Nebraska Newspapers

    The Norfolk Weekly News-Journal
The N wn. KMnbllBhed. 1881.
, The Journal , Kfttalillahed , 1871.
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LIURARY SITE.
The aclcctlon of a.alto for the now
Carnegie public library which IB to
bo built In Norfolk , Is ono of the
most Important matters that has como
tip for dotormlnatlon In the city for
Bomo time.
The library Itself Is to cost $10,000.
The city of Norfolk , by a tax , will pay
$1,000 per year toward the maintenance
anceof the library. It Is consequent
ly highly essential that the city get
the most possible for that $1,000 each
yt'ar. In fifty years the citizens of
Norfolk will have paid $50,000 toward
the maintenance of the library. In
order to derive benefit to the greatest
decree , It Is Important that the lib
rary bo so located as to afford the
greatest good to the greatest number.
The library should first of all bo
centrally located. It should be so lo
cated that It will bo accessible equally
to the residents of nil corners of the
town. It should bo so located that It
may bo accessible easily to strangers
In town with an hour or a day to spend.
The nearer the public library Is
placed In the heart of the city , the
greater will bo the benefit derived
from It as a public Institution.
VALUE OF GOOD UOADS
Secretary Gow of the Commercial
club , nt the meeting Tuesday night ,
mentioned good roads as ono of the
principal things that has been done
during the past year for Norfolk.
There can be no question as to the
value of good roads to the community.
And much credit for the good roads
now leading Into Norfolk should bo
jjlvcn to Burr Taft.
Good roads mean dollars In the
pockets of the farmers. Hauling grain
over good roads Is more economical
than hauling grain over rough and
muddy roads. Every load hauled over
n good road costs less than over a poor
ono. The result means profit for the
farmer. That's why the fanners want
good roads and are co-operating to
ward getting them.
Good roads also mean much to the
business community. Secretary Hansen -
nb
sen of the Fremont Commercial club ,
In Norfolk a couple of years ago , told
how that town was regaining trade
which It Jiad lost thirty years ago. i
Ono splendid road Is being built out
In each direction. Along this main
ine.
artery the farmers como In to trade. !
The merchants of the town , he said ,
were using whole page : s
to tell the farmers why they Id
better como to Fremont. Advertising
and good roads seemed to mean much
to Fremont. And they will mean much
Bhd
to Norfolk. The better the roads leadIng -
dut
Ing Into Norfolk , and the further out
utr
tbo goodaess goes , the better for Nor >
rat
folk. Good roads are a matter that
can well be kept In mind.
NORFOLK EXCHANGE DAY.
It Is gratifying to note that the second |
end "exchange day" for the farmers ;
around Norfolk was even better than
the flrst that more visitors were at
tracted to the city than the month be
|
fore.
It Is only fair to suppose that each
succeeding exchange day will become
better than those that have gone be
fore. It Is said that this sort of a fea
ture must go through a certain experimental
srlto
mental stage before it gets down to
the established order that will be the
rule in time to come.
The exchange day has been made 3 a
success In Wisconsin towns and ap
parently the farmers around Norfolk ! , (
whoso enterprise and thrift Is well
known , are not going to take a back
scat.
scat.As
As the experimental period in this
event passes away and the established .
foundation begins to be built , so that [
everybody may know how to go about .
_ .
It to make the best of the day , various |
phases will be taken advantage of.
The principal of the day is that all
of the farmers for miles around shall
congregate here on the first Tuesday
of every month for a trade day. Everyone
ono who has anything to get rid of ,
brings In the articles on that lay-1
Those who want to buy or to secure
other articles , come prepared to snap
up any offers which present them .
selves. Of course , to make the day a
,
success , there must bo numerous
trades without cash transactions.
There must also be some buyers i In
tbo crowd.
These things will come In time. The
main thing is that the exchange day
has como to stay and that Norfolk and
the farmers around Norfolk are going
to make it bigger and better each
month.
There is some cause for congratula
tion in the fact that Norfolk is the
first city in Nebraska perhaps the
flrst in the middle west to adopt this
progressive plan.
DURKETT'S GRAZING BILL.
