The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-06-16
SATURDAY SETTINGS.

JOnn Robinson returned from DuSl-
, ness trip to Omaha.
Mrs. e. r. Chace of Stanton visited
with friends in the city
Mrs. j. b. Smith of Neigh is visit.
ing her sister, Mrs. II. Warner.
Miss Carrie Brush has gone to Cop.
| perfield. Ore, where she will spend
the summer with her sister. Mrs. II.
l.. Singer.
Mrs. Bertha Pilger returned from a
visit with her daughter, Mrs. Il. II.
! Chace, at Stanton.
| An important meeting of the Elks
will be held this evening.
Miss Leon Schapleigh is suffering
! from an attack of measles.
The Norfolk Ice Cream and Cone
! cOmpany's Office was robbed of 81.
No trace of the guilty parties has been
! found.
Martin Kane, engineer at the local
| postoiIice, is enjoying a fifteen-days'
vacation leave
Born. to Mr.. and Mrs. a. c. Smith,
| corner Norfolk avenue and Eleventh
street, a daughter.
Some of Madison's landmarks. the
beautiful shade trees on the main
street, planted forty years ago by iG. +.
| Prince, are being cut down.
In spite of the threatening weather
a fair crowd of dancers attended the
dancing party at the Country club
| house Friday evening
Sixty or seventy Indian school chill
| dren of the Genoa Indian school, en-
| route to their homes at Santee, ar
rived here Friday night and left early
Saturday.
Charles Miner and his daughter,
Miss Neva NJ. Miner passed through
the city enroute to their home at Fair
fax from Omaha, where Miss Miner
underwent treatment at a hospital.
The Elkhorn Life and Accident In
surance company will move from the
Citizens National bank building into
the Koenigstein block and will occupy
the rooms formerly occupied by Paul
Grant.
The Second ward poll books were
inspected at Madison Friday afternoon
by attorneys on both sides of the
mayoralty contest. City Clerk Ed
IIarter brought back one Of the Sec
Ond ward poll books last night.
William Salisbury, district plant SUI
perintendent of the Western Union
Telegraph company, was in the city Ia
the telegraph poles from Norfolk av-
enue. The company has until July 1
| to comply with the new ordinance.
w. r. Pargeter, commercial agent Of
the Union Pacific Railroad company.
and p. II. Davis, of the Luse Land
! company, have rented the rooms in
which the Elkhorn Life and Accident
Insurance Offices are now located, in
the Citizens National bank building.
Frank Garrett, manager of the Harle
Haas Drug company of Council Bluffs,
and formerly Norfolk citizen, was in
the city enroute from Deadwood to his
home at Council Bluffs. Mr.. Garrett
commented favorably on the wonder
full improvements going on in Norfolk.
The Christ Lutheran schools were
suspended for the summer vacation
Friday afternoon. Thirty-nine students
graduated on Palm Sunday. When
school opens again next September
there will be about eighty students en-.
rolled The school children gave a
picnic in the Pasewalk grove Friday
afternoon.
A. o. Hazen and Master Joseph Will
| ley hold the seasons record for catch
| ing the two largest catfish in this vi
entity. Thursday evening Mr.. Hazen,
| with throw line, captured a ten
pound catfish. The fish measured
| twenty-five inches. Willeys fish
weighed little over ten pounds and
| measured few inches more in length
than the fish captured by Hazen.
The three consolidated general Off.
ces of the Nebraska Telephone COM
| pany, traffic department, commercial
department, and plant department, will
be located on the second floor of the
Cotton block. Arrangements have
been made with tenants of this block
to make room for the new Offices. The
district accountants and local man.
ager will have the Offices in the Nc
Clary building.
The Nebraska Telephone company
| has purchased the Krotter telephone
interests at Bonesteel. Guy H. Pratt,
division commercial superintendent,
| and NJ. j. Sanders, district commercial
agent, returned from Bonesteel and to-
day it is reported by telephone officials
| that the deal was closed on Mr.. Pratt's
visit to Bonesteel. Fred Scott, com.
| mercial agent of the Bonesteel district,
| was in the city today.
Abe Levine declares that it is both
dishonest and unjust for any one to
| claim ownership to any coin left on a
counter by an absentminded customer.
Therefore he claims he was in the
| right when he administered kick to
a small boy who was guilty of entering
his place o. business Friday morning
and pocketing twenty-hve-cent piece
which was left on the counter by one
customer. The boy claimed he found
the money on the counter and that so
long as no one claimed it, 1t was his.
Twice yesterday afternoon box cars
on the Union Pacific freight train, en-.