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About The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1908)
VtnntVU V V Vtt trrn m 'tTi i nfii-n i THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEWS-JOURNAL : FRIDAY , JANUARY 31 , IMS r I 1 FORMER NORFOLK PITCHER STARTLES DA8EDALLDOM. THE "DANANA PEEL" CURVE Galnskl , Who Came to Norfolk From Humphrey and Won Fame Here , Later Going East , Has Achieved New Renown In This Discovery. Hood-bye to the common spit ball , puzzlliigly popular In Its brief duy. The hannim peel hnll Is the latest , a BpltloKH spit hull that makes the orig inal Rlt | ) proposition look lllo the Bhortost dlstiiuco between two points. It In n north Nebraska hey , a for mer Norfolk pitcher , who IH credited with the new delivery. Joe Galaskl , the athlete who Is finding fame In the new ball , played with Norfolk n few years ago. He came originally from Humphrey but for a season held down the pltchor'a box for Norfolk's pro fessional nine. Ho has played over north Nebraska. Oalnskl has been working In the Now York state league. - \ Of Oalaskl. the man with the new curve , the Chicago American says : Maurice Myers , manager of the 1907 Kalamazoo South Michigan League baseball team , umpired a post-season game In Albany , N. V. . and It was there he unearthed the very latest thing In base ball the "banana peel" hall. " He tells of It as follows : "I worked most of the game hack of the pitcher and was particularly struck with the remarkable spltball of one of them Galaakl by name who had been working In the New York State league. The curve had fully a foot of break. I admired It awhile then hap pened to think that I hadn't seen Ga laskl moisten his fingers once. I watched him carefully then asked him how he did It. " 'The ball you see , ' says Galaskl 'la my own particular Invention the spltlcss plttcr. ' "Then he winked and put the fin gers of his throwing baud Into his hip pocket for a moment. Without further ado ho throw the ball and the batter couldn't have hit It with a tennis racquet. "After the game Galaskl offered an explanation. It seems that he always buys a banana and eats It on his wa > to the grounds. Instead of throwing the peeling away he puts It Into his hip pocket. When he wants to lubrl cate his fingers he rubs them on the banana peel. The result , I am quail fled to state , Is Just as baffling as the regulation saliva article , and has the added advantage of fooling the batter nil the more through the fact that the absence of expectoration throws bin off his guard against the delivery tha the pitcher is actually usingThej tell me the league slipped up on tha banana peel ball last season. " Joe Galaskl played with Notfoll when the Wilkinsons were here. He Is a big , good natured , strong-armec Polander and he's a real basebal . pitcher. Galaskl was In Norfolk a year ag * last summer visiting old friends here Ills parents still live at Humphrey. Madison Star-Mall : Last Saturday evening the basket ball team of th Stanton high school were in the cit with blood iu their eyes to do up th basket ball team of this city at th opera house. The game was the mos Interesting over seen lu Madison an when one time keeper called the gam to a close the score was 2G to 27 I favor of Stanton but on closer exam Inatlon It was found that they had 1 secondsi more to play In which Mad son threw one field goal whfbh mad the score 28 to 27 In favor of Madison A very large crowd was in attendance SATURDAY SIFTINGS. Chief Justice Barnes is home from Lincoln. G. D. Butterfield returned Frlda evening from Omaha. E. B. Kauffniann is expected bom Monday evening from Esthervllle , la Mrs. E. Tanner and Miss Hans o Battle Creek were in Norfolk Satur day. day.Miss Miss Fannie Norton Is home from Whealand , Wyo. , where she has spen the last few months. Jack O'Lcary went to Dallas , S. D Saturday to take part in a wrestlin match in the evening. Miss Elizabeth Sharpless is cxpcc ed soon for an extended visit with he sister , Mrs. Jack Koeulgsteln. Mrs. L. B. Nicola has returned fron Washington , Iowa , where she wen for a visit during the holidays. Mrs. Mary Elliott , who went to Oma ha to consult a physician concornin her health , Is feeling much better an will return to Norfolk in a few weeks Ray Kennard , waiting trial In th district court on the charge of forger > was taken to Madison Saturday after noon by Frank Flynn , acting as spe cial officer. Kennard will remain 1 the county Jail unless ho can furnls a $500 bond. Mr. and Mrs. George Schiller , sr and Fred Schiller of Ida Grove , Iowa who have been guests of Mr. and Mrs Robert Schiller at the Oxnard , hav returned homo. They were accompa nied as far as Sioux City by Mrs Schl'/r. ' " > frfolk has attained a national rep utatlon In telephonic circles , " said W J. Sladolraan , who has Just returne fron ; a telephone convention In Ch cago. "Automatic operators from al the country were eager to lear Norfolk , realizing that the smalles Jlerground cable system In th Jrld Is stationed here. " fairs. Martha Brown and her niece _ _ Dorothy Witters , left at noon fo hiiteflsh , Mont , where they go to b th Mrs. W. S. Forhan , a sister o Mrs lirown. Mrs. Forluui Is very III. Mm. Curl Koll of Norfolk has been ivlHltlng with her daughter , Mrs limr > Miller , living east of Pierce. Miss Uthel Norman and Uarle Nor- an of WUUHII have been visiting their rother , Howard Norman , of Norfolk. Dr. Sailer has had an opportunity to ike M little of his own medicine. He 8 Riifforlui ; from a slight attack of the rip. Among the day'a out of town \Nliora i Norfolk were : Mrs. F. .1 Mohler , , ynch ; I ) . 0. Wilson , Hlnomllcld ; Vdolph Ccrllng , Gus Gerllng , Newman Jrove ; Glen Ilarkey , Wlnslde ; Mrs. W. Johnson , Spencer ; J. C. Cars- ens , laurel ; A. G. Ulllerbcck , Hum- hroy ; II. M. Peyton , Crclghton ; Dr. ! . M. names , I'lalnvlew ; W. A. Kings- y , Stuart ; C. Urucc , Verdlgre ; Mrs. ! . Pliant , Stuart ; Ernest Glaser , I'll- er ; J. H. Deforest , Miss Pearl Davcy , 'relghton. A son of Al McCormlck Is 111 with mcumonla. Miss Edith Herrmann is ill with in attack of the grip. Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Ellis , Ivlng near Hosklns , a daughter. A. W. Boal Is building a now resi dent on his farm north of Norfolk . Ten more farmers have Joined the Tilden branch of the north Nebraska anti-horse thief association. The economics department of the Woman's club will meet with Mrs. John R. Hays on Monday afternoon at 2:30 : o'clock. H. C. Welkcr , a former Wayne boy , vlll represent Hastings college at the state college oratorical contest lu Omaha next month. Mrs. Dan Lynch and children have oft Madison to join Mr. Lynch at his lew home In Afton , Wyo. . whore he s cashier of a prosperous valley bank A meeting will be held at Pierce on February 1 for the purpose of or ganizing an anti-horse thief assocla- Ion The meeting will bo held at the opera house. The state meeting of Presbyterian ministers and elders will be held al Wayne next October. The usual at tendance runs from 150 to 200 dele gates. Nellgh Register : It Is hardly prob able that a carnival will be held a ( the same time as the Nellgh meet but we understand that there Is movement on foot to hold a count } fair on those dates. A Battle Creek duck last week gave up eighty cents worth of gold tha It had concealed In Its craw , and the Mellgh Leader claims that it was pro liably some of Antelope county's weal th that had been carried off by the current of the Elkhorn. Burt Shoemaker , the Plalnvlew young man arrested In Norfolk on the suspicion that ho had been connected with the holdup of Charles Miller o Oakland in West Point , has been bourn over to the district court by Judg Dewald of West Point. Bond wa placed at $100 and was not given. Editor J. B. Donavan of the Madisoi Star-Mall will be Interlocutor at th minstrel show of the Madison bant at the Madison opera house Monda > evening. George