Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-01
Iowa to be Well Represented at
Great Louisiana Purchase
Exposition
WORK AT IOWA INSTITUTIONS
Result of the Teaching in Various
Lines of Industry of inmates of Hos
pitals for Insane, Correctional and
Reformatory Institutons-Eaeh Will
Add to Proposed General Exhibit.
Special to Times 1sepupl.can.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Dec. lit is the plan
and purpose of the Iowa <Louisiana
Purchase commission, acting in con-
junction with the state board of con-
troll, to have among the Iowa exhibits
lat the Louisiana Purchase exposition
in st. Louis, the most complete line
of exhibits from state charitable, ed
ucational and other institutions, that
has ever been prepared by any state.
The claim is made with reason that
there is no state of the Louisiana pur-
chase so well supplied with splendid
state institutions-four great hospitals,
five great schools, three homes" and
corresponding correctional and reform
atory institutions. The commission
has asked the board to begin now
planning for the exhibit to be made
at ST. Louis. This will be in great
variety. At the hospital for insane at
Mt. Pleasant teacher in fancy work
has been employed several years. The
insane women take SO kindly to this
that annually they turn out a thousand
dollars worth or more of lace, en-
broidery, etc. The chairman of the
board recently received from female
patient transferred to Clarinda an in
quiry as to when the board would send
an instructor in fancy work there so
she could continue her studies Much of
the work done is wonderfully fine. AT
the industrial school for girls at Mitch
ellville art needle work is taught in
large classes and this school is capable
of turning out vast amount of inter
esting work. AT the industrial school
for boys at Eldora the work of skilled
artisans can be procured The work
which can be secured at the school
for the blind and the schools in con-
nection with the orphans home will
all prove interesting. From the peni-
| tentiaries can be obtained much that
| will show what results are attained
1 by good system OF reacnlns aInoAs
the convicts of the state. In short.
there is not a state institution but that
can add to the proposed general ex-
hibit and all this can be procured
practically without expense to the com.
mission. In addition to this 1t is pro-
posed that there shall be large photo
graphs taken of the dozen leading
state institutions and plats showing
the plans of the buildings and the
grounds and what has been done to
| lay out parks and encourage forestry
at the state institutions. Members Of
the board have taken kindly to the sug-
gestion and are prepared to co-opei-
ate fully with the commission in this
Of fEn t1-ry A ,o1I Ax,
hibit was made at the Paris exposition
gathered in this way in Iowa, but the
board will enter upon this new plan
with determination that the exhibit
at ST. Louis will rival anything ever
shown by any state of the union.
|
| The change which has just been made
| in the Iowa National guard in the mat
ter of REMEMBERING and naming the four
regiments has called forth f1attering
commentator from members of the
guard and especially from the officers.
One officer writes his belief that the
| change will be of greatest benefit in the
way of securing deeper interest in the
guard. There has been a great deal of
| trouble in the guard ever since the re-
organization which followed the return
| of the regiments from the war for
| Cuban independence. The four regi-
ments then called the First to Fourth
regiments respectively, of the national
guard, went into the war as volunteers,
| or rather formed the nucleus of the four
| regiments which enlisted in the yolun-
| teer service and were called the Forty
ninth to Fifty-second regiments. just
| why when the guard was recognized
again these numbers We're taken in
stead of the old numbers or new ones,
| has not been satisfactorily explained,
| save that there was a desire to have
| them made continuous with the yolun-
| teer regiments. But as matter of fact
| it has been found that wherever the
returned volunteers have been dorni-
nant in the reorganized guard compa-
nies there has been dissatisfaction, es-
pecially among the younger men
brought into the companies to recruit
them up. The adjutant general. the
colonels and other regimental officers,
with the governor of the state, reached
the conclusion that a serious mistake
had been made in retaining for the
guard regiments the names of the dis
banded volunteer regiments, hence the
change to numbers which these regi-
ments would bear If they should again
be made the nucleus of volunteer regi-
ments. Gen. Byers has had this in mind
ever since the first of the year and the
necessity for the change became more
and more apparent as one by one the
guard companies fell below the require
ments. He hopes there will now be
revival of loyal interest in the compa-
nies and great Improvement in the
guard.
Promoters of railroads in Iowa ap-
preciate the fact that farm land has
risen in value and that condemnation
juries are likely to give large awards
where land is taken for railroad pur-
poses. For instance, over in Madison
county, where the promoters OF the Des
Moines Southern have been securing
right Of way, a jury on condemnation
gave the owner of the Cunningham
tract of land east of Winterset what
amounts to s73 an acre for sixty-one
acres of land that would be used up in
a right of way thru the tract. And It