Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-06
Display of Cattle. Hogs and
Horses Promises to Be Largest
In History of Association
2EuNloN OF SIGNAL COMPANY
Policy of Publicity of State Affairs,
Proving Popular-lnspection of
County Poor Farms and the Other
Place Where Insane Are kept-Gos-
sip Of the Capital.
Special to Tilnes-Republican.

ofe OF the most progressive states in
at ST. Louis without in the least inter-
fcring wi,h the state fair and local
fairs, lis indicated by the manner in
which the exhibitors are fiocking to the
state fair this year. 1t was really fear
ed by the state fair management that
& the St Louis exposition would cripple
1.-THE state fair 1t was recalled that
1t the time OF the Chicago fair the
/. state fair was abandoned. This was
contemplated this year and urged by
some; but 1t was decided that there
was a demand for state fair whether
people go to st. Louis or not. Ana
no the fair preliminaries We're entered
upon with some misgivings. Now that
the cattle and horse entries are all IN,
Ii is certain there will be good fair.
III there are large entries In the I'VE
stock departments it 10 taken as sure
sign that the fair will be good. Inc
people always go where the 1--we STOCK
Is shown to the best advantage. inc
Exhibitors of implements all understand
this and are following the stock men
with their entries. But in the cattle
department, SO long and ably presioed
over by Gov. S. d. Packard. the Mar
shall county farmer whose connection
!. with any enterprise generally insufes
success, the entries have been especial
" fine The total 10 954. or about zoo
more than last year. when 1t was pc
lieyed the high water mark had been
received. These entries are well Ovid
de among the different classes and
breeds In the regular classes here are
/ the entries: Shorthorns, 224. Aoer-
tieen-Angus, 1872. Jerseys, 109; Here
fords. So; Galloways. 81; Red Polied,
rs: Holstein, SIS. In the beer classes
there are: Shorthorns, 9; Herefords,
II; Aberdeen Angus, IL: Galloways, 8;
grades and crosses. "a; grand cham
pions, 10; grand champion herds, 4;
and grand beef herds. Z. The hog show
will be greater than ever before. The
horse entries are not quite UP to last
year but sheep and poultry will be
about as usual All Of which insures
great state fair.
The general effect OF adoption OF
policy of publicity in state affairs is
being made manifest In the way coun-
" officials in Iowa chafe under the rig
ia requirements Of law which was
passed by the legislature two years ago
requiring publication OF county flnan-
ciai statements annually In pamphlet
form. In some counties of the state
this law has been complied with cheer
fully. and in fact in many of the best
governed counties Of the state, the GUS
tom had already been established. Re-
Gently the secretary Of the state exc
cuttve council sent out a circular letter
to all county auditors requesting that
they forward to the state officials cop
les OF the published reports for this
year, and indicating that copies would
be furnished the committee on re-
! trenchment and reform Of the next leg
islature. About sixty OF the county
auditors responded promptly. Many
others have ignored the request and it
is believed that they have not published
the reports at all. 1t is learned that
some Of the county officials believe
there is no penalty for failure to pub
lieh, but this is not the case. The fact
IL that good many county officials
do not want publication in Ineligible
form Of the items Of expense In their
respective counties and they have been
doing everything in their power to
bring this law into disrepute SO that 1t
will be repealed, and the policy Of pub
licity in public accounts will be drop
ped. An investigation Is to be made to
determine what counties have failed to
publish the reports.
In the annual report Of the state
board Of control on county insane asy-
iums and poor farms and private places
where insane are kept there will be
added this year number of places not
before reported When the board first
sent out an inspector as provided by
law he went only to the places where
the officials reported that insane We're
kept He found about sixty OF the
places in the state and made q detailed
report on the manner in which they
were conducted. This year the inspec-
tor went to all county farms and all
other places where 1t was supposed in
sane might be harbored with the result
that he found insane in twenty places
that were not examined last year. In
the majority of these cases there We're
only one or two at place. but they
must all be reported. The state board
is required to make regulations govern
ing all places where insane are kept
and to see that the regulations are
complied with, and in some cases have
closed county asylums that fell below
standard.
Charles E. Lewelling, formerly and
for O. number of years resident of Oma-
ha. who has just moved to Des Moines
to take up the work of establishing
mail routes In the rural districts OF
Iowa. will go the coming week into
story and adjoining counties to in
spact the routes In existence and pros
posed He will do work for the pres
emit largely In Marshall. Hardin Story,
Grundy, Jasper. and Wright counties,
where there are many applications for
new routes or extension of old routes
or changes He and others In the
same service will have offices In Des
Moines aud continue the work OF es-
tablishing rural routes until the en-
tire state is covered.
Ger. e Tevlor, Of Wa county,
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