA 31-21-4
William Mcintosh to William Haw-
kins, deed, IS, lot %, limerick.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10
Low Rates East

Account national conventions.
Special low rates via the Chicago &
Northwestern Ry. on convenient dates
during the summer months to Chicago.
Milwaukee, Detroit, Saratoga Springs,
Niagara Falls, Washington, New York
City, Atlantic City, Boston and points
on the Atlantic Seaboard, account Ma
tional conventions.
Summer tourist rates daily to all
seaside and mountain resorts in the
east.
Direct connections at Chicago with
fast trains of all lines east. Choice of
routes. For information, apply to any
ticket agent of the Northwestern line.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10
upon her hand till Allen Trulock lifted

upon her hand till Allen Trulock lifted
her up.
This Man Was Nearly Crazy.
Miss Florence Parker n Norfolk
teacher, tells of big fat man who
was Just ahead of her lie lost his
head and began elhowing his way
through the crowd, Needless of women
and children. After he got outside he
was white as ghost and trembling
like leaf. 81 don't know how | got
out" Miss Parker said. II don't re.
member a thing about that"
So Did This Man.
Another maR picked up little child
and placed the babe on top of the
piano near the stage. There he left
the tot, who soon fell of
Lost Her Ptese Win 81.
Mrs, Wa1deil LOST bsF ~
'"H n So. She left it in the theater
/ and it has not been found.
Rev. Edwin Booth, jr., who entered
the theater toward the end, found Il
woman's hat. This he brought out
a woman rushed up to him, seized the
hat and demanded Where's my peck
| etbook?" He hadn't seen it.
AS soon as the fire broke out, women
and children began screaming wildly
Help" Mercy" they cried, and then
they Just screamed
A Dangerous Rear Exit.
The wonder Is that more were not
hurt in escaping by the rear exit At
the back of the room the stage stretch.
es completely across. In the center
of the building, at the back of the
stage, is a single door. To get to the
door it was necessary to climb up on
| the stage-a good, big climb for a
woman in heavy skirts or for child
and it seemed remarkable that nobody
was hurt in that climb.
Mrs. Scates, managing the theater
estimated that there were about 100
persons inside.
Men went crazy" she said. "They
left their hats, and when a man will
leave his hat, he's pretty batty."
1t was an unlucky day for W. II.
Widaman, who was in the Crystal fire
During the morning Mr.. Widaman
who lives near the Northfork river,
was endeavoring to lead his COW from
the pasture. The COW was tied near
the mill race and when close to the
bank she started pulling on the rope.
Mr.. Widaman pulled with might and
main and, using the river bank as a
brace, gave an extra hard tug at the
hemp when suddenly "Pansy,' the
COW, let loose and Mr.. Widaman was
thrown into the water, which is about
twelve feet deep. He was forced to
swim back to shore, where he found
the COW looking down at him. Using
his own words, she stood there smil-
ing"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10

The metz of the nwh of section %
and the swA of the metz of section 20
and the VIE of the seL of the ncL of
section %, all in township - north,
range west and belonging to August
RaasCh. Also the cia of the scA of
the ueil OF section -, township 2t
north, range | west belonging to Obcd
llaasc Also the cia of the swh OF
nwii of section 2S, township e North,
range west, bclopgtWs "a August
Haase, Also the e'e ot the eva of
the nwA OF section 2S, township "a
north, range ! vest, belonging to q.
Ded"ruAD, Also the sc'l of the nwh
avg corner of the VIZ of the s., =. oP-
! the uoA OF section * lnVnahlp "a
north, range ! West belonging to J.
N,,nigstein Also the nwL of the
SEA of section 2S, township "A north
range | west, belonging to +. \, ITaase.
The apportionment of the cost of
construction of the aforesaid ditch is
as follows: TO Madison county aC-
count of draining the road on the sec.
! ton line between sections 20 and %.
one-fourth of the total cost of the
ditch or 100000. TO August Raasch
Onc.siXtecnth of the total cost of the
ditch or $4,000. To Obcd Raasch one
sixteenth of the total cost of the ditch
or $4,000, To August lInase one six.
| tecnth of the total cost of the ditch
OF $4,000, TO o. Dederman one six.
teenth of the total cost of the ditch or
! $4,000. TO j, Koenigstein threc.siX.
teenths of the total cost of the ditch
or $4,000. TO }. S. Mathewson three
siXteenths of the total cost of the
ditch or $4,000. TO the Haase estate
one-eighth of the total cost of the ditch
or 10000.
You will take notice that said pc.
! tition, surveyors report and appor-
tiOnment will be heard by the board of
county commissioners at the court
house In Madison, Madison county,
Nebraska, on the 2Sth day of June, A,
! ID, 1910, at the hour of / O'Clock p. m.
and that all objections thereto or ap.
| plicati0nS for compensation and dam
ages on account OF the location and
construction of said ditch must be
made in writing and filed with the
county clerk before said day of hear
! ing and that all exceptions to said APP
/ portionment or to claims for compen-
sation or damages must be made in
writing and filed with the county clerk
before the time set for said hearing, or
said ditch will be located and con-
structed, damages allowed and appor-
tiOnment of the cost of said ditch will
be made without reference thereto.
Dated at Madison, Nebraska, this
LIST day of June A. ID. 1910.
s. r. Mcfarland,
! (SeaD County Clerk.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10
HIGH School Graduation.
Twenty.eight Students Receive Oiplo.
mas at Auditorium Tonlqht.

