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About The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1904)
TUB NORFOLK NEWS : FIUDAY , MARCH 4 , 1904. Interesting Letter From Man at Ncligh. ALL NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS 8om of the Gtrli Would Favor the Patronizing of Homo Induitry A Dlicuiilon of Propinquity Drought Up Saw Norfolk Streets. ITrom Sfttunlixy1 * pnlly. ] When the president of the Norfolk Leap Year club tall , shapely dame Hint Bho might appear to bo got out her llttlo Imminor ixml rapped for order In the secret session which be gan last night and continued Into the thin , tiny hours of thin morning , the do/en dnlnty damsels who hnd loft their linppy homos early In the evenIng - Ing nnd walked all alouo to the plnco of meeting , drew Into a Htnall , confi dential circle. The red llttlo Hunt of the Nickering fliuno that hunt ; al > eve them cast a ruby glow upon the as sembly of fomlnlno facial foaturoa. Several points of Important discus sion were brought up nnd turned over by the merry maids of Norfolk. A letter published below , which was re ceived during this week from a young nuxn of matrimonial Inclinations who liven at Nellgb. The Letter. "Nollgb , Nob. , Fob. 21. Dear Young Ladles : I saw your advertise ment In The Norfolk Daily Nowa that you were looking for good proposi tions from young men. I nm a young man of good habits , ftvo feet nine Inches high ; weight 1GO pounds ; twenty-eight years old ; occupation , first class mechanic. Will send pic ture on application. "I am going to build a now house. Ilavo just bought ono of the finest locations In town. Will erect a flno residence of $5,000. 1 have A good Income and steady employment. I Associate In the best society and am a lover of the femnlo BOX. Kind hearted , will bo a loving , kind nnd nffcctionato husband and will do my best to make our homo happy. "It don't make much difference whether the girl has any money or not as I have a good Income nnd steady employment and If necessary I will come down nt any time as I can spend Sundays In Norfolk as well as not. I have boon and expect to bo called to Norfolk on business pertaining - ing to my trado. I have a deslro to correspond with a nice , plump young woman , weight makes no dlfforonco Just BO they have good moral charac ter nnd will attend church on Sun days , as I have a doslro to become a bettor man. I have several times had good government situations offered mo but owing to rush In my business r I have been forced to refuse them. "Not being able to find a lady of my choice before , but this being leap year I have had Innumerable propos als. Hut there being so few accom plished young Indies of good society In Nollgh 1 was forced to refuse them nil and wish to place my affections olsowhere. You may think that 1 am a professional mnshcr but I am sincere and mean every word I say. Noticed Some On Street. "Owing to being confined to my business , it has been impossible for mo to think of matrimony until I saw your advertisement In The Norfolit Dally News and there not being any young ladles In Nollgh that 1 woiu.l care to keep company with in view of matrimony 1 thought I might possibly find ono of the fair sex In Norfolk. On several biiBlne.su trips to Norfolk of late , 1 noticed several young ladles on your streets that would suit mo very well. "Would not object to corresponding with four or live young ladles and ex change pictures so that I could pick ono that would suit mo. Hoping to start a correspondence right away , owing to mo going to build a house early this spring , I would like my fu ture wife to help mo In plans for my house as I can draw my own plans and her advice on procuring proper furniture suitable to make my homo comfortable , us I propose to furnish it in accordance with the cost of the house. Address : Joe Garner , Nollgh. " Comment Begins. "Now I'd like to know , " said Sar castic Sarah , "why ho has said that wo advertised in The News ? Wo have tried every means wo could think of to keep out of the paper , and just be cause ono of the disloyal members confides to a reporter or because the walls that have ears haven't enough sense to keep what they hoar to them selves , this fellow in Nollgh calls us advertisers. Some people are always looking for free advertising. But when modest maids of our typo are simply attending to our own business and get Into the papers regardless , It makes me angry to bo called an ad vertiser. 