Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-09-09
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Will Organize Una + Massachusetts
Plan to Further Business In
terests of the State.
PRcMIli III MI! APs THE PROMOTERS.
Storma and Farmers Lose Heavily
Progress of Normal Inatitutcs-
Building Farmers'Tclcphone Lines
Other Notes OF Interest.
Especial Correspondence.)

| Other Notes OF interest.
Especial Correspondence
Des Moines, Ia, Sept. Lille Mas
sachusetts plan of organization fol
| 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 q
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 Il 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 well as for the con
sumer 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. Il. Lyons. of Des Moines; s. Fl.
Harper, of Ottumwa; I, H. Simmons,
of Ottumwa; l.. L. Kellogg. of Sioux
City; Il. +. Sears, of Marshalltown; j.
II. Dennis. of Traer; S. r. Miles. of
| Mason City; j. ii. Kercun, 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 $4,000 for pur-
poses of publicity in advertising the
states resources and to ask the legis-
lature for law permitting CONNER
cial bodies to incorporate. a privilege
which they do not now have.
Oats Ruined.
j. NJ. Brown, Iowa manager of the
Counselmen grain business. says that
a large percentage of the oats of the
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 that
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 the extra labor Of stacking
their grain, but urges them to stack
1T properly. He says that it would be
money in their pockets if they would
buy canvas covers for their small grain
stacks. pending threshing. and believes
that the farmers would save millions
of dollars annually if they would build
barns for the grain.
Normal Iratitutea.
State Superintendent r. C. Barrett
has been in receipt of the reports of
the conductors of the normal insti-
tutes which have been in progress in
the counties of the state daring the
past summer. These show that the it.
tendance Of women has been SO to one
as compared with the male teachers
THAT is due to tho fact that there are
good times" said Mr.. barrett ".At
least that is my theory. notice that
when there are good times the men
leave the teaching field to got into
business or other occupations. When
the times tighten mp they gravitate
back to teaching"
Farmers Telephone Lines.
The Eawleye Telephone company
has force of $50 men at work con
sti'Hc:ing farmers telephone lines in
In" western part Of Polk county. They
will also work in the eastern half Of
Dallas county. So great has been the
demands on the company that the
managers have taken off their cam
vasscrs and are not trying to get any
more business until they get the lines
now in course OF construction fin
lshed. = copper metallic circuit has
Just been finished into Des Moines.
connecting this city with the eastern
half of the state. \ metallic circuit
line is Just building into Des Moines
from the north Before fall it is be-
licved that the independent lines will
have at least 2,G00 miles of metallic cir
cult line working in the north half Of
the state, while the toll line construct
ing from Kansas City ia Burlington
and from Council Bluffs TO burlington
rs bema pushed 10 completion in order
to have it working by fall.
Released from Prison.
Coy. Cummins has been notified that
NJ. d. Wood has been released from
states prison at Fort Madison bv ex-
piration of his sentence. He was scrv-
ing under a sentence of ten years for
completely in the dynamiting of the
home of Editor John Maxim. of the
Muscatine journal. That laper was
strongly against the i!.iner traffic and
II WAS charged that Mood and Others
sought revenge by blowing up the
home of tie editor. No one was seri-
ou&ly injured, hat Wocd was found
guilty. lie reduced his sca,tnce to
seven years by good behavior. Mahin
continues to run his paper and is also
United States post 0tiicc inspector.
WIRE Have q EnnI.
Officers Of t!.e GraId army have been
notified thai lows utn employed at
Was hington. D. e.. have arranged to
employ band tn lead Ike Iowa vet
tcrans who win be in the parade at THE
national encampment in Washington
in October. 1t will be regular army
band and one of the best in the capital.
1t has been secured through the eff
forts of Col. Geddes, Robert Arm
strong. private secretary to Gov. Shaw,
and liermnn l. Reeve clerk to Com