Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-29
Omcers Are Elected.

Inc nominating committee, soon after
midnight last night, met to consider the
selection OF officers, the meeting being held
at that hour in order to be after all other
meetings are closed. The report this morn
ing to the association was adopted. 1t is
as follows:
Presldent-County Superintendent F. z.
Lark of Monona county.
First Vice Presdent-President w. A.
shanklin OF Upper Iowa university Fay
Second Vice President-County superin-
tendent Miss Maria c. Tingrey of Emmett
Third Vice Observation-Disclosures w.
D.. Salisbury OF Clarlnda.
sssFsse Of Ges M1ns
Member Executive Committee-Superin-
tendent o. M: Elliott OF Sheldon.
Members of the Educational Council
| County Superintendent E. j. Hook of Win
neshiek county and Superintendent S. M.
A feature of todays session was the an
nual address of John F. Riggs, state super
intendcnt of public instruction in which he
made a strong plea for the appointment of
a commission to examine and revise and re-
codfy the school laws of the state. He
! showed that twenty-five years ago COM
mission, of which Horace Mann and Amos
Dean were the leading spirits, revised the
school laws, and did their work well, but
! that every general assembly since that
time had enacted new school laws which IN
many Instances, were contradictory, and
that a few years ago the state laws were
| recodifed the school laws were untouched
In the first part Of his address Prof. Riggs
considered at some length the new state
teachers certificate law and made a plea
for leaving the law unchanged till Il has
had time for being tested
Railroads May Reduce Rates.
Tl,arn 10 NkoN N
roads may reduce the passenger fares ir
the state to 215 cents voluntarily in the
hope of shutting off the passage of a 2
cent fare bill. At the last SESSION Of the
| legislature Representative Sankey, who in
| trOduced 2-cent fare bill, gave figures
from the railroad commissioners report L
show that the railroads. with all their free
| passes and half fares, receive now only
about cents a mile, and that 1t is the pool
man who pays the full cents Because OF
IL fact members of the legis ture are pre-
dieting that the railroads viii not oppos,
the enactment of a 2-cent fare bill that viii
cut off ministers half fare permits anC
force everyone to pay cents. BY the sam'
course OF reasoning they are arguing tina
the railroads will not voluntarily reduc,
fares to 2h cents, leaving in the half-far,
permits and other special rates.
Child Falls Into Hot Water.
Albert McAlpine, a 2-year-old child. fel
into a wash boiler of boiling water toda!
and died from the scalding IT received. TIT
mother had just lifted the boiler from tn,
stove to the floor and had turned her bacl
when the child fell into the boiling suds
The family live at 1917 West Eleventh
street
BarbaTlan Custom Exists.
In the district court today Judge Hugh
Brennan granted a divorce to Mrs. Aims
Post Toepfer from Henry Toepfer, aged g.
II was shown that the girls mother h't
forced the child to marry the man and hat
been given a team OF horses and a wager
for the girl, The girl had then been kel
to a hovel by the man, The girl claimed
she did not know what she was doing AM
was assured by her mother that she woult
not have 10 live with the man.
Only Annual Dividend Policies.
The Des Moines Life Insurance compan!
of this city today ann9unced that afte