The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-30

We would say that women favored
the ones with the pits in. to save pit.
ting 'em, il we didn't know Il man who
doesn't give darn how much work
the women do, and who won't eat n
cherry pie unless the pits are in.
There's weed ordinance in Nor
folk, and 1t ought to be enforced, along
with Mayor Fridays commendable or
der to trim the trees.
We wish those two o'clock whis-
ties would get together. We try to go
to work by the last one and quit by
the first one, but the double alarm is
hard on the nerves, just the same.
And speaking of Whistles: There's
a man in Norfolk who is so deaf that
he can't hear the whistles at all. Re
suit is, If he ever gets started to work,
he never knows when to quit.
Our idea of how not to enjoy life, is
to travel around the country and hold
revival meetings in tent, with an audi
ence OF from one to two people per
night.
We hope you like your new crown,
king.
Dick Little of Chicago suggests that
the way to crown a king would be for
the king to go down and pick out the
incest crown he could find, and wear
it home, leaving his old one to be re-
blocked and repaired with new band
and sweatband and then sent up to
the palace for him to wear on rainy
days and days when he wanted to go
fishing.
Do automobiles get frightened at
Fourth OF July fireworks?
Doc Wiley is going after beer. A
man culdon't be blamed for going af
ter any kind OF drink, this weather
"A Rise in Mutton" says a head
line. One way to get rise in mutton
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with a golf ball.
Norfolk people read fiction" says
the paper. Which proves that Norfolk
does read something besides The
News.
South Thirteenth street is oil right
The Fourth of July is only week
away, First thing you know it'll be
Christmas.
But the Fourth isn't what it used tc
| be.
when Nebraska needs rain, il
| rains. ! think it will rain before morn
ing" That was the remark of ;
speaker at the AID club banquet the
other night. 1t didn't rain befor,
morning, but it did rain the next ant
| again the next. When Nebrask;
needs rain, it does rain, all right.
What's become of the old fashioned
man who used to lie down on his bacl
under his automobile, to repair It?
| That's not the only change thatt
been made in the automobile bust
ness. The first car you ever saw o
rode in, probably, was at the Trans
Mississippi exposition in 1898, whel
you paid quarter to die in the "horse
less carriage" Today, thirteen year
] lot W.
In fact the business is getting S,
modernized that they announce 1911
models by the time 1911 is less thai
half finished. We wonder why SOM
enterprising factory doesn't slip on
over on the others and announce
1925 model
BY way of diversion, don't you rea'
ize that you would be a better citizel
If you would cut the weeds in front o
your home? Won't you help max
Norfolk a better looking town? o.
the square, the weeds do look awful
ragged.
Are you making a DOGGY record a
sWattlng flies?
i One of the little jobs that the d
rectors of the Commercial club cut GU
for their new secretary a couple G
months ago, was a campaign for
hospital in Norfolk. There's no tim
like the present. And there's no di.
count on the fact that Norfolk sti
needs the hospital.
We likewise need some sort OF
fall festival, along the Aksarben lin,
and il we're to have it this fall, It
time right now to be doing somethin,
Although w. H. Livingston is
night policeman on Norfolk avenu,
: officials Of local bank were notifie
by restaurant walters that the ban
front had blown in during the win
storm. Mr.. Livingston, who is pas
| 20 and too old for his job, complain
of having to walk around on the paw,
ment heCauSa II hurts his foot Al