Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-04-03

what the care of real mother. The
father of the boy and the husband
Of the woman, heart-broken in his
shame, made the application for his
wife's restraint.
Aides Appointed.
Gov. Cummins has appointed Col. w.
G. Bows. of Cedar Rapids, and Col. w.
B. Humphrey, of Sioux City, to act as
aides to Adjt. Gen. Corbin, of the reg
ular army, at the dedication cere-
monies at the St. Louis exposition
April 80. The former commands the
Fifty-eighth regiment, Iowa national
guard. Gen. Corbin will be the mar
shall of the grand parade on the date
mentioned, when all of the buildings of
the exposition will be formally dedi-
Gated. The prospect for sending down
regiment of the national guard, as
proposed some time ago, is quite re-
mote.
Collecting Goods.
Mark Evans, who was in the COM
pany which Capt. Amos Brandt, of
Des Moines, now deputy auditor of
state, commanded during is months
in the military service in the Philip
pine islands, has written to him tell
ing him that he, Evans. has been APP
pointed collector of imported goods
for the exposition board, of the islands
under Gov. Taft. He is engaged in
collecting samples of all the manufac-
lures which may be used and sold at a
profit in the Philippines, and a part Of
these will be sent to the st. Louis ex-
position, while the remainder will go
to the creation of a permanent ma
tional museum in Manila.
After a Conference.
Des Moines will make an effort to
secure the next national conference of
charities which annually assemblies in
convention all of the men interested
in reformatory institutions in the
country and those who have made q
scientific study of criminology. The
conference this year is to be held at
Atlanta, Ga, and the members of the
Iowa board of control will attend it.
The board acting for the state and
for Des Moines will convey the invita-
ton of the commercial exchange of
this city to the conference to meet in
1904 in Des Moines. This could be so
arranged as to enable the conference
to visit in st. Louis at the exposition
at about the same time in a body.
Appointed Commissioners.
Gov. Cummins has appointed Fred
Russell, of Calhoun county, to be state
pharmacy commissioner to succeed W..
L. Leland, of Hawarden. Mr.. Russell
has been deputy clerk and clerk of the
district court of Calhoun county for
six years, but during that time is said
| to have maintained sufficient connec-
ton with the drug business to make
him eligible to appointment on the
board. which is composed of Mr.. Rus
sell, Fletcher Howard and n. t. Hen
dirk. Mr.. B. F. Keltz, of Webster City,
was an active candidate for pharmacy
commissioner and will be candidate
against Mr.. Hendrix next year.
Will Lay Corner stone.
The free masons of Iowa will lay
the corner stone of the Polk county
courthouse in Des Moines at two p.
m. April 20. Grand Master Gardiner,
of Clinton, will be present and pre-
side, and it is expected that all of the
grand officers of the lodge will at
tend. All of the Polk county lodges
will participate and the commandery
! will form an escort. Gov. Cummins,
who recently was highly advanced in
the degrees of masonry, will be in
vited to deliver the address. The
courthouse is blocked out to cost a
half-million dollars, but it is believed
that 1t will have cost million be-
fore it is completed.
Elected President.
T. w. Thackery, of Grinnell, has
been elected president OF the Iowa
Humane league. Mrs. Elizabeth
Jones, of Des Moines, is the secretary
of the organization. j. H. Quick, OF
Sioux City, Jesse A. Miller, of pes
Moines, and G. o. swasey, of Sioux
City, compose the legislative commit:
tee. An effort will be imade by the
league next winter to secure the en-.
actment of laws preventing the use
Of birds on women's hats. making the
sale or gift of liquor to a minor a
crime instead of an act subject to a
suit for damages, and desertion OF
wives and children by husbands and
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