The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-09-09
Will Organize Under Massachusetts
Plan to Further Business In
terests Of the State.
PROMINENT MEN ARE THE PROMOTERS.
Oats Standing i'm Shock Ruined by
Storms and Farmers Lose Heavily
Progress of Normal Instiltutes-
Building Farmers'Telephone Lines
Other Notes of Interest.
Especial Correspondence.)


Iowa commercial clubs has been adopt
ed by the promoters Of the Commercial
Association of Iowa. Under this plan
each local club which votes to hold
membership in the state association
will elect two delegates who will form
a part of the managing body for the
state organization. When Is clubs join
the delegates they elect will meet and
form state association. Its objects
are to further the interests of this
state in commercial way by calling
attention of the outside world to the
fact that Iowa has advantages for
manufacturers as we'll as for the con-
sumner of agricultural products, by adj
vertising the state in foreign lands, by
forming state organization which
can make terms with the railroads as
to rates, by properly presenting the
advantages of the state at the worlds
fair in St. Louis and by inducing the in
coming of capital and labor TO help
develop the resources here untouched.
The promoters of the state association
are D. B. Lyons, of Des Moines; S. 81.
Harper, of Ottumwa; T. H. Simmons,
of Ottumwa; L. L. Kellogg, of Sioux
City; r. E. Sears, of Marshalltown; j.
B. Dennis, of Traer; S. r. Miles, of
Mason City; j. Fl. Kereun, of Oelwein,
and others. AS soon as the is local
memberships are secured the state as
ISOLATION will be formed. 1t is now
the intention to ask the legislature
for an appropriation of $40, 900 for pur-
poses of publicity in advertising the
states resources and to ask the 1egis-
lature for law permitting CONNER
cial bodies to incorporate, privilege
which they do not now have.
Oats Ruined.
j. NJ Brown, Iowa manager of the
Counselmen grain business, says that
large percentage of the oats OF ths'
state has been ruined because it was
standing in shock or uncapped stacks
when the recent storms came. He
says that the farmers of the state
have grown careless in the matter of
caring for the small grain crop. They
have been leaving the grain in the
shock instead of stacking it properly,
and when they have stacked it they
have not covered It. The result is shat
the chances they have taken have re-
suited in their damage. He estimates
the loss to the farmers on this account
at several millions of dollars this year.
He urges that the farmers should not
try to save tire extra labor of stacking
their grain, But urges them to stack
/ it properly. He says that it would bs
\ money IN their pockets if they would
\ buy canvas covers for their small grain
!, stacks, psnding threshing, and believes
of dollarsannually if they would build
Barns fo1-'the grain.
Normal institutes.
State Superintendent r. c. Barrett
Has been in receipt of the reports of
the conductors off the normal insti-
tutes which have been in progress in
the counties Of the state during the
past summer. These show that the at
tendance OF women has been so to one
as compared with the male teachers.
f; '"That, is due to the, fact that there are
| good times" said Mr.. Barrett. "At
least that-is my theory. I notice that
| when, there are good times the men
/ leave the teaching field to get into
\ business or other occupations. When
\ the times tighten ap they gravitate
/ back to teaching"
A Farmers Telephone Lines.
4 The. Hawkeye. Telephone company
has force. of $50 men at work con
i structing farmers telephone lines il
the western part of Polk county. They
will also work in the eastern half Of
Dallas county. So great has been thu
demands on the company that the
managers have taken off their can
vassers and are not trying to get any
more business until they get the line.
now in course of construction fin
ished. A copper metallic circuit ha.
just been finished into Des Moines
connecting this city with the eastern
half of the state. metallic circui
line is just building into Des Nome,
from the north. Before fall it is be
neved that the independent lines will
have at least 1000 miles of metallic cir
quit line working in the north half o
the state, while the toll line construct
ing from Kansas City to Burlington
and from Council Bluffs to Burlington
is being pushed to completion in orde
to have it working by fall.
Released from Prison.
Gov. Cummins has been notified tina
M. ID. Wood has been released fro1
states prison at Fort Madison by es
piration of his sentence. He was ser,
ing under a sentence of ten years flo
completely in the dynamiting of tn
home of Editor John Mahin, of tn
Muscatine Journal. That paper wa
strongly against the liquor traffic an
it was charged that Wood and other
sought revenge by blowing up TIL
home Of the editor. No one was ser
ously injured, but Wood was foun
guilty. He reduced his sentence t
seven years by good behavior. Mahi
continues to run his paper and is ais
United States post Office inspector.
} WIFI Nave Band.
Officers of the grand army have bee
notified that Iowa men employed {