Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-16

have secured q special train in which !
70 10 % the show. and while there will
be required to do regular work as IL
they were in college. They will be re-
quired, for instance. to pass Judgment
on stock and writs ut length the rea-
sons for their decisions. Over three
fourths of the students In the agricul-
tural department Of the college belong
to the animal husbandry division. The
other one-fourth is equally divided
among the dairying, agronomy and
divisions.
Magnetic Healers.
The magnetic healers of Iowa will
ask the next legislature to create
board which shall license competent
healers and exclude others from prac-
hcing in the state This is for the pur-
pose Of throwing the protection Of
law around the business. A large num-
Der Of prosecutions have been carried
on against the magnetic healers in this
state, it being claimed that they were
violating the medical practices act.
They do not use drugs and the courts
have uniformly dismissed the prosecu-
lions. II state board were created
they say they would be saved this an
noyance. Osce p Buffers, of Des
Moines, is the head of the state asso-
citation of healers. The past week he
and the Spiritualists held meeting in
pes Moines for the purpose of devils
ing ways and means of inducing the
legislature to enact a law giving both,
of them protection.
Home for Poor Children.
Des Moines women are making plans
for the erection of permanent home
at 1.-THE Lodges" near Boone, Iowa, for
the accommodation of the poor chill
dren of this city who are given q
fresh air" excursion to the place
named each year. It is estimated that
comfortable home sufficient to ac-
commodate the 100 or more children
will cost about $4,000 Now tents have
to be rented and this is unsatisfactory.
Business men in this city are backing
the movement, which is regarded as a
very excellent charity. The excursion
lasts two weeks and is in August Of
each year.
Apples for st. Louis.
David A. Pidgeop, of Hardin county,
has just shipped his entire apple crop
to st. Louis, where it will be kept in
cold storage pending the st. Louis ex-
position next year. Silas Wilson, Of
Atlantic, who is in charge of the Iowa
fruit exhibit at the exposition drew on
Mr.. Pidgeon for the Wolf River variety
of apple and took the entire crop for
exposition. This amounted to so bush
esl. On his apples Mr.. Pidgeon has
been in the habit of taking first pre-
miums at all of the fairs.
farmers Institutes.
A movement to effect the long de-
sired state organization of county
farmers institutes will be taken up
and probably carried out at the De-
cember meeting Of the state depart
ment of agriculture here. A special
organizer from the national depart
ment of agriculture will be asked to
come to Iowa and to try to organize
an institute in every county which
does not now have one. At least such
an oficer will attend the December
meeting with view to encouraging
the project of the state association
Bronze Tablet.
A handsome bronze tablet, tribute
to the memory of the five revolution
airy soldiers buried in Iowa, has been
presented to the state historical So
ciety by the Sons of the American
Revolution. Elaborate dedicatory SER
vices will soon be held whom the tab
let is placed In the hall Of the his
torical building. Timothy Brown,
buried at Washington; George Perkins
at Primrose, William Blair at Kossuth.
Charles Shepard at Rome, John Os-
borne at Center Point, are the five
soldiers.
Was Poor Drug Clerk.
! William Ziegler, now a millionaire
and engaged in an effort to find the
north pole, was a poor drug clerk in
the town Of Muscatine 80 years ago.
He quit hts place in drug store sud
denly and went east, where he was lost
sight Of by his Iowa friends. Sudden
ly he emerged as an enormously veal
thy man and Iowa people who knew
him we're instantly interested In the
ambitious schemes of which he was
the promoter for reaching the arctic
apex.
L Labor Unions Increase.
4 According to the forthcoming report
Of the state labor commissioner the
number of labor unions and organized
laborers in Iowa has greatly increased
! during the last year. There are now
800 local unions In the state. Nearly
$4,000 men are reported as members
of them. The mining industry has the
largest number, 12,499. Manufacture
ing trades have 11.138; transportation
has $3.50, and the building trades only
5.6s2.
LEON BROWN.
ssvsnty-Five Years Old.
! Curator Charles Aldrich, of the state
historical department, has observed his
geyenty.1fth hirthdav IJo tc o1,,