Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-28
0TTUMWANS TO co
Will Attend State Conference OF
Charities and Correction.
TO CONVENEIN IOWA CITY NEXT WEEK
Judge e. G. Moon and Other Local
Men Will Probably Be Present at
Meetings to Be Held October 80
and 81.

Judge E. G. Moon and possibly other
annual state conference of Charities
and Correction which will be held at
Iowa City October 80 and 81, next
ton is composed of judges and work
ers in charity associations from vari
Gus parts of the state and meets once
each year for the purpose of discuss
ing plans for caring for the unfortu-
nate and needy and for governing in
the best way known the incorrigibles
or partial incorrigibles who come into
the courts, both minor and major.
The program contains papers which
will be of special interest to those en-
gagged in melting out justice and those
melting out bread to the poor. The
papers are by well informed people of
long experience with regard to the
questions which present themselves
! to the eyes of the association. Thor
ough discussion of the several papers
has been arranged for and it is ex-
pected that the members of the organi-
cation will derive much benefit and
knowledge of their work by means of
| this.
| ,aa o meeL IN StaIe 6uilGlngS.
| The building occupied by the Iowa
State university will be used for the
convention. All sessions will be held
/ in the lecture room of the hall of lib
eral arts at the university. The COM
mittee headquarters and the head
quarters for railroad certificates will
| be at room 205 in the hall of liberal
arts.
The Officers.
The officers of the Iowa State con-
ference of Charities and Correction
are as follows:
President-Isaac A. Loos, A. NJ, D.
G. L., Iowa City.
First e-president-Supt. w. F.
Cheyalier, Muscatine.
Second vice-president-Mrs G. H.
HOLSTER, Sioux City,
Treasurer-H. S. Hollingsworth, Des
Moines.
Secretary-Charlotta Golf, GOT Lo-
Gust street, Des Moines.
Executive committee-Prof. Isaac A.
Loos. Iowa City; Charlotte Golf, Des
Monies; G. d. Van Vechten, Cedar
Rapids; Judge L. G.. Kline, Des
Moines; Prof B. E. Shepherd, Des
Moines.
The Program.
4 The program for the various ses-
sions of the conference is as follows:
Thursday Forenoon.
Address of welcome on behalf of the
university and city-George E. Mac.
Lean, president of the State Uni.
versity of Iowa.
Response, by the first vice president
l>E I, .;,,to X
F. Cheyalier, Muscatine.
Address by the President of the con-
ference.
1 Reviewing the work of the confer.
ence, Isaac A. Loos.
Associated Charities in Iowa-A
general survey, Superintendent w. K
Stevenson, Iowa City.
The Associated Charities of Keokuk
Elmer A, Park, General secretary AS
ISOLATED Charities of Keokuk.
Discussion and voluntary reports
from the field
Thursday Afternoon.
The Associated Charities of Des
Moines, DR.. l.. e. Stevens, president of
the Associated Charities of Des
Moines.
Discussion.
Report in behalf or the board of con-
troll on the state penal and charitable
institutions, John Cownie, chairman
The function of the public hospital
DR.. Anne Burnett, resident physician
in the hospital at Mount Pleasant.
Discussion.
, Thursday Evening.
, The Child Labor Problem in Iowa
Edward M. Neatly, Burlington.