Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-07-05

making an effort to collect information
as to the first service of the border
brigade which was raised in 1861 to re-
pei invasions of rebels from Missouri.
The records show that border brig
ade was organized and did business
along the south line of the state in
1852, but there is no official record of
its work in 1861. However, the vet
Grams say that the brigade did business
in 1861 and inquiries have reached the
Office of the adjutant general from
widows Of survivors of the organiza-
ton for official information on which
to base application for pension. None
Of the books fix the exact dates of the
encounters which were had at Athens
and Crotch, Ia, for example, but it
has been supposed that the brigade
regiment had an officially correct rec
ord beginning with 1862.
Many Students Harvesting.
Probably as many as 100 college stu
dents from Iowa have gone to the har-
vest fields of Kansas and Oklahoma to
work there during the harvest, which
is now going forward, expecting to fol-
low the ripening grain belt north dur
ing the summer. They were organized
in parties Of ten and sent forward by
State Labor Commissioner Brigham.
They modified in Kansas City and
then went on to Oklahoma. The wages
are said to be from $150 to So,
and with the cash go board ana
lodging. Some Of the young men who
went down expect to make enough to
put themselves through school next
year. Last year millions of dollars of
grain rotted in the fields of the south
west because of the lack of labor to
harvest it. Therefore a conference
among the labor commissioners of tho
small grain states and the movement
of college students to the wheat
fields.
Contract Is Awarded.
The state board of control has just
awarded the contract for the food sup
ply for the next quarter at the differ
ent state institutions. Four carloads
Of canned corn, 20 tons of canned peas,
and. $4,000 gallons of canned tomatoes
are required by the institutions In all,
5,245 dozens Of two-pound cans of
canned corn are required. This is
equivalent to 62 tons of the succulent
green vegetable. Mt. Pleasant insane
hospital gets LOO dozen of the cans,
Glenwood 800, Marshalltown 725, and
other institutions smaller number.
Glenwood takes 400 dozen gallon cans
Of tomatoes. Mt. Pleasant gets $50
dozen and other institutions buy in
smaller quantities. Altogether, $4,000
gallons are required. In buying these
supplies, samples of hundreds of vari-
cites are sent to the state board of
control, which distributes them to the
local children's hospitals, ETC., afte.
purchases have been made.
Inequality Proved.
The returns to the auditor of state
from county auditors, giving abstracts
OF assessments in various counties Of
the state, show that there is no rela-
ton between the value of property in
general and the value of monies and
credits. For instance, the property Of
all kinds, realty and personally, in
Cedar county is valued at about H.
100000. The monies and credits arc
valued at about 100000, OF, less than
ten per cent. But Woodbury. county,
with total valuation of about $45,-
100000, has monies and credits worth
about $S50,000, or less than two per
cent. of the total. Polk county, with
property valued at practically $85 ,OOO,-
600, has only 100000 of monies and
credits, or about five per cent. or less.
So the inequality is shown in all of the
counties.