1 move , Miss President , that wo place a censor over all reports that go out from this society and that any member who shall divulge even ono word of what Is said , be expelled from the club and boycotted for fair with the men of Norfolk. " "That wouldn't help matters. " sug gested Cunning Carrie. "No ono who attends these meetings would over bo guilty of quoting 'oven one word. ' Nothing of what Is said could bo ex plained in less than a thousand. " "Now in the second place , " quoth Amiable Amy , whoso amiability was Almont stirred to n point of iinlmos- Ity , "why ha that applicant ont in n lot of rot About his weight and ARO And height ? You would think , to read bin letter , that ho WAH making Appli cation for mcmborflhlp into aorao In surance company And that ho waa Afraid ho wouldn't got In. Why didn't ho send Uio rent of the Hat And toll UH thnt ho had two Rood Anne , had never died of consumption And that hlB grandmother hnd lived boforohlm to bo olghty-novon years old , when Bho died of old ngoT And that first class mechanic buslnosnt Up seems to think thnt n girl would bo mercen ary enough to care what a mnn'a oc cupation , an long AH nlio lotad him , girls , with the devotion thnt wo must develop for Joshing Joo. And then the pictures now what girl over was known to care about the looks of the man she married especially If ho was the only available man ? And then there's the house proposition. He says he lnui a $ G,000 house.'Seems to think that by meant ) of his mansion ho can draw tis from our rigid prin ciples. Hut not yotl It must bo moro than a castle or a royal name or oven a palatial homo and the well known name of the society Garner , to ever win n prize package in this lottery. " Hates a Smasher. "Going on through the letter , " said Naughty Nellie , rising slowly and speaking with deliberation. "Going on through , you will find that our friend has mentioned his love for our sex. Isn't ' it high time , my sisters I appeal to your womanhood and to your sense of honor Isn't It high time that wo were eliminating from our lists of callers such men as these men who are not only guilty of , but who confess to being fond of all women raoro or loss ? Isn't It a fact , dear ones , that there would bo less divorce business done today if the men of our country cared loss for womankind In general ? It strikes mo as a beautiful theory n beautiful theory , Indeed that a man should live nil of his younger life with no particular ardor for feminity nnd that ho might then save up all of his ad miration and his words of tenderness for the ono woman whom Providence had Intended for his mate. I hate these men who make a business of bestowing winning smiles upon every girl Who will allow It. " None in Nellgh Suits. "Jolly Joe says that ho can't find anybody In Nollgh to suit his discrim inating taste , " remarked Linguistic Lulu , who had been thinking very si lently until this moment. "Now I don't know anything about Nollgh. I never was there. But I do know that any town In the state of Ne braska that has five hundred Inhabi tants , can point out fifty nice , sweet , desirable girls who would make bet tor wives than the men of the commu nity would deserve. It has always been a theory of mine , and I think It Is worth applying In any walk of life , that people should patronize homo in dustry. There is too much of this going to a foreign market when you can just as well get the goods at homo. " "Right there Is a vital point , " inter rupted the president. "I have always known ( hat It pays to advertise. While of course wo hnvo not ad vertised , Joe has nevertheless seen our ads In The NUWH. Ho has recog- nl/.ed the fact that ho can conic to Norfolk bettor than to Omaha that ho can save $7.20 car fare , $2 board bill and twenty-four bourn In time. If moro of the people of the smaller communities would Judiciously adver tise , thcro wouldn't bo such good re sults from the outside for those of the larger places who do advert IRQ. " "I stand corrected , " responded Lin guistic Lulu. "I now see the real cause of It all. " All Not Gold Thnt Glitters. 'Speaking of his recent trips to Norfolk , the writer from Nollgh says that ho was Impressed with a few young ladles whom he saw on the street , " began Lingering Lucy. "For one thing , I should like to have Mr. Clamor know nt once that wo are not to bo In any way associated with the young women of Norfolk who are to bo seen upon the streets. There Is a full squad of those In the city , and ho has made a bad beginning with mo by admitting that they suited htm. He ought to learn some day that all is not gold that glitters. " Snys He Never Wrote It. Joseph Garner of Nellgh wishes to deny , through The News , that hoover wrote the letter which was received by the Norfolk Leap Year club last wcelv , signed "Joo Garner. " Ho states that there Is no truth In the letter and It has been an Injustice to him by giving a wrong Impression In Nellgb. Ho says that anyone who knows him knows that lib Is not about to build a $5,000 houso. The letter , which was published in the club proceedings , came during the week to the secretary. It Is now in possession of The