Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21

TRADE SCHOOL
Inspection To Be Made By United States
Special Labor Agent.
Temporary Buildings at State Col
Iege Finished-Coat Discov-
cred Near Des Moines.

8 Des A1Oines, Especial IF M. Rob
lertson, special agent of the United
States department OF labor has arrived,
i'm Des Moines to pursue a line Of inves-
litigation here and throughoUt Iowa with
preference to the matter of trade and
technical schools and schools of design.
THE investigation proceeds along the
line of showing how many of these
schools are in operation, what work
they are accomplishing, how the gradu-'
iates of such schools are received by en-
lpIoyers and the general good accom-
plished. Not only are the heads of the
schools questioned with regard to the
work DONE but the graduates of schools
are sent blanks and also their employ
ers. One part of the inquiry relates to
the manner in which such schools are
regarded by the trades unions and how
they affect the rules of unionism. The
investigation is being made general.
Mr.. Robertson has visited Michigan,
Ohio Indiana, Wisconsin, and will go
to Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and IL,
iinois. So far as he has investigated,
Mr.. Robertson finds that technical
schools are doing good work and their,
graduates are in demand by employers
IF skilled labor of all kinds.
INSANE HOSPITAL CONTRACTS.
The contract for the general furnish
ings of the hospital buildings at Chero-
kee and completion of the new build
ings needed to make the hospital per-
feet, was awarded by the state board
of control to George ]. Grant & Co. Of
st. Paul for 1921, 6O6. This contract will
cover number of minor buildings and
the interior work of the main buildings
already on the ground. The contract
as finally signed may be a little more
than this because of some changes in
the quality of the furnishings. The
other bids for the work were much
higher, one being $4,000 more and an
other $4,000 higher, so that the board
regards the contract as having been let
lat a very low price. The contract for
1.-THE heating and ventilation was let to-
wallace & Mcnamara, Des Moines, for
S54 994. The electric work and plumb
ing will be separate. All contracts are
subject to the settlement of the trou-
bles over the vacation of highways over
the ground where the new buildings are
to be located.
Adjutant General Byers went to Abba
to muster in the new company Of the
Iowa National guard there, which is to
take the place of the Creston company.
He has already mustered in the COM
pany at Winterset, which Is captained
by Senator Crossley. Both companies
are said to be composed of excellent
material and the adjutant general be-
ieves they will make valuable additions
to the guard. f.
COLLEGE BUILDING FINISHED.
The board of trustees of the Iowa
State college has audited the bills for
the construction of the new temporary
building built on the campus at Ames.
The building alone cost $1,000 and about
81, 900 more was expended in furnishings
and repairs on the partially burned
building. Arrangements are being made
to change the college commandments
and to have two commandments each
year, one in June and the other In No
vember. An invitation has been EXTEND
ed to President Seth Low of Columbia
college to deliver the address at the
June commencement.
COAL UNDER FAIR GROUNDS.
The state of Iowa owns a valuable
tract of land in the city of Des Moines
devoted to the use Of the state agri-
cultural department for state fairs, and
it has been discovered that a fine vein
:of coal underlies the whole tract. Now
1T is proposed that the legislature au-
ithorize the agricultural department to
sell this coal and devote the proceeds
to Improvement Of the fair grounds.
Action will be taken to this end as soon
! as possible. as a company now operat-
ing near the ground is willing to pur.
chase the coal.
NEW COLLEGE PRESIDENT.
Rev. J. w. Hancher, formerly and for
many years president of Black Hills
college at Rapid City, S. D., has been
selected by the trustees Of Iowa Yves
leyan university. Mount Pleasant, Ia,
as president Of that institution. Presi-
dent Hancher has more recently been
pastor of a church at Herkimer, n. z.
He is a graduate Of Mount Union col
iege in Ohio and was a pastor of a
leading Methodist church in Kansas
City. Wesleyan university has been
without a president since DR.. F. D.
Blakeslee resigned a year ago to take
charge of a seminary at Cazevonia, N
z
B. B. Seamans of the Burlington, who
was supposed to be the first white per-
son in what is now the state Of Iowa.
died at Rosendale, No. last night.