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Forerunners of the political upheaval, which began in 1890, were the earlier Fourth of July celebrations. The celebration of 1886 may be recited as an instance in point. That year there were celebrations at Hastings, Juniata and Ayr. Hastings was crowded, and hundreds were in attendance at Juniata and Ayr.
At Hastings the celebration was under the auspices of the Knights of Labor, and the trend of the political thought of the times was observable in the way the day was celebrated. A long procession formed at 10 o'clock and marched through the principal streets, headed by the Hastings Cornet Band. After the band came a large decorated wagon drawn by four white horses. Upon the wagon, which had been made into a float, sat thirty-eight girls in costume, each girl symbol- izing a state.
Here and there in the long procession banners fluttered in the breeze, and in addition to the usnal patriotic inscriptions the eye en- countered these legends:
"In The Sweat of Thy Face Shalt Thou Eat Bread." "We Are Opposed To Child Labor." "Labor And Capital Must Be Friends!" In the evening an address was delivered by the Honorable W. A. MeKeighan, of Red Cloud. The dance, too, was well attended, and a
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committee awarded the silver cup, which was offered to the most graceful waltzer by Mrs. Fensler. The day's program was well filled with sports. A cane for popularity was offered to the newspaper men, and was awarded to William Breede, who received sixty-seven votes. Mr. Breede's rival, Dick Thompson, got four votes.
While Hastings was celebrating, hundreds gathered at Juniata and Ayr for the festivities. At the former place a large pavilion had been erected, and thither came the procession led by the Juniata band, arriving at the pavilion shortly after 10 o'clock. Hon. Albert Wat- kins, of Lincoln, and A. V. Cole, of Hastings, were the speakers. Mr. Watkins, in his address, took a democratic anti-monopoly view- point. In the evening fireworks completed an enthusiastic Independ- ence Day celebration.
Ayr, too, had a procession on that day, and hundreds assembled at the village near the Blue. A pavilion had been erected at Scott Philleo's grove, and here the celebration was held. Frank D. Tag- gart, founder of The Independent, from which the present Hastings Daily Tribune developed, delivered the patriotic address. This cele- bration is also memorable in the annals of Ayr celebrations because of the presence of Mr. Jack Wilson, one of the earliest residents and largest property owners, but who at that time was living at Oberlin, Kan. Mr. Wilson gave a history of the early days of Adams County, particularly the portions most remote from the railroads, and con- trasted the pioneer days and improvements with the great growth evidenced by the country in 1886.
The Fourth of July that year had fallen on Sunday, and the cele- brations were held on Monday. Throughout the county, on Sunday, sermons suitable for Independence Day were preached in the churches. At the same time that the celebrations were in progress, July 5, a meeting of importance to the prohibition movement in Adams County was held at Cole's Park, in the southeast quarter of Hastings. The anti-liquor forces held a picnic of their own, and organized their work for the campaign for submitting the constitutional amendment to a vote of the people, which was done four years later. The speakers at this meeting of Adams County prohibitionists were Judge Obadiah Hewitt, the Rev. Mr. Aitchison, Lewis Blank. The picnic finally resolved itself into a mass meeting with Dr. II. P. Fitch, pastor of the Baptist Church at Hastings, as chairman, and C. T. Rawalt, as secretary. Resolutions were adopted stating that inasmuch as the state representatives of Adams County had voted against the sub- mission of a constitutional amendment providing for state-wide pro- hibition to a vote of the people, "That we tender the issue of submission
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or non-submission of a prohibitory amendment as the leading question in this canvass for the election of state senators and representatives." Steps were also taken to secure an attendance of delegates from the various townships when the county convention should be called. The delegates selected to attend the state convention for the formulation of a plan of campaign to secure the necessary legislative and senatorial candidates favorable to the submission of the amendment to a vote were: J. M. Patterson, S. M. Hoagland, James E. Reed, Robert Ash, L. W. Parmenter, S. H. Smith, A. N. Hall, Dr. H. P. Fitch, L. B. Palmer. C. T. Rawalt, Judge Hewitt, Nat Brass, J. G. Hayslett and J. W. Shaw. This picnic marks the beginning of active political work on the part of the prohibitionists of the county, which continued with more or less activity and at intervals until the prohibitory amend- ment was carried in 1916.
