Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-30
Many County Normal Institutes
To Last Two Weeks In
stead of Four
PROGRESS OF SUPREME COURT
Steadily Gaining On Its Own Docket
New Law Requiring Monthly Ses-
sions Will Put it in Better Condition
for Prompt Appeals Than Any Other
Court of the Country.
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Des Moines, May 30.-The season for
county normal institutes is nearly at
hand again. The department Of edu-
cation has issued a leaflet giving
statement Of the dates for all the nor
NAL institutes in the state with the
names of conductors. Nearly all of
these normal institutes are for two
weeks Formerly the custom was to
have institutes of four weeks, but this
custom is being gradually abolished
in all counties and this year only one
of the ninety-nine counties-Dickinson
announces a four weeks normal
course. A great many of the counties
have only one week, and in this list
are Webster, Union, Polk, Lee, Clinton.
buchanan and others of the large coun-
ties. The counties where the session
will last three weeks are Mitchell and
Taylor. Some of the counties held nor
NAL institutes in March, the following
having such Institutes: Cedar, Scott,
Buchanan, Howard, Ida, Osceola. Win
nishiek and Webster. Only one county
announces an institute to be held the
week of the Fourth Of July. The first
week in August is the favorite week
for the commencement of normal insti
tutes. The following classification
shows when the Institutes are to be
held, the opening dates being given:
June 15-Blackhawk, Delaware,
Floyd. Greene, Jackson, Louisa, Musca-
tine, Pottawattamie, Taylor, Washing
ton.
June 22-Cherchee, Des Moines, Har-
rison, Her~s, Madison, Plymouth,
'a.,,sllat, rSoweshiek, Sioux.
June 29-Wapello.
July 6-Bremer, Kossuth.
July 13-Marshall, Montgomery,
Adams. Dubuque, Franklin, Marion,
Mills.
July 2O-Woodbury. Warren, Ring
gold. Monona, Linn, Jones. Carroll.
Hancock. Johnson
July 27-Allamakee, Palo Alto, Mon
roe, Iowa. Mahaska, Grundy. Fremont,
Chickasaw, Cerro Gordo, Audubon
August 3-Polz. Shelby, Story, Van
Buren,, Wayne. Wright, Pocahontas,
Benton. Buena Vista,
Clarke, Clay. Dickinson. Fayette, Guth-
rte. Humboldt Jasper, Lucas, Mitchell,
O'Brien.
August 10-Hardin. Page. Hamilton,
Emmett. Dallas. Crawford, Clayton,
Adair, Butler.
August 17-Calhoun, Davis, Decatur,
Lee, Sac, Union. Winnebago. Worth.
August 24-Clinton. Lyon, Boone.
The supreme court has closed its
May term, the last of rue suptrt,,r,i,ns
being yesterday. On the whole it was
a very dull term. both as to the ar
before the court and the char
acter of the opinions rendered. An
number of applications for re-
hearing were argued orally to the court
and many more would have been so
argued if they could have been reached.
The court issued the customary order
at the close of the term yesterday di-
recting that the clerk of the court
in making up the docket for the Oc-
tober term should include all classes
filed previous to February l, 1903. This
indicates that the court is steadily
gaining on its own dockets Last year
when the order of the October term was
made it included all cases up to De-
Is previous. So that the record
shows that the court has gained
and a half the past year on the
belated docket. AT this rate the court
will soon be in such condition that
there will be no more complaints about
the delays incident to appeals to the
supreme court and by the time the new
law goes into effect which requires
session every month the court Will be
ready to hear cases within few weeks
after they are fled. The supreme court
of Iowa will then be in better condition
for prompt and satisfactory appeals
than any court of the country.
Some of the enterprsing cities OF
the state are making move in the dl
rection of having individual buildings
at the state fair ground for the exhibit
of manufactures from those cities For
instance, the manufacturers of Water
loo are trying to secure space on which
they expect TO build a fine building, 100
by 200 feet in size, which will contain
exhibits of manufacturers from that
city alone. Secretary Simpson re-
ports that he has had some Inquiries
from Marshalltown and Fort Dodge
along the same line. The annual state
fairs in Iowa are becoming each year
greater, and especially is this true in
so far as they are great exhibitions OF
machinery and implements and We
hicles. These fairs are taking on the
form of mechanical eXpositions even
more than displays of agricultural pro-
ducts, and the combination is good
one.
Governor A. B. Cummins has re-
ceived an invitation to the Mccormick
Hanna wedding In Cleveland, when tbs
daughter of the Ohio senator is 10 be
welded to one of the Chicago. McCor-
micks. President Roosevelt has ac-
cepted an invitation to the wedding.
and will make a special journey from
Washington for that purpose. Governor
Cumlnins has not yet decided whether
he will go.
A. Il. Holder, until recently president
of the state federation of labor, was
called to Chicago last week FOR con-
sultation with the committee OF ma