Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-28
ALL READY FOR TEACHERS
Large Attendance and Interesting Session
Of State Association Expected.
LOOKING UP SUGAR BEET PROSPECTS
Principal Gathering of Iowa Demo-
Gratis on jackson Day Indicates
Free Silver Element IL in
the Background.
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From a Stan Correspondence
DIES MONIES, Dec. 27-(Special.)-The
advance guard Of the Iowa State Teachers
association will begin to STRIVE in Des
Moines tomorrow and leaders in educational
work will be here in large numbers. The
program begins on Tuesday evening with
the meeting of the educational council, but
1t is usual for the committees Of this coun-
Gil to have a meeting on Monday. Cen
orally the reports Of the leading TWO COM
mittees will be prepared on Monday even
ing so as to be ready for the council on
Tuesday. One Of the subjects the council
will consider this year in an old one, the
Sequence Of Studies" A year ago the
committee considered II for a second time
and made a report, but later the committee
requested that the subject be withdrawn
from consideration and that the committee
De given another year on account of its
great Importance. The committee was in
structed by the council that in making up
It's next report, in addition to those studies
already reported on, IL carefully consider
and report upon all studies which are prac-
ticable for Iowa schools, and also to con-
slider the relative time which IT is profitable
to give to each under present conditions in
this state. Several matters which were to
the front last year will not be bothering
the teachers this year. For Instance, when
the association met last year the contro-
versy in regard to the methods of keeping
, accounts at the state educational ipstitu-
lions was on and the State Board Of Con-
troll was being censured for having offered
some slight criticism. This has all been
changed since. The matter need not come
up again. The association last year en-
dorsed the compulsory education bill, which
has since become a law. A resolution was
passed asking a law allowing directors to
contract for two years for teachers, and
this will be repeated, as the legislature
failed to do SO. Last year the association
viewed with alarm" the large number of
children allowed to run idle in the streets
OF the cities of Iowa The compulsory ed
ucation law has obliterated all this. One
session of the association meeting this
year, that of Thursday afternoon. will be
given over to memorial addresses on the
late DR. Beardshear, president Of the ma
tional association of the State college. An
innovation at the state association meeting
this year will be that President Shelton
will give recognition to the vice presidents
and allow each one of the three to preside
a half day each. He has announced this
to the vice presidents, who are Adam
Pickett of Mount Ayr, D.. A. Thomburg Of
N'AhhNh NV ABhSb y. nODtIlSOu Oh CneTOs
kee.
Sugar Beet Prospects Good.
Charles F. Saylor of this city, special
agent Of the Department Of Agriculture in
the investigation of the beet sugar Industry
in the United States, will soon start for
the far west on his annual visitation to in
spect the great factories and to report on
the sugar beet outlook. He has already
] visited the nFfnnfnal hoAN 49,
of the middle states. His report this year
will be most iattering. There are ten or
eleven new factories actually being con-
structed now in different parts Of the coun-
try, besides projects for others which may
materialize. A larger number Of factories
are being built now than ever before in
any one year and the expansion of the
business that will be shown in his report
to the department will be more consider
able than anything ever before reported.
The old established fields are all being ex-
banded rapidly now and some new fields are
being developed. The most considerable
fields now are in Michigan, Nebraska.
Colorado and California. Mr.. Saylor be-
lieves that in Wisconsin there are great
possibilities for the cultivation OF the sugar
beet and also In Colorado and in the So
called arid region OF the west where irrl-
$500 WV u III COu5lQGTGQ. !
regard the new irrigation law" said Mr..
Saylor, las settling the beet sugar problem
in this country. The irrigation projects
possible under that law will open to the
cultivation OF the sugar beet vast tracts of
land in the states and territories Of the
west that will make II certain that there
will be great factories maintained. All the
irrigable lands of the west lend themselves
to the sugar beet crop readily. / believe
that this law means much more for the
west than people now understand and it
certainly means a great deal for the beet
sugar interests"
Water Company Wants a R~ehearing.
An application has been made to the
Iowa supreme court by the Cedar Rapids
Water company for a rehearing in the case
in which the company was defeated at the
October term by the city in the natter of
rates for service in the city Of Cedar Rap
ids. The company claims that the rates
put in, which were approved by the SUI
preme court in an important decision, are
not in fact compensatory, and therefore
contrary to the constitution.
The State Savings bank has been organ
ICED at Baxter with $25 900 capital; George
d. Wood, president; R. L Arnold. cashier.
Revival of Js~cksOnianism.
The principal gathering Of democrats in
Iowa on jackson day in January is to be
at Waterloo, TIE home OF Ex-Governor
Boies, where arrangements have already
been completed for a grand banquet by
the Boies Jacksonian club, at which will
be many of the leading democrats of the
state. The speakers who have already &C.
ceptcd invitations to speak are Horace
Boies, ex-governor; NJ. J. Wade, congress-
man-elect in the Second district; Champ
Clark, democratic congressman in Missouri;
p. ]. Fitzpatrick OF Dubuque. Henry Voll-
meT Of Davenport and Judge A. Van Wag-
enen Of Sioux City. II will be observed
that all the speakers are men who have
not been radical in advocacy Of free silver.
Al Law over Telephone Number
A peculiar lawsuit has been commenced
here over possession of a telephone num-
Der. Two brothers, Henry and L. F. shank,
had been in the undertaking business many
years, but finally quarreled and dissolved
partnership. Each one has gone into busi-
ness for himself and now one Of them has
gone into court asking an Injunction to
prevent the other continuing the use OF the
old telephone number.
Fitting Up Hope Hall
II is learned that the fitting up of what