Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-07-05
at colleges III Iowa tlty.. A1hes, MT
Pleasant and Cedar Falls.
The Rnxn M tho Trnnf

Is at JaCKSOnVllle anu WHICH WAS Tue
first to go out, also made an excellent
impression and the other regiments, the
Forty and Fifty-second, have been
holding their own with the troops from
the other states.
What the boys seem 10 long for most
is news from home and good light read
ing matter. The best cure or preventive
for home sickness, experienced officers
say, is correspondence from home to
keep the boys cheerful. They say that
if the people at home will only write the
boys 1t will do them more good than
anything else within their power. They
have very little money to spend for liter
AZURE and it is very hard to get if they
had the money, so clubs are being
formed to send magazines and other
periodicals in considerable numbers to
the troops in camp. Individuals are also
contributing reading matter.
Opened to the World.
Iowa is taking lively interest in the
great Trans-Afississipp exposition in
Omaha. The Iowa building, erected at
an expense of So, 900, was dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies last Thursday,
June %. Gov. Shaw and other state off,
GERS and prominent Iowans went on a
special train over the Rock Island from
Des Moines and spent the day at the
exposition in formally opening the
building to the world. 1t will be de-
lightful haven of rest for the people
from Iowa who visit the exposition and
will be fine advertisement for the
state. Crowds have not begun to be
large at the exposition yet and compare
lively few Iowa people have been among
the number. They are whiting. as they
- In the case of the worlds fair. for the
an+arn,;sa :, - he fairly started and all
the attractions at tuS. Ts.
Moines day has been flxed for ~. -
and by that time the exposition will be
completed. Iowa day will be September
20 and at that time the exposition will
be at the height Of its glory and every
effort will be made to make Iowa day ex-
coed In attendance all other days Of the
exposition, unless 1t may be Nebraska
day.
The soldiers' Monument.
The disagreement about the soldiers
to be honored by representation on the
soldiers monument has prevented any
dedication of that expensive memorial,
which is now entirely completed. Ithas
cost the state about 100000 and is a
beautiful work of art situated in very
unfortunate position south of the state
house at Des Moines. Mrs. Cora Weed,
of Muscatine, who was q member of the
commission which had charge of the
erection ofthe monument, has prepared,
at the request of the executive council,
a pamphlet fully describing the monu-
ment and giving accurate half-tone re-
productions of the figures and medal
lions that appear thereon. Every face
is identified and the pamphlet, which is
beautifully printed, Is sold by the state
for IS cents.
Indicate n Decrease.
The return of assessments of personal
property made to the auditor OF state
continues to indicate that there will be
net decrease in the assessment for 1898.
Something over one-half the counties
have reported but still 1t is not possible
to make an accurate estimate of what
the decrease will be. because the varia-
ton is SO great among the counties.
Some OF them show large increases and
Others continue to show large decreases.
Eye Doctors.
The opticians of the state and some
OF the jewelers. who deal in spectacles
met in Des Moines last week and organ
lied what they called the Iowa Opti-
clans association. The purpose of the
organization is to secure legislation, es-
tablish state board to examine OPP
ticians as to their qualifications and re-
curing every optician to secure GER
tificate from the state board before be-
ing allowed to practice. The purpose Of
the opticians in forming this organiza-
ton is to shut out the travelling ped
lers of spectacles who impose upon the
people. AT the same time an examine
ton which should be sufficient to shut
out the travelling peddlers would, it is
thought, also prevent the great ma
jority of jewelers. from dealing in spec
tacles, because they are no better quail
flied to pass an examination having had
little or no scientific education in pre-
scribing glasses to cure defective eye
sight.
Appointed Assistant.
r. w. Tirrill,of Manchester, who was
recently elected department command
er of the G. A. r. for the state of Iowa.
has appointed II. A. Dyer, of Mason City,
to be assistant adjutant general of the
department. This officer is the chief
clerk and secretary in effect and has
charge of all the details of the depart
ment business. The legislature in 1894
provided AZ handsome office for the
grand army in the statehouse at Des
Moines and appropriated $500 to fur.
nlsh the room. 1t is one of the hand
soonest Offices in the building.
+. w. BICKNELL