Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-10-04
Pay Tribute to Women on Farms.


lieve that women on the farm are
more likely to go crazy than women
in other walks of life.
She has made this subject one OF
study and careful investigation and
said during visit to Des Moines
that she was confident of the COR
rectness of her judgment. DR.. Lead
or was in attendance at the confer
ence of state institution heads with
the board of control
DR.. H. A. Tomlinson, superintend-
ent of st. Peter state hospital of
Minnesota at st. Peter concurred in
the view Of Miss Leader, and offered
an adequate explanation of the theory
which has been entertained gen
orally by the people that the insane
hospitals treated more women who
had lived on the farms than they
had all other persons. He said that
when hospitals were first established
by western or agricultural states,
the people in cities or towns cared
for their own insane and counties
cared for community patients while
the hospitals were at first used
largely for treatment of patients
from the farms. In addition to this,
the majority of the population was
found on the farms, so that the gross
number of patients from the farms
was larger, while the actual proper
ton was less.
Miss Leader has gathered the spe.
cific statistics bearing on the ques-
ton and she has found that the popu-
lar belief is not well founded When
he first went on the board of con-
troll. Hon. John Cownie, commenting
on paper read before the confer
ence, took occasion to denounce the
commonly entertained opinion as
false.
eenzoate of Soda Tabooed.
H. R. Wright, state dairy and food
commissioner, has received a ruling
from the federal department of ag-
riculture stating that in the opinion
OF the board which is charged with
the enforcement of the pure food
law, benZoate of soda is harmful
preservative, but that its use will be
permitted in quantities not greater
than one-tenth of / per cent in the
:
use has been common. The decision
indicates that after this year ben.
Zoate of soda goes on the tabooed
list
This decision will settle long
fought controversy between food COM
missioners and manufacturers. Ben
zoate of soda is used in all catsup
to the per centage of one-tenth of
4 nd + HOE
ously asserted that it was necessary
as preservative. Authorities equal
ly eminent disagreed as to It's quail
ties, but the decision of the board of
agriculture will set all questions at
rest from a commercial standpoint
AS a result only the best tomatoes
can be used in catsup after the use
of the sodium benzoate is discon-
tinued. and the product will have to
be put up in small bottles, as it will
not keep long without preservatives.
Sharpe Gets Appointment.
1t is understood that the state
board of control will select DR.. w. S.
Sharpe as superintendent of the Knox,
vile hospital for inebriates.
DR.. Sharpe is the assistant at the
institution under Superintendent os,
borne He is a competent man and
fully informed as to the needs of the
position.
The board established the policy Of
promoting assistants to be superin,
tendents in the case at Eldora where
Assistant Superintendent Kuser was
made superintendent to succeed Colo,
mel Drake. Other assistant superin-
tendents have been promoted to chief
places at other institutions.
Superintendent Witte of Clarinda
was assistant at Mount Pleasant to
DR.. Hoyt. Superintendent Applegate
of Mount Pleasant was an assistant
at Independence. Superintendent
Fitzgerald of Mitchellville was an as,
sistant at one of the institutions be,
fore promotion. But in the case of
Superintendent Kuser, the assistant,
was advanced in his own institution,
a rule which the board of control
is understood to believe will develop
the best that there is in the attaches
of the institutions and furnish an in
centive to them to fit themselves for
the chief places.
Dissatisfied With Interurban Rates.
A petition signed by 116 farmers
patrons of the Perry interurban line,
asking the state railraod commission
to correct abuses of which the pc
titioners complain, has been filed at
the state house.
The petitioners complain against
the establishment by the company of
pay stations and the sale of tickets
to and from these stations, without
respect to the flag stations at which
people embark and are discharged
from the cars.
Goose Lake Belongs to State.
That Goose Lake is a lake and as
such belongs to the state of Iowa and
not to the Marshall Dental Manufac.
turing company of Des Moines was
ruled at Jefferson, by Judge Church,
who found for the plaintiff. The so.
called Goose lake is now drained till
1t is used mainly for pasture and
and is valued by the present holders
at about $4,000. The case will be
appealed to the supreme court through
Attorney E. B. Evans. The final de.
cision will affect many of the smaller
)stes in Iowa.
Board Buys Supplies.
Iowa butter makers got all of the
contracts for the $4,000 worth Of
butter bought by the state board Of
control for the state institutions. and
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