At an election held October 12. 1875, upon the question of the adoption of the present constitution of Nebraska, Adams County cast 729 votes for the constitution and 21 against. In 1882 the amend- ment to extend the suffrage to women was voted upon in Nebraska, Adams County casting 643 votes for the amendment and 952 votes against. In 1914 woman suffrage was again voted on in Nebraska, being submitted under the principle of the initiative and the refer- endum. The vote on suffrage tied in Adams County, 1.650 being cast for the amendment and the same number against. The vote in the City of Hastings, too, was just 1,650, suffrage gaining a decided majority in the city. At the state convention of the Nebraska Equal Suffrage Association, held in Hastings in the fall of 1916 and at which Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt was present, it was decided to petition to have the subject again voted in 1918. Among the leaders of the suffrage movement in Adams County, Miss Lucy Williams of Kenesaw is a pioneer. Mrs. Charles H. Dietrich of Hastings is the present president of the county equal suffrage association. Mrs. Charles W. Brown, Mrs. John H. Slaker and Mrs. A. H. Brown are other active workers.
Charles H. Dietrich of Hastings was elected governor of Nebraska by the republicans in November, 1900, and served as chief executive of the state from January 3, 1901, to May 1, 1901. On the sixty- fourth legislative day of the Legislature of 1901 Mr. Dietrich was elected United States senator to fill the unexpired term of M. L. Hayward. A deadlock had resulted in the vote for senator between Edward Rosewater and D. E. Thompson. Mr. Dietrich was elected on the fifty-fourth ballot, seventy votes being cast for him. He served as senator until 1905. Adams County polled 1,914 votes for Mr.
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Dietrich for governor and 2,139 for his opponent, William A. Poynter.
At the first election held in the county, in 1871, twenty-nine votes were cast. The growth in the vote as cast in presidential years has been as follows: 1872, 133; 1876, 1,071: 1880, 1,997; 1884, 3,076; 1888, 3,586; 1892, 2,325; 1896, 3,918; 1900, 4,174; 1904, 3,918; 1908, 4,532; 1912, 4,166; 1916, 5,205.
The first direct primary election held in Adams County was Sep- tember 3, 1907, at which time 1,644 votes were cast; at the general election following there were 3,607 votes. In the 1908 primary there were 1,299 votes cast, and 4,597 at the general; in 1909, 2,160 at the primary and 3,720 in the general; in 1910, 1,636 at the primary and 4,225 in the general; in 1911, 2,164 in the primary and 3,975 at the general; in 1912, 2,359 in the primary and 4,245 in the general; in 1916. 3,372 in the primary and 5,205 in the general.
The elections for county officers have resulted as follows:
COUNTY CLERK
Russell D. Babcock 1871
A. H. Cramer 1873
A. H. Cramer 1875
A. H. Cramer 1877
Robert B. Tussey 1879
Robert B. Tussey
1881
George Spicknall 1885
1883
George Spicknall .1887
L. B. Partridge. 1889
C. B. Bigelow
C. B. Bigelow 1893
D. R. Bigelow 1895
D. R. Bigelow 1897
W. J. Ohlheiser 1899
W. H. Davis 1901
W. H. Davis. 1903
George E. Mizen 1905
George E. Mizen
1907
George E. Mizen 1909
Charles H. Hudson 1911
Charles H. Hudson 1914
Charles H. Hudson 1916
L. B. Partridge 1891
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COUNTY TREASURER
John S. Chandler 1871
William B. Thorne. 1873
William B. Thorne 1875
William B. Thorne 1877
William B. Thorne 1879
W. S. Crow 1881
J. B. McCleery 1883
J. B. McCleery 1885
