Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-06
Iowa Newspapers Statement
About Finely Polished Desks
Corrected by Correspondent
MANY or THE DESKS ARE OLD
What is Probably tho Finest Desk in
the state House Is in Governors
Private offioe-April IL, Set as Date
For Next Meeting of State Board
of Health.
To rlmes-Repnblican.


house sitting in idleness with their fee'
on the tops of finely polished desks
The writer was ill-advised. There are
very few finely polished desks In the
state house and the greater part OF the
furniture is of the ante-deluvian age
Whether the polish has disappeared be-
cause of the feet of idle employees OF
not may be a question for debate, bu,
the fact is the polish is gone. In the
governors private office there is per-
haps the finest desk in the state house
1t is a fare top square desk and about
four times as large as good-slzeo
SQUARE dining table. That is, about the
size Of four such tables put together. II
is of mahogany and is very fine piece
of furniture but very plain and simple
in design. 1t was purchased but lie"
ago. The desk used by the gov
ernor's private secretary Is of cherry
but has little polish. 1t is style ol
desk of which there are several abou,
the state house and was one OF the f1rs'
purchased for the building. The fur
niture in the governors private office
and in his reception room is nice aud
has a polish, but in the room where
the clerks of the executive office work
the desks are mostly of the style first
purchased for the state house when II
was first erected and have seen hard
service. They are still good desks, but
there is little of the latter day style
about them. There is one modern roll
TOP typewriter desk and one other flat
top modern typewriter desk. The other
five desks are old.
The auditor Of state has very fine
modern roll top desk. 1t is of mahog-
any and very large. This is IN his pri-
vate room There is one other modern
roll top typewriter desk used by one
Of the stenographers and eight other
desks some of which look as though
they must have been very ancient when
the state house WAS first completed
There is one modern typewriter desk
in the superintendent's office, one In
the clerk of the supreme courts office
one in the attorney generals Office
one in the land office of the secretary
of state, one in the horticulturalists
office and the secretary Of state and at
torney generals have modern desks fol
their own use. All the other desks
about the building, at least three
fourtlls Of the entire number in the
building, with the exception OF the Of
flee of the board of control, are very old
desks and hardly in keeping with the
surroundings. of Brussels
carpet and marble wainscoting. IL
the office of the board Of control prac-
tically all the furniture and desks are
new and modern. The board of control
was not created until 1898 and its fur
niture having been purchased at q
comparatively recent date is all new
and modern.
In the next annual report Of the state
department. there will be a
report on the loess in the southern,
eastern and western part of the state.
This is a fine clay like substance, free
from sand and pebbles Of every kind.
It forms the deposit which covers the
entire southern part Of the state. as
well as the eastern and western and
there has been considerable specula-
ton among scientists as to it's origin,
whether 1t ID from wind, drifts or from
glaciers .or otherwise. The Iowa de-
partment thinks 1t has discovered So
luton Of the problem which to GER
tain extent effects other states where
such deposits are present, too.
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The next meeting of the state. board
Of health will be on April IL, at which
time the examination papers Of candi-
dates who have taken the examination
this month will be passed upon. 1t
Is possible that the appointment of a
successor to DR.. McKlveen will have
been made by that time. The APP
pointment would probably have been
made before this but for the scarcity
of candidates Of the eclectic school
from the third district from which the
is to be made. The third
district is composed Of the counties of
Davis, Des Moines, Henry,
Jefferson, Keokuk, Louisa, Mahaska,
Lee. Monroe, wapello, Washington,
and Van Buren,. The appointment will
have to be made from that district,
and IL there are no eclectics in the dis
tricts a physician from some other
school will have to be appointed. There
are a number from the regular school
that wish the appointment.
$50
The committee of the state fair assoc
citation has not yet decided on the
night attraction for the fair. The mat :
ter will be held In allegiance for a time
as the fairs here and in Minnesota ex-
pect to act In harmony on the night at
traction as we'll as on the proposition
to have a ladies' relay race with west
ern women as the riders.
The friends Of Ora Williams, who
was the Times-Republican correspon-
dent at this place for so long will be
amused at the squib which appeared
in the New York Tribune. 1t says 1.-THE
editorial staff Of the Chicago Daily Re-
view is composed mostly of women
Ella Durley being the editor and Ora
Williams the managing editor" In this
connection it might be told of Mr.
Williams that he is not only very much
masculine but has ideas about peo-
pies rames. While yet in his youth he
that he did not propose to
be lettered and known by letters and
SO dropped his middle initial and sign
ed his first name In full. He argues
that a person might as well number