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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02

*. Vanderbilt, IT,, made an extensive
examination OF all the properties of
the New York Central a Hudson River
and this fact strengthens their belief
that the young multi-millionaire In
destined to become president of the
road, thus restoring to the Vanderbilt
name all the prestige, power and iu-
luence of past generations.
William X. Vanderbilt, jr., Is the
youngest, as we'll as the wealthiest, OF
all men who have filed the position
of acting president of "A great railway
system. The business of the road for
the first three weeks In August show.
ed marked increase over cores
ponding weeks in the previous year,
and young Mr.. Vanderbilt was asked
what he thought about this state of
affairs.
The annual movement OF crops"
said he quickly.
But the crops moved last year at
the same time" was suggested.
DO you take no credit for the in
creased showing?"
MOST certainty not, Salu tne young
millionaire, with decisive shake of
his head. Most certainly not. | am
only here to fill in as best | can, In
the absence of Mr.. Brown. | am only
trying to keep up the business of the
road to the best of my ability.
81 would prefer not to be questioned
along personal lines. | do not desire
to appear as talking about the per
sonal side of my duty. All care to
say is that | have been engaged at
this sort of work for several years.
and to the best of my ability | shall
continue in this post until Mr.. Brown
comes home"
Some of the men associated with
young Mr.. Vanderbilt, men who have
watched his work and marveled at his
ability and grasp of the many sided
problems he has been called upon to
face, were willing to talk of the per.
sOnal sale of the new acting president.
He is always cordial and pleasant
with visitors" said one of these; "he
is never too busy to be tactful and he
has an absolutely healthy mind, direct.
ed to the joint pursuit of business and
pleasure. In other words, he works
while he works and plays while he
plays, but never mixes the two"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
Joseph PLANT.

Joseph PLANT, one of the proprie.
tors of the Pacific hotel, died in his
apartments at the hotel at 1920
o'clock Sunday night after a lingering
illness. The remains will be taken
to Stanton Tuesday noon for burial.
The Masonic order, of which Mr..
PLANT was a member, will have charge
hotel Tuesday morning at II o'clock.
after which the remains will be taken
to Stanton, Mr.. PLANTS former home,
for burial. There, again, the Masons
will have charge of the funeral SER
vices.
At his bedside when he passed away
were Mrs. PLANT his two sons, Walter
and Benjamin, and his brother, John
PLANT of independence, Mo.
Joseph PLANT was born in Clay
county, Mo-, fifty-five years ago. Dur.
ing the civil war he moved with his
parents on farm in the northwest
ern part o. Kansas. He lived there
for fifteen years, moving later to Leav-
enworth county and thence to Kansas
City, where for twenty-six years he
was employed as engineer with the
Missouri Pacific railroad company.
Twenty-Five years ago he moved to
Omaha, where two years later he was
married.
Four years ago he gave up railroad
ing to settle on farm in Stanton
county, but gave that up for the hotel
business in the town of Stanton. Two
years ago he and his son-in-law, ]. A.
Kingsley, purchased the Pacific hotel
of this city. Mr.. PLANT was well
known in railroad circles and has
made many friends in Norfolk during
the two years Of his residence here.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
Valentine Team Wins.

Valentine, Neb, Aug. 29.-Special
to The News: Valentine won at Aims.
worth and made it four out of five
games won on their trip. In a slow
game the fast Valentine team easily
defeated Ainsworth August 26 by a
score of Is to T. The game was fea.
tured by heavy hitting, Valentine Sc.
curing three home runs and Aims
worth two.
Score: r. H.
Valentine. =. 5 4 4 0 0 0 0 2 O-15 II
Ainsworth. 2 0 0 o. 2 0 0 II Z
MISUNDERSTANDING Grimes and
Cox. Ainsworth Dawson, Sawyer and
Adamson. Strike outs Grimes 7, Davi-
son Z. Time, hours. Umpire Foster.
Valentine defeated the Cherokee
Indians here Saturday. The Chero-
kee Indians narrowly averted shut
out at the hands of Valentine. Cay
lor pitching for Valentine allowed on
ly four hits scattered through as many
innings and held the Indians to one
run which was the result of an error.
Score: r. H.
Cherokees. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O. 1 4
Valentine. 90 l 0 2 2 x-13 10
Batteries-Cherokee Gentry and
Rumler. Valentine Caylor and Cox.
Strike outs Caylor 10, Gentry 2. Time,
2 hours 80 minutes. Umpire, Grimes.
Stanton opens four-day series here
Sunday, August 2Sth.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02

