Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-01
Reports to the State Board OF
Control Have Nearly All
Been Made
WANT LARGE APPROPRIATION
Expected That the Next Legislature
Will Be Able to Provide Literally
for lmprovements-con Too
Busy to Complete Work Ordered at
.Glenwood Institution.
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Twelve of the fourteen state chari-
table institutions have filed their re-
ports with the state board of control,
and the appropriations asked aggregate
over a million dollars. The reports of
Council Bluffs and Mitchellville have
not reached the~board. Several of the
reports that are in make recommends
lions for the purchase of land or the
erection of buildings, but give no es-
innate of the cost of such purchase or
building. With these all figured in.
the appropriations asked for in the re-
ports will probably come to a million
and a quarter dollars The appropria-
ton, however, is for the biennial Pc
riod, and it is probable that the legisla-
ture can come more nearly satisfying
the demands IF the institutions than
at the last session, when it had the
revenue of but one year from which
to draw. Furthermore, the requests
for appropriations as they finally come
from the board of control will cut down
the requests of the superintendent OF
the institutions somewhat and the leg
islature will do still more cutting down.
The smallest request is by the superin-
tendent Of the Soldiers Home at Mar
shalltown for $20,050; the largest is by
the superintendent for the insane hos
pital at independence for $195, 400.
Fencing, contingent funds, small im-
provements in the way of barns, sheds,
boiler houses and laundry buildings
The biggest appropriations asked for
are $G5,000 for a woman's infirmary at
Mt. Pleasant, $4,000 for a gymnas-
.ufne and music hall at Vinton, 81 900
for hospital at Eldora, $4,000 Tor
cottage at Clarinda, $4,000 for farm
land, and $4,000 for prison pen land
at Fort Madison, $4,000 for hospital
at Davenport at orphans home, two
cottages for girls and one for boys at
Glenwood, s135,OOO for infirmary at
Cherokee, $4,000 for extension of cot
tage at Knoxville, $4,000 for quarter
masters building at Marshalltown.
$125,00O for cottages at independence.
The Institutions that reduced their
requests to figures show the follow
ing requests for appropriations to COW
er the two year period: independence.
$195,40O Marshalltown, $2O,O50; Knox
vile, $40,950; Cherokee, $17S,2 the
school for feeble minded, figures not
given, estimated, $175,0OO; orphans.
home, $4,000; Fort Madison, s27. 200:
Anamosa, $34,700; Clarfnda, s11O,O 900;
Eldora, $4,000; vinton, $4,000; Mt.
Pleasant, $176,90o.
Six pocket books, eight railroad tick
cts, large number of ladies' brooches
and stick pins of all degrees of value
and beauty, diamond ring, handker-
chiefs without number and large and
we'll assorted variety of other human
adornments are at the office Of Gus
todlan McCurdy at the state house
awaiting Identification by the owners.
One diamond ring and one pocket book
with considerable wealth in it have
been returned to the owners. Fond
lovers as we'll as substantial farmers
straying thru the halls of the state
house during the state fair were in
SAAliSo " OA w LuClI SdludUlcS here anu
there. The crooks confined their at
tentions mostly to the state fair
grounds and the articles lost at the
state house were picked up by janitors
and others who turned them over to
the custodian. The names of the own
ers We're in some of the pocket books
but the custodian refrained from send
ing them to the addresses till after the
fair, thinking that perhaps the owners
would cali for them and would need
the money and transportation to reach
their homes.
Because of the fact that contractors
are so busy this year it may be i'm
possible for the state board of control
to let the contract for the erection of
the custodial cottage for boys at the
Glenwood school for feeble minded.
The bids We're to have been in and op-
ened yesterday but it was found that
only few bids were in and these were
largely from an inferior grade of con-
tractors. Very few of the able con-
tractors bid on the work and these
made the price so stiff that it was be-
lieved the work would have to be put
over. 1t is claimed that work is so
plentiful that contractors are indiffer-
ent whether they secure any more
work or not. The board is as yet un-
decided what course to take but may
defer the letting of the contract till
early next year when contractors are
more anxious for work.
When the Iowa Municipal League
meets here week after next, one of the
chief topics will be the discussion of
municipal ownership of public utilities
The subject is also Oh the program for
a vigorous discussion at the meeting Of
the League of American Municipalities
at Chicago September 27 to 20. AT the
last session OF the legislature there
were several bills up for assisting diff
ferent Iowa cities to secure some OF
their public utilities. Each of the bills
was so drawn as to assist some par
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