Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-22
THE TENTH
cow ION.
LEAGUE OF IOWA MUNICIPAL.
lTiEs WILL MEET IN COUNCIL
BLUFFS IN SEPTEMBER
NOTED MEN TAKE PART
Coming Session Will Without Doubt
Be the Most Important Meeting Of
Municipal Officers Ever Held In
State-The Program

| The annual meeting of the League
of Iowa Municipalities to be held In
Council Bluffs September 17-19 inclu-
s1Ve will without doubt be one of the
most important meetings ever held
by municipal officials in the state OF
Iowa. Many of the most ably Qualifl-
ed men In Iowa occupy places on the
program and will present papers at
this meeting. The program will be OF
great interest to every city and town
in Iowa.
Over one hundred and twenty towns
and cities in the state now maintain
a membership In the league. All these
cities and many not In the league are
expected to send representatives to
the meeting The last legislature
passed law specifically giving cities
and towns the authority to pay the
| actual expenses Of two delegates to
the meetings of the league and as II
has become generally accepted that
the league meetings are the best
sources OF information by municipal Of.
ficials, nearly every city and town In
the state will be represented. Follow.
Ing is the program in full:
THE PROGRAM.
8 a. m. to Perception and regis
tration of delegates, headquarters al
Grand hotel.
10 a. m. to 12-Committee meetings
Executive committee Assembly hall
y Sad hotel.
Afternoon.
80 p. m.-Call to order.
h ,ading Of minutes Of last meeting
Address of welcome by Hon. Donald
MacCrae, Jr., mayor Of Council Bluffs
Response and presidents address BY
Hon. George w. Mattern, mayor O
Des Moines
Report of Secretary-Treasurer Franz
G. Pierce, Marshalltown.
Report of committee on Legislation
by Hon. John G. Williams, chairman
Oskaloosa.
Business neutrality-suspicious. o
auditing COMMITTEES; appointment 0
question box committee; appointment
: of resolution committee; general bust
! ness.
Reports from municipalities.
Adjournment to p. m.
Evening Session
p. m.-Report of committee OF
: street paving by Hon. l.. B. Stewart
Cedar Falls.
Paper-''The Proper Width of Pave
+ ments on Resident Streets" by Hon
Andrew Rosewater, M. A. 8. e., cit
engineer of Omaha
Discussion by delegates.
Report of committee on taxation an,
I assessment by Hon. o. L. Ingledue
mayor Of Marshalltown.
Discussion by delegates.
y Adjournment to $3.50 a. m, Wednes
4 day
I Wednesday, September 10.
4 $3.50 a. m.-Department meetings:
! Mayors and councilmen, Assembly hal
at Grand hotel; clerks, treasurers an
4 auditors; Council Chamber at Cit
4 Hall; city attorneys, Secretary's
I room at Grand hotel health officers
1 presidents room at Grand hotel; Ell
I gineers, city's engineers room at CIT
nall
Afternoon.
p. n..-All delegates meet at al
sembly hall, Grand hotel
Report of committee on municipf
q franchises by H. E. Johnson, council
man. Pella.
Paper-"The Law of Municipal Fral
Y chises in Iowa" by Hon. B. F. Swistel
Il city attorney, Waterloo.
Discussion by delegates.
Paper-"Municipal Housekeeping
q by Rev. Eleanor e. Gordon, Des Moine
= Report of committee on uniform a.
counting by Hon. F. G. Norton, cit
auditor, Burlington.
Discussion.
Business meeting-Report of que
ton box committee; report of punic
Y palities represented.
& Evening Session.
y At seven o'clock p. M, the official
4 and citizens of Council Bluffs will tel
4 der the delegates banquet at til
h Grand hotel Toastmaster, Hon. Dol
4 aid MacCrae, Jr., mayor Of Counc
Bluffs.
The address Of the evening will b
given by Hon. Henry T. Clarke, il
u railway commissioner of Nebraska, o