Twenty-eiqht Students Receive Olplo'
mas at Auditorium Tonight
Twenty.eight high school students
i'm the Norfolk public schools Will
graduate at the Auditorium tonight.
The commencement program fol.
lows:
Piano Solo-Earl Krantz.
lnvocation-Rey. Il. f. Hammond.
Chorus-Senior girls.
Sautatory Address-Bessie Steiner.
Presentation of Glass Gitt-Lester
Weaver.
Acceptance of Glass Gift--Superin-
tendent f, NJ. tiunter
Valedlciery Address-Susan Gillette,
Plano sOio-Carrie Thompson,
Address The Evolution of the
Common school w, A. Selleck, Lin
coin.
Presentation of Diplomas-President
A. II. Viele.
Glass Song-Class 1910.
Miss Gillette has the highest honor,
that of valedictorian, based on class
work for four years. Miss Sterner as
salutatorian secured the second high
est honors.
Following is list of the graduates:
Hazel 7. Alyea, Warren Beeler,
Letha IL. Brakeman, Marguerite Mary
Branigan, Martha ]. Brown, Emma
Brueggeman, Paul Nicklin Cole,
Charles a. Durland Susan Elizabeth
Gillette, Hertha f. Hauptli, Ethel
Hibben, Lillian j. Johnson, Marie
Johnson, Earl Beach Krantz, Birdie
Clare Kuhl, Lois G. Logan, Edwin
Macy Harold NJ. Morrison, Dollie
Hazel Pfunder, John b, Rice, Myrtle
NJ. Stamm, Bessie V. Sterner, Carrie
l.. Thompson, Charles Edward Ward,
Lester Horace Weaver, Gladys c.
Weaver, Anna Mary Welsh and Otto
+. Wilde.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10

WANTED-SuCCGaS NagaZiE ;
one with experience, but wOulC con.
slider any applicant with good natural
qualifications; salary S1,5O per day,
quires the services OF a man in Nor.
folk TO lCnk after expiring subscrip.
tions and ~ secure new business by
means of special methods usually eff.
fective; position permanent; prefC'
with commission option Address,
with references, r. c. Pea, eek, Room
1O2, Success Magazine Bldg, New
York.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10
Ditch Notice.

To the County of Madison, Nebras-
ka, August Raasch, Obed Raasch, Aug
ust Haase, o. Dederman, J. Koenig
stein, J. S. Mathewson, Augusta Haase
Louisa Haase Palm, Emelie Haase
Mueller, Josephine Haase Zuelow
Henry Haase, julius Haase and Anna
Haase Huebner.
You and each of you are hereby no.
titled that a petition is pending before
the board of county commissioners of
Madison county, Nebraska, asking for
the location and establishment of a
drainage ditch, which petition is as
follows
To the Honorable Board of County
Commissioners of Madison county, Ne
braska - Your petitioner respectfully
represents:
That he is the owner of land in the
north one-half of section 2S, in town
ship "a north, range ! west of the sixth
p NJ in Madison county, Nebraska
That ditch for the purpose of drain
age be located and constructed as fol
lows Commencing at point at the
first bridge west of August Raasch'~
louise, located in section 30. township
"a, north range | west of the sixth F.,
NJ. in Madison county, Nebraska, run
ming thence in a southeasterly direc.
ton through sections % and terminal
ing in section % in said township at a
point where Corporation Guich'
drainage ditch No. II empties into
the slough in the pasture of the Haase
estate land in the southeast quarter Of
said section 2S.
That the necessity of said improve
ment is the drainage of all the con
tieuous territory, the same being low
wet lands.
That the following is the report and
tabular statement of the appOrtion-
ment made by the engineer and sur
veyor appointed by the board to make
the survey of the route of said ditch:
Norfolk drainage ditch No. >, Madi-
son county, Nebraska.
Description of ditch and appOrtion.
ment of benefits.
This particular ditch shall be known
as Norfolk drainage ditch No. ,, and
all reference made hereafter to Nor
folk drainage ditch No. shall be con
sidered as referring to the ditch gov
erned by the following description
Beginning at point on the section
line between sections 20 and 30, town
ship "a north, range / west, two thou
sand nine hundred siXty-twO (2962)
feet west of the corner between sec
tions 30 q, % and 20, and extending
south eleven degrees east to station
10. Station Is equals station "A" o
From station "A" o, turning left Sc
30 and extending in course soutf
IT. 80 east to station As "a, thence
turning 90 OO' right and extending il
course south 6S' 80 east to station
81 "a" thence turning % co. right II
a course south 45' 30 east to station
II "a" connecting with drainage ditcl
No. ! at station 43 of drainage ditct
No l. which is the end of Norfoll
drainage ditch No. ,.
Drainage ditch No. shall have the
following dimensions Depth of ditcl
it., width of ditch on the top, IT.
width of ditch on bottom | IT. in
BERN approximately IT. wide on eacl
side of the ditch. The total length o
the ditch is eight thousand four hun
} dred (S,400) feet and the appTopriat
cost of the actual work of construC
r ton is eight hundred ($S.00,O0) do
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10
Seal)
Order of Hearing on Petition for APP
pointment of Administrative

