Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-06
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Is NOW IN J .ACE
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Blasltield's Work N Com
plcte ut the Iowa State
College
STATE OFFICIALS REPORTS
County Officers Cause of Much Delay
And More or Less lncompleteness of
Statistics-lmpIcmen Men In Con-
venton Predict Good Business Com
ing Season.
Special to Times-RepublIcan.

Special to Times Republican.
pes Moines, Dec. G.-The first work
Of putting on the Blashfeld painting
at the state house was done yesterday
The procesc was n short one and the
painting is now on the wall. The cam
vas was In sections. The panel to be
filled by the painting is IA feet by 3S.
No canvas Of good quality could be
found IA feet vide or the painting
widest canvas is II feet Of the quality
wanted. At each end of the painting
there is a strip Of canvas two feet
wide, next come two strips twelve feet
wide and the middle one is ten feet
vide. making 3S feet altogether White
lead and some adhesive materials
are spread on the wall and the canvas
is then rolled on. The principal work
Us still to follow In the retouching
process. This may or may not take
considerable time according as the
5artist has properly guessed at the lights
and shades. Such paintings are not to
he judged at the first sight, but rather
after they have become familiar from
association, but there is an impression
is going to meet with very general APP
proval.
When state officials are getting up
their reports in which they must de-
vead on county officials for their in
formation there Is always one or two
counties that hold back long after all
the others have given their reports in.
In the case Of information for the as
scssrrent by the executive council Ce-
dar Rapids Is the one that always
comes in at the tail end and usually
after the legal limit of time has been
passed. When the state superintendent
was getting up his report 1t narrowed
down to one school district UP In VIM
Leshiek county and he had to threaten
TO send a man after the inforination
Now the secretary Of state Is getting
out the criminal report and Allamakee
county is at the tail end. Every coun-
ty report Is in the hands of the secre-
tary of state for the criminal report eX-
cepting Allamakee. The copy is ready
for the state printer for the most part
with that exception. The last report is
the one that brings gray hairs to the
leads of state employees. II they don't
give value received for their wages in
any other way they do in that
There is a class Of forty four tax
ing the examination for license as
pharmacist The examination is be-
ing held in the committee room OF the
senate The class is rather large though
there have been classes of upwards or
SIXTY. The examinations have been
somewhat difficult Of late, however, and
at cne time when there was a class OF
sixty only eight passed.
John G. Simpson, secretary of agrl-
culture. has gone to Chicago where
he is attending the meeting of the APP
peals board of the American Trottins
Association OF which he Is member.
The complaint against horse owned
by Bill Brothers and Frank Brothers
of this city, is to be heard at this
time.
Albin e. Mcfarland, clerk of the
Slavery hotel in this city, is the victim
of a story that is being told on his
amateur efforts to raise corn. Mr..
Mcfarland is perhaps as well known
to the public men Of the state as well
as the travelling public Of any man in
Iowa. The story is to the effect that
he tried to raise some corn on the back
end of his lot. Representative Will G.
Whiting of Whiting, Iowa, was In the
city and Mr.. Mcfarland told him there
seemed to be something growing on the
sides Of the stalks. Mr.. Whiting told
him those were suckers and should be
pulled off. AS Mr.. Whiting is farmer
and was chairman of the agricultural
committee Of the Iowa-IIouisiana
Purchase Exposition Commission he
took his advice. This fall Mr.. Nc
Farland had to get Prof. p. G. Holden
of the state agricultural college to go
out to his place and tell him what was
the matter with his corn that it had
no ears.
Without exception the implement
men who gathered here today for their
annual convention, say that next year
will be an excellent one for business.
Inc llQpleINeHl uStlclS lcCl lllc Coullo
of good and bad times quicker than
anyone else for his business is more
directly and exclusively with the far
mer, who is the basis of all prosperity.
The implement dealers, who are here
at this time say farmers are buying
more and are paying up their obliga-
tiors better than for many years In
this state. The hard times of the two
years Of wet weather We're followed
still by hard times for the implement
dealers for the farmers still had no
money with which to buy. The past
year in the implement business they
say was not the best that the state has
known, but was good. 1t enabled the
implement dealers to get rid Of all the
stock they had carried over from for
rner years and the prosperity of the
farmers enabled them to pay up their
obligations. This has put the imple-.