Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-28
SIZE HARD 1O ADJUST
Building Committee Will Go To
St. Louis to Permanently
Locate Iowa Building
THIS WILL BE THIRD DECISION
The Iowa Building, Which Will Be
Slightly Smaller Than at First Plan
ned But Nevertheless a Handsome
One, Has Been Twice Before Assigned
Location-other State News.
Special to Times-Republican.

| Des Moines, Jan. 2S.-The building
committee Of the Iowa exposition COM
mission is to be in st. Louis on Thurs
day to make another location of the
Iowa building. When the st. Louis
commissioners first went to work they
urged that Gov. Shaw appoint a COM
mission to go to ST. Louis and select a
site for the Iowa building, and insisted
difficult for Iowa to get desirable To-
cation for a building on the grounds
Gov. Shaw appointed commission
which located the prospective Iowa
building at st. Louis. The location was
| made in forest and none Of those in
terested had any notion as to how the
site would suit. Later when the pres
ent commission was appointed there
was great pressure to have the COM
mission Immediately select a, site for the
building and some members of the COM
| mission We're got to go to st. Louis for
that purpose. Iowa was located again.
Then another disturbance took place
and some time ago the ST. Louis COM
missioners gave notice that they had
placed Iowa at some other point. Now
the building committee goes to ST. Louis
to stake off the ground and plant the
Iowa flag. where it will stay. III the
meantime the preparation of the plans
| for the Iowa building is under way here
| in Des Moines. The building will be
Slightly smaller than the plans which
I 4.
was made, as it has been found that so
large a building can not be constructed
on the sum available. But that Iowa
will have a handsome building and 1t
will not have a movable location after
lit Is actually built Is now deemed rea-
sonably certain.
| When the president of any one of the
| lsegtarian colleges of Iowa again jumps
! essso the country schools OF Iowa with
Wholesale denunciation. whether it be
merely for cheap sensationalism or that
there may be an awakening to the facts,
| he is likely to weigh well the conse-
quences. The attack Of President Shell
ton. of Indianola, on the country
schools has certainly had the effect of
bringing many to the general defense of
the rural schools. The other day a
teachers convention at Oxford, at
tended by rural teachers and school pa
irons, adopted the following resolu-
| tions:
Whereas, one Prof Shelton, who
calls himself an eminent educator did
| in an address before the State Teachers
| Association at its recent meeting at Des
| Moines make the statement that three
fourths of the money paid for teaching
| in the rural schools is absolutely wasted
and that the pupils of those schools
come to manhood practically untaught.
I'VE deny these allegations.
Therefore, be it resolved by this as
semblage of teachers and patrons OF the
schools OF Oxford and vicinity, that. we
hurl back these slanderous falsehoods
and brand their author as calumniator
and a falsifier: and in refutation of his
statements refer to the census reports
! of 1900. which show that only a fraction
of per cent of the population of Iowa
| is illiterate. and, moreover, that there
| is less of illiteracy among the rural peo-
| pie than among those of the cities and
towns
They are in line with expressions ap-
pearing all over the state. The danger,
however, is that inasmuch as the attack
en- the rural schools was crudely done
and grossly overdrawn SO the resistance
will take the form Of trying to prove
that the rural schools are all right and
do not need any Improvement. But the
best educators of the state are aware
they do need improvement, altho the
quality of their work is not to be wholly
lrepudiated.
Now it is asserted with positiveness
that N L. Kendall, of Monroe county, is
clear out of the race for speaker and
his name will never be presented.
The action of the miners at their in
ternational meeting at indianapolis last
week is taken hereto foreshadow action
that will be taken by the Iowa Missouri
miners at their convention in this city
| in about six weeks when they will con-
slider the mine scale for next year and
all matters pertaining thereto. 1t is
now regarded as certain that the miners
will make demand for substantial
| increase in wages for the next year and
several changes in the manner of hand
ling the. coal that will be to their ad-
vantage. They say that the operators
have had an unusually good season and
that there is no likelihood of any de-
preston in the business, and 1T Will
warrant some slight increase in wages
Paid to miners The work In the Iowa
mines has been good the past year and
the schedule has been lived up to- and
there has been no trouble between the
operators and miners. The operators
declare that they will not allow any
further increase in wages in the Iowa
district, and any attempt to force up
wages will result in a strike. This
would be much deplored by both the
miners and the operators
4
The Richards mystery in connection
with the robbery of Sullivan at Hamii-
ton has not yet been unraveled Frank
Baird the man in Jail at Knoxville, who
was shot by Sullivan, still insists that
while he knows not who the other two
men were connected with the robbery it
Is certain that Richards was not one of