The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-09-29

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transacting business
Mrs Fred Mcrha and Bonnie Ship
pei have gone to Omaha for few
days visit.
Miss Marjorie Beeler has returned
to Lasalle college at Boston, Mass,
to resume her studies.
Herman A. Schelley goes to Oma
ha, Kansas city and Chicago to spend
"a few weeks vacation.
{. j, Fleming returns from Column
bus this evening, accompanied by
Mrs Fleming, who has been visiting
with relatives at st. Paul, Neb.
G. L. Carlson is at York, Neb., at
tending the meeting of the rural life
commission of which he is n member.
My. Carlson is scheduled for an adj
dress before this commission
Il. p. Olmsted left today for his fu.
ture home near Canon City, Colo,
where he has n fruit ranch. Mr.. Ohm
sted sold his property here and his
other business affairs have been clos.
ed up.
Judge Welch held term of dis
trict court at Wayne Thursday, but
! the jury work Is held over until No
yember. Only ordinary cases were
up for trial.
The Lyman Twins arrived in Nor
folk at noon. With them came n
large following of chorus girls, who
sing in the musical comedy, THE
Spectators at the Auditorium to-
night
! o. +. Ewing of Sioux City, formerly
a travelling salesman well known in
! Norfolk, is to be married Oct. to
Willie Terry Webb, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. William Webb, at Houston,
| Tex, according to the Sioux City
| News.
| F. +. Knapp is building a new mod
ern cottage at 703 South Third street.
Mr.. Knapp declares he realizes the
great need of more new homes In Nor
folk and expects to build two more
modern cottages very soon.
Station Agent Coyle of Craig, Neb.,
has kept the Norfolk police busy
searching for an Oliver typewriter
which Coyle claims was stolen from
him and taken to Norfolk. Coyle
| says lllt lldCIlHt WAS SOlu mere. no
police are unable to locate It,
A special meeting of the Norfolk
Ad club is to be held in the offices
of the Norfolk Electric Light and
Power companys offices Friday
night. "All members should be pres
ent," says President Brakeman.
There is much important business to
be considered
The excavation for the new Union
Pacific depot is about finished. The
workmen have suddenly struck sur
face water and are having some diff
ficulty in the digging which luckily,
is about finished. Carpenters and
! bricklayers are now at work with the
preliminary arrangements for their
part in the construction.
William Smith of Edgemont has
been added to Street Commissioner
Leu's force. Smith was fined $40
, in Judge Eiseley's court for being
drunk and disorderly. Smith was de-
termined to lie on the paved section
of Norfolk avenue and to save him
self from being run down, the police
put him behind the bars. He will
work out his fine.
Funeral services over the remains
of Ernest Fenske were held in the
Sessions & Bell undertaking parlors
, Wednesday afternoon by Rev. Otto
Bergfelder. lnterment was made in
the new Lutheran cemetery.
brother from Kansas City and all his
relatives here were present at the fu-
neral. Members of the German veter.
ans acted as pallbearers.
Chairman c. j. Verges of the city
council nuisance committee, accompa-
MED by Chief of Police Marquardt,
spent part of yesterday locating nuis-
ances which must be removed. One
house in which a family was living
was condemned by the nuisance
chairman who found all the windows
of the house broken and the interior
and exterior part of the house in
filthy condition.
Ulysses Grant Zimmerman, the
Santee Indian, who was arrested for
being drunk, was released this morn
ing and started on his way back to
;, Niobrara near which place he lives.
. Zimmerman was given warning that
II he ala not remit MS line ny ludll
an officer would be sent for him. Zim-
merman's last dollar was spent for
food and at 10 o'clock he started out
of the city, intending to walk back
home.
Norfolk played prominent part
} in the affairs of the state bankers
association at Omaha this week. G
E. Burnham was elected as a mem
Der of the committee to nominate del
, egates to attend the national conven-
, ton and c. H. Kelsey addressed the
bankers on Express Money Orders"
: Among those who attended the con-
vention and have returned here are:
: w. A. Witzigman, c. E. Burnham, c..
H. Kelsey, L. p. Pasewalk, j. f.
Haase and d. MathewsOn.
: Forty enlisted men and officers Of
! company d, local militia company,
e will leave Norfolk on September 26
for Bellevue, Neb., near which place
y they will camp for several weeks.
r Lieut.. Brueggeman and other officers
q ~ tho cOmnany are hard at work drill