News. Members of the club. In giving It out , say that they believed It was genuine. Rush at Sample Sale. [ From TuesJ ( > 's Dally. ] The Norfolk Shoo company had a force of seven extra clerks at work Saturday and all were busy caring for the rush of customers at their an nual sample sale. The amount of business transacted was very satis factory to the llrm and the custom ers were generally satisfied that they had secured rare bargains. Where C. . Burnbam i Best Known. WAS A PIONEER OF TILDEN Flrat Business House of ths Town Introduced Him Into a Western Career Today Ho Is Installed as President Norfolk National Dank. C. E. Ilurnham , the newly Installed president of Uio Norfolk National National bank , succeeding W. II. Uucholz , Is known to a largo num ber of the people with whom ho will como In contact in his now position , nnd especially Is ho known to the old-Minors , but to those who have not had the pleasure of his acquaintance , the following article from the Tlldon Citizen , written by Editor Felix Hales who has been a business asso ciate , and an Intimate friend of Mr. Burnham for the past twenty years , will bo an excellent Introduction : "Twenty years ago last Juno the ed itor of The Citizen first became ac quainted with Ed. Burnham and dur ing the whole of the time that has slnco elapsed , has been constantly associated with him socially and In business way. It began away back In In 1883 two years after Mr. Burn- ham first launched his business career In the pioneer store of A. M. Burnham & Company. At that time the streets of Bur nett , as the village had boon chris tened , were simply streaks worn on the prairie , grass grown , and Impos sible to locate except by means of the town plat and a surveyor's chain. The business houses consisted of the Burnham store referred to ; a hotel conducted by Dave Ilock ( where Ed wards and Bradford's drain pipes are now piled on Centre street ) ; n drug store owned by Andrew Mlnkler ; a hardware store run by Clyde Wyck- off ; L. G. Brown's harness shop where the bowling alley is now situated ; Bill didder's blacksmith shop on the site now occupied by Jim Vorplank's livery barn ; nnd n livery stable con trolled by Ell Herlocker. A crippled doctor named Griffiths ostensibly wrote prescriptions , but If common report Was true depended for suste nance largely upon dispensing over- proof whiskey In a hut south of where Stubb's restaurant is now situated. The depression recently filled , nttho Intersection of Second and Antelope streets was then simply an old buffa lo wallow and the writer distinctly remembers the elation ho felt ono morning In September , 1883 , when ho picked up seven blue wing teal ducks ns the result of discharging an old army musket at n flock which prob ably numbered hundreds. Pralrlo chickens roosted among the long grass where pretentious residences now stand ; quail , then considered by the gunner as too Insignificant for his attention , were as common as meadow larks , and jack rabbits and cotton tails found n safe habitation where rats and mice are the only an imals not domesticated that can find a subsistence. Garter snakes were as plentiful about the premises In town as files at moro recent periods , and even the shy nnd suspecting coy ote might not Infrequently bo seen upon some of the platted highways. The spot on the railroad maps des ignated as Burnett boasted neither school house nor church and the lack of population made both of them un necessary. A mixed train accommo dated the limited traveling public and delivered the small amount of in or * chamlise required by the inhabitants of the surrounding country , and n trip to Norfolk by rail meant a two days' journey. Such was the town , after two years' growth , which care ful Investigation and foresight had convinced Ed. Uurnluua might be/ / made a nucleus of a thriving business point nnd n desirable place for a young man to start iu life. The steady but substantial upbuild ing of the town Is the best evidence possible of Mr. Burnhnm's business sagacity and ho Is entitled to the sat isfaction of realizing that ho has done perhaps moro thnn any other one man towards the development of Tllden as It now exists. No prac tical suggestion for the advance ment of the town over met repulse at his hands and ho has been the in stigator of much that has tended to the progress of the town from the snndpolnt of public Improvement. Concerning his individual success it may bo stated that seventeen years ago he saw the oportuulty for estab lishing a second bank in the town and took advantage of It. The bank was orgnnUod with James Stuart ns pres ident and Mr. Burnlmm as cashier. No moro astnto financier over did successful business In the west than Mr. Stuart and when ho practically turned over the management of the Klkborn Valley bank