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About The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1901)
M it r t i i ft h kT l V l a i i r i i I I b I I I h 10 WEDNESDAY 1 O Miller was ovor WRINKLES from Way no yoslorduy G A Mullon of Omaha was in tho city ovor night Frank Thum of Coleridge was a Nor folk visitor yesterday Mrs 0 H Vail wont to Stanton yos tonlay to visit friends Mrs 1 L Knesol wan down from Hattlo Crock yostorday W 0 Campbell was a Norfolk visitor yestorday from Oroighton Justin McCarthy was a business vis itor yesterday from ONolU Miss Madge Kcllar wan a guest In Norfolk yostorday from WniiHA JudgoT 11 Harden nud his sou Kim ciuno hoino from Lincoln last night Miss Mamio Lund was in from Hattlo Crook yostorday doing wnnu trading A T Dunlovoy of Tildon is in Nor folk today on business and is calling on friends John Drngnr of Ponoa was visitiiiK in tho city today on his way homo from Columbus Miss 1onrl Hlloy of Omaha Is visltlnR wlth0Dr and Mrs Teal at tho hospital Miss Hlloy is Dr Teals aunt Too Horrisky jr wont to Ohoyonno Wyoming yostorday noon to accent a position that is awaiting him 15 W Hayes wlio has boon visiting his parents hero departed last night for Douvor whoro ho goos on business KdltorF 15 Martin of tho Hattlo Crook Hntorpriso was in tho oity on 0 business yostorday and paid this otllco a visit James Gildca is onjoying a visit from his two sisteis one from Alexandria Indiana and the other from Minne apolis Minnesota Miss Margaret Horrisky who has been visiting her parents hero roturuod yos torday to Dubuiiuo Iowa whoro alio has entered a convent a Tho fellows who stole tho hogs from tho pen of Dounis McNeil have not yet boon locatod Tho officers have a num ber of clues that they are working on Murray Tylor nn omployu of tho F 15 M V and Miss Mamie Lund of Hattlo Creek woro united in marriage this morning at tho homo of the brides undo Will Hock in South Norfolk Tho ball ganio at Stanton yostorday botwoou tho Norfolk and Stanton Junior loaguo teams resulted ill a victory for tho Stanton team tho scoro being 0 to I Tho Norfolk battery is roportod to have dono croditablo work but lacked support Tho Humphrey ball team is to bo horo noxt Sunday to engage in a gnmo with tho Norfolk team Manager Winder assorts that tho Norfolk team is to bo strengthened by tho addition of somo now playors and that it will put up a stiff gamo Tho Norfolk team goos to Oakdalo Thursday for a gamo Tho Stanton and Wayno llrst teams crossod bats at Stanton yesterday At tho end of the lifth inning the score was 7 to 0 in favor of Wayno At tho end of tho sovonth tho scoro was 7 to 7 and Wayno quit claiming that tho umpires decisions were rank and against them this is also tho opinion of somo who witnessed tho gamo Charlio Swansou was before police court yestorday charged with disor derly conduct and was taxed with a lino and costs to tho amount of 1710 It seems that Charlio had boon colobratiug his good fooling tho night before by dis charging a gun iu tho oity limits Tho offense against him was made light on his promiso of future good behavior George Wotllng of Wiusido euginoor of tho mill at that placo was tho victim f a 6erioiiB nccidont last week Ho was tryiug to prevout a bolt from slip ping when his hand was oaught and carried under the bolt aud ovor tho pul ley lacerating his hand and arm Ha was thrown forward at tho saiuo time and his chin split opou to tho bono His neck was also hurt Thobioyole of 0 E Hartford was taken from in front of his barber shop yoBterday afternoon at somo hour be tween 2 and 1 oclock Tho bioyclo was black onamelcd an Acmo aud postal cards offering 5 roward for tho arrest and conviction of tho thief has boon of fered A suspicious acting man was noticed in front of tho barber shop and the Queen City hotel yestorday aud ho disappeared about tho same tinio that tho wheel was taken Tho premium list of the 30th annual fair of tho Madison County Agricultural sooiety has just been issued from tho press of the Ohroniolo at Madison and is a very worthy publication both typo graphically and regarding tho attract ive matter it contains of interest to ex hibitors and thoso who will attend tho fair The dates of tho fair are Septem ber 10 to ID Many lino premiums are offered nud the speed program offers some extra good purses Tho fact that tho Madison county fair has boon held for 20 years is abundant evidence of its successful management and that eaoh succeeding fair is proving bettor than tho one precediug is proof of a progres sive spirit that is iu large degroo respon sible for its success It is told of a certain Norfolk man that he became impressed with tho idea that his room was moro to be desired than his company and that he decided i to make the room Ho