Senator Burkett has recently Intro
duced and had read twice a bill provid >
ing for the control of grazing on the
range In western prairie country. The
bill provides that grazing districts
may bo leased for periods not exceed
ing ton > cai8. It Is also provided In
the bill that the governor of the state
or territory may appoint a committee
chosen from among grazing lease own
ers , and this committee may determine
whether the grailng shall be charged
for on a percaplta basis or by acreage ,
shall make such distribution of the
range as Is necessary for different
kinds of stock and shall decide wheth
er the range shall bo distributed by
Individual or community.
These are only a few of the provi
sions. The bill apparently seeks to
keep the range land occupied with live
stock rather than to allow it to lie
Idle. And at the sumo time the home
steader Is protected.
This western country needs some
provision which will allow stockmen
to make use of the range without be
coming thieves and grafters. It is to
be hoped that such a law has been
drafted by Senator Buikett. Concern-l
Ing the law ho has this to say :
In enclose a copy of a grazing
that I have Introduced. You will no
tice the changes from last year's bill
they are Intended to protect the home
stcadcr and to promote homestead en
try. Homesteaders and small cattle
men we always want to protect ; and
then we want ajl the land put to use.
The government land Is certainly not
being used as well as It should be. It
is not being utilized for the best Inter
ests of the federal government or the
state or the people of the community ,
I believe these great tracts of govern
f
permitted to remain a source of ex
pense forever. The state makes Its
own lands produce an Income why
should the government lands remain
Idle and unproductive ? Authority
should be lodged somewhere to devise
a plan to make them a source of In
come and also for their more economic
use. There Is no reason why a thing
should bo wasted simply because the
government owns It. Privately owned
lands In the same community are sus
talulng more cattle than public lands
on the average. I was told the other
day of the officials of a cattle company
opposing the bill because they owned
all the water front of a certain com
munlty , and nobody else would wan
thq adjacent government land wlthou
water. But reverse the proposition
and perhaps nobody would need all th
water front without the unlimited
range behind It free. My position 1
that If the government had someon
looking after its glazing land as it ha
after Its forests , the water front own
ers will have to make terms Instead o
dictating them.
The year of 1907 will go down a :
one of the years of material progres
In the city of Norfolk. About $200,00
was expended In this city on nev
buildings and It must readily bo seen
that the addition of $200,000 to th
city's property In creditable building ;
Is significant of a healthy growth.
Norfolk Is steadily and Indeed rapid
ly attaining that position to which
by virtue of its most extraordinarily ]
favorable location , It Is entitled. Every
vis
ery year sees long strides towards this
goal.
Particularly was the past year a
splendid one In view of the new indus
tries brought to the community. A
number of manufacturing Industries
were installed in the city , new business
site
ness firms have been Induced to locate
here and all in all the business of the |
entire town has Immensely grown.
That there Is still room for develop- '
'Pre
ment no one will deny. Indeed there
is perhaps more need today of an ag -
gressive campaign for the develop
ment of Norfolk than ever before In
the town's career.
Norfolk is just on the verge of be >
coming a city. Manufacturing indus
tries are springing up and prospering.
The eastern financial stringency will
illm
tend to drive more and more manu
facturers , when they resume operations
rahe
tions , from the cities and into the
smaller towns.
That Norfolk as a whole could adopt >
a plan for aggressively advertising the
city's possibilities , Just as other cities
with something to offer are doing , Is
reasonable. Many cities are advertis
ing their advantages in the magazines.
And to present the advantages of a
city to the country must be to induce
new Industries to the town.
Excelsior Springs , Mo. , has health
to offer visitors and homeseekers.
Norfolk has wealth to offer them
wealth in location and potential bust-
islto
ness. And all that need be done to
Induce many new enterprises to Nor
folk would be to prove to possible In
vestors the advantage of Norfolk's leOne -
cation.
Ono of the Important features of the
past year in a retail way was the or
ganization of a trade promoters' asso-
elation whose plan has very great pos-
sibilltics If only aggressively adhered I
to and followed up. It Is the poten ;
tial means of building up the retail
business of Norfolk.
The organization of an exchange
day by the farmers Is another Import
ant feature.
