Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-07
CITY LEAGUE MEETING
State Convention That Will Be
Of Especial Interest to Iowa
municipalities
OFFICIALS URGED TO ATTEND
Topics of Great Interest to Every City
and Town in the State Will be Dis
cussed-The Galveston System Will
be Debated Review Of tho Pro-
gram-Iowa News.

The executive committee of the
League of Iowa municipalities has ar
ranged one of the strongest programs
in the history of the League for the
meeting at Des Moines next week,
September IL, 10 and IA. The meet
ings of the League have become more
and more important from year to year
until now they are generally consid-
cred the most important meetings III
the state dealing with municipal ques-
tons and as over one-half of the peo-
pie Of Iowa now live in the cities and
towns, these meetings are of state
wide Importance. Many men promn-
ent in the state will present papers and
reports at this meeting and every mu-
nicipal official in Iowa and everyone
interested in municipal affairs should
make an effort to be present and listen
to the formal papers and subsequent
discussions.
One of the most important things
that will come before the convention is
the different reports of the League
committee on state legislation. The
report will be made in regard to the
changes secured during the past year
and recommendations will be made as
to necessary and desirable changes to
be secured in the future.
During the past year there has been
extended discussion among the papers
of cfo ia in roc RI To Oh in the
present system of municipal govern
ment with the idea of improving pres
ent conditions. Hon. Jas. g. Berryhill
of Des Mones, will present the merits
Of the Galveston plan Of municipal
government and Mr.. Edward Bechly, a
newspaper man of Des Moines, viii
present a paper in which 1t Is under
stood that he Will point out the defects
of that system. Both of these gentle
men visited Galveston and made per-
sonal Investigations of the conditions
there and the information given will
be at first hand. Hon. w. III. Brem-
ner, city attorney of Des Moines, Will
present a system of municipal govern
ment that he favors based, it is under
stood, upon the federal and state sys-
TENS Of government. After these for
NAL papers the delegates to the con-
vention will be asked to take part in
the discussion OF the different systems
and to suggest any changes that they
may favor in the present system. This
meeting dealing with municipal gov
eminent, which occurs Wednesday
evening. viii be one of the important
sessions of the convention and all dele
gates should endeavor to be present by
Wednesday evening in order to listen
to these very valuable papers
On Thursday morning Mayor ]. c.
Williams Of Osskaloosa, who has made
an extensive investigation into the
question Of street lighting during the
past year, will present a paper on this
question The different systems OF
street lighting and the cost of the
same is always interesting to NUM-
cipal officials and is a question that
reaches' every municipal taxpayer.
Mayor O. H. Ingedue of Marshall
town, who attained wide reputation
during the past year in consequence OF
having evolved a plan of having all
tramps set to work digging dandelions
upon the street and public parks of the
city, will present paper on the tramp
question as it has been met and solved
in Marshalltown. Mayor 1ngledue has
received notices in consequence of his
dandelion policy in papers thruout the
country and this paper will be not only
interesting but valuable as well. as the
tramp problem Is one of the unsolved
problems Of the day.
The health department of municipal
affairs will be represented by two
papers, one by DR.. N. w. Getz, secre-
tary Of the Iowa Association of Health
OFFICERS on the subject of garbage dis
posal, a question that is always of in
terest to every city, and the other by
DIR. l.. A. Thomas, secretary -elect of
the state board Of health. The city
councils, acting as boards of health,
have to deal with the very important
question Of the health of the citizens
and the sanitary condition of the cities.
and these papers will be Of interest
to the officials of every city and town
In the state.
On Thursday evening Prof. A. Mar
will present a report on the asphalt
pavements in Iowa and as the paving
question is being discussed more or
less by every city in the state of more
than two thousand population, this re-
port will be not only valuable but will
be in a, certain sense official, coming
as it does with the endorsement OF the
state college. At this same meeting
Prof. Thomas A. Mcbride Of the State
University at Iowa City, one of the
best known and most popular public
speakers in the state, will present an
address upon the subject "The Citizen
VS.. the Community" Professor Nc
Bride is student Of municipal con-
ditions whose views always have
weight and this paper will be interest
ing not only to the officials, but to
the citizens as we'll.
On Friday morning the session will
be taken up largely with the report
on uniform accounting by Hon. Harry
Gross, the chairman of the commission
appointed by State Auditor Carroll to
devise a uniform system of accounts
for the cities and towns of Iowa. In
addition to this report Mr. i. A. Will
kinson a we'll known public account
ant of the state, will present paper
on the subject 1.-The Imps of the Ia
bles." In consequence of the passage
of the uniform accounting law by the
last legislature, and the great inter-
est taken in municipal accounting by
all the people of the state, this meet
ing will be most important one and
one that will result in great good to
all who attend the convention.
Friday afternoon will be taken up
largely with the final report of the