The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-08


parents still reside,
County Treasurer Hail OF Dead
wood, has been asked by the county
commissioners to refund $500 charged
as fees ON affidavits made out in
connection with tax deeds. The de.
mand Is based on recent ruling of
Attorney General Johnson
The rirticth anniversary of the bat.
tie between the Monitor and the Mcr.
rimac will be celebrated with fitting
ceremonies at SiouN Falls ON March
~.
Many homostcadcrs in the western
part of the state are planning to try
"A new grain known as "wntcr en-
mcr,' which has been raised with sue.
cess i'm Wyoming whore dry weather
conditions prevail The grain Is said
to have IA very high percentage of
food value
Plans have been completed for a
new Lutheran church to he built ut
Colomc early this coming summer.
The two Christian Science churches
at Aberdeen have united aud the
| property Of the second chuch has
been sold.
The Commercial club at DcSmct.
which has been dormant for some
! time, has been rcOrganiaed, and IL. T..
| Green elected president
George f. Licsl of Arlington was
married to Miss Bortic Johnson Of
| Gas city, Kan, as the result of ma
trimonial ad in a farm paper
The school board at Sioux Falls
has reelected Supt Mcdonald for the
next school year.
Hutchinson county is boastng tIc
first instance in the state in which
sheriff resigned his office Sheriff
LANCER has given up his job for more
profitable employment
y. IiOwCs, a farmer of Old Rousseau.
| has just sold off his alfalfa crop for
a total of $2,G52 The average profit
was SIP per acre.
The annual convention of the South
| Dakota retail hardware dealers will
meet at Sioux Fails for a three-day
| session beginning March g.
The Indians on the Cheyenne river
| reservation are raising funds for the
construction Of big council house
in which TO hold their tribal meetings.
The Commercial club of Sisseton
has reported to State Engineer Lea
that it has raised $500 to help out the
| project of a meridian road through
| the state.
y general meeting of the South Da-
kota Real Estate Mems association is
TO be held at Aberdeen on March 30
and 81 in Connection with the state
builders meeting.
Senator Gamble has written to J.
ID. Smull at Milbank to the effect that
the senate committee has reported
| tavorably on the proposed purchase
OF new pOstofGice site at that place.
Mrs. llalNOr Christensen of Davis
| ton, committed suicide by shooting
| during the temporary absence of her
| husband from the house Desponden-
cy is believed to have been the cause.
Aberdeen is indulging in a big
smallpox scare. The local board of
health has ordered general vac
cination campaign and s ecial precau-
| 'ionary measures are leHg taken in
the public schools. several light
cases have developed
Two hundred and forty carloads of
hay have been shipped this winter
from Seneca to sec'iCns of the state
where the crop was a failure.
Farmers in the vicinity of Corsica
are organizing for the purpose of de-
handing reduction ia the telephone
rates charged in that locality.
The city council at Flandreau has
authorized the purchase of a large
amount of additional equipment for
the local volunteer fire department.
William O. Herbotsheimer, fore
man, and Joseph Huron, an engineer,
in the Mark Twain mine at Terry.
were killed instantly in a bad explo-
, sion
The Fourth regiment band of Wa
tertown is making preparations for a
big year Several big tours will be
taken and a number of the larger
cities OF the country will be visited.
Clifford Thompson of Alphena was
thrown from a young horse and per-
haps fatally injured. He believed
himself to be but slightly hurt at
first, but serious complications have
developed.
Plans for the extension of the Rapid
! city. Black Hills and Western rail
way west from Mystic are being free.
ly discussed by officials of the com
nany, though no definite action has
been taken.
Mrs Joseph Tibbetts of Yankton
has received word from her daughter
who eloped with Clifford Rice last
Friday, to the effect that the two were
married in Chicago. Both parties are
high school students.
Two young men at Salem attempted
to break up a public meeting in the
choolhouse there and were fined ST.
, each by a local Justice
Mrs. Frank Gilman, aged so, of Yer
don, was found frozen to death in the
, snow drifts near her home. She haC
lost her way in returning from town
C"tte shiuUents from the vicinity
ot Pcl'e Fourche have fallen mucf
.''cW normal and railway men state
vat ii win be some years before they