Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-26
Would BE- SPEAKER
George W. Clarke. of Dallas
County, After the Coveted
Preferment.
The colored Industrial School
Project :. Pharmacists Ger.
tificate Fees.
The Prospective Crop Shortage
Makes Contractors Shy
May Lose Army Post.

Special to Republican.
Des Mones, July 26.-The republicans
| of Dallas county are becoming ambi-
tious. II is learned that there is quiet
movement on foot to secure for the Dali
las county representative in the legisla-
ture, Hon. George w. Clarke, the COW
leted position of speaker of the house.
MIR. Clarke has been renoninated and is
iity. He is a modest and unassuming
gentleman. a man of fine appearance
and fine manners, deep student of men
and affairs. a lawyer of ability, and
aboye all else he is thoroughly inde-
pendent man. While he is republican,
he is not tied by party lines. He works
for republican principles and all that,
but he doesn't worship party name nor
I is he one who believes that all the good
men are in one party and all the bad
ones in the other He is also man of
conscience. He has been a Sunday
| school teacher for many years and ne
can go into the pulpit any time and de-
| liver an entertaining address on re-
combe. One of the things which may
candidate is the fact that the speaker
( ship has in other years generally gone
/ 10 some county far removed from the
1 capital. 1t has heen Il good while since
there was speaker from Polk county
.or any county Immediately surrounding.
! Mr.. Clarke was Cummins man two
4 t,i
county now There is also talk of S. NJ.
! candidate for congress in this district
/ ext year. He is the present committee
! man from the Seventh district and a
man of great ability
\ Des Moines colored people are ready
| 10 help along the project of some of the
leading colored men and women of the
! state for the establishment of an indus
1 trial school IN Iowa. They have long
realized that Iowa coiored people need a
! Booker Washington and a Tuskegee in
4 stitute There are several thousand coll
/ ored persons in Des Moines. a great
/ ,.any of them are Industrious and thrift
\ ~ bnt so many of them have had no
\ opportunity TO learn any useful trade or
!
4 are but day laborers is very large A
4 properly conducted industrial school for
/ the negroes of Iowa would go far
i toward elevatng the condition of this
/ class. A number of the Des Mones col.
ored men are quite wealthy and many
! more are we'll educated and interested in
4 educational and religious work. 1t Is
/ proba bile that some of the leading coll
4 = ,..v, f.yz z,NfLa ar
Burlington called to consider the sub
| ject.
| The Iowa Pharmaceutical Association
at its twenty-second annual meeting in
/ storm Lake. declined to accept the invi-
4 tation OF the president of the association
4 To ask foi. a general change in the law
l1elating to the finances of the state
pharmacy board. Nothing was said in
| the newspapers about this al the time
| and the published reports of the asso-
lciation meeting We're noticeably silent
N the matter of giving any abstract OF
the address of the president There was
q good attendance al the meeting. The
most striking thing in the address of the
president. r. Il. Baldwin, of Hampton,
was his recommendation that the legis-
iatve committee work 10 secure a
change in the law that would relieve the.
druggists of the state of the payment of
Il fee of 81 each year for the renewal OF
their pharmacy certificates He cited
/ the fact that the pharmacy board turns
into the state treasure. large sum ef
money each year. II is a profitable in
stitution when properly managed, and
there is no need of the 81 ice from each
druggist annually 10 maintain the COM
mission. All salaries of thu commission
Lean be paid from other fees received and
still some money can be turned into the
state treasury each year. But the sus-
gestion did not meet with entire ap-
proval The presidents address was
referred 10 committee and was quietly
| buried while the pill rollers We're en-
gagged in their program of sports on the
shore of Storm Lake.
Hon. Fletcher Howard, Of the state
I pharmacy commission. when asked in
regard to the recommendation of Presi-
| dent Baldwin at Storm Lake, was re-
| luctant 10 express himself. but declared
! himself we'll satisfied With the law as 1t
| is. '"I do not think the druggists ought
| to ask for any change. he said. I'VE
| have been a good Whlle perfect1ns the
| law we have and il is working well.
| think President Baldwin got somewhat
| mixed on the matter and misunderstood
| the situation. The salaries of the com
| missioners and expenses are paid out OF
| the 81 a year fees from druggists for re-
newal of certificates. 1t is not burden
on them. Ii ia only 81 from each one
and they can not complain of that small
tax. / have paid my dollar each year
cheerfully. The fund accumulated in
this way a little more than pays the ex-
pense of the pharmacy commission. ]
| think we turned over about $500 the
past two years. But we get from itin-
Grant vendors of drugs and medicines a
larger sum. They are licensed at 800 a
year each They go thru the country
many of them, from house to house. and
leave medicines which they do not sell
outright but If certain proportion OF
the medicine in bottle Is used they
collect pay the next time they call. To a
large extent this is trade which the local
druggists would not get. The farmer
would not go to town to buy the medi-