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Eli M. Burger (Wm. E. Minnie M. John E.), Wm. J. Burger (Flora), Samuel Kill- patrick (Franklin, Wm. T., Rhoda L. E., M. A. E.), H. C. Denman (Jeanie), Wm. Barber (Cora, Ennis), C. T. Poe (Sarah B. Furger- son, Frederick, Margeret Foe), J. T. Stearns (Alonza, Minie, Stephen, Tabitha, Hattie),
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Elic Grayham (George, Thomas Warren), An- thony Altoff (Joan), Mary M. Smith (Marsh- all, Marry, Mariah and Alice).
DISTRICT NO. 8 (WOOD RIVER)
In 1873 the annual report of School Dis- trict No. 8 showed ten boys and eleven girls residing in the district of school age, and six boys and twelve girls of school age attend- ing the school and two under five years of age. Sixty days of school were held during the term, as reported by David Barrick, director, on April 5, 1873, and the teacher was Re- becca Hilerman, whe served for $30 per
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month. Expenditures for the term were teacher $59, with $31 due, fuel $15.
The families living in the district, in 1873 who had children of school age were Lewis Abbott (Warren W.), David Barrick (Mary C., Ina R.), Nicholas Burkerd (Ida, Julius), John Conners (Fannie), Otto Homan (Wil- liam, Mary, Andrew ), Franklin Howe (John), Samientha Hunt (Fannie), Josephus H. Mur- phy (Alice, Nellie, Newton), Nathaniel Ramsdel (Harry, Ruben), Charles E Towne (Edwin S.), Frederick T. Welch (Etta, Al- ford, Angeline), Benjamin Wagner (Mary). The report for 1872 showed some other families; Samuel Guy (Mary, Belle and Franklin), M. Hilerman (Servina, Anna, Wil- lis, Adda), and William Wells (Wallace).
SCHOOLS OF WOOD RIVER
As early as 1864 there was instituded a school at Old Wood River with an attend- ance of from five to ten pupils. This school
was continued until some years later it was organized into District No. 5. It was not until 1872 that the settlement was advanced sufficiently around the present site of Wood River to organize a school. In that year Dis- trict No. 8 was organized with Hi Jones, David Barrick and Joseph Dunphy as a board of trustees and Miss Rebekah Hileman (later Mrs Hi Jones) was installed a teacher in a little school house just outside the present corporate limits of Wood River, and eleven pupils were enrolled. Following Miss Hile- man, John Allan, so well known to Hall County people for his long faithful service as clerk of the district court and abstractor in years since then, "taught the young idea how to shoot." In 1882 Charles Thompson was elected principal and Mrs. Anna Buden- burg assistant, with two additional teachers. It was in this year that the large frame school building was commenced, it having at that time four rooms. Prof. Thompson was succeeded by Prof. F. L. Morris who had charge of the schools from the fall of 1883 to the fall of 1885, when Prof. Thomp- son was again elected principal and served in that capacity until 1888 when he was suc- seeded by Prof. W. L. Sprague, who con- tinued at the head of the school until 1894 when he accepted a position as cashier of the Citizens' State Bank. Following Prof. Sprague came Prof. A. H. Seymour, and in 1895 he was succeeded by Prof. J. H. Ellison, who taught for one year, and his successor was Prof. J. A. Beard who stayed four years. Prof. Baker, 1902-1907; Stephenson, 1907- 1909; Hull, 1909-1912; Vance, 1912-1913; Colbert, 1913-1914, and in 1914, Prof. Julian, who is still in charge of Wood River's schools came.
In recent years Wood River has erected a splendid school building, modern in every respect.
DISTRICT NO. 12 (ALDA)
The report for the year 1872, made by Thos. Mitchell, director, showed nine boys and six- teen girls of school age, with eleven boys and twelve girls actually attending school in that
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district. One hundred and twenty days of Hancock (Pearly, Minnie, Thomas), W. H. school were taught by John Harrison and Mrs. Jump (Myrtle and Ethel), and M. Mann (George). Jenny Sweet, each teaching one-half term. The school house cost $1,790 to build, repairs $4 and rent $15 were shown also for that year. Fuel was $24.90, and $210 was paid to the teachers.
