Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-29
GERMAN EDITORS 70 MEET
Scribes and Publishers of Iowa to
Gather in Convention in Des
Moines, Sept. S.
NEWS GATHERED THROUGHOUT STATE.
Great Parade OF Odd Fellows Mt
Their Encampmcnt Mt Des MOines
Next Month ORDERS Regarding
Military Instructions in Various
CollcEcs-Other ltcns of Interest.
Especial Correspondence


| Especial Correspondence
Des Moines, Ia. Aug. 25.-The Ger
man editors and publishers of Iowa
will meet in convention in Des Mones
September 5, and Z. The last day
is a Sunday and the convention will
spend it at church and at the parks
OF the city. There are about 40 pub
fishers of German papers i'll Iowa.
, Fully two-thirds of them will attend
! the meeting. Col. Joseph Eiboeck,
OF the StaatzAnzeigero of Des Moines,
is president of the association.
Parade of Odd Fellows.
The line of march for the great
parade of the odd fellows in attcnd-
ance upon the sessions of the Sover-
eign grand lodge here in September
has been made up by M. A. Raney,
of Marengo, and his fellow-commit-
teemen. 1t is expected that between
10000 and $4,000 odd fellows will
march in the procession. 1t will be
SO long that the plan is to form it
in the suburbs. Its head will be at
the northeast corner of the capitol
building. IT will form between that
point and the state fair grounds
east. 1T will march around the
statehouse. The governor will re-
view it from the east capitol steps.
1t is believed that 100000 people can
find accommodations on the capitol
grounds and best see the parade
from that high point of vantage.
The procession will cross the river
to West Dcs Moines on Locust street
and will be reviewed at the city hall
Mt West Second and Locust streets
by Mayor lsrenton. 1t Will turn out
and march east on Walnut street,
being reviewed Mt the Kirkwood no.
ted, at Fourth and Walnut, by the
grand sire and the representatives
sitting in the sovereign grand lodge.
1t will then disband,
Valuable Records.
The state board Of health has pre-
scented the state historical depart.
ment with 200 volumes embracing
the vital statistics for every county
in Iowa since these records have
been kept. They are the official rec
ord of births, deaths and marriages.
In many instances they are the only
record in existence, the county files
having been burned or otherwise de-
stroyed. Curator Aldrich, of the
historical department, regards them
of very great value. There are mil
lions of names in the records. The
board gathered the statistics under
the law, but was not made the Gus
todian of the record. 1t was thought
safer TO present it to the historical
department, to which all future vol
umes also will go.
Po<tmnsters to Gather.
The postmasters of Iowa will hold
convention at Cedar Rapids the lat
ter part Of September, during the
Cedar Rapids carnival, if President
a. w. Lee, of the Postmasters' asso-
citation, decides to accept the invita-
ton issued by the carnival man
ayers. The Association of Iowa
Postmasters WAS formed two years
ago and has been both popular and
valuable to the Nasbies of the state.
Orders from the Government.
The government has issued Il Sc
ries of new orders regarding the
character of the instruction to be
given in the colleges of the country
in which regular army officers are
detailed as instructors. There are
three of these institutions in Iowa
the state normal at Cedar Falls, the
state university at Iowa City and
the Simpson college at lndianola.
The government places these three
schools in the first class. The in
strnction in them is to be given by
retired army officers detailed for not
to exceed five years in one place.
The standard of instruction is CON
sidcrably raised. The artillery drill
and lectures are to he abandoned,
but instruction will be added in drill
for guard mount, army regulations
drill, instruction in any forms and
target practice. The latter innova-
ton will be welcomed by the college
battalions. The present regulation
OF three hours drill per week will
be raised to require four hours
work. Whether the three Iowa in
situations affected by the new order
will retain the military department
or not remains to be seen. The mill
tary department of the agricultural
college at Ames is not under the
charge of the government, as the
other college departments are.
Scheme of weather Observer
Director Sage, of the weather bl-
reau, is making an effort to inter
est the railroads of the state in the
gathering of statistics as to temper
AZURE, rainfall, etc. He has succeed |
ed in getting the Burlington route |
to make all of it's station agents |
weather observers for the benefit of |
the department. He hopes to get |
the other roads equally Interested. |
lie regards statistics gathered from
this class of observers as the best
possible. 1t will enable him to for
mulate tables of weather condition
statistics which will be invaluable
TO the farmers of the state, he be.
lieves.
Additions to Museum
The state university museum has
just been enriched by the addition
Of several boxes of fine specimens Of
the bird, coral and chronological col
iecllons made by Prof c. c. Nutting
and representatives of the Smithse-
man Institution and Leland Stanford