o'clock, covered the distance of thirty.
five miles to the Etampes aviation
camp in less than half an hour. All
expressed themselves afterwards as
maryeling greatly over their expert
enCe.
Mr.. Flint, who may be regarded as
the godfather of aviation, since he
backed the Wright brothers with cash
for which he asked no voucher, in the
critical period of their endeavors, de.
clared he never had seen more finely
constructed machine than the Bleriot
monoplane used by Morane.
Mr.. Gary described his sensations
while in flight:
ut was superbly delightful" said he.
THE machine was a beautiful piece Of
mechanism and obeyed the hand of
the pilot quite as If it were thing Of
life. We never once felt the slightest
fear. 1t seemed as If we were being
carried upwards and forward upon the
back of a gigantic bird whose move.
ments were absolutely easy and reg.
ular and even rhythmic.
Nothing could be more exhilarat-
ing. Morane told us that he feared
the course of the monoplane might
be unsteady, but it wasn't. The man.
agement of the machine struck me as
being much like that of an automo-
bile. There was nothing at all dis
quieting in our fight, although we
made many circles in the air and re-
peatedly varied our height to view the
sweeping landscape far below us.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
E. H. GARY AND WIFE FLY IN AIR
Head of U. S. SteeeI Corporation De-
liahted by EXPERIENCE.

Paris, Aug. 29.-E. H. Gary, head of
the United States Steel corporation.
Mrs. Gary, and Frank A. Munsey flew
in one of the newest Bleriot mono,
planes, under the pilotage OF Morane,
the famous French aviator They flew
over the eastern margin of the fiat
Beance country, between Etampes,
Epernay and Sur Orge.
The passengers went up one by one
Charles R. Flint was also of the party,
but remained on terra firma.
The flights lasted a quarter OF an
hour each and reached an average
height of 300 feet. 1t was a beautiful
moonlight night and the specially in
vited visitors, leaving the Hotel Ritz
in two powerful automobiles at 8
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
Forest Fires in Black Hills.

Deadwood, S. D., Aug. 30.-Two for
est fires of threatening proportions
broke out in the Black Hills, the fires
being famed by a strong wind, are
heading eastward through some of the
best timber sections. The first fire
started just east of Redfern, forty
miles south of here, and the other east
of Dumont, twenty miles south. The
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail
road rushed special train with 200
men to the Redfern fire, while 700
members of the Fourth cavalry, on
their way home from Fort Meade, are
fighting the Dumont fire. No ranches
are in immediate danger.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02

Forty years ago J. S. Shurtz, known
as Grandpa" Shurtz among his
friends, an employe at the Fair store,
babe goodbye to his brother George
at Macarthur, Vinton county, Ohio.
Last Friday for the first time In the
forty years he again saw his brother,
who is here with his wife for a visit.
1t was not until several moments had
elapsed and dozens of questions were
asked before the Norfolk man would
believe the stranger in Norfolk was
his brother.
George Shurtz Friday afternoon
walked into the Fair store and made
it known to a number of the clerks
who he was. A Joke was Immediately
planned on Grandpa" Shurtz, who
was told that the stranger was the
new owner of the store and wished to
grandpa" his name was Shurtz, the
old gentleman commenced a battery
of questions which finally defeated the
Ohio visitor, who r1nally admitted that
he was brother.
The two brothers who for forty
years had not seen each other then
clasped hands in a way that expressed
a sentiment words failed to tell.
There were talks of old times and the
two brothers for hours chatted over
the past forty years.
Mr. and Mrs. George Shurtz leave
in few days for Kansas, where Mr..
Shurtz has several other brothers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02

Wayne, Neb., Aug. 29.-Special to
day for the arrest of Anna Crisis of
this place, charging her with assault
and intent to do bodily injury upon
Lenora O'Connell, wife of Bud O'Con-
nell. Saturday night the Crisis woman
threw cayenne pepper into Mrs. O'Con.
nell's face, injuring her eyes, nose and
mouth. Her eyesight was not perma-
nently injured, however, and merely a
civil suit followed
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
A VANDERBILT RULES AT 80.
Management Of the New York Central
Falls to William T., Jr.