Raymer , Franl Keene , Dr. Thomas Long , Roscoe Un derburg , M. S. McDuffee and Pan Brlnkman will be the endmen of th black circle. Sioux City Tribune : City Marsha J. D. West , of Laurel , Neb. , was in Sioux City Monday on the trail of 13 year-old Willie Stukas and 14-year-ol Carl Goltz. These two young boy ran away from their homes In Laure last Saturday and while traces of them have been found at Norfolk , parent and officers have thus failed to locat them. The father of one of the boy is accompanying Marshal West in hi search. A wolf hunt , the Madison Cronicl announces will be held on Thursdaj January 30 , near Madison. The bound ary lines to run four miles north o Lou Blckley's southeast corner , thenc four miles west , thence four mile south , thence four miles east. Th four lines will centralize In the Hum pasture , two miles west and two mile north of Madison. Everybody is re quested to turn out to this * hunt. N rifles will be allowed. North Platte was selected by th Nebraska firemen as the place to hoh the July tournament. The followln officers were elected by the firemen' ! association : President , M. M. Mor onsen of Fremont ; first vice preslden B. G. Galley of Columbus ; secom vice president. J. C. Elliott of Kear ney ; treasurer , H. A. Graff of Seward board of control , W. O. Barnes of All ance , R. N. McAllister of Grand Island George Howe of Fremont , Bert Dei nett of Fullerton , Robert Lewis o Hnmphery. Neligh Register : Some of the No ligh small boys have been indulgin In some very dangerous sport thl week and unless the parents put stop to It some of them will find watery grave in the Elkhorn. O Monday several boys were skatln and as the ice was breaking up am floating down the river about a doze got on a largo cake and were floatln down upon It. This Is most likely whole lot of fun for the boys , bu should one of them get In the rive It would be a sad ending of their spor NORFOLK WEARS GOOD SHOE Norfolk a Famous Shoe Town Over th State. Norfolk has a lot of dlstlngulshe traits which people say when the tow is mentioned : "Oh , yes , I've heard o Norfolk ; that's where " Did you know that Norfolk is fa mous as a Nebraska town with excep tional taste in shoes ? It is true. Fo the kind of shoes they wear In Nor folk. folk.Among Among Norfolk's claims to distinc tlon Is the fact that Norfolk people ar supposed to wear better shoes thai are worn In her sister cities. LEGITIMATE KICK AGAINST THE. MAP MAKERS. WRONG IMPRESSION IS GIVEN From the Ordinary Map It Would Ap pear that Norfolk Is an Adjunct to Norfolk Junction Commercial Club After Them Norfolk people who still hold the own's grievance against the map motors rs may be heard soon in a protest gainst Norfolk's appearance on rail- oad and other maps. This protest has been discussed he- ore but never entered with any one n authority. Norfolk's objection Is his : that the map maker has made wo NorfolkH grow where only one las existed. And on the maps Norfolk isually resembles a small adjunct to S'orfolk Junction , a thriving town ap- mrently several miles south of the city. " W. R. Hoffman Is one director of the Commercial club who'has brought the nap point up and who wants to see ust ono Norfolk on the map. "There ire two Northwestern stations In Nor oik , " said Mr. Hoffman , "but there Is only ono Norfolk. The maps have created the Impression all over the country that the Junction and the naln line of the Northwestern are several miles from Norfolk , when as a matter of fact the Northwestern de- ) ots are simply two depots In differ cut parts of the city. I would like : o see the directors take the matter ip in a reasonable sort of a way with .he railroad companies and ask theme : o stop spreading the town all over .he county. " "I was In Chicago , " joined In an other director , "and I told a man that I was from Norfolk. 