Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-21
NORMAL BOARD IN SESSION
Members Order Fireproof Building
for the Pumping Plant.
PERU ATHLETICS PAY OUT
Difference with Teachers Conn
mIttec over Selection of Teacher
in Physical CuIture in chad
ron Normal school.
(From a staff Correspondents


providing for replacing the water plant |
Of the Peru Normal, destroyed by fire |
recently II is estimated flreproof |
building for the pumping plant will cost
between $500 and 5000 and the execu-
tive committee of the board was en- |
powered to advertise for bids and let the |
contract. Bids for a pumping engine |
ranged from 1856 for twenty-horse- |
power gasoline engine to S6l1 for a |
horsepower coal oil engine The |
letting of this contract also was left TO /
the executive committee.
The athletic board OF the Peru Normal |
reported that II had wound up the season |
with all bills paid and si,SS in tho treas
ury, against a deficit OF $500 last year,
which had been paid out current re-
ceipts and some cash funds which the |
board had granted permission TO use
for this purpose.
Different in Coal weights.
The Peru Normal also reported some |
differences in weights of coal between |
the school authorities and the White |
breast Coal company, the contractor On |
thirteen carloads there was a shortage |
of twenty-six tons from billed weight, |
which neither the railroad nor the coal |
company was willing to stand, one as
Sorting tho weights were correct as
billed and the other denying any re-
sponsibiity. The board decided It would |
make the coal company a proposition to |
split tho difference and pay for thirteen |
tons, the company to lose thirteen. The |
offer was based on the fact that there |
was some question about the accuracy OF
the scales at Peru. where a portion OF
the coal was received and weighed.
wayne Normal Growing.
Reports from the Wayne Normal indi-
Gated that school is growing at crafty
ing rate. At the opening of the school !
year the registration was less than 100
and today Is is 800, while another 100 is
anticipated by the opening Of the next
semester. The new library and science
building is now enclosed and will be
completed in about four months.
The following were reported from Peru
as applicants for life certificates to
teach: Rose Baller Luella Fairchild,
Mary Ellen Foss, Theodore A. Frye. W. |
ID. Fulton, Sara e. Gibbons. w. c.
Harpster, Helen NJ. Johnson, Zella Mes
senger, -Sorah s. Shambaugh, Ora A.
Spencer, Minnie B. Sublette, Dora May
Taylor, Leila w, Thomas, Jare B. Ware,
Norman G. Wiekland.
students VINO Graduates
The following members of the senior
class OF, 1912 were reported as having
been approved for graduation:
Goldie Aplegate, Wesley Boyle Fulton,
Carrie Hansen, Elizabeth De Powers,
Marie Lind Swan, Darle M. Taylor, Leila
Winitred Thomas. .
\ For; graduation subject to completion Of
work Stella Eta F,aiHchiId and Rola F.
1roerot xuara ranortad
The following students have complied
with all of the laws OF the state and the
regulations Of the school relative to life
certificates at Kearney. These were al
lowed at the last meeting OF the board
and the list is herewith provided
Lillian Nilsson Cole.
Enid NJ. Conklyn,,
Louie Holingsworth
Lena Muckle.
Marguerite PreisS
Katherine Troupe.
Mary Daughherty.
Nettie Vosburg.
Mrs. Martha Watts.
Mrs. Margaret 70. West
Anna Rice.
Mrs. Margaret Axmaker.
Florence Miles.
Change Teachers' Report.
LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 20.-(special Tele-
gram. 1.-THE state board of education
turned down the recommendation of the
teachers committee, composed OF State
superintendent Delzeil, N. p. Mcdowell
and DR.. Shellhorn, in the matter of a
teacher OF expression and physical Gull
ture at Chadron normal. The teachers
committee has in the past practically
controlled these appointments, but other
members of the board concluded It was
time they had something to say on such
matters
The teachers committee wanted Miss
Edna Fox of Illinois for the position, but
the other members out-voted them and
selected Miss Elizabeth Hopkins Of Den
yer. Cole.
Lincoln Monument Pedestal,
A representative OF the Chicago firm
which has the contract for erecting the
pedestal and the big granite block which
is to back up the Lincoln monument on
the capitol grounds. is in the city and
announces he is ready to proceed with
the work. AS soon as weather condi-
tons viii permit the location will be sur
veyed and the work begun.
First Bridge with state Ala.
The first contract under the new state
aid bridge law will soon be let The state
engineers office has opened bids for a
structure In Boone county, over the Cedar
river, three-quarters of mile from Cedar
Rapids. The county has made an appro-
priation for its share of the work The
lowest bid for steel construction is sub
mitted by the Canton Bridge company
and is $7l960. The next lowest is by the
Western Bridge company Of Omaha,
$500. The highest is by II. b. Thompson
OF Kansas City, 3lS. 1873, The specifications
call for two spans Of liz feet each, high
truss, with concrete, piers.
The Lincoln Construction company is
the lowest bidder for concrete bridge,
5000. The plans cali for four fifty-foot
concrete arches The company offers TO
build the bridge under its own specflca-
lions for $3.50 The highest bid on con-
crete construction was J. w. Turner of
Des Moines and was $500 The bridge
is designed to carry twenty-ton trac-