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Newspaper
Norfolk Weekly News Journal
Location
Norfolk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
7
Norfolk avenue business man C. P. Parish calls paving the main campaign issue urging Main Street be paved soon. He suggests candidates on city tickets declare in favor of paving to address the essential improvement for the city.
A crowded Norfolk fragment lists visits and travel across Nebraska. Names include Chris Anderson in Wisner, Miss Leu in Pierce, Burt Mapes, Georgia Austin, and many others visiting Madison, Omaha, Lincoln, and Norfolk. Local events include a Long Distance Telephone build, Decoration Day addresses, and state conference notes.
W I Jennings of Kansas City will attend a church gathering in Albion on Apel 26 to assist better the finances of the new church. The Northwest Nebraska Odd Fellows' generation held its sixth annual convention in Wayne with members from Cedar Dixon Dakota Wayne and eastern Knox counties. A banquet was served by the Rebekahs. Carroll was chosen as next meeting place. Creighton News reports Mr. and Mrs. W L Woodberry returned from Norfolk and visited their injured son, confirming earlier reports were exaggerated as only part of his foot was lost. A North Dakota snowstorm surpasses previous figures with drifts ten feet high and rail traffic blocked. Dr G A Young says a trip to Illinois asylum at Kankakee shows poor sanitation and neglect. Dr Greene will need years to improve it. Dr D K Tindall was elected Wesleyan trustee. $100,000 endowment completed with $20,000 pledged on the second phrase. Union Pacific plans to double the Elkhorn river bridge near Norfolk by replacing the wooden approach with steel over sixty days and a twenty-plus man crew plus a pile-driving train.
Ten students including Ralph Luikart Claude Oxden Herbert Hauptl Linda Winters Lydia Brueggeman Bessie Rickey Verna Coryell Agnes Matrau Edith Evans and Edna Loucks will graduate from Norfolk High School next May. The entire class posted an average above ninety percent over the last two years and held a series of class parties during senior year.
Grace Johnson a Knox county teacher won a dispute with the Bloomfield Nebraska school board after the county and state superintendents ruled in her favor. She had signed a teaching contract but the district with suitable environments did not approve her board. She resigned and the board sought to revoke her certificate, a move that failed.
L Lehman fought a morning chimney fire in the kitchen at 418 South Sixth Street, burning his hands while trying to beat out the flames. He then used water to extinguish the fire before it spread. doctor treated his burns and damage to the house was slight.
Norfolk Democratic caucuses select ward nominees for city council. In First ward Herman Winter chosen, Henry Hanse less favored. Second ward C H Krahn nomination on third ballot, ward delegates chosen with Kauffman pushing for a square ballot. Third ward Anton Buchholz renominated. Fourth ward nomination for C R Kampman. Also notes local civic and business updates.
A. V. Winder left yesterday for Chicago. Miss Hattle Hoefs attended a wedding in Pierce. Mrs. Joesse Barnett of Stanton visits Mrs. Frank Scott. Miss Madge Mitchie of Denver visits Miss Sinclair in Norfolk. L. A. Rothe returns from a business trip to Lynch where he owns land. Fred Benning returns from Lancaster Minnesota where he has been the past year.
County Attorney Jack Koenigstein recently bought a Lambert Louring car and completed his first auto walk. He traversed two miles along North First Street, with Norfolk and gasoline ahead and a gasless touring car behind.
A lighthearted note asserts that the cure for a deep blues mood lies in spotting a “situation wasted” advertisement, implying humor and wit as alleviation.
The Norfolk band plans a two part show on Easter Monday featuring a nation themed minstrel act with no blackface, plus specialty numbers by seasoned performers. Will Hall and Roy Smith manage the troupe with enhanced stage settings and several traveling men from Norfolk slated to perform.
Special from The News notes University Society hurrying to finish social events before Lent while baseball gains pace. Last year's players return and Charles Landers of Norfolk joins the diamond but is barred as a first semester student. Sam Erskine also participates in two university dramatic club plays.
In Fremont Nebraska two young men Frank and Raymond Middaugh trained a cow for hunting to approach migrating flocks and shot thirty nine ducks and nine geese in a cornfield north of Fremont. The event occurred yesterday as part of their hunting activity on their farm.
A series of brief arrivals and visits across Norfolk Nebraska and nearby towns. Notables include C Hengen visiting Elton Sherdeman, Mrs G W Culver from Chicago visiting Miss S M Braden, and many locals such as J K Boas, A A Welch, M C Hazen, and A P Pilger stopping in for district court and business across Madison Pierce Emerson Laurel Winside and Plainview.
Local notes report boxing promoter Jack O Leary staging a fifteen round bout with the Battling Dane at Railroad town. Early events and preliminaries planned for 9 am with the main fight at 10 pm.
An advertising notice promotes the D. D. D. prescription cream for skin diseases such as eczema psoriasis and barber's itch. It claims quick relief by applying the remedy to the skin rather than ingesting medicine and cites Dr. Dennis of Chicago as endorsement.
Frank Larkman of Minden Kansas and Laura Nichols of Ainsworth Nebraska wed at 8 oclock yesterday evening at the Nichols home. Rev Van Valken Weg officiated. They left for Long Pine and the night train to their Kansas home. Rimner J Smith and Hallie Maloney of Midvale were also married yesterday afternoon.
Western Grown Garden and Field Seeds including gnake cucumber prehistoric corn sweet corn and field corn. Squash melon mammoth sunflower and hundreds of other seeds sold in bulk direct from grower to planter with a descriptive price list. Address H M Gardner seed grower Marengo Nebraska.
A sheriff sale notice states an execution from Madison County District Court in favor of Bertha Endres against Michael Endres for 6000 plus costs. The property includes parts of Koenigstein additions to Norfolk and will be offered March 25 at 1 pm in front of the Madison County Courthouse. J J Clements, Sheriff, dated February 7, 1908.
Notice of incorporation for Breeas Bree is misread. The Norfolk Nebraska document lists the Bree Furniture Company of Norfolk as the corporation. General purpose to purchase, handle and sell carpets, draperies, and household wares with authorized capital stock of 24000 dollars. The incorporators are AL W. Kriewau, A. Rudidev, S. D. Robertson dated February 28, 1908.
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