Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-12-26
Plans TOR IOWA building
State Commission Has Practically
Selected Them for st. Louis
Exposition.
COST OF STRUCTURE WILL Be $4,000.
LaborA Of Commission Now Under
Full Headway-An Error Corrected
-Depression Of Iowa Canning
Trade-Other Items of Interest to
Natives of the Hawkeye State.
Especial correspondence.,

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Natives of the Hawkeye State.
Especial Correspondence.1
Des Moines. Ia, Dec. 22.-The Iowa
commission on the St. Louis EXPOSE
ton has practically selected plans
for the Iowa building there. 1t will
cost 100000 and be very handsome.
The architect gets three per cent. of
the cost for the work of drawing the
plans and specifications. The COM
mission has divided up the work
which it will have to do and the la
Dor of making showing at st. Louis
has now begun. Secretary Freem
Conway is daily at the Office of the
commission at the statehouse, and
the interest manifested in the Iowa
end of the show is gratifying to the
commission. DIR. P. L. Prentis has
resigned from the commission to ac-
cept a commission in the immigra-
ton service under the treasury de-
partnent, and Gov. Cummins has ap-
pointed DR.. 8. Bailey to take his
place on che commission.
Error Corrected.
: Attention has been called to the
error made in saying that this year
the prohibition party had failed to
cast the requisite two per cent. of
the total vote and therefore could
not get It's ticket on the official bal
lot next year. The total vote cast
this year was 395,412. OF this the
prohibition vote was 9,s16. Since two
per cent. off the total vote is but
1905, it ia apparent that the prohi-
bition party will be able to get its
ticket on the official ballot next year,
! as it did, this year, which was the
first time. Heretofore it had been
compelled to get it's place on the
ballot by petition. Mr.. Isaac T. Glib
son, of S,lem, discovered the error
in compM sation which was the ORR
gin for the statement that the party
had lost il s place on the ballot.
Cam ing Trade Depressed.
The canning trade of Iowa has
been much depressed by the short
age IN the corn and vegetable crops.
This shortage has existed for two
seaspns now. The first was last year,
when the drought injured the crop,
and this year the excessive moisture
had1 a more serious effect, even. The
orr Gmry production of canned corn
from Iowa factories is 100000 cases
or. 24OO0,000 cans. The product this
y ear will be at least IS per cent. un-
Ter this average, and the production
'Ast year was even below that. But,
of course, the shortage of last year
resulted in an increased demand this
year, which emphasized the depres-
sion. Every Iowa canning factory
has contracted its entire supply of
next year.
New Unions In Iowa.
Ninety-three new unions have been
organized in Iowa since the last
meeting of the State Federation of
Labor. This has been about six
months, and is put forward by Pres
ident Arthur E. Holder as an indica-
ton of the tendency toward the or
ganization of the laboring men in
this state. The places and number
of unions organized at each follow:
Boone, TO- Mason, City, g.
Burlington, ]. Mount Pleasant, / !,
Fort Dodge,3. Oeiwein, 3.
Muscatine. ). Sioux city.a
Madrid. Waterloo. 8.
. GGees.Sn; = : GeirqeeTolIles;
I. i RMa.S G;ilfy. :. Iowa Falls, !.
Organizer MintoN, of Boone, has
been working for the State Fedora
ton since it's last meeting, and this
work is the direct result of his eff
forts.
Cattle Sale Arranged.
A big cattle sale has been arranged
for the new stock pavilion at the
state fair grounds, February "a.
. Former State Senator w. r. Lewis, of
] Powesheik county, arranged the sale
The animals to be sold are those be-
l longing to an estate which has gone
; into bankruptcy, and it was arranged
, that the herds of thoroughbreds
! owned by the debtor be sold to sat.
, isfy the creditors. The creditors
: were represented by attorneys at the
, meeting of the state agricultural
/ board, which arranged for the sale
, through Senator Lewis. The auction
is expected to do at least 100000
business. 1t will be the first sale
in the big stock pavilion at the fair
grounds, except the shorthorn sale
!, held here during state fair week.
: Telephone Strike Settled.
j The telephone strike which has
/. been going on in Des Moines for the
!. past seven months has been settled
amicably and the striking girls and
= linemen have returned to work. One
4 of the companies, the Mutual, settled
). the strike in accordance with the de-
mands of the labor unions, early in
July, but the Iowa Telephone com:
: pany-the Pell-hela opt and refused
to settle until this week, when repre-.
. sentatives were brought together
{ and after discussing the differences
:. agreed to a settlement. By the strike
e the "hello" girls secured an increase
: of more than 80 per cent. in their
: wages. They now receive la excess
8 of one dollar day.
President MacLean Honored.
President George 2. MAGICIAN, OF
the state university, has been elected
c member of the Iowa club in Yale
;. university. He is an alumnus of that
e institution, and when the Iowa men
] " that university fopmed social
, club tor the purpose Of reunion and
., RnC{n1 a po1ro 1o ..~,ns,1n.~x Al.x.