'Oh ! ' ho said , that's a surburb of Norfolk Junction. ' We were In a Chicago depot and my friend verified his statement with the railroad map. " Stanton. Clyde I-Kine came down from Rapli ] City , S. D. , for an Indefinite stay at Stanton. Ray Appleby fell from a tree break Ing one of the bones lu his leg , In two places. The fall was about twenty feet. feet.Albert Albert and Mrs. Keeney are visiting friends In Ewlng , Nebraska. Mrs. J. A. Bass Is spending a few weeks with old time friends in Omaha Mrs. F. M. Hawkins Is convalesc Ing. Miss Nora Johnson Is prolonging her stay In South Dakota , where she wem to visit her mother and sisters who are "holding down homesteads. " Work on Hoehne's new blacksmltl shop is being crowded as rapidly as possible. D. C. W. Ray of Norfolk preachee In the Methodist church last Tuesdaj evening. The Rev. Richie of the Anti-Saloon league visited the pastors of the city Thursday evening to make arrange ments for a meeting to be held in the near future. The Pilger M. E. church Is engagec in revival meetings. A. C. Peters reports that his mothe is much better , and supposed to b < out of danger. Mrs. Charles Mayer , Jr. , spent a few days visiting Wlsner friends and rel atives this week. The "Zwickey" entertainment In th citizens' course is to be given on th 17th of February , Instead of the 14th Sheriff Jim Stucker Is very busj "crying sales. " Revival meetings at the Methodls church will be continued all nex week. BUT THEY ALL GET THERE A Hundred Ways of Calling For a Railroad Ticket. "Ticktaliuk , " jerked the man In hurry. The ticket man tossed out a North western ticket to Lincoln and the man hurried away apparently satisfied. There are hundreds of ways of ask Ing for tickets. Some men know the ticket man "Back" they say. Some men put down the exact change without calling the town's name. Thus one town Is known as "thirty cents" because It Is fifteen miles from Norfolk. Lots of towns have nick-names that their citlzeiib wouldn't recognize. NORFOLK LOSES JEWELRY. Want Add Gathers In Lost Jewelry Statistics. How much jewelry is lost In a town of Norfolk's size and taste In a year ? A Indies' gold pin , found , was ad vertised In The News. The News telephone - phone rang with accounts of lost Jew elry , of all kinds of lost pins of pins which were not pins at all. Few people realize how much Jewel ry is lost In Norfolk in the course of a year. Miss Norfolk could go to Europe on the town's lost Jewelry. Grip Too Common "Don't say I had the grip , " said a Norfolk woman , "Its getting so com mon , you know hero In Norfolk. " And Leap Year Too. Norfolk has an Informal "literary club" which Is about to read a book called , "In the Desert of Waiting. " CAN SKATE ANY OLD WAY Open Winter Keeps Roller Skating a Children's Sport. Norfolk boys and girls are getting the roller skating craze once more , bolder ones are Invadhut Norfolk avenue , skating along the smooth cement sidewalks. Norfolk sidewalks make roller skating easy. Meanwhile the whiter Is cold enough to make the Ice ponds attractive. Hut the Norfolk "lid" has put oh- tacIoH In the way of one kind of kutes. COUNTENANCES DISFIGURED And Each Man Had a Tale of His Own to Tell. Two Norfolk men met this week- One had a damaged eye , the other a milHed nose. "A piece of kindling struck my eye , " aid the first man who Is a Methodist. 'My bicycle slipped on an icy corner , " emarked the man who isn't a Metho- HsU "Funny how men will lie about a Ittle thing , " thought each man as he urned away. Now what are the two psychologi cal explanations ? WHEN THE TEACHER HAD THE GRIP SCHOOL DIDN'T CLOSE. MR. RICE AS A SUBSTITUTE He Used to Teach School Himself Back In Iowa , and He Filled the Emergency with an Old Fashioned Spirit that Was Good to See. What's the matter with the north Nebraska farmer ? Why nothing , of course. This week a school teacher In a dis trict near Norfolk fell a victim to the rip. She went home to mother. Substitutes are scarce. What did the school directors do ? Send to Norfolk for another teacher ? Not much. One of the farmers In the district