The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-04-01

Opment congress, TO be held in Lin
coin Tuesday and Thursday. He will
attend.
/ A photograph of Roy Bovee of Nor.
folk, one of the pitchers who prom.
/ Uses to make a position on the Omaha
Western league team, appears in the
Sunday Bee. His height is given as
! 6 feet inches, his weight 1870 pounds
and his age "a.
! District court convened at Madison
Monday. The Dineen case was taken
up and the taking of testimony re-.
sumed. The lngham case will prob
ably be settled tomorrow. NJ. ID. Ty-
Ter and Jack Koenigstein of Norfolk
are attending the court
: Louis Gillian of Madison, aged %,
was injured in an automobile accident
between O'Neill and Clearwater and
/ was taken to his home by way of Nor.
| folk Monday. The car was smashed.
Gillian sustained broken ribs, an in
jured back and an injured knee-cap.
| Miss Agnes Matrau and her class
mate, Miss Hazel Curtis of Lead, S.
| d., who have been spending their Eas-
! ter vacation at the home of II. G. Ma
trau, will leave Tuesday to resume
their studies at the university at Lin
coin. Mrs. c. A. McKim will give a
8 o'clock dinner this evening in honor
of the two young ladies'.
| With the coming out of the automo-
biles comes complaint by a number of
| oft that thn SnnnH limit &c hnipp
violated and that there is danger of
some serious accident. On Koenig-
stein avenue Sunday an automobile
which was being driven at terrific
rate of speed by few youngsters is
said to have almost run down a little
child that was crossing the street.
| George ID. Butterfield has received
from Winner, S. D., friends dozen
photographs showing the rapid growth
of that little town. The first picture
shows Winner in December 30, 1909,
with one small Office building and
coal shed. The other pictures, which
were taken sixty days later, show
about thirty business buildings and a
number of lumber yards and hotels.
| Ills ldDlu SlO"lu III olhIy udyS III IlC
dead of winter is considered remark
able.
Frank Tannehill a prominent farm
er of this vicinity, received letter
from his cousin, Oscar Potter, presi-
dent of the bank of Edna, Kan, which
was robbed few days ago. The rob-
bers, says Mr.. Potter, cut the tele-
| ,oI al 11N 1t,.;4 ;rI,t
wires before they commenced opera
lions on the bank. The vault was
| wrecked and the safe blown open and
the robbers escaped with $3.50.
| There is very little chance, according
to Mr.. Potter, that the robbers will be
caught. The bank was insured, and
| the only loss is the damage to the
| safe and building.
]. A. Custer, who shot himself in
an attempt to end his life after shoot.
| ing and slightly wounding his wife
| last week, was taken to the Methodist
| hospital at Omaha Monday, where he
will undergo an operation. 1t is be.
| lieved chances for Mr.. Clusters recov.
cry are favorable after the bullet,
/ which is lodged in his head, is extract
ed. For some time it was believed by
his physician that his chances were
very poor. His sons, j. II. and G. F.
Custer of Omaha, were here and &C.
companied their father to Omaha. DR..
P. H. Salter, who has been attending
Mr.. Custer, accompanied him to the
station. Mr.. Custer was feeling quite
, we'll and was conscious, but seemed
nervous just before he was being car
ried out to the dray which took him
to the station.
The rare combination of an eminent
ly successful play, scenic production
of infinite grandeur and a cast of sur
passing excellence, as in the case of
David Belasco's Girl of the Golden
West" in which he is presenting his
own company at the Auditorium Tues
day night, ought to turn the tide of
local theatrical interest very much in
it's direction. A play by that rare
genius. David Belasco, is in itself a
special treat and should add attract
iveness to performance which prom
ises to command the admiration and
interest of all classes of theater fire.
quenters. Two entire years at the
Belasco theater, New York, is about as
strong an endorsement as could be
advertised, but such is part of the
brilliant record attained by Belascos
Girl of the Golden West"
CHILD SENT TO HOME.