The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-05-13

OfQer governing the state enCampmenI
here the latter part of May. In it he
| says:
1.-THE twenty-eighth annual encampment
of this department will be held in the city
| Of Des Moines, May 20, 81 and %, 1902.
The programme for the encampment may
be outlined as follows: Tuesday, May 20.
2:SO p M, meeting of the council of admin
lstratlon; four p M, reception at the state
house by the governor, the commander in
chief, Gov. Van SAINT, and officers of the
various societies; at eight p. m, grand camp
| fire at the auditorium, at which there will
be speech of welcome by the mayor of
Des Moines, also by the governor, and re-
sponses by the department commander and
by the commander in chief. S. r. Van
SAINT governor Of Minnesota, Gen. Dodge,
Gen. Williamson and many other distin-
guished officers of the civil war will be in
attendance during the encampment.
"Wednesday, at $50 a. M, will be held the
nrst business session of the encampment
at the auditorium; at two o'clock p. m. will
occur the annual parade of the department.
The line has been made as short as posi-
Die and do anything like justice to the peo-
pie OF Des Moines, who will SO generously
entertain the encampment Your COM
mander hopes there may be large parade,
but also hopes that no comrade will over
tax himself for the sake of adding to the
number in line. The department commander
and staff will take their places in the line,
he Is not willing to do himself.
Immediately after the parade there will
be reunions of all the organizations meet
ing during the encampment; ample ar
rangements have been. made for that pur-
pose. Wednesday evening will be given
up to camp fires, several of which will be
held. AT one of these meetings Gen. G. NJ.
Dodge will give his personal recollection
of Gen. w. T. Sherman There will be
other speakers of note, and at all the camp
fires there will be the best camp fire talk
ers in the state and out of it.
| Thursday WILDE held the closing sessions
of the encampment, and in the evening
probably general installation of officers
These arrangements may be modified some
what by the encampment itself, but not
materially
Ex-Prisoners of War.
The managers of the camp fire of
the eX-prisoners of war during the en-
campment have arranged for an inter
esting programme which will include
speeches by Captain j. A. Brewer,
chairman of the meeting and head of
the state society; Rev. S. II. Hedrick,
of Allerton; Col. Andrew Geddes, of
Washington, D. c.; Captain NJ. I. Rus
sell, of Des NIoines, who is one of the
four or five survivors of the party that
built the Libby prison tunnel and got
out of that prison through it; and Maj.
S. H. M. Byers, who wrote Sherman's
March to the Sea-"
| Teachers to Confer.
State Superintendent Barrett has re-
ceived numerous responses to his invi-
tation to private normal schools, sem
| inaries, and colleges for a conference
May 14th here, with the state board of
education examiners, for the pur-
pose of devising means for carrying
out the Hogue-Kling law for the state
recognition and inspection of schools
for the instruction of teachers. Among
the institutions which have accepted
the invitation are the following: Cen
| trail college of Pella, Western Normal
college of Shenandoah, Tabor college,
Humboldt college, Simpson college of
Indianola, Lenox college of Hopkinton,
Highland Park college, Upper Iowa
| university of Fayette, Drake univer-
sity, Luther college of Jewell, Western
Union college of lie Mars, Southern
Iowa Normal of Bloomfield, Denison
Normal college, Woodbine Normal
school, Nora Springs seminary, Buena
Vista college of Storm Lake and Iowa
Wesleyan university of Mount Pleas
ant. In many cases the president of
the college or school will come and in
others some other representative of
| the institution.
Will Go to Detroit.
Gov. Cummins has appointed
the Iowa delegates to the National
Conference of Charities and Correction
which will meet in Detroit May 2s to
June 8. The delegates include the fol-
lowing:
Superintendent NJ. T. Gass. of the SOL
di.rs' orphans home at Davenport: B. J.
Mills, of the industrial school at Eldora;
Prof. Isaac L. Loos, of the State university;
w. l.. Casper, of Keokuk; Rev. H. D.
Long, of Council Bluffs, and Mrs. F. a. Mil
lard of Burlington; and from Des Moines,
Prof. Bruce e. Sheppard, of Drake uni
versity. president of the associated chart
ties of this city; also Rev. William H.
Slingerland, state superintendent of the
Iowa children's home; H. S. Hollings-
worth, exchange clerk in the Valley ma
tional bank; Rev. M. A. Stafford and Rev.
Marine II. Jenney, of the Unitarian pas
torate; Charlotte Golf, former secretary OF
| the DeS Moines associated charities; Mrs.
Isaac L. Hills president of the Iowa
branch and member of the National Con-
gress of Mothers for Iowa. and Mrs. Carrie
M. Ogilvie, editor of the Mail and Times.
State Conventions.
A large number of state conventions
will be held in Des Moines during May.
The following is partial list of the
dates for these gatherings, all of which
are of state Importance:
d. o. K. X. conclave, May 20.
G. A. r. encampment. May 20. q, %.
State Bankers association. May q, e. q.
State Medical association. May q, p.
State Photographers association. May
81. o, %.
State Intercollegiate field meet. May g.
Many Union Men.
The State Federation of Labor will
meet at Cedar Rapids May IA. Presi-
dent A. L. Holder, present deputy state
labor commissioner, says that the num-
Der of union men in Iowa to-day is
larger than it ever was in the history
of the state and that tho ottap1a