The state of Nebraska, Madison
county, SIS. At county court held at
the county court room, in and for said
county, May 27, A. d. 1910, present,
VIM. Bates, county judge.
In the matter of the estate of Sam
uel +. HeitZman, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition Of
Belinda Heitzman, praying that admin
istratiOn of said estate may be granted
to Belinda Heitzman as administrat-
riX
Ordered, That June ~, A. d. 1910,
at o'clock p. III. is assigned for hear
ing said petition, when all persons in
terested in said matter may appear at
a county court to be held at the court
room in and for SAID county, and show
cause why the prayer Of petitioner
should not be granted; and that notice
of the tendency of said petition and
the hearing thereof, be given to all
persons interested in said matter by
publishing copy of this order in the
Norfolk Weekly News-Jourual, a week
ly newspaper printed, published and
circulated in said county, for three
successive weeks prior to said day of
hearing.
A true copyl VIM. Bates,
[Seall County Judge.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10

floral offerings of friends and school.
mates we're magnificent. Mr.. Hirsch
was born in st. Helena.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10
Hotel Guests Get Trunks Out.

Travelling men in both hotels all
through the fire were busily engaged
trying to get their belongings togeth.
er, and trunks were hauled out by
them. Several times they came in
contact with the stream of water
which was being played on the fire
in the west hallway of the Pacific ho-
tel, by the firemen.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10

The electric lights were out and
women and children were crying for
help while the men, with few excep-
tons, kept cool and their voices above
calling; Keep quiet" Lots of time"
Keep cool" Don't push" Don't get
excited"
Nobody Yelled "Fire."
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-06-10

A. Koyen, who owns both the Crys.
tai and the Lyric moving picture the
aters, was in Fremont at the time. 1t
was not known what his loss would
people were coming in fast. A half
hour later would have meant a serious
catastrophe" she said
The four amateur vaudeville per-
formers on the stage are given credit
for saving lives and preventing in
juries. They were: Allen Trulock,
VIII Werner, Ben Wiley and Roger
Wiley. They lined up and helped
people climb up on the stage and then
out through the single exit,door and
the window.
Ladder Blocks the Door.
A ladder on the stage that was to
have been used for the moon" scene,
toppled over and blocked the rear
door so that neonle had IN Stan ovar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-10
LORD |NT|MATES
HE MAY QUIT GAME
Boston Third-Sacker Declares
He Is Tired of Warm
ing Bench.
special Dispatch TO The Star.

cpectdi DiSpdIcn 10 Inc
CHICAGO. Aug. 1O.-Harry Lord is still
travelling with the Boston team. though
he shows plainly that he would like to
re elsewhere. He warns up with the
other players and appears on the coach
ing lines now and then.
Lord seems the most unconcerned of
any of the parties interested, despite the
fact that the local papers have come out
hatfootedly with the statement that there
is trouble between Lord and Donovan and
that the Boston captain is alleged to
have been after the management Of the
team. Lord refuses to have anything to
say in regard to this charge.
II is known that Lord and Donovan
have been on the outs for several weeks.
President Taylor admits this and says
that Lord recently told him that he
would be prefectly willing to work for
him tTaylor), but that he would not work
for Donovan. In fact, it is limited that 1t
has come to a question whether either
Lord or Donovan would have to go and
that the Boston owner decided to cling to
his manager. Lord fears that he has
been crowded off the team through fear
Of favoritism. He doesn't know why, but
he says that he Is perfectly willing to go
and hints that he may not be in the
baseball game many weeks longer.
AZ am satisfied TO quit base ball right
here when l am in my prime said
Lord yesterday. Il can play as fast a
game as | ever could. l am among the
leading base runners even if 1 have play
I'd In only about half the games, and
was hitting over 800 when / met with
my injury.
II played for two weeks when I should
nave been in bed, and yet the manage
nent seems to have lost sight of all this
They forget the work that / have done
for the club.
II have nothing to say against Presi-
dent Taylor. for he has treated me splen-
aidly in every way. l will not discuss any.
body else; l feel that / am in the good
yraces OF all the players on the team. and
that II am traded l can easily secure a
berth.
II have warmed the bench long enough
| cannot endure seeing other men playing