Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-16
Battlefield MARKING
The Chattanooga Commission to
Meet at the Cali OF Senator
John A. Young.
Judges Nominated by Lawyers
in One DistriCt..Des Moines
Vacation School.
Fifty.second Regiment Encamp.
Fifty.second Regiment Encamp'
ment at Fonda, July Jas
Many Circuses.
es-Republican.


Des Moines, June 16.-The matter
of calling together the Chattanooga
commission for organization has been
left by the governor with Senator John
Alexander Young, of Washington, one
of the members of the commission and
he will ascertain what time and place
will be most convenient for the mem
bers of the commission. There is no
need of haste in calling the commls-
sion together and they will probabl!
be asked to meet in Des Molnes. lhls
commission finds itself possessed OF a
Iarger sum of money appropriated by
the state than was asked for. toul
members of the commission were OF
the commission provided for by the
25th general assembly TO locate .ile
battle lines that We're followed by iowa
There are j. A. Young, OF Washington
Joseph D. Fegan, of Clinton; AleXan-
der J. Miller, of oxford; ana +. r.
Spencer, Of Randolph. This four with
Henry G.. Ankeny, of Corning, constl-
tuted the commission which went to
Chattanooga in September, 1884, met
with the national commission to lay
out the Chickama qua and Chattanooga
national military park, consulted with
II. V. Boynton, the historian and war
correspondent, and visited the battle
| fields The commission met second
time, a year later, on the battlefield
and compared notes with men from
other states, and was present at the
dedication of Chickamaga park and
many state monuments. Ohio then had
| So monuments in position, and the
United States had marked many posi-
!tions with monuments. Wisconsin
| Illinois, Indiana and other states had
monuments up or had already provided
| for them. The location of all the
Iowa troops that fought in the battles
of Lookout Mountain and on Mission
larry Ridge We're marked, and these
| markings remain. This commission
recommended $4,000 for the erection
of monuments there to be three mon
suments on Lookout Mountain, on thu
fright, left and CENTER and the posi-
! tions OF the eleven commands on Mis-
sionary Ridge. The fact that four of
the OIL, commission We're appointed by
| Gov. CumminS on the new commission
will tighten it's work
The only judicial district in the state
where the nominations for judge are
made by the lawyers instead of by the
people is the Seventh district which
comprises the counties of Scott Clin-
ton, Muscatine and jackson. Their
are four judges in the district, one
for each county Judges House, Boil
iinger and Wolfe will be renominated
this week in the convention at Daven-
port. and Col. d. V. Jackson, of Mus
catine, will succeed Judge Brannan
who retires from the bench after "a
years service
The Des Moines vacation schools
commenced today and the prospects is
that the total enrolment will reach
not less than 250 for the season. The
school will be open six weeks. 1t is
held in school building in the down
town district where the poor children
who live cooped up in numerous small
houses can easily attend. 1t is .
school intended TO better the morals
Of the community by leading the chill
llren to see and know more of the good |
things OF life Six hundred dollara
was raised to maintain this school six
weeks and it receives the support and
encoura cement of the best people of the
city. 1t is q work we'll worth imitation |
IN other cities.
George II. Nichols, formerly deputy |
superintendent of public instruction, is |
Centerville S. d. He is we'll known |
both as school man and as an editor
in Iowa. He was principal of the schools |
at Cedar Rapids when supt. Akers in
vited him to become deputy. He edited
papers in Fayette. Sioux and other
counties of Iowa. In the distribution of
official state patronage Nichols was left |
out, and he is made of the material that |
always asks why. BY diligent inquiry
he discovered that atho he was run
ming a republican newspaper he had |
the independence to not favor one of
the present United States senators for
reelection. Nichols had a faculty of
getting into trouble in Iowa and it
seems that the trait has followed him to
another state.
The date for the Fifty second regi-
ment encampment has finally been
fixed and it will be in Fonda, July Z.
Col Humphrey had objected to the
later date at first set and other men,
bers of the regiment had objected to
June date. 1t is hoped all will be salts
fled now, tho that is hardly to be eX-
pected The place for the Fifty first
encampment has not yet been selected.
Bill boards and dead walls are al
6 premium in Iowa at the present time.
There are four or five crcuses that are
touring the state at the present time.
Some of them are small and hardly able
to do much advertising, but they must
do some, While the others are lavish in
the use of flaming posters. The circus
men do not reject newspaper adVertis-
ing but they do say that the class of
people who form the larger part of the
circus crowds are more attracted by
bill board display than by newspaper
In Des Moines there are
four of these shows that have dates
and as q consequence every
bill board that can be secured is taken
for these shows. Competition has be-
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