Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-23
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Story That q. "A. R. Has Decided to
Interfere in Soldiers Home
Matters Denied.
Plan to Take Management From
Board Of Control Has Not
Been Discussed.
saylor Talks About the Convention
at Clear Lake Capital News
and Comment.

at Ol6dr U0k0-O8plt6lN 0WS
and Comment.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Oct. 23-The Grand Army
of the Republic has not decided to
make war on the state board of control
on account of the management OF the
Soldiers Home The sensational story
to that effect in the Leader last week
has been denied by nearly every person
implicated in it. Capt. l.. b. Raymond,
of Hampton, is the latest to repudiate
the alleged plan of the committee to
take the home, from the management
of the board. Capt. Raymond was a
former commissioner of the Home and
he thoroughly understands the situa-
ton there. He has steadily supported
the board, though he says that he has
long thought that the national gov
ernment should take charge of and
support all the soldiers homes. His
position has been anything but hostile
to the board. The fact is that the
troubles the board has had at the Home
have been largely in the newspapers
more there than in the Home. The
opinion is often expressed that the
Soldiers Home must be a very hard In
stitution to manage, but Governor Lar
rabee declares that this is a mistake;
that the board has not had any COM
plants of any consequence from the
inmates and that nearly all of the
complaints and objections have come
from the employees. This, however, is
now past and the institution is in a
contented and smoothly running condi-
ton.
Capt. Raymond is a member of the
committee which is said to have deter
mined to make war on the board of
control. and he says the committee has
held no meeting and he does not believe
any such action is contemplated. Ger
tainy no one is authorized to plunge
the G. A. r. into such controversy.
C. F. Saylor. beet sugar expert of the
United States department of agricult-
ure, says the meeting at Clear Lake
last week was quite successful, though
the busy season kept many farmers
away who might otherwise have at
TENDED. Plenty of capital was Of
fered," said Ar. Saylor, Ito build beet
sugar factories in several towns. and
the prospect is they will be found all
| over Iowa in a short time, within a
| year or two. The next step is to get
1.-THE farmers interested so they vii
raise the beets'
do you think saere will be any
trouble in doing this?" was asked.
Il don't see why there should be-" re-
piled Mr.. Saylor. They have beer
liable to make arrangements in Other
places, and as soon as the farmers have
tried it and find how profitable it is II
Isn't question of getting farmers t.
raise the beets. hut it is question
among the farmers as to who will ge
1.-The contracts. / have visited factorie:
lifrom coast to coast and studied the
Question in all its phases, in all condi
tons, and 1 know what can be done IL
4 Iowa. Farmers can raise these beet!
land after paying themselves we'll 70
their labor. $3.50 a day for man ant
team and sl.5O day for labor, and pay
ling all other expenses, can clear il
/ cash from SIS to $50 an acre every sea
Ison-it will average 500 to $50 an acre
There is no doubt about this, and if W
can once get it started the farmers vii
find it out to their profit"
MIR. Saylor goes in few days t
Hawaii to study the sugar question i
the Hawaiian islands. There is dis
pute among authorities as to whethe
or not the sugar industry has reache
II its limits there. 1t is claimed that
has been developed as far as it ca
/ be carried profitably and Mr.. Saylo
| goes as an impartial student to settl
the question beyond all doubt. as h
has settled other disputed points o
5 sugar. He settled the cost of suga
t Iproduction in Porto Rico beyond fun
f Their argument, and his report is ae
5 cepted in ali quarters as final.
o Three Red Oak banks offered Go,
a ernor Shaw $1,000 each for the fund I
bring the Fifty-frst regiment hom
y and if the other towns where the con
! panies are located had done as we'll til
governor would have had more none
3 than was needed. The people are tai
8 ling the livelest kind of an interest
i. the regiment. even where there are on
$ a few boys to come home. In the tow
e of Jefferson, which has one represents
!. tive, private. in the regiment, the
d are going to have '.doings" big enoue
t for whole regiment, and that fello
y will feel a good deal as Dewey did vii
h all the attentions that We're showere
upon him.
!. Will A. Wells has sold his Alton Den
S ocrat to Charles b. Wolf and Henry
n Benton, of Pinckneyville, ILL.,, who ha'
h taken possession. For fourteen yea
d Will Wells has been stirring things ,
It in northwestern Iowa. He went the
$ from Indianapolis, where he had be-
II a reporter on the Sentinel, and at on
y began sensational career. He cut al
II slashed regardless Of everything but
II make paper that people would wa
r to see because of the things in it tn
T, would better not have been there.
hit good many hard blows and som
/ times in good causes, for he meant
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