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March 18, 1925
WEST POINT — At a meeting of the city board of education Monday, Supt. H. H. Linn of the Laurel schools was elected superintendent of the West Point public schools for the ensuing year at a salary of $3,000. He is getting $2,700 at Laurel, we are informed.
This election is an instance where the position sought the man at first instead of the man seeking the position. The board of education heard of Mr. Linn’s success at Laurel and then began to make close investigation of his merits and the estimate others placed upon him and his work.
In the list of those who informed the board of education are two city superintendents, three normal school professors, a county superintendent, a minister, an official of the state department of education, a banker, another business man, the chairman of the board of education at Laurel, and a professor of Columbia University, New York City, all of whom wrote the board that he is a splendid man and well-prepared for the position.
One of the normal school professors, a former superintendent of West Point city schools, wrote: “I am pleased to say that he is considered one of the best trained school men in this part of the state. As an educator, as a man, and as a citizen, he is of the first rank.”
Supt. Linn received his A.B. degree at Peru, then his Master’s degree at the University of Nebraska. He has spent two summers in study at Columbia
University in New York, and has two more to complete his work for his Doctor’s degree. He has been a superintendent of schools eight years, now closing his fourth at Laurel. He is married and has two children.
This will give the patrons of this school district a fair idea of the qualifications of Supt. Linn and the care with which the board of education selected him from a number of applicants.
March 18, 1925
LINCOLN — Thursday and Friday, March 26 and 27, will be navy and marine memorial days in all the schools of Nebraska.
This has been proclaimed by Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles E. Matzen at the suggestion of Governor Adam McMullen.
On these days all the pupils and students of Nebraska will be given an opportunity to make their small contributions to the fund that will build at Washington, D.C., a great memorial honoring the thousands of Americans who have died at sea—the first national maritime memorial in America’s history.
All over the country men, women, and children are giving their aid to this movement, fathered by national and state executives and officers of the army as well as of the navy.
In accepting the honorary chairmanship of the national committee in charge of raising the fund for this memorial, Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur said: “I earnestly hope that the success of this noble undertaking will be shared by men, women, and children in every state of the union.”
March 19, 1925
HARTINGTON - R. G. Mason, president of the First National Bank, was signally honored at the close of the degree work in which he took part at the Masonic lodge on Wednesday evening, by being presented with a handsome gold watch by his fellow lodge workers.
Mr. Mason put on the last part of the degree work as he has done many times in the 30 years during which he has been a member of this order, and just as he had completed his address, Dr. F. O. Robinson, on behalf of the lodge, arose and in a short speech presented Mr. Mason with the watch.
Dr. Robinson’s talk was brief but conveyed in an eloquent manner the spirit of affection and admiration which inspired his fellow workers to honor Mr. Mason in this fitting way.
Mr. Mason’s surprise was complete, and it seemed for an instant that he was too deeply affected for words, but his years of business training and quick thinking came to his assistance, and he made one of the neatest speeches of acceptance ever heard in the lodge.
The watch is in white gold with a chain, and the case bears a simple inscription.
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