Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-23
WHERE Is ] A. Stiles!
Wayne County Man Elected to
House of Representatives
But Address Unknown
HE MAY TAKE WALDEN's PLACE
j. A. Stiles Will Receive Certificate on
Small Total Vote-Superintendent
Gray of Grundy County, Up for Pres
ident of State Teachers Association
Smallpox in Lee County.
Special to Times-Republican.

Des Moines, Dec. 23.-If j. A. Stiles, \
resident of Wayne county, will make
known his postoffice address he will re-
ceiye Christmas present in the form
of q certificate of election to the house
of representatives in Iowa. He will
probably receive this certificate on a
smaller total vote than any member of
the Iowa house for many years. Rep
before election, and as there is no ses-
sion of the present house unless called
by the governor to transact some spe-
I icial business the parties in Wayne
icounty did not make a nomination. But
| two men asked their friends to vote for
them for this office. j. A. Stiles received
seventy three votes and the other man
about fifty. Their names were written
on the ballots and certified upon. The
| state election board decided that Stiles
| is entitled to a certificate of election
| and in case the legislature should be
called in special session that he would
| have the right to sit in said body repre-
lsenting Wayne county. But the secre-
ftary of state has no knowledge of the
| location of Represen tative Stiles in
Wayne county and is awaiting informa
| ton as TO where to send the certificate.
representative Walden. who died, was
| a modest man, who made no effort to
create any sensation in the legislature,
but he was highly respected and was
said to be valuable man in the COM
mittees. Certificates will be issued to
three other new members of the legisla-
Iture. w. A.. Dayie, democrat, was
elected in Crawford county to succeed
Hugh Langan, republican, defeating DR..
IGibson. Donalos Montgomery, repub-
llican, WAS elected in Sioux county to
isr,cceed C. w. Carter. who removed to
/ Griuneil c. G. Saunders was elected
senator In nPottawattarnie county to sue
| coed Hazleton, who resigned to become
postmaster. The vacancy caused by the
death of w. K. Barker. of Howard
| county, was not filed and the vacancy
| in the senate caused by the resignation
of Claude Porter, of Appanoose, will
iremain until the close of the next year.
The candidacy of County Superin
! tendent John T. Gray, of Grundy coun-
| ty, for president of the State Teachers
EAssociation, if it can be called a
candidacy, is based On desire to re-
ward worthy man for services well
done. The teachers fight shy of any
| thing in the nature Of candidacy for
| an Office in their association, so that
| the claims of an available man must
be placed "in the hands of his friends"
but in the case of Superintendent Gray
| the motive is largely because of his
good work done at the last legislative
session. The county superintendents a
year ago at their meeting here ap-
pointed committee to push thru the
Legislature a bill giving them stated
salary instead of per diem. The COM
mittee prepared the bill and stood out
for a salary of s1,50o. The bill had
hard time In the legislature and met
with many obstacles. All members of
the committee became discouraged save
and alone the chairman, Superintendent
Gray, who stuck to it, and finally seeing
that he could not get a S1.500 year
salary for the superintendent he ac-
cepted the compromise on $1,250 year
He regarded this as better than the old
lsystem and might lead to a fair salary
after a time. especially In the larger
counties. The law has given satisfac-
ton to most of the superintendents and
they feel like doing something for Gray.
AS this is the year for the superintend-
ents TO have the presidency he is being
urged for that place in some slight rec
ognition of his services in connection
with the salary bill.
The secretary of the state board of
health has been apprised of an OUT
break of smallpox in Lee county, the
first in Iowa this year. Reports have
come of large number of cases at
Donnelson, Montrose, Vincennes and
and other points north of Keokuk and
west of Fort Madison. In the central
part of Lee county it is believed there
are about 400 cases now. Quarantine
has been sadly neglected and the epi-
demc is gathering force. No cases
have appeared in the cities but it is
confined nearly all to the country. The
cases are mild and very few deaths
have occurred.
who submitted plan for the exposition
building at st. Louis for Iowa, stated
day or two before the plans were ex-
posed to view that he could name the
successful architect When pressed for
a statement he named the firm which
finally got the work. He said he would
submit his plan knowing that it was
no use, as the matter had been practic-
ally decided in advance. :
Not all the members of the state
board of control are agreed with Chair
man Cownie that the state should have
an insurance fund ready to replace any
state buildings burned and sufficiently
large to rebuild at once. All are agreed,
and in this the superintendent and
others coincide, that the state has no
business carrying fire insurance ig the
ordinary way on It's $S,0o0,000 worth of
state property at the Institutions; but
Judge Robinson, at the recent confer
ence, took the ground that the present
system of providing for an emergency