Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-22
CAUSE Of FEVER
Is NOT LOCATED
Board of Control and Other
State Authorities Worried
Over Glenwood Conditions
AN INVESTIGATION BEING MADE
Water Supposed to Have Been tho
Cause Of the Trouble Has Been Boil
I'd, But Number Of Cases Continue
l-arse-lowa State Library One Of
the Best in the United States.
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Des Moines. Nov. 22.-The difficult
ties at Glenwood over typhoid fever
are causing the authorities there con-
siderable trouble. They have thought
that the trouble was in the water and
to avoid this all the water was boiled
and vet there were new cases devel-
oped. 1t seems that the real cause of
the typhoid fever epidemic In the
school for the feeble minded has not
been located yet. A rigid investiga-
tion has been made but the seat OF the
difficulty seems hard to locate. One
child has died and at the office OF the
board of control In this city At was
stated today that there are number
OF cases and furthermore that every
thing possible was being done to
check the difficulty. Some Of the
children have been sent home when
this was possible and they showed
symptoms of having the fever. It was
felt confidently at first that the water
was the cause Of the trouble but all the
water that has been used now for
some time has been boiled and still
new cases have developed. This threw
the superintendent into quandry and
further investigations have been con-
Quoted. Reports are being made to the
office Of the board OF control on the
developments and the board believes
that the trouble will be located soon
and remedied and that the authorities
at the Institution are doing all that
human ageQcy can do.
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The Iowa State Library in some
respects at least can rank with the
best public libraries OF the country.
::sssehere are sofnefhing like $4,000 vol
,lrnes in the miscellaneous department
OF the state library which ranks fairly
well in the matter Of the number of
books but the library is especially
strong in the matter of complete files
Of old periodicals. State Librarian
johnson Brigham has recently been
very fortunate In securing number
of volumes that have completed sets
and now the library In that respect
at least will take rank with the best
IN the country. Among these is the
Gentleman's Magazine which is COM
plete from 1879 when 1t was started
to the present time. This was the
magazine on which DR.. Johnson
started to fame The editor of the
magazine. Cave, discovered Johnson.
In the series of volumes there are con-
tributions by nearly every literary per-
son of note OF the times during which
the magazine was being pub lished.
There are very few libraries in the
country that have the file complete.
Hansard's Parliamentary History and
Parliamentary Debates is complete IN
545 volumes which are uniformly
bound. There are about 100 volumes
OF the history and the rest are the
! debates. In the law department OF
the library there Is a complete file OF
the British Colonial Reports on law
cases OF those times. There are only
three or four libraries in the country
that have the reports complete. Pur-
chases alone made to complete the
set cost the state $2,400 There are
remarkably large number Of early
American periodicals. There is a COM
plete set OF the Columbia Magazine, a
complete set Of Nickerbocker, full
set of the Democratic Review, the
paper on which Walt Whitman be-
slowed his first contributions, and
the Southern Literary Messenger
which was edited for a time by Poe
and other literary celebrities is COM
plete with the exception Of one volume
and one number from another volume.
Iowa has always had a state library
except that when the state was terri-
tory it was called the territorial library
There were times when the library
consisted Of but few books placed
In room and the key to the door left
conveniently near SO that anyone who
wished to get access to the library at
any time they wished. and with no one
to guard the library, books were un-
doubtedly carried away. When the
miscellaneous section of the library Is
moved into the new building which
will be sometime within the next FEW
months it will be in permanent quar-
ters probably for all time. Librarian
Johnson Brigham has plans for arrane-
ing the library after it is moved to the
new quarters that will probably meet
with the approval Of the public. He
will have space and facilities for dis
nlaying the books which has been i'm
possible in the present quarters where
the law library occupies the lower part
of the room. He proposes in the new
building to give one room entirely 70
the old periodicals now In the library.
n.N. roo,pe will he devoted to other
features In such a way that the public
can be quickly accommodated. The
first books, purchased by Governor
Lucas from an appropriation by the
territorial assembly and approved by
congress. are many of them in the
library still, and Mr.. Brigham proposes
70 Mace them by themselves. They are
now never called for and are valuable 1,le
only because they are the first books
Of the library. He will also have a
room or alcove devoted to the incuna-
bula, or books printed when the art