Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-07-03
Found A SERIOUS ERROR.
Defect Discovered In Law Relating
:, to Negotiable instruments That
Causes Embarrassment,
OMISSION OF A WORD CAARsEs SENSE.

xrcs1dent OF state .Unlvers1ty, Ex.
presses an Opinion CONCERNING Ex.
animation Of Teachers,--Photo-
graphs of Pioneers - Agitation
Started to Secure Vital Statistics.
lsnecial correspondence.l (, :
Des Moines, Ia, June 2o.-East
winter the laws OF Iowa relating TO
instruments were codified.
A new bill covering the whole of the
laws was passed without reading aid
without debate. It was recommended
by the governor and the judiciary corn
mittee. 1t was such codificatioh as all
Of the lawyers egreed upon and coh-
formed with the codification recon-
by the National Bar assoeia-
ton and adopted in most of the other
states, being designed to make" the
laws OF the different states uniformVh
this subject. The lawyers of Iowa M6w
have discovered serious error in one
clause of the law, as it was published.
The bill read: "But promise or g.
der to pay out Of particular fund Us
not unconditional" The law as it
was printed omits the word mot"
which changes the whole sense of the
statute relating to the subject, aid
has created considerable embarrass-
menti in some Of the counties.
Made q sugEestion. -.
President MacLean, before Leaving
tor Europe for two months vacation
from his work at the head of the State
University Of Iowa, made a suggestion
which may be taken up by the. state
legislature this winter. He said that
In his opinion the examination, of-all
teachers should be under the direction
of the state board of educational ex-.
aminers. At present the county SUI
pefintendents conduct all .examina-
Gons of teachers. In counties in which
strong men are elected to the Office
the standard 10 kept high; in other
counties it is different. If the burden
of conducting these examinations
were taken off the shoulders of the
county superintendent and a uniform
standard maintained in all of the
counties, 1t is the belief of the best
educators that the general educational
standard Of the state would be greatly
advanced.
vital Statistics.
An agitation which will find express
sion before the next legislature is be-
ing carried on IN Iowa and is rapidly
developing public sentiment, with ref
erence to vital statistics. The ma
chinery of the state is extremely inef-
ficient in the matter Of collecting these
statistics. They are left to the year
ly round of the assessor, for some rea-
son or other. Frank I. Herriott, in a
recent article in the Iowa Medical
journal, of Des Moines, vigorously
condemned the present system and
urged the establishments Of reform
in gathering these very important
sta tistics. In his argument he demon
strated the tremendous value to the
public Of correct information along
this line.
Was in Error.
Tests which have been begun indi-
cate that the Shiloh battlefield monu-
nent commission was in error in re-
3eoting the brass tablets manufac-
tufed for the Iowa monuments erected
on that battlefield, and which were to
have been dedicated with appropriate
addresses by Gen. Weaver and Gov.
Cummins on May 80. The ceremonies
were postponed because, it was stated,
that the brass tablets and bronze
srparle .nr> ,,n< .,v. - 4h> .S.osn,a G..i
by the commission and the contract
The manufacturer declared his work
was above the standard, and tests are
now being made. It is probable that
the commission, in answer to demand
made by all of the Shiloh veterans, will
AK the anniversary of the battle as
the days for the dedication Of the mon
uments, next year.
saved Many DOLLARS.
The statistics of the associated
charities to which was turned over the
work Of managing the food relief OF
victims Of the high water In this city
show, that there were 6,0s5 person,
who suffered from the flood here. The
charities is investigating every case
before disposing Of permanent relief
The citizens raised about $4,000 fol
the relief Of the flood victims, and
then turned the money over to the
charities to distribute. 1t goes into
the case Of every applicant, and know,
that the money does good before be.
slowing the charity. The charitie,
has saved the city thousands Of dol
lars in useless aims giving, putting the
business Of giving help to applicants
for aid on q scientific basis and pre-
venting drunken men from living Of
the earnings OF begging wives and chill
dren.
To Ran Surveys.
The directors of the interurban cleo
trio railway projected between De.
Moines and Council Bluffs held {
meeting in this city and employed an
engineer to run surveys covering tn,
route. No expense will be spared K
make the preliminary survey perfect
"A one per cont. grade and three pei
cent. curvatureare the only limitat ton.
on the engineer except that he ha,
been directed TO survey q route JOINING
the principal points along the line
which are Des Moines, Dallas Center
Guthrie Center Audubon. Harlan an;