The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-09-29
WEDNESDAY WRINKLES.


weeks visit with relatives at Omaha.
Mrs. Mary Fowler and her grand
daughter, Miss Easter Currier, have
gone to Mount Pleasant, Ia, where
, Miss Currier will attend college.
The Eastern Star of Beulah chapter
/ No. 40 will have regular meeting
Thursday night.
Nathan Brown, son of j. w. Brown.
who was operated on for adenoids,
is recovering nicely.
There will be a meeting of the
Degree of Honor in the G. A. X. hall
, this evening at 8 o'clock.
The new fire bell for the hook and
, ladder wagon has arrived and is be.
ing set up for immediate use.
The Fred Braasch residence pro.
perty, Norfolk avenue and Ninth
street has been sold to w. II. Snyder.
The Aid society of the NJ. E. church
Will meet Tor business in the church
parlors Thursday afternoon at 3
o'clock
A farewell reception will be given
for the Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Tindall
Thursday evening at the Methodist
church. Everyone is invited.
Ralph Mckinney, who was operated
on in an Omaha hospital Sunday for
abscess of the stomach, is doing as
well as could be expected, according
to latest reports.
w. A. Kingsley opened the Pacific
annex hotel for business last night
with thirteen guests. Harvey O'Bri-
en- has been placed in the capacity of
manager of this annex.
Prof. j. p. Main will give his stere-
opticon entertainment and lecture on
the Reformation Friday night of this
week at the German schoolhouse on
Fifth street 1t begins at o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Case and son
were called to Eagle Grove, Mo-, on
account of the death of Mrs. Cases
father, G. z. Lyman, from rheuma-
tism of the heart. Mr.. Case returned
last night.
The new underground wires are be-
ing connected for regular use on the
Nebraska telephone lines today. The
old wires on Norfolk avenue are be-
ing removed and in a few weeks the
old poles will be out of the way.
About fifty Norfolk boy scouts and
about fifteen of their guests were adj
dressed on various subjects by G.. L.
Carlson in Pasewalk grove last eve
ming. After the address the scouts
became active in a manhunt which
was witnessed by a number of their
guests.
\ Lincoln dispatch to the Omaha
Bee says Lester Weaver of Norfolk,
who was operated on for appendicitis
last spring, injured the wound in a
football skirmish at Lincoln a few
days ago and will be out of the game
the balance of this season. He was
counted upon as one of the univer-
sity eleven.
Thirteen out Of town NIasons at
tended the meeting of Mosaic lodge
No. 80. Tuesday evening during
which the master mason degree was
conferred on two candidates. After
the work a banquet was given in the
w. d. Redmond, Wayne; II. A. eros.
banquet room of the Masonic hall
Among the out-or-town guests We're
by, Beemer; NJ. C. Mead, Beemer;
Nelson Utterman, Laurel; NJ. +. Nal
lory, Plainview; j. l.. Mcdonald, V.
w. Mcdonald Frank Clough, S. L.
Stewart, w. S. Hart, Allen; w. r.
Tow, Laurel; w. T. Berry, Stuart;
John Reifschmeider, Beemer.
Moving activity during the past two
days has been unusually heavy as
compared with the seven days of last
week. NJ. +. Nelson of Anoka moved
to the city and will live on South
Fifth street in the Henry Busch
house. c. n. Barrae, an office sup
ply travelling salesman of Des Moines,
moved into the Beswick house on
Eleventh street and Hayes avenue.
Fred Orr of Newell, S. d., is moving
here. Z. r. Reese has vacated the
house at 1904 Taylor avenue and
leaves the city for Petersburg. A.
F.. Ballah, the Cambridge, Neb., bank.
err who will go into the real estate
business here, moves to 500 South
Eighth street.
Fremont Tribune: In order that
prompt treatment may be given fires
that break out in the railroad yards
the Northwestern has equipped its
yards engines, or goats" as they are
termed by railroad men, with fire
fighting apparatus. On each engine
pipe projects out over the front bum
per and to it is attached a fire hose
forty feet long. The hose is carried
coiled in a box on the front of the !
engine. Water is supplied from the |
tender. Enough pressure is secured |
to throw a stream thirty or forty feet |
The new apparatus on one of the en-
gines was given its first tryout last |
evening when George Ainsworth |
found one of the company's telegraph |
poles near the foundry afire. He flag
ged the switch engine crew and the
fire was put out in a few minutes.
Gen. Grant Coming.
Council Bluffs, Ia, Sept. 27-Gen.
Grenville NJ. Dodge, the president OF |