Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-03
COLLEGE ORATORS OF IOWA
Eight Will Contest fer IHtsrststs Rivalry
et st. Raul.
MARKINGS OF THE JUDGES CONCLUDE
Iowa woman Gets Service Badge I'm
the MiIitia-PrOspect of Bishop
for western IOwR-TippecRnOe
Banner Awarded.
From a stan Correspondents

(From a stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES, Feb. Especial. 1.-The
oratorical contest OF the Iowa State Col
legiate association will be held here Fri
day, February %, at which time there will
be selected an orator to represent Iowa
at the interstate contest in st. Paul, May 2.
The association comprises ten states. Last
year the contest was held in Des Moines
and a Kansas orator carried on first honors.
The selection Of those who are to par
ticipate in the state contest here the last
day Of the month has just been made by
the judges on thought and composition.
The following will be the speakers:
A, G. Larson, Western College, Toledo
Liberty-Its Abuses and Safeguards.
Edwin Youtz Simpson College, ~Indianola
Russia and the Slay.
Americas First Envoy.
Mr.. Kent, Cornell College, Mount YER
Glen A. Mitchell, Iowa wesleyan. Mount
Pleasant-Blot on the E~scutcheon.
George Rippel, Coe College. Cedar Rap:
Thomas Greer. Lenox College. Hcpkinton
s. q! Fisher. Drake University, Des
Molnes-John Ruskin.
There are fifteen colleges in the Iowa
Oratorical association and o~rations were
submitted from every one of them. The
contest will be held on the evening Of Feb
ruary %, and the banquet will be the even
ing preceding.
Woman Gets Service Badge.
Miss Carrie vieser, who was ten years
of Iowa, severed her connection with the
ONCE Saturday, and in recognition Of her
long service in the ONCE she was presented
by Adjutant General Byers with a ten
year service badge Of the low National
guard, a badge highly priced. by members
of the guard. This is the first instance
Of a woman receiving this badge. She had
charge of the office accounts at the time
Of the enlistment of the Iowa boys for the
Spanish war, and in the work OF reorganiz-
ing the guard, and was more familiar with
the personnel of the entire Iowa guard
than any man Of the state.
Bishop of western Iowa.
While no positive information has been
received here In Catholic church circles
Of the appointment Of DR.. Garrigan OF
Washington to be bishop Of western Iowa,
stationed at Sioux City, yet the unoficial
news to that effect has been accepted az
true, and as a consequence there is re-
newed activity in the interest of a division
Of the see Of Davenport and creation OF a
bishop with headquarters In Des Moines,
The matter has been previously laid be-
fore the high Catholic o~ficials, and II is
believed something will be accomplished the
current year.
The attitude of Archbishop Keane toward
the saloons of the state has already borne
good fruit. He is at the head of a strong
temperance movement, and as the result OF
his crusade the saloon men of Dubuque
, have made important concessions in the
direction Of observing the Iowa laws, which
have generally been ignored there for
many years. The temperance crusade 4.
extending throughout the state under the
direction Of the archbishop.
TippecanOe Hammer Awarded.
Some years ago the Veteran Tippecanot
club i~naugurated the policy of giving g
banner to the county OF Iowa showing the
largest gain in the republican vote over
the preceding year. This banner has gone
to nearly a dozen different counties Of the
state at different times, Monona county
receiving 1t last year and the year before
The club has Just awarded the banner fol
last year to Dubuque county. Not a single
county OF the state made a gain in the
republican vote over the year previous, buI
several sustained but small loss, and the
loss in Dubuque was least OF all. The
four counties coming nearest to maintain.
ing their vote of the year previous were: