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

aker Of Wellington, Kan, was elected
as teacher in the Norfolk high school.
The 7.year.old son Of w. p. Rowlett
of Warneryille is suffering from bad.
ly injured foot, resulting from step.
ping on a piece of glass.
j. \. Ballantyne returned from At
lantiC city, y. j., where he attended
the assembly of the Presbyterian
church as a delegate from the Norfolk
church At the assembly there were
500 delegates from all parts of the
world.
Misses Theo Sprecher, Inez Niole,
Buford Rees, Nadine Cole and Marion
Cow returned from Madison, where
they attended the convention of the
district Christian Endeavor society,
The young ladies were delegates to
the convention from the Norfolk SO.
ciety.
Norfolk friends of II, G. Bovee, who
was married at Berkeley, Calf, Tues.
day to Miss Helen Putraska, daughter
of Professor Putraska of the Univer.
sity of California, are giving him a
postal card shower. Many old-time
Norfolk friends have sent him postal
cards OF Congratulation.
II. c. Henry, formerly vice presi.
dent of the Citizens National bank at
Wayne. has bought the stock OF a. l..
Tucker in that institution and will be.
come the president. He will assume
active management of the bank. Mr..
Henry is one of the old-time mer.
chants of Wayne and is a prominent
north Nebraskan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Hauptli arrived
from Omaha, where Mrs. Hauptli met
her husband, returning from Winslow
Aril.. where he had been employed as
train dispatcher for the Santa Fee road
Mr. Hauptli will probably resume his
duties at the Junction in the near fu
ture. He went west for his health
but the country did not agree with
him.
According to DoX Tax Collector
Hamilton eight dogs whose owners
did not call for them at the city dog
pound after the required time, were
killed and cremated at the electric
light plant last week. The Crematinl
of the dogs, says the collector, saves
not only the expense of burying them
but assures a good precaution agains
disease.
The prospects for a city baseball
| league are looming up large. Manage
Lou HENDERSON reports that he is max
ing every effort to get together the
managers of the railroad men, travel
ers, clerks and bookkeepers to organ
lie the league. He also states that
according to conversations with thu
members of the other teams, all ar,
in favor of the organization.
Edward Schiller, a prominent drug
gist of North Platte, who has beer
here visiting with his father an,
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. George Schille
of Ida Grove, Ia, went to Omaha Of
business, His mother is stopping wit
her son, r. F. Schiller at the Omar
hotel, and is reported quite i'll. !
trained nurse, Miss Ryan of Siou
City, has arrived here to attend Mrs
Schiller.
An incipient blaze at the new res
dence of George ~ Beels on Tuesda
forenoon was promptly eXtinguishe
by the united efforts of Mr.. and Mrs
BeelS and the prompt arrival of Cha
ence Clark from across the street b,
fore they had time to call the fire d.
partment. A dish of linseed oil wa
being heated on the laundry stove
the basement, which probably leake
, onto the stove and ignited, eXtendin
, the flames to nearby box adjOinin
a painted partition. Before being di
covered the basement was filled wit
dense smoke and the flames were pla
ing on the partition of the floor abov
After the town board decided in f
, vor of Carl Anderson, who applied fC
t a saloon license at Hoskins, the +
monstrator, Mrs. Augusta Deck, a
pealed to the district court and Ho
kins continues dry. Attorneys f.
Berry and 4. r. Davis of Wayne we
p counsel for the Temonstrator and
e. Simon of Winsde for the petitio
= er. Anderson applied for licens
wishing to open saloon III the Kau
5 saloon building, which has been Il
scene of a number of legal battles
t which Hoskins has been endeavoril
to lift the lid. w. r. Mcfarland,
n stenographer of Norfolk, took the e
dence at Hoskins, of which there a
l. thirty-siX pages.
S Case Goes to District Court.
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