to Mr. Burnham , It was equivalent to an admission that the latter was his equal in all attain ments necessary to the conservative conduct of such an Institution. The building iu which the business of the KlKhorn Valley bank Is being carried on is directly traceable to Mr. Burn- baiu'.s business capacity and will for generations to como furnish an ex ample of energy directed along prop er lines. The Citizen has no deslro to laud Ed. Burnham beyond his de serts. He is human and has lots of faults. The writer has quarreled with him for the boat part of hla lifo and fools privlllged to state that Btirnham cuascs llko a pirnto when Aggravated , ( but ho does it an ar tistic And very natural manner. ) Dut away down in hla heart , is that some thing which , for vrant of a bolter do- acrlptivo term la called the "milk of human kindness. " Ho is not all sordid. Ho value * friendship beyond the roach of dollnro. In this ho dif fers from many of his clans and to this may much of hla popularity bo attributed. When Ed. Burnham leaves Tllden to take charge of tbo Norfolk National bank , this town will IOBO ono of its foremost mon ono whoso place cannot bo filled. Burn- ham grow into the mould and any other must bo a misfit. " Omaha Newsy Departs. Omaha , Mar. 1. Probably ono of the happiest boys in Omaha Saturday afternoon was Raymond Kline , the llttlo one-armed newsboy who has been cared for at the matron's de partment at the police station slnco ho was recently picked up on Doug las street In a sickly condition. Through the efforts of Captain Mostyn , Mogy Bernstein nnd the Newsboys' homo , Raymond was found a homo In University Place , Lincoln , where ho may enjoy good Influences and receive nn education. Emll Moll Is the benefactor who has promised to give the boy a home. Arrayed In a new suit of clothes given by his follow newsboys , fresh from the bathtub , with a broad smile on his face and a few words of friend ly counsel from Captain Mostyn , the boy was taken to the Burlington depot - pot by Officer Baldwin and started on his journey wljth the well wishes of a company of friends who had gath ered at the depot. Speaking of the accident which caused the loss of the boy's left arm about a year ago , Patrol Conductor Tony Vanous said : "Tho boy was riding to South Omnhn with several companions on a stock train , when ho fell under a car , which crushed his left arm. When the boy saw ono of the train crew coming up to him ho started to run , notwithstanding that ho was mi nus an arm , nnd had gene some dis tance before ho was overtaken. " The boy Is practically alone In the world so far as relatives are con cerned. He said his father died some years ago and his mother left him. The boy has been selling papers in Omaha for about six yenn. MRS. DAVENPORT IS CRAFTY. Held a Sioux City Hobo Until Chief Arrived. [ Prom Wednesday's Dally. ) Mrs. W. C. Davenport , wife of the chief of police , succeeded In detain ing n suspicious Individual , who ans wers to the name of Alex Johnson , at their home , 814 Jennings street , until the chief arrived nnd placed the man under arrest on the charge of vagrancy. Today ho was sen tenced to serve ten days In the county Jail. Johnson , who Is a typical hobo , visited n half dozen or moro houses In the vicinity of Eighth and Jen nings streets nnd acted most pecu liarly. He was bent on gaining an entrance to the the houses and used various pretexts to accomplish his purpose. Several of the persons suc ceeded In turning him away before ho entered the house , and he reached the house of Chief Davenport just about the time for the chief to return from down town. Knowing this , Mrs. Davenport listened to his story , questioned him closely , gave him .something to cat and managed to hold him until the chief arrived. To the chief ho said the world owed him a living and ho Intended to get It. The women in the neighborhood were very much exercised over the man's actions and wore much reliev ed when the chief called the patrol wagon and hurried the man off to jail. Sioux City Tribune. PARTIES GVENLAST ! EVENING _ [ From Tuesday's Dally. ] Leap Year Party. A merry leap year party was given at the homo "of Miss Minnie Verges last night , at the corner of Prospect avenue and Tenth street. Sixteen young ladles escorted sixteen young men to the party. Cards were ar ranged for amusement. Fred Heller- man won first prize. As n reward ho was presented with n handsome heart- shaped cake upon which were the names of the sixteen girls anil a wed ding license. To Build New Home. E. P. Bullock has purchased a lot on Norfolk avenue between Tenth and Eleventh streets , on the south side of the avenue , and will build at once. Plans for the structure nro completed now. The lot Is the second end ono from the east end of the block. Little Boys. A number