Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-16
NOTES FROM PERU NORMAL.
Annual Opening session OF Debating
Clubs Held saturday.

Clubs Held saturday.
The annual open session Of the Cicero
man and Athenian Debating clubs was
held last Saturday in the Normal audi
torim. The program, which was one Of
the very best Of the school year, was as
follows Music by the instrumental quartet,
Misses Rose Banks, Neva Best. Venus
Mueller and Miss Mabel Banks; Grafton,
"Demosthenes," Mabel A. Bruner; grafton,
"A Foot Ball Classic" j. b. Dennis; ora
ton, Daniel Webster" c. j. Skinner;
recitation, Martha Gntner; debate, Re
solved, That All Cities Of the United
States Should Be Granted Absolute Home
Rule" affirmative. June d. McMrlen and
Mary Wright; negative, Lenore Muehleis
and Lawrence Dirks; music by the vocal
quartet, Misses Emma Falter and Bessie
Gasklll and Messrs Lee Roberts and Jo-
sephGoldstein.
The Normal base ball team defeated
Tarkio (MoJ yesterday at Tarkio by
score OF to 0.
c. A. Otradovec 1905, superintendent of
the Platte Center schools, has an entire
corps of Peru Normal teachers. All have
been reelected for the coming year.
The athletic board has purchased a fine
new bulletin board for it's announcements.
The members of the Twelfth Night
cast held a picnic in the woods Tuesday
evening. The woods about Peru are very
beautiful at this season OF the year and
picnics are the order of the day.
Harry Beck, principal at Filley and son
of Prof F. NJ. Beck OF the Normal, has
been elected to the principalship OF the
Rising City schools.
Superintendent r. c. Harris of Jefferson
county was in Peru this week. He gave
short talk at convocation Tuesday morn
Ing.
The students of the piano department of
the Normal, under direction of Miss Effie
Austin, are planning recital to be given
next week.
Profs. c. b. Cornell, h. l.. Rouse, Her
bert Brownell, W. N. Delzell and Presi-
dent j. W. Crabtree attended the School
masters club at Lincoln Friday.
The matter of the Peruvian, the senior
class publication at the Normal, was pre-
scented TO the student body by the seniors
Tuesday morning and over 800 subscriptions
were received. The book Is one of the
very best ever planned by a class In the
Normal and will contain material on every
department In the school. 1t will contain
picture and writeup of each of the $50
seniors and also pictures OF the different
clubs and organizations Of the. Normal
The Missouri debating squad is at War
rensburg, Mo, where 1t will debate the
question, Resolved, That All Cities in
the United States Should Be Granted Abb
solute Home Rule" The speakers for
Peru are Ira Crook, C. j. Skinner and Jo-
seph Goldstein. Prof. f. M. Gregg the
coach, accompanied the squad on the trip.
The judges are City Attorney ]. T. Hard
ing of Kansas City, Mo-; Prof. Hopkins OF
Lawrence, Kan, and Attorney Falcon of
Falls City, Neb. II Peru wins this debate
II will have won all the debates this year,
having already won the double debate with
Kearney.
Gordon Beck has been offered a position
In the WILDER schools at gratifying in
crease in salary.
At a recent meeting of the Normal board
Prof. Herbert Brownell, who has been Of
fered a good position at the state uni
versty, was given a raise in salary and
made dean of the Normal faculty. 1t is
hoped that these inducements will influence
him to remain in Peru.
Clarence T. Patterson. a former student
Of the Normal, who has been in the navy
for more than two years, in which time he
has Travelled around the world, has been
granted a twenty days furlough and is in
Peru visiting his mother. He has many
interesting things to tell about his expert
ences with the navy.
Superintendent E. W. Marcellus, who
graduated from the Normal In 1905, has
been unanimously reelected at Crete.
]. IL. Williams, 190S, principal of the
Broken Bow High school, is making
record for himself. He has been reelected
for another year at $50 increase in sal
airy and is also one of the junior normal
summer school faculty for Broken Bow.