Noifolk business interests should
unite this year more than over to push
Norfolk ahead. To stand still Is to
go backward and Norfolk can't afford
to stand still. New energy should , be
exerted for the city's upbuilding.
There are tremendous possibilities
that have never Veen taken advantage
of. And It is to bo hoped that the com
ing year may mean more of progress
than did even the year of 1907.
NORFOLK NEEDS DEVELOPMENT. I
One of the biggest public problems !
before Norfolk today , as has been the
cate for some time past , Is the matter
of securing nn Industry which will
make ' 'so of the now abandoned and
-i atlng property once occupied
> y the Norfolk sugar factory.
The empty sugar factory buildings
rould make an Ideal home for a num-
icr of Industries that might be
aunched. Kvcry day lost means a
ilg loss to everybody In Norfolk.
With the present state of affairs In
; he eastern financial world , It would
.ppear that , once operations are re-
mined , Industries will seek the small-
r cities more than ever. If heads of
respective Industries knew of the
Norfolk sugar factory , It Is possible
; hat a few weeks would close the deal.
Apparently the greatest need In this
I
ingar factory matter Is the need of
presenting the opportunity to the
right man.
The News believes , and suggests
| 'or serious consideration , that the
problem might best bo gone at by In
' serting an advertisement in some nn-
tonal magazine such as the Saturday
ravening Post or Colliers or some oth
er medium that would practically cov
er the United States. The ad. should
tell what Norfolk has to offer by way
of buildings to the right industry.
Results would follow. That Is the
only way anything ever will como of
the sugar factory. Wo can sit here
and twiddle our thumbs for a thousand
years hoping for something to turn up
but If we fall to let the right pepplo
know of the proposition , the old sugar
factory building will stand Idle and
deserted.
Norfolk once put up $150,000 to get
a factory started there. Wouldn't It
be wise now , when wo have so good
an offer to make , to spend a few dollars
lars a hundred or even $500 or a thou
sand If necessary to get another In
dustry Into those ghostly walls ?
Norfolk Is not so well known the
country over as we might hope or
even suppose. Norfolk Is the axis of
the globe so far as this section Is con
cerned , but people out In the far ends
of the nation exists who have never
even heaid of us. "Norfolk ? " they
would ask you. "Noifolk , Virginia ? "
Norfolk's fcdeial census only chalked
up 4,000 people. Of course we who
live here and know that a large num
ber of people weie not counted be-j
cause they lived outside the city lim
its , understand the matter. But the
Investor down east doesn't know that ,
and he doesn't know enough about
Norfolk's location or Its sugar factory
building to make it seem worth his
while to take a trip out here and look
us over.
What Norfolk needs today Is pub
licity. Norfolk has a message that it
wants sent to the world the message
of its location and the message of its
empty sugar factory buildings , await
ing use.
That message , spread all over the
United States map , would undoubtedly
catch the eye of somebody who is
looking for just such a chance and
just such a town as Norfolk.
Therefore it's up to Norfolk to de
liver the good word and begin to grow.
livTl
The town that aggressively goes after
things Is the town that lands factories.
And factories we need , just as we
need more wholesale houses.
The advantages to this or that kind
of a wholesale house could be put down
in an ad. that would be carried to the
four corners of the country.
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The News isn't trying to sell adver
tising space not In this Instance. It
Isn't working for a commission. But
It does have the Interest of Norfolk at
heart and It Is willing to put up Its
share in cold cash to buy a little pub
licity which will go out Into the broad
land and tell the people whom v/e want
to reach , that there Is a great big
strong empty building out here on the
prairies awaiting wheels and belts and
workmen to turn It Into a factory and
a successful one ; and that out here
In the northern part of Nebraska , with
the greatest territory In all the world
tributary to It , Is a growing , thriving
city of 5,000 people which presents an
extraordinary opportunity to wholesal
ers and manufacturers ; a town of 5-
000 people which ought to be a city of
20,000 people right today.
Over at South Sioux City , Neb. , a
little bit of a town right under the
nose of Sioux City , a distillery Is being
built today. Upon Its completion a
small army of people will find employ * '
ment. The federal government Is go
ing to hold a civil service examination
In Norfolk this month for Internal rev-
3soenue men to bo stationed there.
