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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-28
Showers at Nlobrara,

Niobrara, Neb., July 22.-Special to
The News: Light showers of rain fell
here Monday and Tuesday and heav.
Ter one Friday morning. The corn is
In good condition.
Several hundred feet of cement
walk Is being laid on Main street
Workmen have recently finished walks
on several residence properties.
District Deputy Grand Master T. A.
Tilkalsky of Verdigre, assisted by c.
W. f. Paul OF Creighton as district
deputy grand marshal, installed the
officers of Niobrara lodge, No. so, /
o. o. F., at their last regular meet
ing. A social meeting with refresh
ments followed the installation cere
monies.
Several parties from different points
in the state have camped here this
summer and have been loud in theiI
praises of the pleasures afforded by
fishing, boating and bathing. Some
large fish have been caught and q
goodly number of them. The camps
have been pitched on both the Mo
brara and Island park sides of the
Niobrara river.
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FRIDAY FACTS.

Misses Lulu and Edna Durland and
Fl. d. Corell and daughter Of Plainview
are here visiting with the c. B. Dur.
land family.
A. G. Hickman went to Sioux City
on business.
H. S. Thorpe returned from a bust
ness trip to Wayne.
Rev. Martin Raasch has returned to
Leavenworth, Wash.
John Bland returned from a bust
ness trip to Bonesteel.
County Clerk S. r. Mcfarland was
here enroute to Omaha on business.
Carl Epperly, a well known miller
of Knox county, was here purchasing
an automobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. C. Cow have gone
to Carlock, S. D., to visit with theiI
son, H. S. Cow.
Mrs. Henry Schmode of SCOTS Bluff
Neb., is in the city visiting at the L
c. Mittelstadt home.
Harry Wilson returned to his home
in Corning, Ia, after visit with Mr.
and Mrs. F. B. Miner.
Samuel Temple and his daughter
Miss Belle Temple Of Wayne are here
visiting with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Meredith Daniels Of
Iowa are here visiting at the home o.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Koenigstein.
c. B. Durland returned from a driv,
through Pierce county. Mr.. Durlant
reports the crops in that county very
good.
Mrs. Zoe Sutherland Of Grand Isl
and is visiting with her sisters, Mrs
W. 2. King and Miss Mayme Klee
berger.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. NJ. Keene have re
turned to their home at Fremont afte
visit here with Mr.. and Mrs. J. S
McClary.
Mrs. C. r. Reed, accompanied b.
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FORTY YEARS IN BED.
Self Chosen Fate of Man Prevented
From Marrying Girl of His Choice.

Because Joseph Plummer of Milton.
N. H., was prevented by his father
from marrying the woman of his
choice he has remained forty years in
bed. He is now seventy-one years old.
The woman he loved is dead. but
the old man has not been told. In
fact. he refused to speak Of her from
the very day when he said to his
father. "Since you will not let me have
her, | have no other ambition and
may as we'll spend the rest OF my
life in bed" Joseph went to bed. Jo-
seph did not get up. He continued in
bed day after day. week after week.
year after year. until the sensation of
his course waned. and he became more
or less OF an institution in Milton.
His mother and his father have both
died Now his two brothers, both well
along in years. keep the Plummer
household. which is prosperous one.
and take care of Joseph. These two
brothers. Ephraim and Samuel. are
bachelors and cook all the meals.
when Joseph took his bed" says
Ephraim Plummer. father did not
| make any objections, but took his food
to him and let him stay there. Father
didn't approve of Joseph going with
| the girl because she was only sixteen
| years old. while Joseph was consider
ably older.
Joseph felt that after seeing her he
could never love any other girl. He
was stubborn and used to having his
own way. He did not like to be
crossed. At first when he took to his
bed none of US thought that he would
stay there long.
"Now he is so weak from staying in
bed so long that he has lost the use
Of his legs"
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WheeIer's Injury Bad.