New York, Aug. 30.-William Kis-
sam Vanderbilt, jr., is, at 92 years Of
age, the acting head of what has been
called the greatest railway system in
the world, the New York Central &
Hudson River railroad. This young
man, fifth in the line of the Vanderbilt
succession, is filling the shoes of Pres
ident w. C. Brown, who is in Europe
on a long vacation.
Wise men of Wall street recall that
within the last few months William
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02

The song is dead. 1t was laid to
rest dozen years ago. Did the song
cause the cellar door and rain bar
rel to die also, or did the passing of
the door and barrel cause the death
Of the song? No one knows. At
any rate all three are dead.
Have you ever in 1910 heard a dis
gruntled Miss threatening her play
mate, next door, by telling him that
he couldn't slide down the cellar door
or boiler down the rain barrel at her
house? 1t wouldn't have any effect
on the offender now, you know, for
the slanting cellar doors and the old
oaken barrel under the spout at the
corner of the house are things of the
past. Perhaps you hadn't missed the
two things that were the delights of
your playmate and yourself years ago.
Many people do not know that the
cellar door and the rain barrel are
antiquities.
Every day we tell people who want
them put on their houses that they
are out Of date" said an architect
yesterday afternoon. Now, when we
put outside steps into the cellar at all
we put an open ramp OF concrete
around the opening with steps of solid
concrete. A good drain in the bottom
Of the hole carries off all water. The
absence of the musty old doors gives
opportunity for lighting the basement
hU a mn ay1n ot 80
the stairs. The slanting doors we're
bound to go. They were hard to
handle, often being heavy and fire.
quently it was inconvenient for the
woman of the house to go outside to
gain access to the basement. So now
We put an inside way in almost all
houses. The doors, water tight when
first built, soon became soaked and
only made the cellar damp and musty.
The new system throws no obstruction
in the way of the laundress as she
mounts the stairs with a basket of
clean clothes to hang on the line.
THE old rain barrel is replaced by
a concrete cistern, equipped with q
charcoal filter, in which the water
from the roof is purified before it
passes into the cisterr
The cellar door and the rain bar.
rel, which have played a part in lit.
erature, will be followed soon into
oblivion by the broom. On all high
class jobs we are now installing pri-
vate vacuum cleaning systems, and
some day the broom will cease to be
common household implement"
Withe the cellar door and the rain
barrel gone, and now that the children
are amusing themselves with other
things, it is plain to be seen that the
age is in need Of another song, similar
to the one quoted above. Why not
something like this:
don't want to play on your lawn,
| will like you ne'er again;
I'll tell papa not to take you
Out in our new acceptance;
You can't ride my Teddy wagon,
You can't hear my dog say please"
I'll not let you use my rollers.
In the evenings gentle breeze.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
kIuu-Nieuenfind.

John Klug and Mrs. Augusta Niegen-
find were married by Rev. j. P. Muel-
Ter at the Christ Lutheran church at 2
o'clock Sunday afternoon. They left
for Lincoln in the evening to spend a
few days with relatives, after which
they will return here. They will make
their home on South Second street.
Mr.. Klug is member of the Klug-
Flynn real estate firm of this city.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
Barnhart il In Race.

Madison, Neb. Aug. Especial to
The News: On behalf OF H. f. Barn.
hart, M. s. McDuiIie filed his accep
lance OF the nomination for county at.
torney on the democratic ticket MT.
Barnhart as the democratic nominee
will contest the field with James
Nichols. present county attorney, who
was renominated without opposition.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02

Hastings, Neb., Aug. 29.-Special to
The News: With burning flesh drop
ping from it's sides horse last night
broke out of a blazing barn owned by
miles to barn owned by Wilhelm
Vollmer and there started a second
fire. Eight horses burned to death in
the Dicken barn. The Vollmar barn
was partly consumed before the flames
could be eXtinguished.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
Omaha Artist is Safe.

Omaha, Aug. eft WAS learned to-
day that j. Laurie Wallace, the artist,
was not in his studio az the tine it
was destroyed by yesterday after
Moons storm, as had been feared, He
reported his safety to friends after
reading the story in this mornings
papers to the effect that his studio
had been destroyed and that possibly
he had been killed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
Won't See Films Here.