thoreforo secured a rope and going to n nearby grove fast ened one end to tho limb of a tree Tho exortlon was rather wearisomo and boforo committing tho final aot tho would bo suicide lay down under tho troo aud was soon fast asleep I to olthor had pleasant dreams or somo change In his mind took place anyway when hn awoke ho thought bettor of himself and after colling tho rope procoedod to his homo Would bo self destruction IstR aro advised to follow tho plkn of thu Norfolk man aud sloop on tho lues Hon do doubt It is a certain euro A burglar or aot of burglars wont through several houses on South Eighth street last night nud woro successful in accumulating quite a little wad of spending money Tho home of 1 J Fuoslor waH entered but tho girl em ployed by Mrs Fuoslor to do thohomo work hoard him prowling around and raisod suoh a disturbance that ho was glad to make his call very informal aud retired without carrying nway a souv enir of his visit He noxt called at tho homo of Dr F W KloBau aud horo evi dently proceeded with a nuioh groator dogreo of caution for although tho in mates woroarousod to somo extent they didnt realize whnt had boon dono until this morning Tho soieon was re moved from tho window andc tho doc tors trousors containing about 1S iu cash woro carefully lifted to tho outsldo of tho house whoro tho cash was ex tracted and tho woaring apporol loft bo hind and wero found on tho outside of tho building this morning THURSDAY TIDINGS Porcy Adams of Wahoo was in tho oity last night Frank Jarvis was a oity visltoryoBtor day from Wahoo Somo of tho horses in this vicinity are nllliotod with tho pink oyo o Hlngliug Bros circus is billed to appear in Columbus August 10 W H Oluybaugh of Wayno trans acted business iu Norfolk yestorday A Wayno man would ask his wifo to pray for rain if ho was ablo to swim Tho first grapos of tho season havo made their appearance on tho local mar ket C B Campbell and uophow Honry Campbell of Oraugo Cal aro visiting at the homo of W H Johnson Tho Fremont Driving Park associa tion has a lino program of races to bo given July 31 and August 1 and 2 Miss Luoy Willlauisof this city is in structing tho teachers of Cuming county iu primary mothods and read ing Why not got out an injunction against Old Sol aud oito Jupitor Pluvius to appear or answer to a charge of con tempt W H puoholz and Fritz roturnoS last ovouiug from Spirit Lake Iowa whoro thoy havo boon onjoying a weeks outing Tho Norfolk base ball toaui wont to Oakdalo this morning to ongago iu a game with tho team of that city this afternoon Miss Alma Kook of West Point is ex pected horo tomorrow to visit at tho homes of her aunts Mrs Asiuus and Mrs lludat J amos H Gallon formor shoriff of Cuming county who died Tuesday morning near Wisuer ran for shoriff ton timos boforo ho was electod I W Alter of Wayne was iu tho city ovor ulght on his way homo from Grand Islaudwhore he attended the monthly mooting of tho A O U W grand lodge fiipuioo oommittoo It actually rainod a few spatters in Norfolk yestorday afternoon The shower appeared to bo vory local and was not heavy ouough to injure the beautiful layer of dust A number of farmers aro outtiug their lato oats for hay and it is considered that it will make feed of very oxoellent quality tho nutritious straw and what grain has formed combining to make it so Quite a number of bicyclists aro on joying tho privileges of a spin afforded by tho Edwards race track these oven ings Somo of thorn aro making good timo and promiso to become racers of no moan ability It is said that Nebraska hay is selling for 20 a ton in Kansas Oity Nebraska has a good crop of hay and tho fanner who is putting up a large tonnage will not bo compelled to go to tho poor houso even though the corn crop fails Mrs Brownellof Fremont received a cablegram Tuesday from her husband who is captain of tho ship Alblna an nouncing that his vessel had just ar rived in Manila harbor 135 days over duo The familys auxiety was much rolievod by the nows Tho deputy gamo warden at Fremont has already arrested four persons for violating tho new fish laws Two wero taken up for fishing with moro than four hooks on their linos aud two Saunders couuty people wero up for fishing in Dodge without a license When the plato is famished Tub Nkws will supply engraved cords at 75 cents for 50 or f 100 for 100 Order your engraved visiting cards at Thk News offico 100 cards and plate 150 50 cards and plato 1 THE NORFOLK NEWS FRIDAY JULY 2b 1901 Municipal Ownership Tho people of Norfolk will in a fow days voto on proposition to bond tho city for fitliOO to install n municipal oloctrio lighting plant Norfolk already has a private lighting company aud a laudable desire to havo its streets moro thoroughly illuminated HOW to do justice