combed his hair , put on a new necktie and drove over to the school house. He taught the school and he taught it well. It Is out in district No 69 , the "Tan- nehill district , " six miles south of Norfolk that W. B. Rice has been mak ing a hit as an Impromptu teacher Mr. Rice Is a prominent and success fill Madison county farmer. Mr. Rice taught school once back in Iowa. His wife was a school teach er , too. That was more than a score of years ago. Now Mr. Rice has a son who Is grown up and has a responsl ble position with the Northwestern. Among the children who sat in front of Mr. Rice were three from his own household. Has the district school problem been solved ? If the farmers weren't such a busy set during most of the year they could turn in and break the teacher famine. " SAW THE BABY. Pierce Court Stopped When Miss Van Waganen Appeared. It was in the midst of a crimina trial at Pierce. The prisoner was charged with making a murderous assault with robbery in mind. The county attorney asked for a five min ute recess. Court adjourned. Then before the startled eyes of the ( court the prosecuting attorney left the ! room to show a Norfolk visitor in i Pierce the Van Waganeu baby. The county attorney had caught sight of his wife entering the building with the precious baby. Court then resumed and the prison er was bound over to the district court. One Stick Short. "I wish I had one more stick of gum , " confided a Norfolk girl "for I would then have a whole package in my mouth. " TO PAY "HOLE CHEESE" Money Flurry Thing of the Past at Verdlgree. The money flurry is passing. A Verdigie man has written the following letter to a Norfolk creditor : "How much is my note ? I believe I'll pay the hole cheese. " The firm Is in hopes. Estimate of Expenses. At the regular meeting of the board of county commissioners , held on the 14th day of January , 1908 , an estimate of the expenses for Madison county for the year 1908 was made as follows : County bridges $22,000.00 County roads 12,000.00 Rlprapplng streams 3,000.00 County Institute 100.00 County printing 1,200.00 County attorney salary 1,000.00 Care of paupers 3,000.00 Fuel , postage and expense. . 1,500.00 Books , stationary and supplies - plies 1,500.00 Election expenses 2,500.00 Salary county assessor and deputies 3,500.00 Soldiers' relief 800.00 Poor farm expenses 1,000.00 County superintendent's salary - . ary 1,400.00 Salary of clerk of the board. 500.00 County commissioners salary 3,000.00 Bounty on wild animals 500.00 Jailor's fees 1,500.00 Janitor's salary and county officers' assistants 1,500.00 District court Jurors and county officers' fees 7,000.00 Insane fund 1,200.00 Aid to agricultural societies GOO.OO Furniture and repairs on court house 1,500.00 Clerk of the district court , salary 500.00 Salary sheriff and assistants 1,800.00 By order of the board of county com missioners. Geo. E. Richardson , County Clerk , County Treasurer's Semi = Annual Statement. Statement of Ohriittoplior Sohavlaud , Oountj Treasurer of MwllBon Gonnly , Nebraska , allowing balances of nit utida in the Treasury on July 1 , HH)7 ) , tmos and otlior Items iwllootml , warrants rudeomod , mid other diAhurnmmmtft , from ho 1st day of July , 11K)7 ) , to tiio 8th day of January , 1908i and balnuoe.t oti hnud on thu Vth iliiy of .Tniiunry , UMS. ) RECAPITULATION. RECEIPTS. Balance July 1 , 1907 $ 01023 66 Taxes Collected 80907 18 State School Land Collections 8531 70 State University Land Collections . . . . . 1 0771 Redemptions received 8708 43 State Apportionment , received 4108 63 From J. J. Clements , Sheriff's fees , for County General Fund 248 15 From 17 candidates , Primary Election fees , for County General Fund 85 00 From J. H. Harding , County Commissioner , for Bridge Fund 19 35 From Geo. E. Richardson , County Clerk , for Bridge Fund 40 From O. F. Eiseley , Justice of the Pence , fines 33 00 From \7m. Bates , County Judge , fines 00 00 From Geo. O. Lambert , Justice of the Peace , fines 35 00 From S. I. Nies , Treasurer of Antelope County , for Bond Fund of School Ditsrict No. 80. 