The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-11

entered his corniield while the corn
was still small and did considerable
damage for which he asks something
like $40 damages.
The entertainment committee Of the
Elks report that everything is now in
readiness for their annual ball. which
takes place this evening at the club
rooms.
A meeting of the Commercial club
directors was held at the OXnard hotel
Friday afternoon. NJ. G. Hazen of the
firm OF Mapes d lla2en presented the
club with a proposition to handle the
credit system for the merchants of the
city.
NJ. Shearer a stranger in the city,
was arrested by Patrolman Livingston
at the Junction yesterday for being
drunk. He was fined $l0.5O in Justice
Eiseley's court. Shcarer claimed he
was on his way to Dallas, where he
had work.
Employees of the three banks of Nor.
folk have organized a bowling club,
consisting of eight members. Every
Thursday evening the club splits up
into two teams and games are contest.
ed. The members are good bowlers
and, although they are the first to or
ganize a club, other clubs are being
talked of and some lively tits between
the business men will probably soon
be seen here. The members of the
club follow: j. f.. Haase, Fritz AS
mus, viii Stafford, Cleo Lederer, VIII
Hauptli, Paul Zuelow, Charles Hulac,
James Delaney.
Since the blacksmiths of Norfolk
have organized against their delin-
quent customers, the merchants of the
| city have become greatly interested in
| the question as to how they could
overcome the deadbeats, and the Com
mercial club is hard at work endeavor.
| ing to pave the way for credit sys.
TEN which it is believed will not only
be money saver but tend to bring
the business men toward a more har.
monious business relationship. After
owing certain blacksmith a sum of
money for a number of years one Gus.
toner had his work done by another
| blacksmith, who, after the organiza-
| ton, told his customer that he could
do no more work for him until the debt
he owed the former blacksmith was
paid. After making the rounds of the
blacksmiths and getting the same an
swer the customer saw no other way
out of it and paid the debt. Now the
blacksmiths are happy, 1t is thought
through the Commercial club the mer-
chants will hit on some plan as good
as the blacksmiths.
Pierce Leader: Sheriff G. w. Golf
received word from the authorities at
| the Norfolk insane asylum that John
Davis, one of the inmates, had made
| his escape from that institution on
Monday of last week and for him to be
on the lookout for Davis. Davis old
home is near Randolph in the north
eastern part of Pierce county, and
| Sheriff Golf was naturally inclined to
believe that the insane man would
head for that place. That he was cor
rect in this opinion was verified when
he went up there on Friday and got
his man. The sheriff brought Davis to
Pierce and Immediately notified the
asylum authorities that he had their
man in his custody. Saturday morn
ng men came up from the asylum and
took Davis back with them. They staI-
ed that Davis had been given much
liberty at the asylum, and on the day
of his escape, was employed in the
laundry His escape was not noticed
until he had been gone about an hour.
The poor fellow had walked from Nor.
folk to his old home near Randolph, a
distance of about twenty-five miles, in
his shirt sleeves.