Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-26
IOWA FRUIT PROSPECT NOT BAD
Slightly BETTER Than Last Year, Ac-
cOrdinE to the official
Reports.
CFrom a staff ~.rrrespondent.)

DEs MONIES. June B-(special)-
Fruit is 1 per cent better this year at
the close of the month of June man IL
was last year at the close of June. ac-
cordlng to State Horticuiturist Wesley
Greene. Mr.. Greene's estimates are maids
upon the reports made to him from cor
respondents over the state. The average
of all the fruit at the close of this month
is IS per cent.
The estimates for the various varieties
of fruit is as follows: Apples, 35; pears,
10; American plums. "a; European plums,
SO; Japanese plums, 20; cherries, 36;
peaches, IS: grapes, So red raspberries,
a.; black raspberries. 50; blackberries, rs;
currants, so; gooseberries, So; %strawber-
ries, SO.
Coming to IOWA.
The 1909 convention of the Central
states Commercial Teachers association
will be held in Des Moinee. The Com
mercial club of the city has just been
notified that the invitation of Des Moines
was accepted. The association includes
teachers from Iowa, Minnesota, IllinoN.
Wisconsin, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas
gates will be here for a three days session.
Church People Leave.
The state convention of the Christian
Nhulth tlOoCu HtIt NpilShN aAlu Ahb L
tendance throughout the day was small
because many of the delegates had left.
Rev. Mr.. Jenkins of Kansas City. L. W.
Lily of Corydon, Ia, and c. c. Rawlinson
of Iowa City, Ia, were the speakers before
the convention today.
Women Select President.
When President Mack Hurlbut of the
Iowa Jewelers association declined to be
reelected president today the members of
the association pressed him for a reason
and he said: My wife won't let me-"
The election of a president was therefore
STAYED off for a time while some of the
leaders went off to find Mrs. Hurlbut.
They returned with the information that
she had receded from her position and
the association was allowed to re-elect
Hurlbut. Hurlbut is popular and his re-
election met with cheers. The al association
passed resolutions favoring requiring GER
tificates of watch repairers, so that the
public can distinguish the able from the
incompetent.
Fifteen New Druggists.
Fifteen new druggists have been made
by the State Pharmacy commission which
held an examination at Iowa City last
week. Eighteen took the examination.
These who passed are: Newton G. Moore
of Iowa iCty; William b.. Casey Of Charles
City; John NJ. Blade of Iowa City; Dallas
H. Wick Of New Hartford; S. w. Tourney.
Stratford; Wilbur G. Pooley. Jefferson;
Marshall Z. Clarke, Cedar Rapids; John
E. Van Tuyl, Muscatine; Jesse ]. Fish
burn, Muscatine; Ray L. Landon, Cedar
Rapids; Frank P. Holman. Alton; George
A. Deem, Abba; Eddie NJ. Wertz, Koloma;
Ralph NJ. Armstrong, Des Moines; Oscar
Grulke, Atlantic. r,H
Talk Of AdJutants.
Iowa National Guard politicians have
already begun to talk of the probable
appointee for adjutant general when Audi
tor Carroll is elected and inaugurated
governor. 1t is understood that w. H.
Thrift. the present acjutant general, will
ask for reappointment and that General
H. M. Byers, whom he succeeded. will
also ask for 1t and that John r. Prime
will be an applicant. He was formerly
adjutant general. All are old soldiers and
it is conceded that 1t will go to an old
soldier. They are about the only three
in the state available.
Haley to Fort Madison.
L. w. Haley, who is serving life i'm
prisonment for the murder Of a policeman
In Dubuque has been transferred to Fort
Madison to the penitentiary. Haley Is
talented and for years has been editing
the TTlSOn fTebSs d weekly paper ROtIen
out by the prisoners at Anamosa. When
the legislature turned the Anamosa insti.
tuition into a reformatory, 1t directed that
murderers should be taken to Fort Madi.
son. The Board of Control kept Haley al
Anamosa because it felt that he could no,
be spared from the printing office where
he was foreman and so competent that II
was difficult to fill his place. A new mar
has been found and Haley will now be
transferred.
Booker WashinRtOn's Portrait.
An oil portrait of Booker T.. Washing
ton may be added to the collection OF
portraits of famous men and women in the
historical buildings. The colored people
are making arrangements for the unwilling
of the portrait of Frederick Douglass and
the date will probably be set soon.
Asks Receiver for Bank.
Jacob Bayless, who owns stock in the
First National bank OF Harvey. which has
a capital stock Of $4,000, today filed q
petition In federal court asking for the
appointment of a receiver for that institu.
ton. He declares that under its present
management the bank will soon become
tnsolvent, and AYERS that the comptrollei
of the currency is even now preparing tC
assess the stockholders to obtain money
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