The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-01-06

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Norfolk's tributary territory has
been expanded during the year by
railroad into Trip county, and there
is promise of considerable more eX-
pansion of this territory next summer
when more of the Rosebud and Pine
Ridge Indian reservations will be
thrown open to the public for settle
ment.
In business, the year has been a
prosperous one for Norfolk institu.
tons And the coming year is filled
with promise.
AROUND TOWN.
Happy New Year!
It's the season to resolve.
Not any, thank you, Sworn off.
You will laugh at the weather fore
casts, will you?
Dust off your earmuffs and get 'em
ready to hook on.
Guess the weather man made good
that time, all right, all right
Sleep with your windows open. even
if it gets down TO 30 below zero.
What's become of the old fashion
ed man who shined his own shoes?
Any signs about how January will
go out when it comes in like it's 60
ing to according to the weather man,
this time?
Call on the coal bin doctor. That
spell of weather made the bin sick
near to death.
1t is reported that b. NJ wore an
overcoat Monday. We await confirm
alton or denial of the rumor with
breathless curiosity.
Genuinely enthusiastic golf players
in the summer time always say they'll
play the game at intervals all winter
long But they never do it.
Get enough coal to feed the fur.
mace and a supply of tobacco that'll
last over Sunday. It's AZ below zero
at Winnipeg, and she's headed this
way.
Now if the fire whistle had been
slow when it was the old Northwest
ern depot shack at the Junction that
was endangered, nobody could have
said a word.
If you should find that blonde
switch on Norfolk avenue, keep it
dark chat is, as dark as you can keep
a blonde SWITCH. For switching on
Main street is forbidden by law.
We're going to sacrifice several
good stories by warning people not to
start out for any long drives tomor-
row, without having all kinds of robes
to bundle up in, and footwarmers to
boot.
Speaking of footwarmers, fill an or
binary bottle with hot water, cork
the bottle, put it under the covers
at the foot of your bed and plant your
feet on it when the sheets seem icy.
It's just like so much ready money
from home.
This column has been rented for
one day next December to Norfolk
woman who wants opportunity to
! print her list of Christmas gifts de-
sired. Here's a tip to the ad man:
Why not sell space to people want.
ing that kind of publicity?
Since Christmas came more than
a week ago, it is probably surprise
to the ad man and his co-conspirator
that this department is still alive. OF
all the rotten tobacco that any body
ever heard of, that which they stealth
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the paper with, was the worst. But
not a scrap of it was smoked.
While you were comfortably smok
ing a pipe during that blizzard with
your toes toasting over a register and
the temperature 20 in the shade, did
it occur to you that there was vast
amount of the bitterest sort of hui
man suffering being wrought by that
storm? Or did you just think of lit
tie Willie and let it go at that?
How many of this list will be alive
year from today: Arch Hoxsey
Glenn Curtiss, Farman, Grahame
White?
The above paragraph was written
Saturday afternoon, after Moissant
had been killed and, by strange coin
lcidence, at almost the very moment