445 00 From John Brown , refund to Road District No. 3 40 60 From estate of G. D. Jenkins , deceased , inheritance tax , less foe of appraiser 109 95 From Depository Banks , interest on daily balances 823 59 Taxes paid under protest from Union Pacific Railroad Co 1031 20 Miscellaneous Fees , of Chr. Schavland , Oonnty Treasurer , hast half of 1907 158 35 Fees on funds , of Chr. Schavland , County Treasurer , for year 1907 3725 83 Ohr. Sohavland , Excess FOOB , for 1900 County General Fund 923 57 Transfers from Funds to Funds 1311037 I Total JE 170813 74 * " " = = * DISBURSEMENTS. Warrants , Bonds and Coupons paid $ 98118 93 Redemptions paid 3G58 98 Transferred from funds to fee fund 3V25 32 , Transferred from Fee Fund to 1900 County General Fund 923 57 Salaries paid 3032 00 Other transfers from funds to funds 13110 27 Balance on hand on January 9,1908 54374 08 Total $ 176843 74 Outstanding Registered County Warrants January 9 , 1908. 1891 County General Fund. P 4 00 1900 County Bridge Fund $ 8 00 1906 Road Fund , 1898 County General Fund. 20 45 1905 Fund County Bridge 6 05 District No. 3 11 25 1899 County General Fund. 4 00 1907 County Bridge Fund . . . . 13336 48 1906 Road Fund , Conunissiouer 1901 County General Fund. 8 94 District No. 3 5 37- 1902 County General Fund. 8 00 1907 Road Fund , Commissioner 1903 County General Fund. 29 05 District No. 1 1299 44 1904 County General Fund. 14 15 1907 Road Fund , Commissioner 190G County General Fund. 12 GO District No. 2 518 00 1907 County General Fund. 17328 G5 1907 Road Fund , Commissioner 1907 Drainage Ditch No. 1. 701 75 District No. 3 1499 72 Total 118131 59 Total | 12350 48 Total 13328 78 Cash Balances on January 9 , 1908. In First National Bauk , Madison , Neb goQ. " ) 70 " " " Madison State Bauk , Madison , Neb 5591 IP " Norfolk National Bank , Norfolk , Neb " " 10731 55 " Citizens National Bank , Norfolk , Neb . . . . . . ! ! . ! 5002 90 " Nebraska National Bank Norfolk , , Neb 5010 O'i " Battle Creek Valley Bank , Battle Creek , Neb . ' .1309 "b " Citizens State Bank , Battle Creek , Neb , t . ! . . . " ! 1052 81 " Security Bauk , Meadow Grove , Neb . . ! . ! . . . . ! 10)5 : ) 8 ° " Meadow Grove State Bauk , Meadow Grove , Neb 077 < Rn " Elkhoru Valley Bank , Tilden , Neb ; . . . 079703 ' ' ' ' " " ' Tildon State Bank , Tildon , Neb . . . . 829 ! ) GO " First National Bank , Newman Grove , Neb ! ! . ! ! . . ! ! 2905 20 " Newman Grove State Bank , Newman Grove , Neb . ! ! . . ! ! 8281 67 " State Fiscal Agency , Kouutzo Bros. , New VTork , N .Y ! ! . . . . . . 200 01 Totnl f 51274 08 STATE OF NEBRASKA , ss. COUNTY OF MADISON , I , Christopher Schavlaud , do solemnly swear that the foregoing is a true and correct statement of my receint disbursement as County Treasurer iu and for Madison County , Nebraska , from the 1st duy of July , 1907 , to the Sthdiv of January , 1908 , inclusive ; that th same is also true and ? a correct statement of the amount of money in each fund- the amount of outstanding and uupaid registered county general , county bridge , and county road and drainage ditch warniuta and the total amount of cvsh on hand at the close of business on the 8th day of January , A. D. 1908to the boat of iV knowledge and belief , BO help mo God. J CHRISTOPHER SOHAVLAND. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 10th day of January A. D. , 1909 , ) W. II. FIELD { Clerk of the District Court. STATE OF NEBRASKA , ) , COUNTY OF MADISON , ( bh < We , the undersigned County Commissioners in and foi Madison county , Nebraska , do hereby certify that we hay * carefully examined the accounts of Christopher Sohavland , County Treasurer of said county , and have found the fore going statement thereof to bo correct. Dated this 17th day of January , A. D. 1908. JOHN MALONK , - - ' BURR TAFT , for seats , u ; /Saturda < > - IIENR" * SUNDERMAN , ouuty Commissionero.