According to Frank Johnson. mana.
ger of the Crystal theater, the John
son-Jeffries fight pictures will not be
shown here, owing to the fact that
the management at Pittsburg are ask.
ing a guarantee which is too large,
The mayor has made it known that
he will not stop the exhibition of the
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
NO CELLAR DOOR TO SLIDE.

And the Rain Barrel, Also, Died With
the Song that Told of II.
Kansas City Star:
don't want to play in your yard,
l don't like you any more,
You'll be sorry when you see me
Sliding down our cellar door;
You can't boiler down our rain barrel,
You can't climb our apple tree;
l don't want to play in your yard
If you won't be good to me.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
"KINe OF eYPsIEs" is ROBBED
Four Masked Men Gather in $1,000
Diamond Sunburst, Etc.

Colorado Springs, Colo, Aug. %
Four masked men secured $1,000, a
diamond sunburst and a gold brooch,
in robbery at the camp of John
Adams, the king of gypsies," at Col
orado City, near here, early this morn
ing. Mr.. Adams was absent at the
time.
Adams is familiar figure in west
ern life. He has travelled extensively
and he gets his title of king Of the
gypsies" from his supposed wealth.
He has offered $3.50 reward for the
arrest of the robbers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Madison, Neb., Aug. 29.-Special to
The News: Judge Bates married at
his office John w. McMichael and
Cora d. Casselman, both of Smithwick,
S. ID.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
Funeral services over the remain

Funeral services over the remains
of Walter R. l.. Boekamper, S-months-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Boe-
hamper of Foster who died Friday
from cholera infantum, took place
Sunday afternoon. The remains were
inferred in the new Lutheran Gene
terry.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
Two.Thirds of an Inch of Rainfall.

A heavy downpour of rain fell in
Norfolk Sunday afternoon, amounting
to Sc of an inch. A terrific storm was
reported from Fremont.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
Excursion Rates.
State Fair, Lincoln

Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, via the
Northwestern Line.
Tickets on sale September to 8;
return limit September IL. Grand
demonstration of the Agricultural
Live Stock, Industrial and Education
al interests of the state. Apply to
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02
Battle Creek.

Conrad Werner, one of our substan-
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-09-02

"I1l see" the water man replied,
and fifteen minutes later the pumps
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
FRANKLIN.

Fl Madison fans are negotiating
with our team to arrange game
be played at the local grounds August
II for the championship of Lee coua-
ty. No team Is barred from this chal-
lenge, except regular league teams.
Rev. Giesilxe and wife of Braunsch,
weig. Germany, arrived in an auto
from Mt. Pleasant, calling on F. y.
Pardall and All Giesike. The couple
will sail for home from New York,
August %.
George Craig of Mt. Pleasant Sun
dayed in town.
Do not forget August IL, this being
the date for the annual Sunday school
picnic with the grandest display u
amusements, besides the famous
game of ball for the Lee county
championship, the pennant being D.
dered.
Fred Hermann, wife and son Her;
bert are the guests of H. Timpe and
| family.
A fine looking bunch of fans FROM
| Viewer arrived here Sunday to clean
out the local sluggers. oh, but how
they were fooled The home guard
| wiped the diamond with the visitors
the score being 8 to 5, favor of Frank
| lin.
Wheat threshes about II bushei te
the acre.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
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About "showers.b

