The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-02-09


when he didn't see his shadow, and
that year it stayed cold for ten weeks
after Feb. ,. SO what's the use wor-
rying about the grounding, or paying
the least bit of attention to him. He
isn't worth setting trap for.
Again the president is taking his
cue from this column. Haven't we been
hollering about the c. of |. for weeks
and weeks? Now he's going to hold Il
worldwide conference to investigate it.
He likely got alarmed when he found
we intended to vote for anybody for
president who could cut down the coal
bills
Now that the ground hog did NOT
see his hadow, ice men are planning
to harvest another crop during the
next two months.
We're Just little discouraged about
this golf business ("BusineSs' is
right After playing at it working at
it, rather for three years, and with
four different tournament cups hung
up, we didn't get within gunshot range
of a single one of EN-, as is proved by
the list of recipients at last nights
event. Still, perhaps one in the fam
lily is enough Cor purther particu-
lars see picture of golf winners on an
other page.)
Speaking of the high C. of l., there's
some satisfaction in the fact that you
don't have to put a 2-Cent revenue
stamp on every check you write, as
you did in war times.
Reverting to the weather-and what
else is there this winter to revert to
a Norfolk man says that during the
recent cold ssap he set pail of boiling
water on the back porch and it froze
so quickly that the ice was still warm
when he found it.
p. S.-There's nothing warm about
ice that freezes in an automobile rad
iator.
We see by the paper that the first
funeral dirge has been sung at Ossin-
ming prison. We thought that it had
always been Sing Sing there.
LOST-One full-fledged January
thaw. Finder please return to Nor
folk and receive reward.
Of
keeper who had cookies on the table
for every meal, year in and year out?
And the o. f. man who said says j.,
and says he" when he talked?
Here comes another holiday for the
bankers. A week from Wednesday
will be Valentines day.
All of which goes to show that if we
wait long enough and patiently enough
spring will arrive. And there's some
consolation in the fact that every
morning you find yourself one day
nearer than you were the day before
to the chirp of the robin and the bah
bling of the ElkhOrn.
Wouldn't the song of meadow lark
sound good about now?
The greatest harm in billiards, 1t
seems to us. is the temptation it puts
in front Of a man, when he makes a
scratch shot, to claim that that was
the way he intended 10 play it.
The annual February dope about a
baseball league for this vicinity, is
going the rounds.
(Another sign that springs on the
way
Ever know this column to fail to
locate lost articles? Here's that Jan
uary thaw, found again.
It's getting too muddy for good
sleighng, which is another sign that
it's backbone is broken.
But we're only three weeks away
from the first of March, so why
shouldn't it's back begin to grow
weak?
On the square, it's about time for
somebody to sight robin. If We re-
member correctly, the first robin is
generally seen around Newport.
You'll know within few days
whether or not you were indicted by
the federal grand jury at Indianapolis
for dynamiting.
ATcHIsoN GLOBE SIGHTS.
A man who likes severe cold wealth
er is apt to fuss when it gets hot. 1t
wasn't intended that one man should