Charles H. Paul 1887
Charles H. Paul 1889
J. H. Fleming. 1891
J. H. Fleming 1893
John N. Lyman 1895
John N. Lyman 1897
Will Brookley 1899
Will Brookley 1901
F. C. Babcock. 1903
F. C. Babcock 1905
Ernest Hoeppner 1907
Ernest Hoeppner 1909
P. W. McIntosh 1911
P. W. McIntosh. 1914
Harry C. Haverly 1916
SHERIFF
Isaac W. Stark 1871
James B. McCleery 1873
James B. McCleery 1875
S. L. Martin 1877
S. L. Martin 1879
S. L. Martin
1881
David L. Barlass 1883
David L. Barlass
1885
David L. Barlass 1887
George Crane 1889 George Crane 1891
John W. Harris 1893
Otto Otten 1895
John J. Simmering 1897
John J. Simmering 1899
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John T. Hill 1901
John T. Hill. 1903
J. Clinton McCleery 1905
J. Clinton McCleery 1907
J. Clinton McCleery 1909
W. A. Cole. 1911
W. A. Cole 1914
W. A. Cole .1916
COUNTY JUDGE
Titus Babcock 1871
Benjamin F. Smith. 1873
Benjamin F. Smith. 1875
Benjamin F. Smith 1877
Benjamin F. Smith 1879
George F. Work 1881
J. H. Fleming
1883
J. HI. Fleming 1885
J. H. Fleming 1887
William R. Burton 1889
William R. Burton 1891
Jacob Baily 1893
Jacob Baily
1895
Adna H. Bowen .1897
Adna II. Bowen
1899
Harry S. Dungan 1901
Harry S. Dungan 1903
Harry S. Dungan. 1905
William F. Button 1907
1909
William F. Button.
1911
William F. Button
.1914
John Snider (appointed) . 1915
John Snider (elected) .1916
COUNTY SURVEYOR
George Henderson 1871
William Scott 1873
William Van Allen 1875
William Van Allen. 1877
William F. Button
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Jasper N. Smith. 1879
Thomas E. Farrell. 1881
Thomas E. Farrell. 1883
Thomas E. Farrell. 1883
Thomas E. Farrell 1887
G. W. Woodward 1889
G. W. Woodward. 1891
C. A. Heartwell. 1893
C. A. Heartwell 1895
C. A. Heartwell. 1897
C. A. Heartwell. 1899
C. A. Heartwell. 1901
C. A. Heartwell 1903
C. A. Heartwell. 1905
C. A. Heartwell 1907
C. A. Heartwell. 1909
W. H. Fuller 1911
C. A. Heartwell. 1914
C. A. Heartwell. 1916
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
Adna H. Bowen. 1871
Adna II. Bowen 1873
A. L. Wigton 1875
L. Darling 1877
Lucy A. McFadden 1879
Lncy A. McFadden 1881
A. E. Allyn. 1883
A. E. Allyn 1885
A. E. Allyn 1887
1889
F. M. Betteys. 1891
F. M. Betteys.
D. M. Ball. 1893
D. M. Ball. 1895
Richard D. Moritz 1897
Richard D. Moritz 1899
W. A. Julian. 1901
W. A. Julian. 1903
I. A. Downey 1905
L. R. Willis. 1907
L. R. Willis. 1909
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L. R. Willis. 1911
Carrie Sullivan 1914
Mary Dungan 1916
COUNTY ATTORNEY
Charles H. Tanner 1886
John A. Casto 1888
Chris Hoeppner 1890
W. P. McCreary.
1892
W. P. MeCreary.
1894
Harry S. Dungan
1896
W. P. McCreary
1898
John Snider
1900
John Snider
1902
Fred P. Olmstead
1904
John Snider
1906
M. A. Hartigan 1908
M. A. Hartigan 1910
Don C. Fouts 1912
Don C. Fouts. . 1914
Don C. Fouts .1916
REGISTER OF DEEDS
J. W. Brewster 1885
F. C. Mastin 1887
C. W. Wilson. 1889
William M. Vastine 1893
M. W. Burgess 1897
M. W. Burgess 1901
Charles W. Foote. 1905
John H. Ureling 1909
Charles C. Larsen. 1914
CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT
A. H. Cramer 1879
R. B. Tussey 1883
J. H. Spicer 1887
J. H. Spicer 1891
Lloyd Lynn 1895
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August Binderup 1899
Charles E. Bruckman 1903
Charles E. Bruckman 1907 Lem Tibbets 1911
Lem Tibbets 1916
ASSESSOR
Griffith Evans 1907
W. J. Bobbitt. 1912
Robert Zohner 1916
CORONER
Isaiah Sluyter 1871
Iliram C. Humbert 1873
Dr. C. M. Wright 1875
Winfield S. Ackley
Dr. W. H. Lynn 1877
1879
Josephus Williams 1881
George B. Lloyd.