Carlotta Robbins in Mothers Mag
azine: The bride leaving a fairly
prosperous home does not need SHOW.
ers' to increase her stock of linen,
tinware or china. but the solitary,
impecunious maiden with no allow
ance or with no mother at hand to
anticipate her needs is, as rule, very
grateful for such mild deluges as
come her way. Likewise are show
ers more appreciated by the exceed
ingly busy young woman who is en-
gagged. almost to the day Of her we'd
ding, in the occupation Of teaching
school or with office work. The
young business woman, having no
time to embroider or sew for her
chest, will be especially benefited by
the linen shower.
Who should be responsible for the
shower? Certainly not the bride her
self; and 1t is not considered good
taste for the brides mother or sister
to issue invitations for showers for
their young relatives. If given at all,
they must be prepared by the girl
friends of the prospective bride.
Where there are bridesmaids. 1t is
their duty and privilege to see that
the bride is suitably showered, or the
brides young married friends may at
tend to the matter. The linen show
er Is the most useful and seems best
adapted to the needs of the average
bride. The tin shower is productive
of the most FUN SO little money buys
so much tinware that the efforts OF
the bride-elect to get home with her
plumber are always sure to provoke
much mirth.
The china shower may. or may moi
prove an unmixed blessing. If chins
were always daintily decorated. If the
| givers of china were always possess
ed of good taste, IL the bride were
willing to adorn her table with fifty
seven different varieties of dishes,
china shower might afford unmixe,
delight.
AS things are, however, 1t seems ia
safer to stick to linen and tin Moth
ing could be more acceptable thai
sets of towels, tableclothes, tabl
] napkins, sheets, pillow-cases and tn
like, and nothing is likely to tax
their place in popularity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
The attendance Of the members.

the attendance Of the members.
The increasing attendance of wives,
sons and daughters of members upon
our reunions is cordially commended,
and their presence in greater num-
bers than. ever at our fifteenth bien-
NAL meeting. is earnestly requested.
The ties Of Fraternity, Charity
and Loyalty which bound the brigade
in its unbroken service as an organi-
cation from April 1862 to July 1865.
and the spirit of comradeship which
has marked its reunions for thirty
years, assure us that despite the
lapse of time and the loss of loved
and honored members, the Brigade
will come together at the city of
Washington in large numbers.
H. H. ROOD President.
Mount Vernon, Iowa.
C. w. KEPLER, Rec. secy.
Mount Vernon, Iowa
D. w. BUSHNELL, Cor. Sec'y.
Council Bluffs, Ia
J. w. CHEEK, Treasurer,
Des Moines, la
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26

tauqua. The next Sunday Gate City
will carry fine half page ad for the
Pennington chautauqua, which will
show the principal features for each
of the ten days Look it over and II
you cannot hear Senator Gore on the
first day, arrange to come on Sunday
via. Viele. Ollie James, the big Ken
lucky congressman will be here on
that day. If Keokuk people cannot
come on one day then remember that
there are other days. Maud Balling-
ton Booth and Leonora Lake speak
on Women's Day, Thursday, Aug. IL,
and J. Adam Bede comes for Friday
the 18th, both big days.
Lee County is interested In the
Pennington chautauqua. The presi-
dent, Joseph Carver is Lee county
farmer. Howard Knapp of Warren is
a director. Keokul1 owes it to the Lee
county farmers to help boost tr-
county institution which is headed by
a Lee county farmer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-26
Fifteenth Biennial Reunion Of this
Society Will be Held in Wash
ngton, Iowa, September
IA and IS.
LOOK TO BIG REUNION
Despite of Fact that Many Years
Have Elapsed Since Members
Fought Side by Side Ties
Remain Unbroken.

Headquarters Crocker's Iowa Bri
gade; Notice of Meeting, Mount Yer
non, Iowa, July 90, 1910; To the
Members of the Society of Crocker's
Iowa Brigades-The Fifteenth Bien-
NAL Reunion of this society will be
held at Washington. Iowa on We'd
nesday and Thursday, September IA
and 18th, 1910.
All soldiers who have at any time
served in the Iowa Brigade" COM
posed of the 18th, 18th, 18th and 1e.h
Iowa Infantry, are by the constitu-
ton entitled to membership and are
cordially invited and urged to attend.
Regimental meetings will be held
at 1870 p. m. on Wednesday. All ar
engagements for the meeting will be
in charge of local executive COM
mittee in Washington
A circular will be sent out, giving
full information and instruction as
to hotel rates and railroad connec-
lions.
The Silver Oak Leaf Badge of the
society and the engraved Certificate
of Membership can be procured at
the reunion or by addressing G. w.
Kepler, Recording Secretary, Mount
Vernon, Iowa. The price OF each is
one dollar
Notices of the deaths of members
since our last meeting, with dates
and other incidents, and Of change II
postoffice address Of members should
be sent to D. w. Bushnell, cores
ponding secretary, Council Bluffs, la
Owing to conditions which all oui
members will recognize, we urge the
president and secretaries of the regt
nients and all comrades by cores
pondence and personal effort to urge