The families then residing in the district, with children of school age were: Wallace Spirk (Cora, Mary, Florence), W. Farr (Earnest), C. L. Goodrich (Eva Goodrich), Mrs. McCarty (Catherine), D. Barnholster (George, Mary, Elizabeth), Jenny Sweet (Minie), Mr. Straub (James, William, George, Lydie, Amelia, Mary and Gorden), A. J. Lockeby (Hiram), John Watsen (Claten, Martha), J. H. Andrews (William), William Mitchell (Merty), E. Brown, guardian (Ad- die Delap), and Thomas Mitchell (H. F., John and Caudis ).
Text books used were Worcester's spell- ing, Hillard's readers, John H. French's arith- metic, Gyatt's geographies, Harvey's grammar and Goodrich's histories.
DISTRICT NO. 72 (CAIRO)
A petition was presented on August 30, 1886, signed by the proper number of quali- fied resident tax-payers asking that certain sections be detached from School District 58 and joined with certain sections in District 64, and a new district formed. The petition was sworn to and presented by O. L. Brainard. After being favorably acted upon, this new dis- trict became No. 72. A partial report was made for the school year beginning in the fall of 1886 by District 72 and part of the work re- ported by District 58, by G. W. Tingley, director, filed on the 8th of April, 1887, a new school census, which showed the follow- ing families then residing in that new district, who had children of school age: G. W. Ting- ley (Belle, Edwin, Walter G.), Wm Thomp- son (Maybell), Geo Elfers (Birtha), Mr. Chase (Edward, John, Arthur, Chase), (Al- bert Wingert), Wm. Ofield (Frank, William, Mary, Lottie, Reta, Lucy, Emma, Ida), D. T. Cline (Bessie, Lucien Cline, Carrie Hammer), Sherman Dunlap (Nellie Gillette), Joseph
During the tern ending in 1887, the teacher was Lura Maxon, and the report showed eleven boys and sixteen girls between five and twenty-one years and two below five in at- tendance. Sixty days of school were held for the term, and the teacher received $30 per month.
DISTRICT NO. 80
Upon October 12, 1901, Fred Stolley filled a petition with the county superintendent, ask- ing that all land situated between the south channel and the north bank of the the middle channel of the Platte River, now in District Number 28 be set out and formed in a district known as District No. 80. That "if said peti- tion should be granted that it be done upon the condition that if at any time there is no need for a school in said newly formed district, the land shall fall back to district twenty- eight."
This new district was the last regularly formed district in Hall County, and at the opening of the year 1919 was running under the direction of its original board, Fred Stol- ley, Grand Island, Mrs. A. Schimmer, Grand Island, and Julius Peters, Grand Island.
DISTRICT NO. 101
Hall County's youngest school district is her share of a new consolidated district formed in the extreme southeastern corner, out of territory in Clay, Adams, Hamilton and Hall Counties.
The Hall County students attending this consolidated school for school year were: Imogene, Genevieve and Lucile, children of Wm. Hazle, Trumbull, Nebraska, Lucile, daughter of W. E. Christopher, Raymond and Elgin, children of Homer Loucks, Marjorie and Delbert, children of Truman Barrows, Thomas and Marie, children of L. Stevenson, Harold, son of John Hazle, and Elwood, son of F. E. Castle.
The number of children of school age in Hall County has been increasing steadily dur- ing the past decade. The same condition ap-
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plies to school children in the city of Grand Island. But the school population in the rural districts, or outside Grand Island, has been growing less during the past ten years.
This astonishing fact was shown when the school census taken in each rural school dis- trict was compiled in the office of county superintendent in 1919. A comparison of the census facts of this year with 1918 dis- covers that there were 147 children fewer in the rural districts this year than in 1918. In fact there are fewer school children now than ten years ago in the rural districts.
Reasons for this state of affairs are diffi- cult to find. Sonie explanations have been offered, but naturally they are only guesses. One is that many farmers have been moving to Grand Island in order to take advantage of better school facilities permitted there. An- other suggestion is that the birth rate has been lower, large families not being so customary as in former years.
The total number of children of school age - that is, between five and twenty-one - in the county outside of Grand Island, as shown by the 1919 census is 3,058. In 1918 there were 3,205 children of school age in the rural districts. Ten years ago, or in 1909, there were 3,188 children in the same school districts.
The following table shows changes in school population. The first column shows the year, the second column shows the total school population, the third column shows the city school population, and the last column the school children in the rural districts.
