Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
Nebraska
IBID TO OLD NORMAL BOARD
Alliance Submits Proposal for Loca.
ton of New School.
PULLMAN SEATS MAY BE FREE
Passenger Need Not Pay Extra for
Them I'm Case There Are No
seats for Them in the nay
Coaches.
lFrom q SAD CotTespondent.l


LINCOLN. Aug. 2s-(Special)-The Com
mercial club Of Alliance showed its faith
In the "old" Normal board by submitting
to II a proposition for the new normal
school. The Commercial club sent 20
Luther P. Ludden. secretary. an offer to
give to the state eighty acres Of land. 20
be selected from four tracts, II the school
is located there. Enclosed with the prop
ositlon were several petitions from neigh
boring towns asking that the school be To-
Gated there, and also a statement signed
by numerous business men offering a bond
Of $4,000 to guaranty title to the property.
president Childs Of the old board has not
g yet called a meeting, but he Is expected to
do 30 within a few days. as the school Is
to be located between the 1st and 10th of
the month.
In the meantime friends OF the old board,
which was legislated out Of business by the
late democratic legislature. have looked up
the record and discovered that the appro-
priation for the new normal school was
made previous TO the creation Of the new
Normal board, and for that reason these
friends believe the legislature intended to
have the old board locate the new school.
Busy NJ Fair Grounds.
The state fair grounds have every in
niCntiOn OF a real IdlEf NHohbn II uotS
not begin for a week from Monday.
Scores Of men are at work putting up
tents, cleaning up buildings and putting
A-up machinery, several carloads already
having been placed upon the grounds.
n Temporary stalls are being fitted up ad-
Joining both the cattle and horse barns,
because the entries have exceeded the
room In both departments. The machin-
cry exhibit this year will surpass any
previous year. Though eighty-four more
stalls were provided for horses this year,
It was found necessary to construct
additional stalls for temporary use.
President Ridge and Secretary Miller
went to Des Moines tonight to spend
Monday visiting the Iowa fair. They
will return Monday night. The fair man
agement has been notified that an In
= structor from Fort Collins will be pres
ent to hear b.. +. Kingsley deliver his
address on draft horses.
Mixup on AdvertisIng.
The new State Normal board has evil
IDENTIFY slipped up on its dates, for II is
advertising in several paper that the board
will receive bids for the construction OF
the buildings at Kearney and Peru up to
August 10 to be opened August 20. At the
last meeting OF the board. when only one
y bid was received for one OF the buildings
hnu lone LOT the OlneT, lnt beCT6ldTy Wdt
authorized to readvertise. And so the
same advertisements are still running. tc
be paid for by the state. Incidentally the
ads for coal bids are also still running
though the coal was bought at the last
meeting Of the board.
Pullman seats Free.
At the request of the Union Pacific and
the Pullman company. the state Railway
commission has modified its order relat.
ing to the sale of seat tickets on trains
Nos. 7 and s Of the Union Pacific. The
new order issued today, following a con
ference OF the commission and officials
of the Pullman and railroad company. pro
vldes that no seats may be sold on thes'
trains, but that when the local coach II
full. passengers are entitled to any vacan
seats on the parlor and sleeping car with
out extra charge. 1t is provided, however
the passenger who is riding in the parlo
car without cost must return to the coaCl
whenever there Is a seat for him there
A chair car has been attached to thes
trains for the use of local passengers
Trains Nos. l and 2 will carry no loca
passengers, the railway commission hav
ing decided to permit those trains to b
un exclusively for Interstate business.
Thomas Finishes Speaking Tour.
President A. o. Thomas Of the Kearne,
Normal school was here today on his wa
home after speaking at Bethany last night
That speech wound up the speaking seaso
for Or. Thomas. who has made forty-on
addresses in the state of Nebraska sine
\the first of January. The Kearney Norma
chool opens September 10, and DIR, Thoma
expecting the largest attendance in tn
story OF the institution.
Son Visits Insane Father.
After an absence of seven years, cause
a family arrangement Henry Pittcocl
e old man confined in the county jail a
sane, was visited by his son Friday. TIL
ther went to Michigan and there RENAL
a. The son is working In Falls City ant
ing that a man of his fathers name wa
fined at Lincoln, came up to see II
his parent.
letter was received from the secon
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