1883
F. L. Brown. 1885
F. L. Brown. 1887
Dr. Ralph J. Irwin 1889
Dr. Ralph J. Irwin
1891
Dr. Ralph J. Irwin 1893
Dr. John Cooke 1895
Dr. John Cooke. 1897
Dr. Ralph J. Irwin 1899
Thomas J. Pearsoll 1901
Dr. M. V. Perkins 1903
Dr. M. W. Baxter 1905
Dr. M. W. Baxter 1907
Dr. J. V. Beghtol 1909
Dr. J. V. Beghtol. 1911
George A. Volland 1914
STATE SENATORS
N. K. Griggs. 1874
J. S. McIntyre 1876
A. L. Wigton. 1878
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C. B. Coon 1880
A. H. Sowers 1882
A. H. Sowers 1884
James B. Heartwell
1886
Frank D. Taggart 1890
J. F. Hill. 1892
Leopald Hahn
1894
Leopald Hahn
1896
C. L. Alexander
J. N. Lyman. 1900
J. C. Hedge 1902
David Hart 1904
A. L. Clarke. 1906
George W. Tibbets 1908
George W. Tibbets. 1910
Will Brookley 1912
Will Brookley 1914
Walter E. Hager 1916
STATE REPRESENTATIVES
A. Nance 1874
S. Sadler 1876
R. A. Batty 1878
C. R. Jones. 1880
H. G. Armitage 1882
F. P. Olmstead 1884
A. V. Cole.
1886
F. P. Olmstead
1888
W. H. Waldron 1890
1892
Peter Griffith 1894
Peter Griffith 1896
I. D. Evans.
1898
Herman Redman 1900
W. G. Saddler
1902
W. G. Saddler 1904
A. S. Howard. 1906
T. J. Cooperrider 1908
I. D. Evans. 1910
William L. Weesner 1910
Mart Fernow
1888
Tracy P. Sykes 1898
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E. P. Hubbard 1912
J. C. Snyder . 1912
J. C. Snyder . 1914
Albert B. Tibbets 1914
Erick Johnson . 1916
Fred G. Johnson . 1916
ADAMS COUNTY'S VOTE FOR PRESIDENT
1872-Grant, republican, 124; Greeley, democratic, 9.
1876-Hayes, republican, 767; Tilden, democratic, 204.
1880-Garfield, republican, 1.447: Hancock, democratic, 550.
1884-Blaine, republican, 1,853; Cleveland, democratic, 1,109; St. John, prohibition, 114.
1888-Harrison, republican, 1,929; Cleveland, democratic, 1,282; Fisk. prohibition, 375.
1892-Harrison, republican, 623: Cleveland, democratic. 323; Weaver, people's independent, 1,425; Bidwell, prohibition, 154.
1896-McKinley, republican. 1.768: Bryan, democratic, 2,042: Bentley, prohibition, 49.
1900-McKinley. republican, 2,108; Bryan, democratic, 1,991; Woolley, prohibition, 70.
1904-Roosevelt, republican, 2,315; Parker, democratic, 902; Swallow, prohibition, 119.
1908-Taft, republican, 1,982; Bryan, democratic, 2,337; Chafin, prohibition, 120.
1912-Taft, republican, 196; Roosevelt, progressive, 942; Wilson, democratic, 2,117; Chafin, prohibition, 124.
1916 -- Hughes, republican, 2,041; Wilson, democratic, 2,668: Hanly, prohibition, 64.
CHAPTER IX SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
The history of the public schools in Adams County begins with the formation of District No. I. the Juniata district, December 16, 1871. The first school district was thus formed just four days after the organization of Adams County. The first school officers were IIarmon HI. Ballou, moderator; Titus Babcock, director; Samuel L. Brass, treasurer. A. H. Bowen had been elected county superin- tendent at the election of December 12th. While there were no schools in the county at the time of the election, the superintendent's position was far from a sinecure, for in the next few months a large number of school districts were to be formed under his direction. The board of commissioners fixed the compensation of the superin- tendent at $4 per day for each day actually occupied with the duties of the office.
