Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-05
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Annual Meeting at
caser Rapids Promises to
Be Fine Affair
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"a BANQUET is PLANNED
,eraI Hundred Men and Women OF
Cedar Rapids Will Attend the Ban
quet in Addition to $50 Delegates
Who Will be at the convention--Ex-
ceIIent Program.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Tines-Republican.
Cedar Rapids, Sept. 5.-The seventh
annual meeting of the League of Iowa
municipalities, which is to be held IN
this city on October IL and 13, prom
Uses to be the most largely attended OF
plans are being made in this city to
entertain the delegates on scale COM
mensurate with the Importance of the
meeting. At an informal meeting OF
the city council Friday night tentative
plans were formulated.
Yesterday Mayor Huston announced
of the various features of the enter
tainment Of the delegates. The COM
mittees appointed are finance, recep-
ton, transportation, program and
printing, refreshments, music and dec
Orations.
One of the great features of the
meeting VIII be "a luncheon to be given
In the auditorium on the night OF Oc-
tober 12. 1t is expected that several
! hundred men and women of Cedar IA
pids will be present at that luncheon,
together with the $50 delegates who
are coming to attend the meeting. The
Auditorium will be brilliantly decorat-
ed and illuminated for the occasion,
and the music committee will prepare
an attractive musical programme. The
great feature of this luncheon will be
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rains who has promised to speak in
Cedar Rapids If he is in the state on
that date; and the other by James M.
Head, president of the American
League of Municipalities. Mr.. Head
was formerly mayor of the city OF
Nashville Tenn, but his office is now
in Boston, the headquarters of the
American League Of Municipalities. He
is an exceedingly able man and a fine
speaker. He has written to Mayor
Huston, promising to be here on Oct.
u. and asking for a suggestion as to
the subject of his address. Mayor Hus-
ton has written him, suggesting that
he speak upon the topic, Municipal
Home Rule"
Heretofore it has not been the GUS
tom of the Iowa league to have ladies
present at the banquet and the
speeches following it. But it Is be-
lieved that the ladies are fully as much
interested in the welfare and advance
ment of the cities as are the. men, and
for this reason they will be invited to
be present on the evening OF the
luncheon.
Business Sessions.
The business sessions of the league
will be held in the Commercial CluD
rooms, where the delegates will have
ample room. The program is pre-
pared by the executive committee of
the league and will be announced
shortly. The delegates devote their
time largely to business rather than
pleasure, meeting early in the morning
and resuming work early in the after
noon to listen to the various papers
and discussions treating of every phase
of municipal government.
The league does not confine Itself to
the mere discussion of municipal pro-
bIems, but it also takes active steps to
have determined what legislation Is
needed It's legislative committee has
been able to secure some much needed
legislation for Iowa cities.
Trips for Delegates.
The transportation committee ap-
pointed by Mayor Huston expects to
give the visiting delegates several trips
over the city and vicinity. One will be
over the street car lines to show the
delegates the various institutions and
places of interest in the city. and es-
pecially the city parks, in which Cedar
Rapids claims to lead the state. There
will also probably be ride on the In
terurban in order that the visitors may
see for themselves the immense advan-
tage Of interurban lines to cities. And
finally there will be an automobile trip,
taking the visitors to the most beau
tiful and attractive residence portion of
the city There are enough autmobiles
owned in Cedar Rapids to convey all
Of the delegates, and an effort will be
made to enlist the owners in the un-
dertaking. 1t will be one Of the great
features Of the entertainment.