Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-02
/ INCLUDES 1RE DEA|
Compulsory Education Law May
Force Deaf Children to At
tend State School.
Session Laws OF Last Asse mbly
in Print Will Soon Be
Ready.
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Dallas County's New Court House
About Ready-..Electric Road
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Building.
Special to Times-Republican.

Des Moines, June 2.-Reference l.
made in the Deaf Hawkeye, the insti
tuition paper at the State School for the
Deaf, to the failure of the Iowa legisla-
ture last winter to pass law for COM
pulsory attendance of deaf children al
the State School for the Deaf, and the
statement made that ii was introduced
too late in the session to receive the at
tention of the legislature, but just keel
your eye on us and wait two years
But this matter has been discussed il
made that possibly the general law fol
compulsory attendance at school may
cover the case and render unnecessary
any special legislation with reference tc
the deaf school. The general law re-
quires attendance at school for children
u certain time each year barring sutfi
cient excuses for non-attendance.
Would deafness be considered an ex-
Cuse for on-attendance at school, es-
| recially when the state provides one OF
! the best schools in the country with
free tuition and if necessary provides
free transportation to and from the
| school to all children? In the opinion
of number the general law sufficiently
covers the case, and if this is true then
| il is certain there will be Il great in
crease in attendance at the state deaf
school in Council Bluffs another year.
Il is well known that that school has
never been run to its largest capacity
| has i'm, c;l h la t,,
get all the deaf children of the state
| into the school. Last winter before the
legislative committees investigating the
matter it was stated that the Council
| Bluffs school would accommodate from
400 to 600 more without great crowding.
| II deaf children are unable to obtain
excuses for non attendance its capacity
will certainly be tested the coming two
or three years.
! In regard to the restoration of order
since the fire at the deaf school the in
stitution paper of recent date said:
The rapidity with which order has
| been restored from chaos and school
routine has fallen into its normal
course, is truly remarkable and cause
for congratuation, and is really the re-
suit of regular system which has al
ways been maintained. Glasses recite
as usual. the industrial schools are as
busy as ever and everything preserves
the even tenor of its way Pupils hay
Ing recovered from the excitement seem
to rather enjoy the novel experience
and turn to their studies with renewed
diligence; teachers find new incentive
ir the increased responsibility and the
desire TO complG~ the school year with
out losing anything and show that we
are equal to the occasion has given in
splration and strength TO ALL Aside
from week or so of postponement the
usual events of the spring will come off
as usual. Field day, postponed from
the 14th, will come off early in June;
Decoration day Will be observed with
cut interruption and the graduating ex-
ercises will be held as if nothing had
happened, save that they will probably
be held in the city and in the new large
high school building instead of at the
institution
The type is being set and the pages
made up for the session laws of the
Twenty eighth general assembly. The
volume will be little larger than usu-
al, for some of the new laws are very
long and viii occupy many pages. After
the pages are made up some time will
be consumed in preparing the index.
The legislature provided for an edition
OF ll,00O copies of the session laws This
was considered by many as too large an
edition. but the fact that nearly all the
edition is disposed OF by free distribu-
ton leaves ii certain that the edition is
none too large. The preparation of the
code for the new edition is also under
way and the state printer will get at
that work very soon. I'he old plates
will be used with some corrections
which have since been discovered. The
copies of all the new laws have been
sent to John R. Carter. at Sioux City.
and he is at work on the code supple-
ment. After he has practically COM
Jieted the work of revising and ammo
tating the code commission will over
look the work ana the printer will get
al that job The index to the code and !
supplement win be quite a task, for it
Will cover both in one
The encampment of the Forty-ninth
regiment, |. N. g., will be at Cedar
rails beginning July s. This much has I
been settled by the adjutant general. |
The next encampments will be those of
the Fifty-tirst and Fifty second regi-
ments both beginning on the same |
date, July II, the first named to be
either AT Atlantic or Griswold and the
last named probably at Fonda. Hav-
ing them on the same date will make it
a little difficult for the staff officers,
but they can reach both camps. The
date for the Fiftieth is Aug. 5, but the
place is not yet named, as severa;
towns want the encampment
Another of the many new eourt
houses being erected in Iowa will soon
be ready for occupancy-the Dallas
county court house at Adel. This court
house is said by those who have in
spected it to be the finest that has yet
been built in the state, tho not the
largest nor most imposing. 1t is arch
tecturally and in every way beautiful
little building all the more necessary ]
because it is in the heart of one of the
orettiest towns in the state. 1t is PLAN
led now that it Will be dedicated July
|, or possibly at date a little later,
md the people of the county are going ]