Year
County
City
Rural
1919
3,058
1918
6,725
3,520
3,205
1917
.6,421
3,375
2,986
1916
.6,297
3,311
2,986
1915
.6,347
3,250
3,097
1914
6,194
3,149
3,045
1913
.6,156
3,040
3,116
1912
. 6,094
2,870
3,224
1911
5,783
2,676
3,107
1910
5,707
2,553
3,154
1909
5,840
2,652
3,188
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A comparison also was made by The In- dependent of the changes in school population in other towns in the county than Grand Is- land. The result showed Wood River had more school children than ten years ago. Alda had fewer school children this year than in 1909. The same is true with Doniphan. Cairo has more this year than in 1909, though fewer than in any of the five years previous to 1919. During the entire eleven years, 1909 to 1919 inclusive, the banner year according to school population was 1912 for Wood River, 1909 for Alda, 1916 for Doniphan, and 1916 for Cairo.
The following table shows the changes in school population in these towns since 1909:
Year
Wood River
Alda
Doni phan
Cairo
1919
325
93
165
152
1918
301
93
174
177
1917
304
93
174
194
1916
322
89
195
207
1915
332
82
182
195
1914
315
78
168
161
1913
311
93
159
140
1912
334
100
157
154
1911
318
81
161
139
1910
308
97
165
135
1909
319
101
174
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GRAND ISLAND BUSINESS AND NORMAL COLLEGE
Another excellent educational institution which though a private institution has been an iportant factor in the educational activities of Hall County, is the Grand Island Business and Normal College. This institution was started in 1885 by Prof. Hargis, Prof Rucker and Prof Evans. The beginning was very small with an insignificant number of pupils, and some of the citizens came to the assist- ance by buying certificates of scholarship, though they had no immediate use for them. During the slow progress of the first years of the school, Profs. Evans and Rucker re- tired, and Prof Hargis and his wife, the sister of Prof. Evans and then the teacher of short- hand in the school, took sole charge. The number of scholars grew rapidly, the faculty
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enlarged and more rooms added to the quar- ters of the school. By 1897 the institution used the whole upper floor of a building at Third and Spruce. A business course, a nor- mal course, and a shorthand course have been the main courses offered by the school. The school has in recent years been quartered in the five-story building at South Locust street, between Second and Third streets. Prof. Hargis is now residing in Los Angeles, and Prof. A. L. Dunn, who has acquired in inter- est in the school, is the resident manager of the institution. This school has grown to such proportons that it has a very numerous faculty and at times in the year has an enroll- ment exceeding 300 students. Its importance as a contributing factor to the commercial institutions of the town through the large number of students it brings from several states, for their board, room-rent and cloth- ing expenses are no small factor in the com- mercial business of the city, and its contribu- tion to the postal receipts of the town, en- title it to be considered with the commercial as well as the educational institutions of the city and county.
GRAND ISLAND COLLEGE BY REV. R. R. COON
As early as 1867 the Baptists of Nebraska, in the first meeting of the state convention, passed resolutions favoring a school of higher learning. But more than a score of years passed before a college was started in Grand Island. This city donated for these purposes property including two brick buildings and twelve to fifteen acres of land, valued at about $60,000. The school opened in October, 1892, as an academy with Prof. A. M. Wilson act- ing as president. The enrollment of pupils was fifty during that year. The year closed in doubt and discouragement.
In 1893 Dr. George Sutherland, then of Ottawa University, Kansas, was elected presi- dent and at once took charge of the work. As president, almost founder, he has rendered a service beyond estimate during eighteen years presidency. The academy was changed to a
College, indebtedness was met, a faculty was secured, and the College opened with forty students, with a score or more entering dur- ing the year. This was an encouraging and heroic beginning. But 1894 brought another year of trial, the year of the great drouth. By patience and persistence the president with the assistance of the Baptist pastor, Dr. E. F. Jorden, brought the institution through the financial crisis and gave it permanency ; Dr. Jorden's efficient work was entirely gratui- tous. The first class to graduate was in 1895 and consisted of but one person, Mrs. Grace Bentley Paine.
The administration was fortunate, about this time, in securing Dr. A. S. Merrifield as financial secretary, who during eleven years of service, raised over $100,000 for the school, securing large donations from eastern capital- ists. The city of Grand Island has been most willing with generous donations, and its finan- cial help has gone far in making the work successful.
The college at present has five buildings: the administration building, a three-story brick building with twenty-seven rooms ; Hibbs Hall, the girls dormitory, with rooms for 100 girls, the gift of John A. Hibbs of Omaha ; Grand Island Hall, boys' dormitory; these buildings have hot and cold water, electric lights, and modern conveniences; the power house; and the gymnasium, built largely by the enterprise of the students and Alumni.
