Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-26
SCHOOL BOARDS RIGHT
State Department Rules That
Board Can Exclude Children
Not Vaccinated.
Scheme to Let Paving Material
Companies Pave State Fair
Grounds Free.
"Bootleseers" Must Serve Their
Sentences When Convicted
In McPherson's Court.
,ecial to Times Republican.

In McPherson's Court.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 26.-The letter
which Professor Barrett, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, wrote to
President Pappe, of the Sioux City
school board in regard to vaccination
rules and regulations, will answer what
is in the minds of many persons in Iowa
who are in doubt about vaccination
rules in the schools. A. S. Garretsoni
the one time head of the Sioux City
boom, now cashier of the First National
Bank. does not believe in vaccination,
and his children were sent home from
school on the first day because they
couldn't show the necessary scars. He
wrote letter to julius
Pappe, president of the school board,
making complaint. He wanted to know
whether there was any authority for
refusing his children admission to the
schools because of their failure to be
and he desired to know II
it would be necessary for him to send
his children elsewhere. He said he has
borne some share of the tax burdens for
years and he did not like
to be forced to take his children from
school, President Pappe referred the
letter to State superintendent Barrett,
who wrote back the following:
"The board of directors may not COM
pei vaccination, but they may enforce
rule that children not vaccinated
shall be excluded from school until they
have compiled with such reasonable
regulation.
Local boards of health may require
every person entering. any public school
to give satisfactory evidence of protec-
ton by vaccinations; and 1t has been the
ruling Of this department that board
of directors may, for the protection of
the community, enforce rule that chill
drer Hot vaccinated shall be excluded
until they have complied with such rea-
sonable regulation.
"A former attorney general of the
state has gtsen il as MS opinion that
under the statute 1t Is a criminal Of
fense for any person to violate the regu-
lations and rules made by local boards
OF health.
ION pages Z and of the circular here
with enclosed, you will see that the
power OF a local board of health to ex-
clude pupils not vaccinated from school
was sustained by Judge Macy, Of Har-
Ian, in q case from Shelby.
Attorney General Remley held that
"every reasonable order made by the
boards of health will be upheld by the
courts, even to the extent of requiring
all persons not immune in a community
threatened with the dread scourge. to be
The executive committee Of the state
department of agriculture is figuring on
at the state fair grounds,
and they have under consideration a
scheme for securing some much needed
at slight cost. When
they started to do lot of fencing last
year they were approached by agents
for fence manufacturing firms who
asked permission to put in the fences
free of cost. The committee succeed
ed in making contracts for a large
amount of fencing on the fair grounds
and an agreement that the fence COM
panies will repair and maintain the
fences. Now the committee wants paw
ing. The Des Moines brick manufac-
turers have been doing a whole lot of
boasting about their splendid brick for
paving purposes. The asphalt PAYERS
have done everything possible to con-
vince the people there is no paving like
theirs. Other kinds of paving are be-
ing urged upon the dear people. Why
not have them lay paving at the state
fair grounds as part of grand exhibit
of paving, where everybody in the state
can see just what the paving is like?
This is the thought which has come to
the members of the executive commit
ted and it is a good one. 1t is believed
the makers of brick in Des Moines can
be induced to put in large amount of
brick paving at the fair grounds just as
an advertisement for brick paving.
Whether the asphalt people will do the
same is problem, but they are said to
be enterprisng. The executive com
mittee will spend some money on the
fair grounds this year and still have
something left for rainy day.
sss
Stock breeders will watch with inter-
est the progress of an experiment to be
tried by C. j. Lemander, banker of
Bancroft, who has purchased herd of
huffaloes for breeding purposes. He has
secured two males from the Lincoln
Park commissioners, Chicago. and theNa
females from some place in Kansas. and
with these lie will herd black Galloway
cattle. He will not only raise the pure
buffaloes but the cross, and the latter
will be not only for meat but for the
furs.
The policy adopted some years ago by
Judge Woolson in the southern district
Of Iowa, in reference to "bootleggers"
into the federal court has been
abandoned by his successor on the
bench. Smith Mcpherson. Judge Wool
son followed the policy of giving first
offenders a Jail sentence only and then
the sentence. He would re-
ouire that one whose sentence was sus
pended should give the names of relia-
bile persons who would report regularly
Ia the court ON the conduct of the person