The officers of District No. 1 did not hold a meeting until January 5, 1872, when it was ascertained that it was necessary to secure school facilities for about thirty-one scholars. Miss Lizzie Scott was employed as a teacher, and soon thereafter a contract was let to I. G. Dillon and E. M. Allen to construct a schoolhouse, and a small room was rented from them, to be occupied for school purposes until the new building should be completed. The new schoolhouse was com- pleted before the end of the year and is described by an early writer as a "two-story frame from the main part, being 30 feet wide by 40 feet long, with one large recitation room below and two in the second story, with study rooms attached. The cost of the building was about $3,500."
By April 1, 1872, thirteen districts had been organized, and by October 1, 1873, the organized districts numbered thirty-eight. A large percentage of the schoolhouses built in the early years were of sod, and one district reported the construction of a log building.
District 18, the Hastings district, was not formed until July 13. 1872, and one week later the school officers held their first meeting. School was not opened in Hastings, however, until the spring of 1873.
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The Hastings school officers leased a little room which had been built for a store room. This room, 14 by 16 feet in size, was the beginning of the Hastings school system. Miss Phoebe Denstoe was the first teacher engaged.
In May, 1873, the erection of the first schoolhouse in Hastings was begun. It was completed during the same year, and cost $5,000. This building was located on the block of ground bounded on the west by Colorado Avenue, on the east by Minnesota Avenue, on the north by Third Street, and on the south by Second Street. This school- house was a frame building two stories high and would accommodate about three hundred and fifty pupils. The building was used until 1892, when it was sold by the school district.
In April, 1882. the Hastings district voted $12,000 in bonds for the erection of a high school building. The vote resulted in 293 ballots being cast for the bonds and 67 against. The plans of C. F. Driscoll were accepted and the contract let to William Van Allstyne to erect the building. This was the second building to be erected in Hastings. Fire of unascertained origin destroyed the first high school building in October, 1886. The insurance carried on this struc- ture was $10.000. On February 21, 1887, Scales & Clark, of Omaha, were awarded the contract to erect a new high school at a cost of $22,998, the work to be finished by September 1, 1887. This building, at present the Longfellow School, served as a high school until 1905, when the present structure became ready for occupancy. Steam heat was not installed in the old high school until 1893.
The Morton School, known until 1914 as the "West Ward School," was built in 1886. Samuel Chaney was awarded the contract for its erection upon his bid of $10,995. The original building contained six rooms. It was enlarged and remodeled in 1912.
The oldest school building in Hastings at this time is the Lincoln School, before 1914 known as the First Ward School. This was erected in 1880 by J. R. Sims. Six years later, the same contractor built a two-wing addition to the building at a cost of $2,875, and in 1912 a four-room building was constructed near the old structure and was intended to form the nucleus around which additional rooms may be constructed.
The Hawthorne School, known, before the names in all the wards were changed in 1914, as the South Ward, was erected in 1888 at a cost of $9,150. It was completed about August 20, 1888. J. R. Sims was the builder of this building.
The East Ward, or Alcott School, was erected in 1891. In June
Alcott School
Ilaw thorn School
Morton School
Lincoln School
Longfellow School
High School
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of that year the contract for this building was let to O. W. Staley for $15,000. School was opened in the building January 11, 1892.
In 1873 the school census of Adams County shows that there were 467 between the ages of five and twenty-one; by 1880 the number had increased to 3,275. The census of 1916 shows a school population of 6,311 and an enrolment of 4,756, and the average daily attendance was 3,664. In 1880 the school buildings of the county were valued by the district officers at $31,492.20. In 1916 the eighty-five school- houses of Adams County have an estimated value of $318,065. In 1880 the sites belonging to the district were estimated to be worth $911; in 1916 the estimated value of the sites is $100,093. In 1880 the salaries of the seventy-three teachers of the county amounted to $12,505.61. In 1916, meaning the year closing in June of that year, 178 teachers were employed and $107,946.26 was paid in salaries; $19,361.85 was paid to men and $88,584.41 to women. The total expenditures of the Adams County schools for the year ending in June, 1916, was $198.308.66, of which sum $12,313.25 was spent for text books. The contract for the erection of the present high school building, located on Fifth Street, between Hastings and Lincohi avenues, was let to Robert Butke of Omaha, September 14, 1903, for $47.740. This was for the building only; plumbing, heating and ventilating and all furnishings were let by additional contracts, the total cost, including site, being well towards $80,000. On July 3, 1904, a special election to vote bonds for the high school building was held, resulting in 417 votes being cast for the bonds and 50 against. Jacob Baily, now of Spokane, Wash., was president of the board of education when the building was erected. The other board members were D. M. Ball, E. N. Hamen, M. A. Hartigan, C. D. Nel- lis, C. H. Paulick, J. A. Rose, John Slaker and J. C. Hedge. The amount of the bonds voted for the high school building was $40,000.
