Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-01
Nebraska
ANY NANT NORMAL SCHOOL
I'd Being Importuned to Secure
New Institution.
'1E1LL MAKING STRONG PULL
Or. saeIIhOrn of Peru and Membe
Mcdonald of Kearney VIII Have
Much TO Say Regarding
at Location.
From a staff Correspondents

(From a starr correspondent
LINCOLN, Dec. 31.-(Special)-Judged by
he letters which are being received by
the members of the State Normal board,
int f4oin the location pf the new normal
Z Sc at a fever heat in those towns
p. W o. aeare competitors Tor the school.
MuJs Florence link, superintendent Of
schools of Holt county, has written the
board her reasons for wanting the school
at O'Neill. Others have urged O'Nelll, but
O'Neill Is not included In the itinerary or
the board rs mapped out, and, according
to the members in LincQan, they have not
yet received a proposition from ONeiU'
though they understood one Is to be made.
II the proposition is filed after the board
starts out II is likely another trip Will
be made TO the Holt county town after
I the board returns home next Saturday.
Miss gZink sets tout IN her letter the
number Of teachers employed in Holt
county and estimated how many students
could be expectedEto attend such a school.
Holt county has more teachers, she wrote,
than practically all the other northwest
countiesl Of the state combined and O'Neill
conducted the largest junior normal on
any town in the state.
a Considerable speculation has been In
20 led b regarding the chances of the
Nkk4ous towns and the board sembers are
+fmost bewiidered with the amount Of good
things said about each.
" Two Members VIII Decide.
N From the start Alliance appeared to have
the lead in favor with the dopesters, but
much depends upon the attitude of Or.
shellhorn Of Peru and Member Mcdonald
OF Kearney. II has been figured that
a school at Alliance will, draw from the
territory of both of the old normal schools,
owing to good train connections between
the places, while IL the school were to be
located at Crawford,ibhe territory which
supports Kearney Normal school and from
which Peru also draws students would not
be affected. The Crawford people are
urging the members from Kearney and
Peru to think about their own institutions.
Other objection urged against Alliance Is
\ that It has only one. railroad, the Burling-
ton. A town with two railroads would have
two big interests advertising the school
and bringing in students, so the advocates
q of O'Nehl contend. That town is on both
the Burlington and Northwestern Should
Alliance discover 1t was. not to secure the
school, it is said, friends of that town
would prefer the school going to O'Neill, as
y that would not affect Alliance getting a
school later.
Trip Begins sunday.
Advocates Of O'NeilI are quoting from
the report Of former State Superintendent
. McBrien that no normal school is needed
in the west or northwestern part Of the
state for normal raining in high schools
and the junior normals offer sufficient
schooling to supply the needs in that dis
trict at the present time and for some
yearsiCot jaoa8ia -J 40 nf1c,
Obtectionj1tp OMEN hasL been urged be
cause Of its .closeness totWayne, where the
state has just bought a normal school
The towns are about. 100 miles apart and
o'Neill advocates insist that both are
needed and that students who would attent
school at O'Neil would not go to Wayn,
we're there no school at the Holt count!
town. ~ N. 'S
In the meantime the board members ar
saying nothing, but each insists that h
had no idea where the school is to- h
located. The board viii start out on It
rip Sunday night. / will visit Alliauc
irst.
Banquet for Teachers.
The banquet to be given on the occasion
of the meeting of the superintendent an,
principals of school at their meeting her
in January has been set for January 10 an
will be held at the Lincoln hotel. Superin
tendent Fred NJ Hunter of Norfolk will b
the POSTMASTER and NLS e. Mumford o
Lincoln will be master OF ceremonies.
other Business to Transact.
When the normal board starts out on 1t
trip next Sunday night it will probabl
have settled before itlreturns considerabl
business aside from inspecting the site
for a normal school.
While the information does not com
from a board member 1t is learned fro'
most reliable sources that the board WI
conduct a general shaking up of the Per
normal school. This shaking up will nav
to do with some action being taken regard
ing Principal Crabtree. 1t was freely pre-
dlcted before the court handed down II
decision, holding the law which abolishe
the present board Unconstitutional, tha
~ in case the court held that way, Mr.. Graf
tree would be asked to resign. This b'
caused IL was charged that the superinter
dent Of the Peru school urged the passas
OF the bill which had for its object tn
abolition OF the. present board. Whetn,
the board has any direct evidence tina
Mr.. CrabtreeS did take an active part in Ii