The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-21
MONDAY MENTIONS.

city visiting with relatives.
F. F. Mende and family OF Stanton
were in the city visiting with friends
C. w. Altman has gone to Hot
Springs, S. d., to spend about six
weeks vacation.
Miss Florence Snyder OF Columbus
is in the city visiting with her sister,
Mrs. Linn Greer.
j. e. Sanders of Sioux City spent
Sunday here with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. ]. Sanders.
w. j. Stafford has gone to Denver
and other western cities to spend a
few weeks vacation.
Mrs. r. e. McLeester OF Omaha is
here visiting with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. M. j. Sanders.
Rev. Martin Raasch Of Leavenworth,
Wash, is here visiting with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. August Raasch.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Brown
301 North Eleventh street, son.
A regular meeting Of the city coun-
Gil will be held in the city hall this
evening.
Miss Nicola Stout OF Lincoln has
been elected as teacher Of mathemat-
les in the high school.
The Grant school building In be-
ginning to loom up big and the con-
tractors seem to be rushing the work
rapidly enough to accommodate the
students for next season.
The baby of Mr.. and Mrs. Byron
Caldwell 500 South Third street, is
suffering from an attack of measles.
Mrs. r. II. Reynolds is reported very
i'll. Her daughter, Miss Amy Reynolds,
was summoned home from Lincoln.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. w. Jonas and Mrs.
Jonas father are visiting at Polk,
Neb., with relatives. Mr. Jonas is off
on fifteen days vacation.
A boy with a new gun on South
Ninth street gave some alarm to neigh
bors by discharging his weapon at the
poles of gas lights along the street
last night.
What has become of the Owl lodge,
is the question that has been going the
rounds here for several weeks. Moth
ing has been heard of the proposed
organization since the departure of the
two organizers.
A special meeting of the fire depart.
ment was called for this evening by
President +. A. Amarine for the pur-
pose of arranging for the local run
ming team to participate in the Hum
phrey firemen's tournament.
Justice George Lambert dismissed
the case of Herman Krahn versus the
American Express company. A suit
of clothes were lost by Mr. Krahn, and
he sued the express company for dam
ages. The clothes were found and the
case was dismissed.
A dog fight close to the diamond
during the progress of Sunday after
moons game, for few moments
caused interest to be lost in a one to
one game and the fans crowded
around the CANNES and urged them
to battle. The dogs were pulled apart
with difficulty.
e. c. Harris, formerly superinten-
dent of the Northwestern railroad at
Norfolk and later of Chadron, but now
of Reno, New, was in the city yester-
day. Mr.. Harris has just finished pro-
voting railroad which is to be built
u once in British Columbia. He left
Iui Canada at noon.
District Plant Chief r. Y. Hyde has
moved into his new offices on the sec
ond floor of the Cotton block. The
other district offices will move to the
new building within few days. The
old Office has been cramped for room
and with the three district Offices in
new quarters, the commercial and aud.
iting departments of the Nebraska
Telephone company will be comfort.
ably settled within a few days in the
McClary building.
Peter Jolly, the special agent of the
Northwestern Railroad company, is
back on the job again, but is at pres
ent too Jolly" to think seriously OF
strenuous work. Mr.. Jolly was mar
ried in Milwaukee a few weeks ago to
lady advertising manager and he has
brought his Wisconsin bride back to
Nebraska with him. Mr. and Mrs
Jolly have just returned from theil
honeymoon and will make Norfolk
tLeir future home.
IL ID pTeulCleu ny sOLnS ludI CoIL
may reach the 60-cent mark this year
The price Of corn at local elevators is
&c cents and the same price is being
obtained by farmers for it at Other
towns in this vicinity. The highest
price paid local elevators for corn was
paid by a commission firm a few day!
Ego when the Salter Grain company
received 81 cents for carload of corr
on track here. Corn shipped to mar
kets sells at about Go cents.
d. Rees, attending national Sun
day school convention at San Fran
cisco, writes Norfolk friends that tn,
earthquake in that city was more sc
rious than reported. Mr. Rees de
clares in his letter that there wal
much excitement during the quake
but that the news was subdued al
much as possible. The 'old timers
in San Francisco, says Mr.. Rees, ar,
very "touchy" on the subject of earth
Quakes and when talking of them, the!
declare an earthquake is no wors,
than a cyclone or blizzard in thi
country.