The college has an excellent library of 10,- 000 volumes, now located in the rooms of the administration building, but greatly in need of a separate building. The faculty has usually numbered from twelve to fourteen during the past twenty years. More than twenty-five hun. dred students have enrolled in its history. In the hall of the main building is hanging a service flag showing seventy-nine stars, four of which are in gold; a mute but eloquent witness to the part that the students have had in the world war.
In scholarship the institution has taken a high rank. The first year the Rhodes scholar- ships were offered this was the only college or
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university in the state that successfully passed all its candidates for the examination. Many of its students have won master's and doctor's degrees in the University of Chicago. Its ora_ tors have five times taken first place in state oratorical contests. The Alumni and former students, found in almost all professions and occupations, are the greatest argument to prove the value of the institution. Scattered in all ยท parts of the state and in many other states they forcibly testify to the contribution the college has made to public welfare.
After a year, in which the college closed for the purposes of reorganizing its affairs gener- ally, the plans have been laid for reopening in 1919 on a larger scale than ever. The pros- pects for the future can best be outlined by presenting here a review of the situation, pub- lished recently in the Independent :
Mr. York, the state secretary, reported that $165,000 has already been raised in the finan- cial campaign which is just closing and that the total will probably go to $175,000. In view of the success of this effort the trustees voted to proceed at once with the selection of a standard faculty and with other plans which had been worked out for the standard- izing of the school. Dean Arthur T. Bel- knap of Franklin college has been chosen president of the institution.
President Belknap was born in Framing- ham, Mass., February 8, 1872. He grad- uated from the Framingham High School and in 1893 from Brown University, Provi- dence, Rhode Island, with the degree of A. D. Three years later he received his Master De- gree from the same institution. He is also a graduate of Newton Theological Institution, Newton Centre, Mass., and holds the degree of S. T. B. and he has been a graduate stu- dent of history in Harvard University. .
Mr. Belknap is a minister of the Baptist denomination, having been ordained at San- ford, Maine, February 26, 1897, and served on the active pastorate for a period of nine years. First at Stanford, Maine, then at An- dover, Massachusetts, and last at the Jeffer- son Street Baptist Church, Providence Rhode Island. This experience gave him an intimate knowledge of denominational organization and work and makes it possible for him to articulate readily the work of the college with the denominational needs.
In 1907 he was called to the professorship
of English and expression in Franklin Col- lege at Franklin, Indiana. He has served continuously in this position until the present time.
His popularity with the students was such that when the daily papers announced that he was considering the presidency of Grand Is- land College a petition was presented to the Board of Trustees of Franklin College re- questing that they do every thing in their power to retain the services of Dean Bel- knap at Franklin.
When he took the train at Franklin for Grand Island students and faculty escorted him in a body to the station thus expressing their deep affection for him.
His standing with the business Imen of Franklin was equally high.
After the selection of the president the Board considered applications for various other positions on the college faculty. Un- der the new plan the academy will consist of the eleventh and twelfth grades of high school work and will be operated separately from the College proper with a separate corps of instructors.
The college faculty will consist of nine mem- bers in addition to the President.
The Conservatory will be as thoroughly re- organized as the College has been. Commod- ious headquarters will be provided for the Conservatory at the college building. The present quarters in the Glover building will be retained as an annex for the convenience of the local constituency. The new conserva- tory faculty will consist of four department- al heads viz., voice, piano, violin, and expres- sion, and several assistants.
After very lengthy and careful considera- tion of all the factors involved the Board of trustees came unanimously to the conclusion that it is financially impracticable and educa- tionally unwise to operate a commercial pe- partment of business college and better deter- mined that it shall not hereafter be a part of the college work or function.
On the other hand the work of the normal department will be greatly strengthened. Courses similar to and of equal rank with the State Normal schools will be thoroughly given under the best teachers.
PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS
In addition to the splendid public school system maintained by Hall County and the colleges already detailed, there has been main-
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tained a remarkable system of parochial schools in Hall County.
The Catholic parochial school of St. Mary's is intended for the education of the children of the Catholic families, is conducted by the Sisters of Charity and gives instructions in all of the common branches, in the United States history and required subjects to pre- pare the children for entrance into the high school, or for college if they pursue its entire course of study.
The high standing of this school was at-
tested by the fact that all its teachers hold certificates complying with the new law re- quiring a teacher in parochial schools to have equal qualifications with those of a public school, and they all did so before that law was passed last spring.
The parochial schools conducted by the parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity church, and the one conducted by the Evan- gelical Lutheran St. Paul church have been treated in the church chapter.
