The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-09-15
left yesterday for lndianola, Ia, where

visiting with friends.
j. Baum returned from New York.
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Boston, Wash.
ington, Newport and many other cities
in the east, where he spent a month
on business.
Mrs. Edward Adams OF Missouri
Valley, enroute to Pierce to which
place she was taking her son, who will
attend school there, was here visiting
with friends.
Ed Hans has returned from Schuy.
Ter where his mother lives. The moth
err will come to Norfolk to make her
home with her son as soon as she dis
poses of her property in that city.
NJ. Irwin sold his automobile to DR..
| Pringle of Pierce.
Herman Russ of Hoskins is suffer.
| ing from a sprained ankle.
Ernest Raasch shipped two carloads
of cattle to the South Omaha market.
Being unable to reach quorum last
evening, there was no meeting of the
AID club.
Clarence Rasley, who has been suf.
fering from a sprained ankle, is re-
ceiving further trouble from his in.
| jury. His physician put the injured
member in a plaster-of-paris cast to.
day.
A large crowd of Norfolk ball fans
accompanied the Norfolk ball team to
Creighton Tuesday afternoon, where
very fast game of ball was sched-
uled. Several automobile loads OF fans
also made the trip.
A settlement has been made in the
Freythaler-Morton lawsuit. Freythaler
| charged that stock belonging to Nor
ton ran through his field, doing much
damage. The case was settled salts.
factorily for $40 in favor OF Freythaler.
Charles Richie, a Norfolk mail car
rier, reports Henry Woodruff in the
prince of Tonight" is great. Mr..
Richie had the pleasure of seeing
Woodruff in action at Lincoln recent.
ly.
The editor of the Meadow Grove
News is in possession of part of a cap
belonging to Aviator Walsh, who had
mishap in his aeroplane flight at Ne.
| ligh Saturday. The editor tells Nor.
folk friends that the cap was torn into
many pieces and he is keeping the
remnants as a souvenir.
Miss Ethel Hibben, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. c. ]. Hibben, has been added
to the list of Norfolk students who
will attend the state university this
year. Miss Hibben will also make
one more member for the Norfolk club
which is being organized by Norfolk
students at the university.
Mrs. Louise Barney mother of Mrs.
Charles Sheeler of this city, writes
from Seattle, where she is visiting
that Seattle scenery is great. Mrs
Barney is sojourning for few months
on the western coast. She will visit
Oregon, California and other coast
states before returning to Norfolk.
A clerk carrier is to be added to
the Norfolk postoffice force. For this
position application blanks are on file
at the postotlice, the position being
open for application by any one who
cares to take the examination. No
application will be accepted after Sep
TENDER %. The examination takes
place in Norfolk on September 81.
Peter Duffy, formerly of Norfolk but
now living at Long Pine, is suffering
from broken leg as the result of
horse falling on him. Mrs d. B. Duffy
of this city has returned from sew
eral weeks visit at Long Pine and re-
ports that Mr.. Duffy's condition is very
favorable. Mrs. Duffy was accompa.
MED to Long Pine by her daughter,
Miss Bessie Duffy.
Fifteen hundred tons of freight haul
ed into Norfolk in thirty cars Monday
afternoon by double header on the
Union Pacific, was the reason why the
regular freight was four hours late.
Six cars of peaches for the Evans
Fruit company from California and
Utah, eight cars of coal, some cars of
lumber and more material for the new
Union Pacific depot were included in
the long train.
c. H. Kelsey, who recently moved to
this city from Neigh, has purchased
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Morris B.
Irwin on Tenth street and Madison
avenue. Mr.. Kelsey takes possession
of the home in October, when it is ex-
pected Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin and their
daughter Miss Doris Irwin will So
journ for several months at least in
southern California and in the region
of the Gulf of Mexico.
/. T. Cook has the contract for the
excavating for the new Union Pacific
depot. The work will be started with
in the next few days. Engineer STAN
ley and his gang were stopped in their
work of moving the old depot and
sent to Fullerton, near which place
siX-inch rain washed out much track
Sunday evening. At Spaulding there
was ten-inch rain. The water in the
Fullerton depot stood four inches high
Monday.
The presidents of the Commercial
club and the AID club have appointed
w. A. Witz!gman and w. w. WATSON
as the chairmen of committees 10 CO.
operate with E. A. Bullock on his pro-
jected water power plant. The COM
mitteemen were empowered to select
the balance of their committees and
they chose Pres. A. L. Killian of the
Commercial club and Pres. w. II.
Brakeman of the AID club to work with