Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-22
Two of the events connected with


Lodge of Odd Fellows in Des Moines
the third week in September will be
OF public interest. There will be the
big parade and the public banquet and
reception. LATE Young will preside at
the latter. Gov. Cummins, Mayor
Brenton, Grand Master Newman, of
the Iowa lodge, Grand Patriarch ]. C.
MiAiman, of Logan, and Miss Ida Van
HON, of Mount Pleasant, will make
addresses of welcome at the public
reception. A. G. Cable, of Covington,
O., grand sire, will make the principal
response, and other distinguished men
from abroad will make speeches. Fol-
lowing is an outline of the daily pro-
gramme for the lodge meeting:
Saturday, September 13.-Drive given the
grand representatives.
Monday Evening, September 15.-Exem-
plifcation of all the degrees by Leaven-
worth. Kan, team; morning, general re-
ception.
Tuesday, September 16.-Reception by the
Rebekahs; election of officers by the SOW
ereign grand lodge.
Wednesday, September 17.-Grand pa
rade in the afternoon; grand banquet in
the evening.
AHuTSNay, FRIDAY ana Saturday.-Ses-
sIons of the grand lodge during day; ex-
emplification of degrees at night; patri-
arch militant competitive drills during
day.
Perplexing Situation.
A curious situation has arisen with
respect to the care of an insane infant,
the four-year-old child of j. II. John
son, of Atalissa, which went insane
few weeks ago from skull injury.
1t was examined by the insane COM
missioners of Musactine and they or
| dered it sent to the institution for
| feeble-minded at Glenwood. There the
state authorities declined to receive
it because the infant was insane in
stead of feeble-minded. On its return
to Muscat tine county the insane COM
mission ordered it sent to the insane
hospital at Mount Pleasant. There
the state authorities refused to re-
ceive it on account of it's youth 1t
was then sent back to Muscatine coun-
| ty and the district court is trying to
devise some means for the proper care
of the child.
| Need for Insurance.
| announcer SldIe INSTITUTION IRE mas
again illustrated the need for state in
surance on institution structures.
This subject was agitated before the
recent session of the legislature, but
no conclusion was reached on it be-
cause the board of control inclined to
oppose it. Since the legislature adj
journed there have been three fires.
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the college for the deaf and dumb at
Council Bluffs, entailing a loss of
about 100000. The two others were
at the college of agriculture at Ames,
resulting in a loss of about 100000.
The latter institution was so we'll
taken care of by the legislature, how
ever that it will not suffer great in
convenience. although the institution
at Council Bluffs is seriously embar-
raised. Since the state carries no in
surance fires hamper the institutions
until the Legislature can meet and APP
propriate money for the rebuilding OF
the destroyed structures.
The Presidents Visit.
It is officially announced that Presi-
dent Roosevelt will visit Des Moines on
September 80, between two and four
o'clock in the afternoon. In all proba,
bility he will not leave his train, but
will remain on board. receiving the
| governor and other distinguished men,
and in making short speech to the
crowds that are sure to gather. 1t is
barely possible that he may be driven
| - 4ho IN In omit Al frrorn6c r5 4 I, % - q
make an address. The odd fellows,
who hold their worlds convention here
the third week in September, are
largely responsible for his coming, but
he could not get here on the date OF
their meeting. Gov. Gnmmins will
leave with President Roosevelt for ST.
Louis, where they will appear before
the National League of Republican
Clubs.
Compulsory Education.
Attorney General Mullan has de-
cided for Superintendent Barrett that
the new compulsory education
law, which will go into prac.
teal effect with the opening OF
the new school year in September,
will not require the attendance of
pupils at school after they are IA years
of age. 1t provides for their attend
ance between ages of seven and IA.
The attorney general construes this to
mean that they shall attend until their
fourteenth birthday when the laws
conditions will have been complied
with. The state superintendent did
| not know whether to instruct school
authorities through the state that the
law would require pupils to attend I'M
til they reached their fifteenth birth,
day or not.