Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-29
Owls D[F{AI
ALMOST VICTORY
Dairymen Well Pleased With
General Results of Exposi-
ton Butter Scoring
ENTIRE EXHIBIT COST ONLY s1,75o
Minnesota Also Won a Gold Medal,
and Spent Probably $4,000 On Its
Butter Exhibit-FaIse Rumor That
cumn,ins Will Resign If the Bien-
nial Elections Amendment Passes.
Special to Times-Repubncan.

| Special to Times Republican,.
| Des Moines, Oct. 29.-1owa came so
near to winning at the great butter
competition at st. Louis that the de-
feat was quite victory Thls is the
thought of Iowa dairymen.
We are pretty we'll pleased with the
general results" said State Dairy Com
missioner Wright I'VE hardly expect
ed to win the banner or be first in the
butter scoring at the exposition. But
on the whole feel that we made an
excellent showing. The contest has
been all along between Iowa and MINI
nesota, and yet look at the difference.
We spent s1,Io0 on our entire exhibit
and in getting good butter there, while
Minnesota has spent probably $4,000
ON the same. The only help our
creamerymen have had In getting their
butter prepared for this contest was
| from two Of the men Of the dairy de-
partment, who have rendered what
assistance they could to the butter
makers. But In Minnesota the state
commission had five men in the field,
all the time, going about showing the
butter makers how to improve their
butter, and the food and dairy depart
meDt has had others, SO that in fact
that they had eleven men giving this
assistance.
Our entire exhibit cost $1,750 and of
that $1,000 went for a case in which
to make our set display. Minnesota
had prepared display for which they
paid $1,000 aside from the case. Theirs
was group in butter, showing Father
HeYlnepin in his boat etc. 1t was very
fine. We had model of the first
creamery in Iowa and a bust of the
! first butter maker all relating to-
the butter question. We got a gold
medal and Minnesota got a gold med
al. They felt sore because they had
paid so much for theirs. And so we
feel that Iowa has done very well with
the butter exhibit
In the reports on the butter scoring
Iowa is credited with an average Of
91.21 on ninety-eight entries, while
| Minnesota got $3.50 on 15S entries. New
| York had 92.45 on eleven entries, and
! Wisconsin averaged 91.55 on Ill en-
tries.
OF other prizes coming to Iowa, two
men got gold medals for an average
during the tests of the entire season
over 96 S. w. Laird, Walker, and
w. B. Johnson, Arlington. The gold
medal for the best package OF cream
ery butter in the national convention
went to a Minnesota man, and the sill
yer medal to F. l.. Odell, Greenfield,
Iowa. r. W. Huth, of Troy Center,
Iowa, got silver cup for highest score
from Iowa at the convention, 9SA.
sss
A valuable contribution to the
pamphlets of the state is that which
has quite recently been issued and
! which was intended primarily for dis
tribution at the st. Louis exposition,
being list of the books by Iowa au-
thors The list is that of about 900
persons who have written or published
books Of one kind or another. The
young men who have recently set out
to form an association Of Iowa authors
and writer's so as to give Iowa her
rightful place as a literary center, at
least equal to Indiana, ought to be
encouraged by this publication. The
list includes many names familiar to
all readers, such as Octave Thanet,
Charles Aldrich, j. Fl. Quick, Hamlin
Garland, ]. B. Grinnell, Newell d.
Hills John F. Dillon, Robert Bur-
dette. S. II. M. Byers, Frank Putnam,
u. l.. Sabin, Irving B. Richman, Albert
Shaw. and B. F. Shambaugh. The
book was compiled by Mrs. Anna B.
Howe, president of the State Library
Association, and now of the library
commission. It was authorized and
secured for the ladies auxiliary COM
mittee Of the Iowa commission at st.
Louis. 1t is the plan to have addi-
tions made as rapidly as the names OF
other authors can be secured and
new edition will be more complete than
this one.
yrhe state executive council has d.
rected the secretary OF the councIl to
notify the rebellious county oTlclals
of Linn county that no further den-
ance of the laws Of THE state wlM be
tolerated by them and has directed the
attorney general of the state 10 take
Whatever steps may be necessary 10
secure the enforcement of the laws OF
the state in the vicinity of Marion ana
Cedar Rapids much the same as III law
abiding portions of the state.
Some effort has been made to circu-
late the rumor thrlo'Ht the state that
Governor A. b. Cummins will resign
his office if the biennial elections a
p,enanaen+ masses The only founda-
tion for this is that last winter, az
the opening of the legislature, the gov
ernor expressed desire to resign al
i the end of the session. Later on the
| bitter fight was started to keep him
from going to the national convention
I and In short to bowl him out Of poll
teal existence, and he dropped the sub
/ iecr 1t was at a time when he was
Ill at home and unable to attend to
his duties as governor. Governor
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