In the spring of 1912 the Hastings school district voted bonds in the sum of $50,000, and that year rooms were built at the Lincoln School so planned as to form the nucleus for extension at a later period, and the Alcott and Morton schools were remodeled and enlarged. The school levy of the Hastings school district for 1916 was 34 mills, producing a revenue of $76,486.36, and an additional levy of 3.5 mills for school bonds and producing $7,714.75.
The following have served as superintendents of the Hastings city schools: O. C. Hubble, 1881 to 1884; J. B. Monlux, 1885 to 1891; E. N. Brown, 1892 to 1898; J. D. French, 1899 to 1908; S. H. Thompson, 1908 to 1911; C. M. Barr, 1911 to 1915. T. W. B. Ever- hardt was elected city superintendent in the summer of 1915 and is
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the superintendent at present. Manual training and domestic science courses have been offered in the Hastings High School since 1908 and in the grades since 1911. Normal training, with state aid, has been offered in the high school since 1907; millinery instruction was added in 1915; agriculture, with state aid, was placed in the high school in 1914, and gardening was placed in the grades in 1915, and physical training in the grades and high school was inaugurated in 1914.
Among the teachers who have served in the Hastings schools for long periods of time are the Misses Nina Carpenter and Emma Parker, each thirty years; Miss Alice A. Mason, twenty-nine years; the Misses Matilda McClelland and Georgia Holmes, each sixteen years. The name of Mrs. F. F. Carruthers, formerly Miss Hattie Snodgrass, appears in the record of the elections of teachers as early as 1886. All of the teachers mentioned are still on the teaching staff of the Hastings schools, although Mrs. Carruthers has not served con- tinuously since the date mentioned.
Adams County towns outside of Hastings are equipped with cred- itable brick school buildings. The Kenesaw School was erected at a cost of $35,000, the Juniata High School cost $7,000, and the Hol- stein School cost cost $8,000 to build. District No. 20, southeast of Pauline, is the only country school district in the county equipped with a brick school building. This building was erected at a cost of $1.000. In his report made December 31, 1888, County Superin- tendent A. E. Allyn credited Adams County with five brick school- houses, seventy-seven frame buildings and two sod school houses, and placed the value of the school property at $173.014. The first flag raised over a schoolhouse in Adams County was hoisted over the school building in the Wallace district January 6, 1890, by W. E. Nute. One of the early uses to which the schoolhouses were put was for the holding of literary meetings, known as the "Lyceum." Debates and readings were features of these assemblies.
At the present time only nine of the school districts of Adams County are carrying bonded indebtedness, and these are districts that have recently erected new buildings. These districts are Juniata, Kenesaw. Holstein, Hastings, Ayr, and rural districts fourteen, thirty-four, sixty-nine and seventy-five. In 1916 the standardization of rural schools after the model of Illinois and Iowa was adopted by Nebraska. Districts fourteen and thirty-one, teachers Blanche Young and Tecal McKcone, were the first in Adams County to score as standard. Scoring is made with regard to teacher, grounds and
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buildings, organization of school, building, equipment, results and country life agencies.
Eighty-two teachers are employed in the schools of Hastings: Kenesaw, nine; Juniata, seven; Holstein, six ; Roseland, five; Pauline, three; and Ayr, three.
In the fall of 1916 Hastings voted $200,000 in bonds for the erec- tion of a junior high school and a new schoolhouse in the southeast portion of the city.
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