Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-09-29

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after having been abandoned for long
time. Heretofore the Northwestern rail-
| road has done most of the excursion busi-
ness. Mayor Farley Sheldon, of Ames,
has just visited the headquarters of all
of the Iowa roads at Chicago and has
secured an agreement from them that
they will all join in the excursion bust
ness. 1t is expected that whereas 2, 900
and 5000 used to visit the institution
on these days there will now be 10000
and $4,000.
| Suits Dismissed.
The injunction proceedings brought by
! policy holders of the Northwestern Life
and Savings company, of Des Moines, to
restrain its sale to the Northwestern Ma
tional Life Insurance company, of Min
neapolis, have been dismissed. There
were rs of these policy holders living in
Guthrie and Dallas counties. They
brought suit to prevent the consumma-
ton of the sale which had been arranged
by the stockholders. The sale was prac-
tically completed, however, when the
stock was taken over by the new COM
pany and the suits were noneffective.
Both the policy holders and stockhold-
| ers refuse to say on what basis the suits
I were dismissed.
| Wears the Honors.
Miss Mary Hatch, of Bremen county,
wears the honors for long and continuous
attendance upon her school. She has
taught u consecutive terms of school
without missing single day. She did
miss one-half of one day by reason OF
I getting stuck in a snow bank one winter,
but she reached her school house in time
to hold the regular afternoon session.
Miss Hatch has been asked to furnish
the state department of education with
statistical information as to the time she
has spent in school work, the miles she
has Travelled, the number of fires she has
built, the number of days, weeks, months
and years she has taught, and her total
income therefor.
Gives Big Bond.
Robert Fullerton, who has been an
pointed by Secretary Shaw to act as dis
bursting officer for the $5,000,00O appro-
priated by congress for aid to the St.
Louis exposition, will go to ST. Louis
from Des Moines, where he lives, in a
i
position. He has been required to de-
post bond of 100000. This was given
in surety company. Mr. Fullerton Is
worth several millions of dollars He is
connected with the Chicago Lumber and
Coal company. He came to this country
from the north of Ireland about 80 years
ago and learned the carpenters trade.
He landed in a Kansas town without q
cent, but had contract within an hour
to build house. He brought over II
brothers and sisters and put all of the
men in the lumber business. One of
these lives at st. Louis and is worth mill
lions.
Curious Case.
A curious case has come to naught in
Clay county. 1t was against DR.. w. G.
B. Billiard. He was charged with fraud
ulent practice because he used a picture
of the capitol of Iowa on his letterheads
and the grand jury assumed that he in
tended to convey the impression to his
correspondents that the state house was
his Office. The indictments returned
against him were held to be defective and
the cases were dismissed. Billiard was
also charged with conspiring with his
wife and this was thrown out of court.
Billiard threatens suits for damages in
retaliation for the prosecutions which
have cost him much money and business.
Educational Display.
1t is now proposed to have in this city
the last week in December a display of
the educational exhibit which will be
made by this state at St. Louis. F. ].
Sessions, in charge Of the exhibit, has
asked the Des Moines Commercial ex-
change to furnish quarters and pay the
expenses for gathering and displaying
in Des Moines during the meeting of the
State Teachers association the latter
part of December all of the work which
will be examined by the commission and
from which the cream will be selected
for exhibition at the st. Louis exposi-
ton as representative of the educational
work of this state. The exchange has
agreed to furnish the rooms and pay the
expenses.
Going to Turkey.
Joseph Morcombe, of Cedar RAPIDS.
Ia, will sail for Europe about October Is.
his destination being Constantinople He
has been selected by the Turkish minis
ter at Washington, D. c., to go to Turkey
and write for the press the truth as to
the troubles in which the sultan finds
himself most of the time. He has been
commissioned by the sultan to do this
work, and he has already conceived the
notion that the peoples with whom the
Turk is compelled to deal are vastly his
Inferior in civilization and can only be
) controlled by displays Of force such as
the Turk uses.
Pure Food Investigation.
u Investigations have been made at the
!, state agricultural college on an extensive
l scale into the subject of pure foods. Mos,
! of the prepared articles of this charac.
e ter have been tested. The result has been
e the recommendation by the head of the
. division at the college of the following:
? Pure food laws which will permit the
examination and analysis of all food
) products on the market by the govern
J ment. the issuance by the state of bull
letins relating to pure foods, and the
creation Of the Office of food commission.
LEON BROWN.
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