The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-01
Frank PiIger to Live Here.

Frank Pilgcr, for years county su.
pcrintendent of Pierce county, has
moved his family to Norfolk and af.
ter his present term with Pierce coun-
ty expires on Jan. /, he himself will
move from Pierce and make Norfolk
his future home. Mr.. Pilger has rent
ed Mrs. Fosters home at PIP South
Twelfth street. As publisher and edi-
| tor of the Nebraska School Review
and manager of the Huse.Pilger
school supply business. Mr.. Pilger be-
| lieves he will have plenty of work to
do in Norfolk. Mr.. Pilger has been
superintendent of Pierce county since
| 1904
For three successive years he has
been the first superintendent in the
state to file his annual report with
the state superintendent, which is
considered great honor among
county superintendent.
Frank Pilger Started his career in
the county education work while he
was very young. He was born on a
farm at Bloomington, Neb, on May
10, 1877. On this farm the present
Bloomington city school now stands.
His father and thirteen other pioneers
who came west from Wisconsin in
1871 organized the town of Blooming
ton. His father was a brother to Au-
gust Pilger, a Norfolk pioneer who
died some years ago.
Frank Pilger lived on this farm un-
til he was | years old, when his par
ents moved to Plainview where he at
tended both the country and town
schools. He graduated from the
Plainview high school when he was
1S years old and began teaching, but
when he was 10 years old he took up
another years course in the Plain
view high school. Until he was 20,
he spent the summer months in the
summer schools at Plainview. When
he was % years old he entered the
normal school at Plainview for a
year, teaching there a part of the
| time. When he was % he had charge
of the grammar school at Neigh.
In 1901 he was a candidate for Coun-
| ty superintendent of Pierce county
and was defeated by seventy-one
votes, his successful opponent being
| w. n. Stevenson, who was reelected.
Mr.. Pilger resigned during the same
year at the beginning of the holiday
vacation and became deputy county
clerk of Wayne county and had en-
tire charge of the county clerks of
| flee, acting as head deputy for two
years. While serving as deputy in
| 1903 he became candidate a second
time for the superintendency of Pierce
county and was elected. He took Of
flee in 1904 and has been serving con
tinuously ever since. He was not a
candidate this year.
| Mr.. Pilger is a cousin of DR.. w. II.
Pilger and C. II. Pilger of Norfolk.
Besides being ranked among the
first county superintendent in the
state, Mr.. Pilger is highly spoken of
among school teachers who have kept
in close touch with him. 1t is said
of Mr.. Pilger that not another super
intendent in the state is closer to the
teacher than he. Only recently he
has been appointed to address school
teachers on questions of Importance
to teachers. He will deliver about
ten of these lectures, which are said
to be very fine. In one of his lee
lures Mr.. Pilger spares no words in
telling the teacher two sides of her
life. First, he pictures the pupils
ideas of a teacher and the pupils
thoughts, and on the other hand he
describes the teacher and points out
the good and wrong actions often
taken.