Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

increasing traffic imperatively demands, Is
in contemplation for the immediate future.
The confidence the poole OF this COM
munity have in their financial institutions
has been fostered by knowledge of the
conservatism that has attended their man
agement McCook's banks weathered the
panic of 1893 and the years that followed,
and stand at this time monuments to the
sagacity Of their founders, for, while
changes have occurred in the directorates
and among the officials, all of the banks
are today under the control of the same
men who were active in their establish
ment. The fact that no bank failures are
to be recorded during the life of the city
is the more remarkable when it is recalled
that the financial storms that brought
disaster to so many in the last decade of
the last century swept the country at a
critical period of its history, when the
country was new, and before they had
emerged from that peculiar economic con-
dition incident to newness. The financial
institutions have grown from the small be-
ginnings of but little more than twenty
years ago, until today their combined re-
sources aggregate nearly 81, $4,000.
The city has a good system of water
works that furnish 100000 gallons of water
~ ho9 . AAAG ahNAA Aa Nhe anu NA'No
are the result largely, OF this excellent
water supply.
The business done by the postoffice lie
the best index to a city's prosperity. The
receipts of the office for the last year
amounted to more than $1,000. City delivery
was installed on November 10, 1908, with
three carriers. More than 10000 people are
served from this office. The county has
pIauap rurat routas QUAR- uuhfab q9S rniIac
are covered daily.
The public school system Of McCook has,
almost since It's establishment, enjoyed an
: enviable reputation because OF the high
standard, of excellence maintained. The
? Board of Education has been fortunate In
the selection of the office of superintendent
: of men of more than ordinary attalnments.
The teaching force now comprises twenty
D six teachers There are 1,104 children of
e school age. The first high school class
( graduated in 1886, and the total number of
graduates is 215. The schools are houses in
70 five buildings, including a high school
Q building, constructed within the last two
a years, at a cost of nearly $4,000. The Nc
y Cook High school is an accredited school,
its graduates entering the state university
without examination. In connection with
9 the public school system may be mentioned
9 the junior normal school, held in McCook
I each summer, which is open to the teach
: ers Of southwestern Nebraska. Eight In
y structors are employed and more than 25(
> attend. Red Willow county has eighty-two
o school districts. only one of these is a sod
> building. In the towns of the county nine
e months school is held, the average length
" of the terms in the county being sever
months. There are S,76S children of schoo
o age. At the National Corn exposition held
/ in Omaha, December. 1908, a Red Willow
:, county boy, Lester Randel, 10 years OF age
II received first prize for the best exhibition
b" of corn, and Bertha Hess received frs
prize offered for work aprons.
V The new Carnegie library. built in mis-
a sion style, has more than 5000 volumes
# and thirty-four newspapers and period
s. Gals are subscribed for, Any resident o
Is the county may avail himself of the op
portunities it affotds. McCook has literar!
and social clubs almost without numbe
y and the town Is well supplied with lodg,
II rooms, some of which are occupied ever!
st night in the week. McCook's spiritual need
le are ministered to by church organization
r of several denominations. The First Meth
odist Episcopal church dedicated a beauti
ID full new building of cement stone abou
four years ago. The Catholics also have
new brick structure. The Baptists. Con
(, gregstionalists, Episcopalians, Christians
German Lutherans, Second Methodist Epis
ccpal church and Seventh Day Adventist