George Wheeler, whose eye was bad
ly injured in a fight with James Ko-
lash, is suffering more seriously than
was thought. Physicians had him on
the table for half an hour and they
say that the inch wound was not made
by fist. They declare nothing but a
knife could have made the wound
The wound is about an inch long and
Just below the eye. The wound ex
tends through the eyelid and a quarter
of an inch higher would have meant
the loss of the optic. Mr.. Wheeler de
clares he did not see Kolash use q
knife, but says he was blinded imme
diately after Kolash put his hands into
his eyes.
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SOUTH DAKOTA AT A GLANCE.

over 1000 Indians met at Kakapala
in a religious gathering of the Epis-
copal church.
A special session of the circuit court
is being held at Armour this week by
Judge Trip.
S. Brown, pool hall proprietor at
Sioux Falls, was fined SIS for permit
ting minors in his pool room.
A $4,000 school house is soon to be
erected at Wolsey. 1t will be of brick
and entirely modern throughout.
Harvest is well under way at Miller
Though the drought has ruined much
of the crop, much good grain is being
cut.
The files of Yankton newspaper
were used to prove the birth of two
former residents now residing in Eng
land.
A forest fire threatened valuable
timber land and other property near
Sturgis, but at latest reports was un-
der control.
Lewis Larson, formerly city auditor
of Sioux Falls, has been appointed as
sistant clerk of the senate committee
on claims.
Efforts are being made to secure an
artesian well for Witten. Seventy-five
percent of the voters have signed a
petition looking to this end.
The 10-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Rousseau of Pierre was
painfully injured through the acci-
dental discharge of a rife in her
brothers. hands.
The Missouri river undermined a
bank, on which stood top buggy be-
longing to Chris Nelson of Yankton,
and carried the buggy away. 1t was
recovered three miles down stream.
1t has been announced by DR.. Par.
kin Of Vermillion that the threatened
change in the Rhodes scholarship
awards for South Dakota because of
lack of interest, will not be made this
year.
The 1S-months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Elon Gamberg of Centerville was
lost during an entire night. Over 20O
people joined in the search and the
child was found playing in a ravine
late in the morning.
An auto driven by Glen Maynard
struck rock in the road near Tyn
dali and turned turtle. Joseph For
rest of Dante, an occupant of the rear
seat, had his leg broken, and other
passengers received minor injuries.
A dispatch from Pierre explains the
question of leave of absence from
homesteaders' claims. Where dry
weather conditions have made it i'm
possible to live on the claims appli
cation for leave of absence may be
made to the receivers and registers al
the local land Offices.
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Notice to Creditors,

The state of Nebraska, Madison
county, SIS.
In the matter of the estate of Thom-
as c. Cantwell, deceased
Notice is hereby given to all per-
sons having claims and demands
against Thomas c. Cantwell, late OF
said Madison county, deceased, that
the time fixed for filing claims against
said estate is six months from the
18th day of July, 1911. All such per-
sons are required to present their
claims with the vouchers to the coun-
ty judge of said county at his Office in
the city of Madison, in said Madison
county, on or before the 18th day of
January, 1912, and that all claims so
filed will be heard before said judge
on the 18th day of January, 1912, at I
o'clock p. m. Mary E. Cantwell is the
administrators of the estate.
1t is further ordered that notice to
all persons interested in said estate
be given by publishing a copy of this
order in the Norfolk Weekly News
Journal, weekly newspaper printed,
published and circulating in said coun-
ty, for four consecutive weeks prior to
said day of hearing.
Witness my hand and seal this 3rd
day of July, A. d. 1911.
William Bates,
(SeaD County Judge.
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GREAT FLIGHT PLANNED.
French Aviator to Attempt Trip From
France to Algiers.


France to Algiers.
The revival of interest in aviation in
France continues to be marked.
Brague. who recently made a notable
fight from Nice to little island be-
tween Corsica and the Italian coast,
says it was purely experimental and
that he intends eventually to fly from
France to Algiers, making Ajaccio his
midway station.
He declares that to succeed in this
voyage an aviator must possess three
essential things-a good motor. an abb
solutely accurate compass and exact
meteorological information. He con-
siders that the superior speed of aero
planes makes the escort of fast war
vessels wholly useless unless they be
scattered at regular intervals along the
greater part of the route.
The value Of the aeroplane, says
Brague. has now been demonstrated
to be greater over sea than over terra
firma. Many experts in France be-
lieve the development of aviation de-
pends chiefly upon the problem of
dimensions. and there is a growing
opinion that q machine so vast that
air currents will have only a minimum
effect upon It may make navigation of
the atmospheric space relatively as
safe as that of the ocean in ships of
the type of the Mauretania.
Meanwhile a leading French military
organ announces with great confidence
that an infallible method of making
aeroplanes self balancing has been in
vented
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-28