of llttlo boys were en tertained nt the homo of Mr. nnd Mrs. W. H. Bridge Inst night for Fritz Buchol/ who is to lonvo Norfolk with his parents for a now homo in Cali fornia very soon soon. A very jolly party of It was mado. Wednesday Club. The Wednesday club will meet with Mrs. C. S. Parker tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 : o'clock. First Time It Has Been Known in Eight Years. THE 29TH DAY OF FEBRUARY Some People are Celebrating an In frequent Birthday Anniversary To day Tomorrow Is Moving Day and the First of a Spring Month. [ From Monday's Dally. ] This is the last day of February , and the first tlmo In eight years that It has been known as the 29th. For eight long years the month has boon bitten off on the calendar at the 28th , and It is only by the grace of tbo cnl- ondar makers and by reason of the fact that the years hnvo assumed a llttlo kink In that tlmo that needs straightening out that the extra day Is added on this occasion. . There are several people in the city nnd surrounding country to whom the day Is of special importance. It Is n rare ( Into nnd they will probably observe the day In royal style , as they do not often have a llko opportunity. Mon who nro forty or fifty years of ago hnvo had no moro than ten or a dozen birthdays , and they nro entitled to celebrate the occnaion just about ns they sco fit , and their friends and relatives will help to the greatest extent - tent in their power , to have the un fortunates who are past middle ago but have had only a few birthdays tea a good tlmo on this occasion. The last day of February has an other significance. It la the generally accredited close of the lease year and the beginning of a now one. This moans that there will be considerable changing of residences , in fact such a movement lina already commenced. People are moving from town into the country and people from the country are moving Into town , while there are numerous changes of locations among the farmers , who nro quitting rented places for their own or changing prop erty thnt hns been traded or new lessees being Installed where the old ones have quit nnd moved away for ono reason or another. Tomorrow is the beginning of the spring month also , when the sun crosses the vernal oqulnox nnd the season for growth opens. This makes it a good month for the commencement of business transactions , and it Is expected that there will be a great deal doing from this tlmo on in Norfolk and north Nebraska , in a business way nnd along the line of Improvements. There are thousands of dollars worth of building nnd Improving to be done nnd this will stnrt just ns early in the spring as the weather will permit. The month Is expected to open n sea son of unusual promise in a business and Improvement sense. The fact that it is a presidential campaign year , a tlmo4 when times are usually quiet wll be the only drawback to making It the best yenr for business and development , ever known here , and It Is confidently anticipated that it will be one of the best years of progress in spite of this drawback. VIEW OF NEW NORTHWEST. Surprised at the Extent of Country Included. "Wo all hope that the Rosebud res ervation bill , opening up the -110,000 acrps of land In Gregory county , will pass the senate and get the presi dent's signature In some form or other , " said a well known business man of northern Nebraska this morn- gin , "but whether It passes or not , this Is the time for Norfolk and the now Northwest to join hands nnd grow up with each other. "I have just returned from h trip through that territory which has been labelled nnd not unfitly so the new northwest. I wns surprised. It Is a grent country. Few people In Nebras ka really realize what there Is In that section of the world to Interest them. I had no Idea of the extent of It all. But having seen It once , I nm an en thusiast In the coming development. "I have been up along the North western road as far ns Bonestecl. I drove nround through Boyd county nnd through the territory generally. The railroad used to stop at Verdlgro , when I knew anything about It. I Imagine that it is probably bard for the people of this section to conceive of the extended line of the miles nnd miles of now railroad thnt has been pushed into the land which wns for merly known llttlo of. From Norfolk to Bonestcel is fnrther than from Norfolk to Omnhn. And between hero and there you will find moro good towns than you will between Omaha and Norfolk right now. "Of course wo used to bo acquaint ed with Pierce and Plnlnvlew and Foster and Crolghton and Verdlgro. But there our knowledge , for the most part , came to an end. And now you can go on and on , with new towns growing up every little while. There Is Nlobrnfa , of course , which has al ways been such a land mnrk. And then beyond como