The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-09-01
MONDAY MENTIONS.

from Pla;nview
George w. Phelps of Madison was a
visitor in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. r. Hayes will leave
for their new home at Sheridan, Wyo.,
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Monroe Smith of Mad.
ison were here visiting at the home of
w. S. O'Brien.
c. ]. Fleming returned from st.
Paul, Neb, where he spent a week
fishing and camping.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Dietrich, their
daughter Eloise, and Gene Osborn
have returned from pleasant trip to
Hot Springs, S. d.
Mrs. Frank Hamilton, who has been
here for the past three weeks visiting
with relatives, has returned to her
home at Wood River
Mrs. Geo. Deuel. and children, who
have been visiting relatives here, have
left for Pittsburg, Kan, accompanied
by their niece and cousin, Miss Elsie
Deuel..
The West Side Whist club will meet
Tuesday night with Mr.. and Mrs. E. p.
Weatherby.
Mrs. w. J. Braasch, her daughter
and son, who have been here visiting
with Mr.. and Mrs. William McCune,
have returned to her home at Platte
Center.
The household goods of the Spencer
rooming house were sold at public
auction Saturday afternoon.
The Home Missionary society of the
Methodist church will meet with Mrs.
Demmon on South Ninth street Tues
day afternoon at o'clock.
Glenn Roberts, the barber who was
badly injured in drunken brawl on
Norfolk avenue, was removed from the
police station to a rooming house on
the south side.
Rev. August Mickleoms of Fort Mad
ison, Wis, has been here visiting with
his cousin, Mrs. John Kreuger Mr..
Mickleoms has not seen his cousin for
twenty-six years.
Richard Washington returned from
Stanton, where he spent week on
the Company B target range. Dick
did the weeks cooking for the Stanton
company and reports the soldiers are
having great time. Dick is now back
as porter at the OXnard hotel
Austin Georges, calling himself the
modern poet" visited Norfolk Satur-
day. George is endeavoring to make
a living by selling a book of poems
which he has written. His original
home was Indiana, but now he de-
clares every place" is his home.
Lieut. Lorin Brueggeman and First
Sergt Asmus will leave Norfolk Sun
day morning with the Norfolk militia
company to spend the entire day on
the Stanton target range. The SOL
diers will return Sunday night. Or
ders have been issued for every sol
der to report to the two mentioned
officers.
Photographs just developed of the
'197-pound bass CATCH" by Morris
Irwin, Frank Melcher, w. F. Hall of
this city and William Huffsmith of
Creighton, show probably the largest
catch Of small mouthed black bass
ever brought to this city. The party
made the trip through heavy mud and
rain in the Melcher automobile and
spent four days at South Dakota
lake. There were eighty-nine bass,
weighing 1877 pounds.
Patrolman O'Brien had busy night
Saturday and succeeded in Kidding the
city of several undesirables as well as
putting behind the bars one man claim
ing to be a cripple. The man was
''stalling" and used pair of crutches
to work on the sympathies and get an
odd coin occasionally from the unsus-
pecting public. Another drunk" was
found by the officer with his face bu-
ried in the mud. He was unable to
see, but was given light under the
cold hydrant in the city Jail.
Henry Hasenpfug reports a near
fatality TO four Beemer automobilists
whose machine was saved from going
over a bridge west of Stanton Satur-
day night only by hanging onto a
short post, after it had knocked all
the other posts from the bridge. Mr..
Hasenpflug worked with others for
nearly two hours digging out the post
before the machine could be released.
Had it not been for this post, the ma
chine with its four occupants would
have been dashed down many feet into
creek.
Clifford Williams is again in trouble.
He told his aged mother that he had
been arrested and fined $3.50. The
mother telephoned the police and was
informed that her son was allowed his
freedom after being arrested with Mrs.
Carl Whittenberg, woman convicted
of being a vagrant. The son, it was
reported at police headquarters, abus-
ed his mother who in turn reported to
the police. Williams was drunk Sat
urday night and made himself a nuis-
ance. He was arrested by Patrolman
O'Brien.
Four of the Henry Busch children,
whose mother died recently leaving
the little ones in care of relatives and
friends, will be taken to the children's
home at Lincoln some time this week.
Those in charge of the home have tel
egraphed Constable A. w. Finkhouse
that they will send a representative
for the children within few days.
Mrs. Finkhouse is still taking care Of
the 6-mOnths-old baby boy to whom