Rev. Roy j. Lucas has resigned as
pastor of the Church of Christ.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucas will leave the
city next week for their new home in
Kansas. Mr.. Lucas will leave Monday
and his wife will follow him at a later
date. A farewell reception was held
in honor of Rev. Mr.. Lucas by about
100 friends and members of the Chris.
tian church congregation at the M. L,
Black residence. Addresses of fare
well were given by several of those
present. c. E. Hartford made the
presentation of a gift, to which Mr.
Lucas responded. Refreshments were
served and music was enjoyed. Sew.
eral applications for Mr.. Lucas place
have been received but as yet no one
has been named to succeed him.
Roy j. Lucas was born April %
1876, on a farm south of Bloomington
III. While quite young his father
moved to Hansen, Neb., where he con
Quoted a general store for several
years. In 1894, together with his ia
ther he moved on a large farm near
Hastings, Neb. He attended Juniata
high school, Hastings college and Cot
ner university, where he graduated in
1906. He has held pastorates at Glen
wood, Ia, Murray, Neb., and Norfolk
He has been the only located pastor OF
the Church of Christ at this place
Since coming in November, 1908, he
has received 100 into the church mem
bership, forty-five of whom have been
by baptism. He was married in 1907
to Miss Clara Isheer. They have three
little boys.
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EnoIish standpatters Anary.

London, July 22.-Premier Asquith
had an audience of an hour with King
George at Buckingham palace today.
when he placed before his majesty the
governments views on the latest
phases of the political crisis and made
final arrangements to meet the pos.
sible contingency that action by the
insurgent unionist peers necessitates
by the creation Of new members OF
the house OF lords. The "standpat.
ters," however, are still in a fighting
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-28
GOLF EXPERTS ON HAND.
Most Formidable Field Ever in West
Chic Evans Fails TO Arrive.

Detroit, Mich, July 22.-Never in
the history of the Olympic cup compe
tition has this golfing classic brought
together more formidable field thar
that assembled for the contest which
began today on the links of the De
troit Golf club.
The honor of leading the process
sion has been extended to w. c
Fownes, jr, of Pittsburg and G. A
Hutton, national champions respec
lively of the United States ant
Canada.
Fourteen teams in all are entered
to compete for the trophy Great dis
appointment was expressed at the
failure of "Chic" Evans, the new
French champion, to reach Detroit in
time for the competition but it is an
nounced that he will be on hand fol
amateur championship play, which be
gins next Monday.
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South Side News,

Miss Alma Reed of Inman was here
on business yesterday.
Miss Elsie Long of Lynch is visiting
at the home of her grandparents, Mr.,
and Mrs. Charles Long.
Millard Fuller OF Stafford was in
the Junction last evening between
trains.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Wood were call
ed to Avoca, Ia, yesterday to attend
the funeral Of Mr.. Woods mother
James Long and brother Charles of
Ft. Dodge, Ia, are visiting with their
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Long.
Lloyd Sarchet started work as night
call boy at the general Office in place
of Carl Hoar, who will move away in
q short time.
Mrs. Ed Mullen arrived home from
Snyder yesterday and reports that Ed
Conley is getting along as nicely as
might be expected.
Charles Long has recently built an
addition to his house one mile east of
the Junction, and also made other i'm.
provements about the house.
Work is rapidly progressing on the
new depot.
Miss Rebecca Duggan, who has been
dangerously i'll since May, is able to
be around again.
John johnson, VINO mas peen trav'
cling about for almost year, returned
home for a visit yesterday
Fred Cornell is giving his houses
on Hastings avenue, occupied by
Frank Hass and Harry Hoskinson and
families, a new coat of paint and also
varnish inside.
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Horses Here for Race Meet.