to tho prlvato company and at tho samo timo got moro street lights is the gist of tho question now boforo tho people Fromout has had some oxpor ionco iu this dlroctiou which may bo of servlco in pointing tho way Fro mout bo it known is one of tho best lighted cltioB in tho stato Sovonty nro lights irradiate their effulgence and mako a thoroughly lighted city Whllo thin is truo it is likewise u fact that tho lighting is costing tho city a fair sum of money Tho municipal plant does not sell ouough light to privato con sumers to mako tho plant self-sustaining That would bo tho ideal condl tlon but it does not exist Fromout with a schodulo of 15 cunts por hundred hours is being assessed lu mills for lighting jmrposos Last yoar it was 5 mills This moans a cost of about f 1000 to which should bo addod inter est on 28000 tho cost of the plant This at i por cent would bo 1120 moro making a total of fjlJO This is an average of about 17 por aro light por annum This is choapor than Fremont was buying its street lights boforoit put iu its own systom Norfolks present privato plant offers tho city a rato of f J a inbnth a lamp for thirty lamps This is about tho cost of Fremonts lighting Norfolk is not likely to do bottor than that with municipal ownorship prob ably not so well for if tho patronage of tho town Is divided thoro as hero bo twoou tho two companies tho commer cial lighting will bo loss than horo Had Fromout boon ablo to purohaso tho privato companys plant at a reasonable price and thus havo secured all tho com mercial lighting of tho city it might at presout rates bo securing its streot lighting as a net profit on tho entire business If Norfolk insists on muni cipal lighting it will be wiso to buy tho privato plant if it can bo dono reason ably and thus havo all tho lighting It is not economical to maintain two plants to do what one can do moro cheaply Fromout Tribuuo Tho foregoing from tho Fromout Trib uuo of Tuesday is of especial value just at this time particularly in view of tho foot that Fremonts experience with municipal ownorship has boon fre quently quoted in favor of voting bonds to install a city lighting plant horo as it throws Considerable light upon a sub ject that many of us do not understand Tho showing does not seem to be nearly so favorablo for municipal ownership as most of us had supposed would bo made Tho fact that a 4i mill lovy is required to keep up tho plant iu Fremont dem onstrates beyoud peradveuture that tho commercial lighting does not pay tho exponso of operation notwithstanding the fact that it has twice the population to draw from that there is in Norfolk Other conditions aro the same there as they would bo here should a city plant bo installed in opposition to tho private plant now in existence It is certainly wisdom for ns to take the result at tained in other towns on a matter of thiS kind aud there is every reason why Fremonts experieuco should be a better criterion than au abstract theory basod largely upou guess work Iu tho above figures tho Tribune has said nothing about wear and tear of plaut Every user of machinery will quickly say that tho wear aud tear on machinery amounts to fully ten por cont a year aud in somo instances it runs higher than that If Fremont had fig ure six per cout interest on the money invested tho cost per light on the basis of the number now beiug used in that city would be iucroasod to about 80 per yoar If Norfolk votes bonds and puts iu a lightiug plant at a cost of 10500 thouutOrest on iuvestmout at six per cent will be 900 a year tho amount raised iu taxes on a levy of 41 mills will be about 1700 while the wear and tear including repairs will amount on a conservative estimate to 1600 more making a total of 4340 a year to say nothing of the extra help aud coal which would be required to operate it even in connootion with our present water works systom which would run from 2500 to 3000 more per year Against this stands tho proposition of tho local company to furnlBh the city with 30 street lights at a cost of 0 per month each making a total cost for the year of 1020 It is understood however that tho oity couuoil doos not believe 30 street lights are required but that 20 will be enough The samo rate per light from tho local company would briug the cost down to 1410 a year as against 6810 if tho city owus the plant Some credit should be giveu of course for the commercial lighting that the city will bo able to do but with a com petitor prepared to meet any price that maybe made by the municipal plaut this sourne of revenue cannot be figured very hitrh While this condition of af fairs would be very desirable for the users of light from the standpoint of a tax payer we do not see how it can be considered a good business proposition There is