IDSOut in Alliance , Neb. , they've a pack
Ing i house.
enDown at Beatrice , Neb. , there's n
new packing house.
Nebraska City has established late-
ly a shirt factory and an overall fao
tory. That town has a packing house
which kills about 1,000 hogs a day.
And Nebraska City , all shut In on one
side by the Missouri river and under
the shadow of Lincoln and Omaha and
St. Jo and Kansas City , has nothing
nt all in the way of a location , as com
pared with Norfolk ,
Over In Iowa there is , in one little
town , a great big shoe factory doing
an Immense business. ,
Down at Fremont they have a big
incubator plant that Is employing pee
ple. They have wholesale houses and
other factories. , And yet they can *
emscompare , In natural location , to Nor-
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Judge John Beaumont Barnes of ,
Norfolk will on next Thursday become
chief justice of the supreme court of
Nebraska. The supreme court , of
which Judge Barnes has been an as
sociate justice for four years past ,
will convene on next Tuesday for its
final session under its present organi
zation. It will be In session until
Thursday , when Judge Barnes will
step to the head of Nebraska's high
est state court , presided over at this
time by Chief Justice S. H. Sedgwlck.
Judge Barnes was elected to the
supreme court bench In 1903. < Ho has
accordingly been a judge of the su
preme court for four years past and
still has two years more of his term
to serve. On next Thursday Judge
Sedgwlck gives way as a member of
the supreme court to Judge M. B.
Reese , while the chief justiceship goes
to Judge Barnes , the senior Judge.
Judge Barnes was born on a farm
in Ashtabula county , Ohio , on August
26 , 1846. His father was Alfred J. S.
Barnes. His ancestors came original
ly from England , settling first In New
England and later moving to New
York and thence to Ohio. A grand-
folk.
folk.Fifty
Fifty years from today Norfolk will
be just what it Is today , with a few
changes wrought , unless Norfolk takes
advantage of Its splendid geographical
location and converts that advantage
Into material development.
Communities are , after all , merely
assembled individuals. And a com
munity will take on a disposition , a
general attitude , a policy just as does
the Individual.
Some individuals are born with na
tural advantages In this world. Some
are born without advantages. But the
fortunate ones gain nothing by their
natural advantages unless they profit
by their opportunities.
Norfolk was born with a splendid
geographical location. In some ways
that advantage has been made to
count. But Norfolk has about reached
the limit of Its development unless its
location Is made to count.
There's no use sitting down and
waiting for that location to bring re
sults. So long as the favorable oppor
tunity here is unknown to the world
that might bo induced to locate here ,
we might as welj be a city without any
location at all.
Norfolk needs/development / In many
father I , John B. Barnes , was a captain
n the war of 1812.
As a lad a good common school edu
cation was secured by Judge Barnes
and was later supplemented by a
course In the Grand River Institute at
Austlnburg , Ohio.
Seventeen years old In 18C3 , he en
listed In Company "E" of the First
Ohio Light Artillery and served until
the end of the war.
The civil war a matter of history ,
the young soldier returned to Ohio ,
where he continued his studies and
fitted himself as a public school teach
er. Judge Barnes taught school and
studied law until 1871 , when he re
moved to Ponca In Dlxon county , Ne
braska.
For thirty-six years Judge Barnes
has been a resident of Nebraska and
for nineteen years he has been a cit
izen of Norfolk.
He entered the practice of the law
In 1872 , when he was admitted to the
Nebraska bar. In the profession of
the law he won recognition both as a
lawyer and as a judge.
Politically Judge Barnes has been
ways. There is room for growth. To
stand still Is retrogression. To move
we must get together in an organized ,
effective , aggressive campaign.
It is up to Norfolk as to whether the
city is to grow as it can or stay in a
rut.
AROUND TOWN.
What a perfect spring this has been !
Which Is worse the grip or the
bill collector ?
It's some time before the ground
hog Is even due.
Norfolk wouldn't trade off exchange
day for anything.