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CHAPTER XX
FRATERNAL AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS OF HALL COUNTY
LODGES OF THE COUNTY - MASONIC LODGES - ASHLAR LODGE NO. 33, GRAND ISLAND - DEUEL CHAPTER No. 11, R. A. M. - MT. LEBANON COMMANDERY, NO. 6, K. T. - MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION - CEMENT LODGE NO. 211, WOOD RIVER - I. O. O. F. - GRAND Is- LAND LODGE NO. 22 - WOOD RIVER LODGE, 158, BY W. L. SPRAGUE - CHAMBERLAIN EN- CAMPMENT 34 - TRUTH REBEKAH (MRS. LUELLA B. NELSON) - WOOD RIVER REBEKAH 287 - KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS - NYSIAN LODGE 46 - ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORKMEN - GRAND LODGE - HARMONY LODGE 37 - CHARITY LODGE 91 - OTHER A. O. U. W. LODGES - DEGREE OF HONOR - KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS -ELKS - EAGLES - MOOSE - ROYAL HIGHLAND ERS - M. B. A .- MACCABEES - MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA - WOODMEN OF THE WORLD - BANDS - ATHLETIC ORGANIZATIONS - LODGES IN THE 'SEVENTIES - ORGANIZATIONS IN THE 'EIGHTIES - IN THE LAST QUARTER CENTURY - WHEEL CLUBS - LIEDERKRANZ PLATTSDUETCHE VEREEN - COUNTRY CLUBS - WOOD RIVER'S LODGES-DONIPHAN'S
LODGES - ST. CECELIA SOCIETY - T. P. A. - U. C. T. - LADIES AUXILIARY B. OF R. T. - Y. M. C. A. - Y. W. C. A.
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The social advantages of Hall County have been all that could be desired by any commun- ity. Every noteworthy fraternal ,organiza- tion has been represented in this county, and many extraordinary social organizations have organized here. A review of these gives a kaliedoscopic view of the development of the community, and the changing habits and tastes of the people from decade to decade.
A careful compilation of these organiza- tions from year to year has brought to this list many organizations, clubs and lodges which formed, flourished a few years, and disap- peared from public view. Of many of these which have ceased activity no lengthy details have been collected, but it has been felt that they should not be entirely forgotten. An equal opportunity has been given to all of the existing organizations to furnish facts relat- ing to their history, and it will be noted that a majority of them have responded, at least in- sofar as the present officers could do so. In several instances past records seem to have been lost or misplaced, and in a few other
instances no response has been received, though about seven months of opportunity has been extended to furnish such information. This explanation is made so that the reader will understand there has been no intention to favor any one order or organization with more attention than any other. An organization which has been conducted for thirty or forty years steadily and whose records are such that full detailed roster of the members who have carried its burdens and responsibilities are available, naturally and deservedly receives a liberal space for its historical presentation.
MASONIC LODGES
The first manifestation of lodge activity in Hall County was the formation of a Masonic lodge. The low number assigned to the Grand Island lodge of this order also shows that its formation was rather early in the lodge history of the state of Nebraska.
Ashlar Lodge No. 33, A. F. & A. M., the first lodge of this order in Hall County, was organized October 5, 1870, and at the session
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of the Grand Lodge at Lincoln in 1871 appli- cation was made in proper form for a charter and the same was granted. Its report then showed thirty-four Master Masons, nineteen initiated, seventeen passed, and seventeen raised. The charter members were O. A. Ab- bott, Sr., Jos. B. Adams, Chas. E. Ames, P. H. Baylor, Daniel C. Bond, John J. Bowers, Horace M. Chapman, Phillip Dietz, Ludwig Engle, L. J. Hanchett, J. P. Handy, C. P. Henderson, Jos. Hensley, Chas. L. Howell, F. H. Huff, Jno. T. Hutchinson, Robert C. Jordon, B. B. Kelly, W. T. Kelley, Warren Lloyd, Patrick Touhey, Henry Makeley, James Michelson, John D. Moore, Elias Meunch, C. Obermiller, C. E. Robinson, L. W. Rollins, O. B. Sharpless, Samuel W. Smith, C. W. Thomas, Geo. H. Thummel, Jas. Tout, C. D. M. Washburn, and Geo. E. Wilson. The first officers were R. C. Jordon, W. M., O. A. Abbott, S., G. E. Wilson, S. W., S. J. Saxe S. D., G. H. Thummel, J. W., Elias Munch, J. D., P. H. Baylor, treasurer, and W. Loyd, tyler.
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