S. B. Mccormick of Alta, Ia, with a
string of five fine racing horses, ar
rived in the city Saturday and stalled
his animals in the race track barns
which have been repaired. Mr. Nc
Cormick is the first arrival of the
many men with good horses, whom
Secretary Hawkins expects to partici
pate in the race meet here. Secretary
Hawkins reports that he has many
good horses in view and the entries
here will be high grade. The grand
stand and barns are now repaired and
there is plenty room for all horses
that may come.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-28
BANDS Of ASSASSNS HOLD POWERFUL SWAY


its destination, a well known and hon
orable' merchant, without word. In
another case the young son of GER
tain prince was kidnapped and n sum
of 100000 francs was demanded for
his return. The prince Immediately
sent the money without breathing a
syllable TO n single soul about the in
cident, which only became known to
the police some time later from n dis
covery of the letters of negotiation.
Rivals of the Malta.
Much more farreaching and almost
rs terrible Is the Camorra, an organic
ed band of assassins who infest Tur-
key and stretch their fearful tentacles
over almost the whole Of the Levant.
This society had Its origin in the for
mer kingdom of Naples, where 1t plum
dered and terrorized the country. prac-
ticed wholesale smuggling and under
took for a suitable reward to commit
any crime from murder to arson.
Candidates for membership swore
upon an iron crucifix fearful oath of
fidelity and secrecy and only after n
long period of training and probation
received the two knives Of peculiar
form by which the Camorristi recog-
nized one another.
In Turkey. where the Camorra is
particularly active at present, incen.
diarism is its chief occupation. 1t is
said that three fires out Of every four
in Constantinople are the work of the
Camorra, whose method Is to remove
all valuables from the chosen house or
shop, saturate the walls and floors
with petroleum and set fire to 1t. The
agent who refuses to pay the insurance
money is promptly assassinated.
Other Dreaded Societies.
But the services Of the Camorra are
available to any who are willing to
pay heavily enough for them, from O
jealous wife who wishes to get rid OF
a fair rival to the tradesman who can
not collect his debts. If threats fail
stab in the dark invariably settles
the business satisfactorily. Like the
Mafia. the Camorra draws its members
from all classes. from the workingmar
to the man Of rank and fashion, and
any disloyalty means death to the rec
reant member.
Among many other secret societies
in Europe-the Carbonari. in Italy; the
Nihiists. in Russia-the Hetaira has
had princes and even kings among Its
members. The Car Alexander I. OWED
allegiance to the Hetaira. and Napo
leon III. was throughout his reign sub
missive to the grand master Of the
Carbonari. whom he joined as youns
man. The Grand Duke Nicholas Con
stantinovitch. who was exiled to 81
IBERIA for stealing his mothers jewels
was member of the Nihilist societ!
and had for wife Nihilist, daughte
of the postmaster Of Tashkend.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-28

Miss Estella Ziemer spent Sunday
at Wayne.
Miss Anna Nelson returned Thurs
day from Il weeks stay in Aberdeen,
S. d.
Leslie Kranz was n Wayne visitor
Sunday.
Mrs. George Cook, who has been
past week, returned to her home at
Murray. Neb.. Thursday.
Frank Hart was Winsde visitor
Saturday.
r. G. Rohrke and son Lloyd were
Meadow Grove visitors the first of the
week.
John Foster, sr., was n passenger
for Omaha Tuesday morning.
Earnest Behmer, ST., and Peter
Brummels spent Tuesday at Wayne.
Miss Nellie Whaley OF Wayne was
in town Monday.
Rev. Mr.. Gruber returned Tuesday
from Garrison, at which place he had
been visiting relatives the past week.
Misses Rachael and Lucille Hagar
| returned to their home in Omaha Sun
day after an extended visit at the p.
| p. Hagar home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Templin of Bel
den visited at the Robert Templin
home over Sunday.
| Miss Minnie Esplin of Arlington ar
rived Monday for a several weeks
stay at the p. p. Hager home.
| John Strasser was a Norfolk Wis.
itor Sunday.
j. d. Duncan, sr., and Frank Seder-
strom are on the sick list.
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one OF the Cook horses when dlscov.
cred by the owners. Two shots were
sent after him and ne dismounted.
Letting loose OF the stolen horse he re-
mounted and rode away at a fast pace
A stranger In the city with his hand
bandaged iss imposed TO be the would
be horsethief
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-28

her sister, Miss Kezia Estabrook, has
gone to Interior, S. d., to spend sew.
eral weeks with her sister, Mrs. j, d.
Hight.
Rev. and Mrs. S. f. Sharpless. re.
turning from a visit with their daugh.
ter in California, and their daughter
Miss Margaret Sharpless OF Fergus
Falls, Mimi, are here visiting with
their daughter. Mrs. Jack Koenigstein.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-28
TAG BABIES "NO ME BEsE."
Campaign inausurated Against Pro-
niseuous Kissing Of Children.

