Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-07
Important Meeting In Des
Moines March Ia to Discuss
Tuberculosis Question
A CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION
Ii Is Expected To Complete a Circuits
of the Counties of Iowa by October,
Meetings Similar to That at Des
Moines, Being PIanned-Drug Store
Slot Machines.
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Des Moines, March THE general
meeting for the discussion of the ques-
ton of tuberculosis to be held in this
city in the Y. NJ. c. A. auditorium
March IA, is expected to develop into
ject of tuberculosis in general and
especially in favor of state hospital.
The plan is to supplement the report
of the state board of control on the
subject and to urge the next legisla-
ture to make an appropriation for a
home for consumptives. 1t is expect
ed to hold meetings in every county
in the state similar to the one to be
held in Des Moines March IA, and to
complete the circuit of the counties of
the state by October.
Out of respect to Fletcher Howard
late pharmacy commissioner, the Off
ces of the state house We're closed this
afternoon by common consent. Prac-
| tically all the officials at the state
house attended the funeral and ex-
pressed their sympathy in a floral to-
ken.
No case Is known where the supreme
court has ever passed on a case like
| that in Oskaloosa where the fact that
a druggist had slot machines in his
drug store inaviolation of the law was
held as grounds sufficient for denying
a permit to sch liquors. If the Judges
all over the state should deny licenses
on that ground and it should be ground
sufficient to revoke a license, a great
many licenses in the state would be
in danger. In this city majority Of
the drug stores have slot machines Of
one kind or another. The decision III
Oskaloosa was by Judge Eichelberger
in the case of the petition of G. W.
Quinn. Two other casese were called
Immediately afterward and the attor.
neys withdrew them because the pro-
prietors had slot machines in the drug
stores. The granting of a permit to
sell liquor depends on the needs of the
community and the assurance to the
judge granting the license that the
character of tt applicant is that of
a law-abiding .tizen.
|, 1t is possible for farmers institutes
to hold two institutes in one calendar
year and draw S75 from the state
treasury for each institute. This is
made possible by the fact that the fis-
cal year in the office of the auditor Of
state closes June 80. A great many
officers of farmers Institutes over the
state are inquiring concerning the
matter. Some of them who have been
holding their Institutes in the spring
of the year desire to hold them in the
fall this year Some have already held
their institutes during January or Feb
ruary and now wish to hold another
institute in September. AS the fiscal
year in the auditors office closes June
80 this is possible and they can still
get the SIS coming to them from the
state.
1t will he impossible now for Iowa to
have building atN the Lewis and
Clark exposition In Portland, Ore, this
year, though letters are being received
by state officials urging them to take
some action. The only legal action
ing would be by the legislature which
will not meet again until after the ax-
position is over The latest commune
cation is from w. j. Maxwell, formerly
Of Mt. Ayr, who now resides in Port
land. Mr.. Maxwell in a letter to Gov
ernor Cummins, says he thinks there is
no other state in the union the equal
of Iowa, and he greatly regrets that no
action has been taken to have build
ing. He says:
eff there is any possible way to OBJ
tain funds for an Iowa building for a
sort of official meeting place or head
quarters for Iowa people who visit the
Portland fair next summer, would like
to urge the advisability of undertaking
the project, for such headquarters
would be a benefit and pleasure to all
the natives of that state, as we'll as
source of pride and satisfaction to all
its erstwhile citizens now living in Ore
gon.
"The Lewis and Clark exposition will
be far ahead Of what it was expected
to make it. and it will be we'll worth
a visit from eastern people. There are
a great many Iowa people here who are
willing to take hand in 1owa's repre-
sentation, and the state should un-
doubtedly do something in justice to
ITSELF"
There are two vacancies in the col
lege militia of the state. According
to the rules of the regular army Iowa
is entitled to four regular army Off
GERS as instructors in military tactics
at colleges OF the state where militia
companies are maintained in accord
ance with the rules Of the regular army.
There are now but two such instruc-
tors, one at the state university at
Iowa City, and one at Simpson Col
lege at Indianola. Tho State College
at Ames has military. instructor in the
person of Colonel James Rush Lincoln
but he is paid by the college and is not
regular army officer. Wesleyan Col
lege at Mt Pleasant at one time had
such an instructor from the regular
army and maintained militia as did
also the state normal at Cedar Falls
and Cornell College at Mt Vernon. All
three have dropped the department.
Word has reached Des Moines that
Gen. James Rush Lincoln is quite sick
at his home in Ames and has been un-
able to attend to his duties as military
Instructor at the state college.
James "A Wilson of the seeretary of