Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-08-28
Wants A PRINTING OFFICE
Superintendent of Industrial School
Thinks Some Boys Should Be
Taught Printers Trade.
SHOULD Be GIVEN WORK 1HAT1aEYLIkE.
Practice OF Passing Along Paupers to
BE stoDped-Machinists In Sweden
Appeal for Aid-1owa CreamerIes
Show Increase In Business-Re.
turned to Marry-Other Notes.
Especial correspondence.l

Especial correspondence
Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 24.-Super-
intendent Miles, of the boys industrial
school at Eldorado, Iowa, has recom-
mended to the board of control that It
ask the legislature to appropriate
$4,000 for a printing Office for the in
stitution. It is his belief that there is
a large class of boys at the institution
who ought to be taught the printers
trade. as they show an inclination in
that direction, and the superintendent
believes that the quickest and most
elective way to reform a boy is to give
him work that he likes. The argument
that typesetting machines have largely
supplanted the printer is not regarded
as sufficiently forceful to Offset the
value Of teaching the business Of hand
composition to others.
Care of Paupers.
The Associated Charities of Des
Moines has voted to stop the practice
OF passing along paupers. 1t has been
the custom of all towns when paupers
arrive In them to furnish them trans
portatton to some other place to get
rid OF them. This will no longer be
done by Des Moines. An association
has been formed by the various chari-
table Organizations in many western
cities covering this matter. They have
agreed not to ship paupers to each 9TH
er's towns until the case has been in
vestigated, until the charitable organi-
cation In the town to which the pau
per desires to go has been notified and
consented, and until 1t is certain that
the INDECENT persons condition will be
bettered by passing him along.
In Need of Help.
Local members of the international
union OF machinists have received
word from the headquarters that the
members of the order in Sweden need
help. About 1000 of them are there
on strike or have been locked out.
They are asking for aid during the
time that the strike and lockout cover.
The Swedish organization was slow
about asking the machiniss of the
United States to aid them, but 1t was
finally decided to do so. 1t is UNDER
stood that the union men of Des Moines
will contribute literally 1t is esti-
mated that 100000 was sent by the
miners of this state to the striking
miners in Pennsylvania.
Creamery Business Improved.
The fine pastures due to the extraor-
binary moisture of this year are re-
sponsible for the very fine showing
made by the creameries of the state
now being received at the Office of the
state dairy commissioner. The reports
were asked for d month in advance OF
the usual time. this year, in order to
get all of the reports in season. Dairy
Commissioner Wright says that the
condition Of the business is very much
improved as compared with last year.
Better prices and a larger product are
the two elements which the reports
show.
Married Iowa Girl.
H. S. Kneedler returned to Iowa the
past week and married Miss Mary Es-
tabrook. Of Eldorado. For long time
Mr.. Kneedler was engaged In the
newspaper business in this state He
started a magazine, framed after the
style of the Hubbard Philistine, and
published it from Boone for several
months. finally suspending and going
to California. There he started line
OF fine restaurants in the large cities
and Is said to have amassed fortune.
He Is located at Los Angeles. In Iowa
he published papers in Cherokee, Of
tumwa and Cedar Rapids, as well as
Boone.
Dispute Over Water.
The town of Cherokee and the state
board of control are in dispute about
the water bill owed by the state insti-
tuition located at Cherokee to the city.
The original contract between the two
was that water should be furnished
at six cents thousand gallons. The
city Is now trying to collect Is cents
q thousand. The board of control re-
fuses to pay the higher rate 1t claims
that one Of the big inducements for the
location Of the insane hospital at Cher
okee was the cheapness of the water
rate offered. The state also Gays six
cents at Marshalltown and seven cents
only at independence.
To XIII Gophers.
a patent has just been secured In
Des Moines for a machine to kill
gophers and ground squirrels. The
machine pumps poisonous gas into the
runways in the ground occupied by the
rodents. State Chemist s. R. Macy, of,
the faculty Of Highland Park coll
lege. is interested in the machine,
which he has given extensive tests. It
is well known that the gopher digs one
main runway through field. From
this spurs are dug, through which the
earth taken out Of the excavation is
carried. By pumping the main rum
way full Of gas the rodent is killed
without difficulty or expense.
To Extend Its Line.
The Iowa Falls and Northern rail-
road has announced that 1t expects to
extend its line from Iowa Falls to Ma
son City next year, there making traf-
&c arrangements with the Milwaukee,
which will permit the. latter to run
through trains from Minneapolis and
ST. Paul to Des Moines. using the Iowa
Falls road from Maso City In. This
will make the shortest route between,
the twin cities and Des Moines by
about, TO miles. The story that the
Great Western line was about to be
sold to the Milwaukee is shown by this
arrangement not to be true. The new
ly constructed line will be shorter than
the Great Western even.