miseuous Kissing of Children.
The latest fad in the nursery is to
equip children with printed labels
bearing the words. "No Me Bese" c'Do
Not Kiss Me'O.
The tags are the result of Euro
pean campaign against the promiscu-
Gus kissing of children. The wording
is in Spanish because the idea is said
to have originated with Queen Vic
toria of Spain.
On hygienic grounds the queen d.
rected that her three children should
not be kissed by the sundry court at
tendants who desired merely to show
their loyalty.
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Stanton County Splits on Bryan.

Stanton, Neb., July 22.-Special to
The News: Stanton county democrats
held their convention here yesterday,
electing five delegates to the state
convention as follows: Adam Pilger,
John SCHNEIDER, August Loebbe, John
Matheson, DR.. Cutlery. Two of the
delegates are against Bryan, three for
him.
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Giant Melons.

Giant watermelons and muskmelons
grow in Diarbekir. Asiatic Turkey.
Some Of them are as large as a -four
barrel They are raised In the beds
of rivers which are almost dry in sum-
mer. Their meat is coarse and not
nearly ns sweet as that of smaller va.
rieties grown elsewhere.
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Horse Thieves Scared AWAY.

Horse thieves were busy at the /. T.
Cook residence in Edgewater Park ad-
dition yesterday and it is believed one
Of them was wounded by a shot sent
after him by one OF Mr.. Cooks sons.
The man. riding a grey colored horse
had Just left the Cook barn leading
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HELP WANTED.
WANTED,

WANTED-All parties interested In
the Gulf coast, Texas, country to write
lis for information. Come to a coun-
try where two crops can be grown
each year, where the soil is good. wa
ter sweet and pure, where the sun of
summer is tempered by the cool
breeze from the gulf and where stock
does not have to be fed more than
half the year. Get in touch with the
Tracy-Enos Land Co., Victoria. Texas.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-28
MORE PEANUTS IMPORTED.
Uncle Sam Increases His Liking For
Coolers.


1t may have been due to the increase
In the number of peanut eating fans
at the baseball games or it may have
been because of the more extensive de-
mands of the confectioner. but the fact
is the imports of peanuts to the United
States for the year 1910 assumed un-
precedented proportions.
Consul General Gaulin at Marseilles,
France, where great quantities of pea
nuts are raised, reports to the depart
ment of commerce and labor that pea
nut exports to the United States for
the year 1910 rose in value from the
comparatively Insignificant total OF
$S,772 In 1909 to 1871 ,56S. Large pur'
chases of peanut oil by Americans also
were recorded, and the trade was the
briskest in years.
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Mrs. D. e. Thomson Dead.

Lincoln, July 22.-Private kilograms
received in Lincoln tell of the death
yesterday at Mexico City OF Mrs. ID.
E. Thompson, wife OF the former am.
bassador from the United States to
Mexico. Relatives in Lincoln had
been aware OF the illness OF Mrs.
Thompson, but her condition was not
known to be critical. The remains
Will be brought to Lincoln for burial.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-28

Two new features have been added
to The News telegraphic report, at
the request of subscribers. One is a
daily report of the grand circuit races,
the other daily report of the New
York money market.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-28
New York's Marriages.

New York's marriages decreased
3,59S in the year following the finan-
cial furry Of 1907. Since then they
have gained steadily. recovering the
loss and bringing the figures higher
than those OF any yenr before 1907.
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mood.


The Norfolk Junior baseball team
defeated Pierce here Friday afternoon,
IA to Z. Batteries: Norfolk, Glase,
Miller aud Schultz; Pierce, Miller and
Larkin. Glase was batted out of the
box in the fourth inning.