Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-02-15
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| schools. This matter came about
| some months ago when the board ask
| ed an opinion from Attorney General
| Brown as to the right of the district to
| enumerate students who were attend
| ing the state university and count
| them in on the school apportionment.
| The attorney general held the board
| could not do this. Then the board pro-
| ceeded to declare that the state officers
| must pay tuition for their children
| The state retaliated by threatening TO
| try to collect from this school district
money alleged to have been collected
| from the state by Lancaster County
| by reason of the padded census. Them
| the school board stopped proceedings
and the state stopped talking, and Lin
| coin came in and got its usual appor-
| tionment from the state. Now it is go
| ing after the state officers. 1t was
said at the board meeting that the
| opinion of the attorney general had
been the means of Lincoln losing at
least 1900 pupils that had heretofore
| been enumerated.
State Superintendent McBrien has
| organized a normal institute at Gene
| va, including Clay, Nuckolls, Saline,
| Thayer and Fillmore Counties, and the
| date of the beginning of the institute
| was set for May %. 1t will continue
| for six weeks. This organization is to
| assist teachers to be able to comply
with the new certificate law which be-
| comes effective in 1907. This law re-
| quires a person, before securing sec
| ond grade certificate, to have had ar
| least eight weeks normal training, and
| a first grade certificate requires twelve
weeks normal training. The course of
study to be taken up at the institute
will be practically the same as that
in the Junior normal schools. While
this is the first organization of the
kind in the state, there will be other
Institutes organized in other sections
of the state providing there is de-
mand.
In a recent statement State Superin-
tendent McBrien tells of the results of
the examinations for state certificates,
and an analysis of the statistics shows
that in the extreme western portions
of the state teachers are as well quail.
flied as in the thickly settled eastern
pOEllOIISy dSSOihiii6 " tiiO SiS"N
ceiyed. In the statement is a list Of
those who received grades OF SO and
100. The statement in part is as fol-
lows: From Oct l, 1905, to Jan. L,
1906, there were registered total of
633 applicants for county certificates
This total includes re-registration for
retrials Of subjects in which there
were failures, and would not represent
633 different persons. OF this number
1916 have completed the examination
and SO have passed satisfactorily and
received their certificates.
The board of secretaries of the state
board of health held a short session
last week and decided to meet again
later to hear charges against physi-
clan at Holdrege, charged with per-
forming illegal operations. The secre-
tarieS are collecting considerable evil
dence against physicians in various
parts of the state, and particularly in
Omaha, regarding these operations
and they intend to do what they can
to stop the practice. The Holdrege
physician has not yet been served with
the notice of the charges, and until
he is notified the board will not an
nounce his name. At it's next meeting
the board will also examine applicants
who desire to practice medicine.
Every state officer and every head of
a. state department is conducting his
business with an eye to finishing the
biennium without deficiency. So far
every institution and every state Off
Ger is in better condition financially
than at this time last year, that is,
the supply of money set aside to con-
duct the same for one year is not yet
used, with one exception. The Sol
dier's Home at Milford is already be-
yond it's appropriation and this insti-
tuition will report deficiency. This is
due to the many improvements that
have been made at that place during
the year.
The labor bureau is getting in some
fine pictures of harvest scenes in west
ern Nebraska, to be used in its forth
coming bulletin. This bulletin, for
which statistics are now being collect
ed, will be devoted exclusively to the
western portion of the state and it
will show this section of the country
as it was years ago as semi-arid re-
gion and what is is now, one of the
most productive parts Of the whole
country. The bulletin will be issued
shortly.
Insurance companies are getting
busy with their applications for agents
licenses. Up to this time 1000 licenses
have been written. Last year there
were writtn in all 1900, and it is be-
lieved from the way the applications
are coming in there will be many
more agents licensed this year. The
state charges $500 each for non-resi-
dent companies and so cents for resi-
dent companies.
The state board Of purchase and sup
plies let the contract to Spraniger Bros,
Of Lincoln to furnish groceries to the Lin
coin asylum and to Herr Kip, of Hast
ings. for groceries for the Hastings asy-
lum.