Who could have asked for a more
pei feet exchange day ?
Can Evelyn thaw twelve men's
hearts ? It's the chair for Harry If
she doesn't.
How lonesome a person must feel
who hasn't a touch of the grip.
A Norfolk woman is said to bo so
contrary that she'd float up stream.
Here's a new going around : "Most
any man can attain results with proper
prominent in Nebraska. As early as
1872 he was elected as a delegate to
the republican state convention and
has attended every republican state
convention in Nebraska since that | |
time until the convention system
passed away with the new primary
law.
law.In
In 1875 and again In 1877 he was
elected prosecuting attorney for the
Sixth judicial district. In 1879 he
was appointed to the district judgeship -
ship of the district , succeeding Edward
K. Valentine , who had been elected to
congress. In 1880 he was elected to.
the dlstilct bench for the full term.
In 1884 he declined n re-nomination
and ictired .from th * > bench to resume
his law practice.
At the time that Judge Barnes was
judge of the Sixth judicial district It
comprised sixteen counties and all the
unorganized territory west of them.
Madison county was In the district.
In 1888 Judge Barnes changed his res
idence from Ponca to Norfolk.
Until the early part of 1902 he paid
close attention to the practice of law ,
being associated during the greater
part of his Norfolk residence with M.
encouragement but give me a man
who can make good In spite of h . "
Well , It can't be much worse to have
your wife shoot your leg than be con
tinually pulling It , remarks the Wayne
Democrat.
Sioux City Tribune : Because her
husband wouldn't go home , a Norfolk
woman shot him In the leg. Many a
wife Is anxiously waiting to see wheth
er it has the desired effect or not.
"A colored gemmen blew In from
Norfolk Monday , but blew out again
Tuesday , " says the Wayne Democrat.
"Wajne has little use for negroes.
Some of the "pooh white trash" Is bad
enough.
Every day that goes by sees the old
Norfolk sugar factory buildings de
teriorate just so much. The quicker
something Is done to get a new Indus
try started In those hollow walls , the
better It will be for Norfolk.
ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS
With the possible exception of get
ting married there Is nothing so easy
as lying.
If wo could bury people by putting
their colllns on a platform In the open
i D. Tyler in the firm of Barnes & Tyler.
I In 1901 he was a prominent candi
date before the republican state con- i
j ventlon for the nomination as Judge * *
of the supreme court , but withdrew In
favor of S. H. Sedgwlck of York ,
whom he now succeeds as chief Jus-
tlce. In January , 1902 , Judge Barnea
was appointed a member of the su
preme court commission , serving until
his election as supreme judge in 1903.
In the republican state convention of
that year he was nominated by accla
mation , not an opposing candidate be-
jlng ' named on the floor of the conven-
tlon.
tlon.He
He was married on November 29 ,
1874 , to Miss Ida F. Hannant. They
have three sons , John B. Barnes , Jr. ,
a young lawyer who Is said to be mak
ing a good record at Casper , Wyo. , and -
whose wedding to a young lady of Cas
per took place during the past month.
Guy W Barnes , In the division offices
of the Northwestern In Norfolk , and
A. Klmball Barnes , who has been
studying law under Judge Good at
Wahoo.
Judge Barnes Is a member of the
Masonic order and the Elks.
air , and then see the coffins float up
ward out of sight , more people would
believe In religion.
The devil probably believes the right
Is all on his side and that he has a
hard time fighting the wicked Lord.
According to a real estate agent , the
average renter expects that all the
money he pays for rent to be used In
Improvements to the buildings he oc
cupies.
When church Is out , the small , rest
less boys are always the first to shoot
out of the door. Then follow the
men , and three hours after , when they
have completed their Incessant talkIng -
Ing the women emerge.
Shoddy people are not always rich r
people. The fellow who talks a great
deal about being poor because ho Is
honest , Is the worst sort of shoddy ,
Honesty does not make poor people ,
although honest people arc often poor ,
as honest people are often rich.
An Atchlson man with a large num
ber of children has named them all
with a word of four letters. Recently
a new baby arrived. A namen was
wanted , whereupon a friend sug
gested that the new baby bo
"Quit. "