Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-05

THE SECRETARY is ENCOURAGED
Number Of Entries For Green Colt
Glasses For Races at This Years
state Fair Larger Than Misht Have
Boon Expected--Entries Do Not
Close Until August.
noc,al To Times- RepublIcan.

Special to Times Republican
Des Molnes, May 5.---Secretary John
C. Simpson, of the state fair. is great
Nv encouraged over the number of en-
tries for the green colt classes for the
races at this years state fair The
four $1,000 purses are not so well NIL
ed tho the time for the entries in those
classes are not closed yet. All the 9th
er classes are well filled. The fact
that the four classes are not filled is
because the price Of horses Is high. In
yariably without exception when hors-
es are high priced there are few en-
tries in the races for the state fair.
Mr.. Simpson explains this by showing
that people raise horses to sell. When
the price Of horses is high the breed
er sells his horses and hasn't them
to enter for the races. The natural
tendency for horses is to go east. All
last year and this the price of horses
has been high and that includes all
kinds and classes Of horses. After q
horse has been put on the track one
season and shows indications of speed
If the price Of horses is high the owner
takes 1t back east and sells it for a
buggy horse. and gets all the way from
5000 to $1,000. There is more money In
that than there is in keeping the horse
on the track and running the risk of 1t
not developing enough speed.
In the classes of horses for exhibi-
tlon such as the draft horses and
coach and carriage and saddle horses
the entries have not begun to come In.
rlhe entries will not cloge 'intll Augl,at
II. While horse men are a queer lot In
some respects and it can never be told
with certainty what they are going
to do, yet there are reasons to believe
that there will be good exhibit Of
horses this year at the fair. Last year
there would have been good exhibit
but for the fact that all the horses
went to st. Louis. But the horse men
afterward were disappointed at the
outcome. They raise their horses to
sell as the primary object and are
anxious to get premiums merely for
the purpose Of getting good price for
the horse. The people who went to st.
Louis went to look at the fine horses
as q curiosity but not to buy. The
state fair Is always the best place to
sell horses. Owing to the disappoint-
ment of the horse men at the st. Louis
fair last year, 1t Is presumed they will
make good exhibits at the state fair
this year.
Miss Alice S. Tyler, the secretary of
the library commission has accepted an
invitation to go Cleveland, Ohio, and
deliver lecture before the Carnegie
Liibray School, which is an endowed
institution that is part Of Western
Reserve University of that city. Miss
Tyler was at one time the librarian at
Cleveland and has a standing offer to
return there at higher salary than
she is receiving as secretary of the
commission here. She came here,
however, because of the great possi-
bilities that she. saw and still sees in
the travelling library work and for
that reason remains in her position
here. The old idea seemed to be to
get vast collections of books for no
particular purpose except to have a
vast collection of books in fine Ii
men and women in a limited number
went to the Libraries. The books were
kept under lock and key and issued
with great ceremony. Then progress
i've men and women came to believe
that books were to be read and the
more widely they were read the bet
ter for the country and that the more
freedom with which books could be
had the more they would be read. Out
of that idea grew the travelling library
and library commissions were created
in Iowa and other states to carry out
the idea Under that idea every citi-
zen of Iowa can get books to read on
almost any subject by paying the
freight on the books.
The library commission is just now
preparing it's exhibit for the bien-
nial convention of the State Fedora
ton of Woman's Clubs which meets
next week at Waterloo. A part of the
work of the commission and very
important part is the supplying of
books on special lines for womans
clubs and other study clubs.
Miss Tyler last week assisted in the
dedication of the new Carnegie Ii
brary at Cherokee.
Adiutant General w. H. Thrift is in
Fort Madison where he is making an
Investigation and inspection prepara-
| tory to mastering in Il company of the
national guard at that city. Applica-
tion was made from citizens there
some time ago If the company comes
up to the standard 1T will be mustered
in.
Mrs. Clara Kirk sister-in-law of Au-
ditor of State B. f. Carroll is still very
| low at Omaha. where she has been
| eor some weeks in the Emmanuel hos
oital of that city. Her home is In
Omaha. Some weeks ago her sister.