another feature of this proposition that is decidedly wrong iu prinoiplo The Norfolk Eleotrio Light and Power company put In a plaut somo twelve or more years ago that was adequate at the time for the require ments of the city but notwithstanding tho fact that high prices wero charged for lights tho business was not a great success Last fall however to meet tho growing demand for more light throughout the city tho company com menced extensive improvements on its system and isnow preparedjto furnish all tho light that will be needed It was the time the extonsions were commenced that tho system would be operated on the meter basis and the rates fixed aro practically the samo as iu towns that havo municipal plants aud aro lower than either Sioux Oity Omaha or Lincoln Thcro is au in justice in tho Idoa of putting iu a com petitor to a privato ontorprlso especially if tho privato concern Is disposed to do what Is right that is particularly ob noxious Tho local company is backed wholly by homo money aud If it is treating peoplo fairly then thoro should 10 no moro reason for putting in a public plaut to injuro Its business than thero would bo for establishing a city printing office or city dopartmout storo Wo boliove that public enter prise should bo oucouragod to Improvo and beautify tho town and that tho city has no moral right to stop In and do privo it of tho moans of earning a fair interest on its iuvostmont aftor its money has boon put iu it Tho priuciplo of the thing is wrong and no city cau be built up iu any such a manner PROPOSITION CHANGED Number of Lights up to 30 LeftJOp tlonal With tho Council Norfolk July 21 To tho Editor of tho Daily News Dear Sir At tho last mooting of tho oity council a propo sition was made tho oity by tho Norfolk Eioctric Light Power company to furnish the city 30 aro lamps at a price of tl per month per lamp The com pany was under the Impression that 30 lights was about what the city would require to thoroughly light every street iu tho city Since makiug this propo sition somo of the oouucll havo called our attention to the bolief of aj great many of our citizens that the oity did uot require this amount of light TIiIb boing the case tho company will change its proposition in regard to tho number of lights to read from one to 30 lamps at i por month por lamp for this reason that we are offoring the city light for loss than tho actual cost of production aud tho less number of lamps they re quire at tfio price tho bettor it will ploase tho company NOKKOLK ErOTRIO LlOHT POWER CO H H Patterson President and Manager MADISON J S Morrow of Norfolk WTvs in town Wednesday 0 Dr Long returned from Chicago Tues day ovouiug Mrs Henry Dugen Is reported very sick with rheumatism Arnold Hellman and Earle Eaton wero Sunday visitors to Norfolk Harvesting is finished and the toot of the steam thresher is heard from each direction Mr and Mrs Arthur Pilger were Nor folk visitors from Saturday until Mon day evening The campers from the Yellow Banks returned Tuesday morning at 7 a m having come during the cool of the night Tho son of Mr aud Mrs L O Davis died Suuday afternoon aud was buried Monday forenoon in the family lot iu the old cemetery Spinal diseaso was the trouble Madison has not had rain enough to settle the dust since somo timo in Juue and all streets except tho business part of Pearl and Third are so thick it is very unpleasant driving Clint Smith Claus Young Will Dow ling County Clerk Bauch and Treas urer Miles attended the meeting of the republican county central committee at Battle Crook Saturday Jamos A Hood and Miss Annie For ester bdth of Tuscaloosa Ala wero married Sunday by Judge Bates at the residence of Mr and Mrs A Fisher Mrs Fisher and Mrs Sam Friedman aro aunts of Mrs Hood Geo Schram started to the Yellow Bauks Saturday evening to join the picnickers but when he got as far as the Fairview school house one of tho horses he was driving dropped dead He was fortunato enough to bo taken in by Frauk Peterson who was on the way to Battlo Creek and finally reached camp at the river daring the early morning The team Schram was driving belonged to W O Elley WARNERVILLE J F Webster was a visitor at Platte Contro Sunday Mrs O W Hills went to Silver Creek Sunday to visit relatives Maurice Carberry returned Friday from his visit to Colorado Miss Francis Ebert of Roberts III Is a guest at the home of Fred Pettit A large numberof the friends and neighbors of W P Rowlett gathered at his home Monday evening to celebrate the anniversary of his birthday Games and dancing wero indulged in and all present enjoyed a pleasant evening b7der your engraved visiting cards at The News office 100 cards and plate 150 50 cards and plate 1 The 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