Lynch nnd Vordol and Spencer and Anokn nnd Butte and Fairfax and Bonesteel and Monowl and a lot of others. They're all good towns. Every ono of them hns good looking streets and good looking stores. The business men In thorn nil are pushers from the word "go. " They have good country around them u and that country IB filling up very rapidly. Time to Act "Tho idea for Norfolk business mon Jj ; to got a car and run up that line with a brass band and A glad hand for the people that they ought to moot , strikes mo na a mighty good ono. Now that the spring tlmo IB coming on , wo ought to begin to lay plans for a llttlo aggressive work. A largo number of the Norfolk merchants are now In the eastern markets , select * ing their excellent stocks of goods for the early trado. Tboy are buying In the same markets as the Omnha or Sioux City merchants and thojr are buying the things that the people of ) north Nebraska will want to uso. When they got bnck , why wouldn't It bo a good idea for the business mon t of the city doctors nnd lawyers and \ ministers too everyone , in fact , who Is nt all Interested in the welfare oC Norfolk , to take a trip up there just to see what kind of n country there Is growing up nround Norfolk , and telling the people of that country that wo nro glnd to know thorn nnd that y wo hope they will try to como and | see us whenever they can ? "All through my trip In that neigh borhood , I was Impressed with the fact that the trains nro running right w5 | for Norfolk. You cnn leave homo in * ' - Nlobrara , say , or any other of these towns , early In the morning. At G I o'clock that snrao dny while the sun Is just getting rendy to shine , you II nro In Norfolk. You have then seven I hours In which to do your shopping. At 1 o'clock your train goes back and ! ? gets you home in the middle of the afternoon. Going on through to Omnha , It takes just another whole day , $7.20 moro carfare and hotel ex penses for another day. Norfolk , with stocks practically equal to these of the cities , is certainly an advanta geous point for the now northwest and all that the people of the now northwest need is an invitation Just a bid to como to town. Inland Towns. ' . . , , "I was surprised , too , with the | | ( great number of inland towns in that neighborhood. Such places as Naper , Sprlngvlew , Norden and the like. There are dozens of them altogether and their people , when they have to go away from home to trade at all , have gene on through Norfolk to Omaha. Norfolk is the gateway to the new northwest. It Is llko the pu pil of the eye drawing the rays of railroads and traffic into the ono spot nnd then redistributing it For in order to get into the new northwest , you must pass through Norfolk. "Norfolk is bound to grow. It has the location for a city. With railroads centering hero from five different di rections ; with moro territory tribu tary to It than any other city in the state excepting Omaha , with the en tire state more or less ; and with na tural advantages and a great start al ready , it must , it seems to mo , de velop into a mighty good town. The New Northwest. "Tho new northwest is not only the territory along the Bonesteel branch. It Is all of the territory included between - tween the rails of the main line and the branch north and the same ap f plies to all of the towns west as to these north. Such towns as Battle Creek , Meadow Grove , Tilden. Oak- dale , Nellgh , Ewing , Clearwater , In- man , O'Neill Atkinson Newport , Stu art , Bassett and Long Pine , with their early morning train or their noon train , can come into Norfolk for a half day and get back homo either at 1 o'clock or at night , making the sanio saving to them In point of tlmo and adldtlonnl car fare. " Why suffer with your kidneys ? The discovery of Kldnoy-Ettes has proved n blessing to thousands of kidney sufferers who have been re stored to perfect health. Trmsn fnii. lets drive the dlsersed germs out of the system , and we urge nil sufferers to glvo this scientific and successful kidney remedy a trial. Price 25 cents. Klesau Drug Co. No business is so small that It can not advertise successfully if judicious ly. And no business is so large that It can afford to dispense with adver tising. The News now reaches more people in northern Nebraska and the country tributary than any other newspaper from whatever locality. An advertisement in its columns la a good Investment and will bring re turns If handled right FARM LOANS v Lowest Rates. I UK , J , GOW & " NORFOLK , NEBRASKA. Money on Hand. FARM LOANS Your Tongue If it's coated , your stomach is bad , your liver is out of order. Ayer's Pills will clean your tongue , cure your dys pepsia , make your liver right. Easy to take , easy to operate. 25c. All druggist * . 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