Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-22
|0 PRAISE TIE HONE
Delayed Report of Visiting Com
mittee Flattering to the Sol-
diers' Home.
Council Bluffs Fears Removal OF
Deaf School to a More Cen.
ira! Location.
Des Moines Entertainment Dis.
Des Moines Entertainment Dis
appoints Bankers-AlIison's
Nephew Honored.
ecial to imes-Renublican.

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fact, there Is no report in existence as
yet p. NJ. Crapo, as chairman of the
committee that made the visit, was to
have made out the report and send it
around to the other members for their
endorsement He had with him all the
data on which the report was to be
founded. But at the last moment he
found he could not come to the en-
campment. He wrote to Colonel l.. -.
Raymond to have him prepare the re-
port Colonel Raymond got the letter
just before he started for Des Moines
and after consulting with other men,
bers of the committee 1t was decided to
make only an informal report and later
have the full report made out properly
and published in the official journal OF
the encampment. But it will be very
1iattering to the management at Mar
shalltown and all that could be desired
by the friends of the Soldiers Home.
The convention week in Des Moines
with q half dozen on hand at once mas
shown that Des Moines is really great
city, for conventions. With bankers,
cid soldiers, young soldiers, photo
raphers, doctors and great many
others. all here at once, the city has not
been oyercrowded. 1t has been great
week for Des Moines in many respects.
The state architect is at work on the
plans for the temporary buildings at the
deaf school and as soon as his working
plans are ready he will secure estimates
and bids so that the board and council
nav know just what they can do. Some
interested persons We're in from Potta-
wattamie county and the western part
CT the state attending the conventions
and from them it was learned that the
Council Bluffs people are not very
greatly taken with the idea of special
session Of the legislature. In fact, they
seriously fear that there would be an
effort to move the institution from
Council Bluffs to a more central place.
say, Knoxville. About half the total
value of the state property at the dear
school went up in smoke. 1t is true
that there would be great sacrifice on
the rest of it if there was removal. but
there is also a realization at Council
Bluffs that the people of that city have
never shown any very great apprecia-
ton of the institution. They have never
secured the extension of the street car
line to the deaf school, something that
would have been done long ago In any
really live city of the state years ago.
It has been suggested to them that II
they really appreciate the keeping of
the deaf school where it is now they
will put up some money for temporary
buildings to piece out the aDpropria-
tons which may be made by the state.
This would so a long way toward max
ing it certain there would be no re-
moval.
That which is causing most interest
among the bankers at their state con-
yention this week is the question of the
proposal for state branch banks to the
national banking system. Almost every
group of the bankers gathered together
IS found to be talking about this sub
ject The proposal comes from the
bankers in the large banking centers
like New York. Philadelphia and Chi
oago. Practically all the smaller bank
ers of the country are against it. They
clerk for the big bankers in Chicago
and elsewhere he will take no interest
in local affairs be of no benefit to the
community and stand in the way of rea!
local enterprise. Any way 1T can be
fixed up the small bankers do not like
the merger scheme as applied to banks
and they are generally against the
branch bank idea.
There was some disappointment
among the bankers who attended the
state convention because of the poor
given, or rather the
character of the entertainment given.
A pleasing musical program was given
at lunch last evening at the Grant
club rooms but it was not in accord
ance with the ideas of fitness which
prevailed among some of the members
of the association. When the matter
was brought up in the Des MoineS
clearing house meeting as to what en-
the locals bankers should
give the visitors one of their number
was instructed to find out what could
be done in the way of getting series
of high-cass vaudeville numbers for
an entertainment. 1t was found it could
be done for Il certain sum. 1t was pro-
posed that the local bankers fetch the |
performers here from Chicago. rent an
opera house and give it as q smoker
and setting apart the entire parquet for
the visitors. They could sell enough
other seats to pay for the performance.
But the Des Moines bankers go to Sum
day school, or some of them do, and |
they disapproved the plan and got local
talent to furnish the entertainment for
the bankers, who usually want some
thing unusual when they go away from
home. But if the plans of some of the
local bankers had not miscarried the
visitors would have had cause to long
their visit to Des Moines.
EX- Secretary of State Dobson has |
just returned from a fishing trip to the |
Pacific coast or at least he reports |
having engaged in fishing at Newport
below Los Angeles. He and others went |
out in launch and five or six miles
from shore they did business IN way
to make the Spirit Lake and OkoboJl !