Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-11
CARROLL
PLANS CLEAN SWEEP
Governor-Elect Intends to Sweep
Platter Clean in Matter OF
State Appointees
VAN DUYN TO SUCCEED BRIGHAM
Will Be Selected as Labor Commits
sioner-Entire Cleaning to Be Made
in Auditors office-New Feature to
Be Added to Official Resister-state
Is an Extensive Farmer.
to Times-Republican

Des Moines, Dec 11.-Indications are
that Governor Elect B. +. Carroll in
that Governor r-elect B. f. Carrollf in
tends to make a clean sweep in the
appointment of state positions His
appointment of Guy Logan to succeed
Adjutant General Thrift was followed
yesterday by the appointment of Ed
ward w. Van Duyn labor commission
er to succeed Edward Brigham, and
C. C. Nye as his own private secre-
tary.
Mr. VanDuyn is a. carpenter by trade.
He was chairman of the big republican
labor mass meeting in the auditorium
here just before election.
c. c. Nye is a newspaper man who
is now employed on the reportorial
staff of the Daily Capital and has been
in the newspaper business in Des
Moines, Sioux City and Council Bluffs
for several years.
Auditor Elect Bleakley has said that
he will soon make announcement of
his appointees. 1t is understood he ex-
poets to make an entire cleaning in the
auditors office. Some of the employees
in the auditors office were rendered
their present positions until April l.
They declined to take this offer be-
cause it is during the first three
months when the insurance companies
are making their reports, that the
work is heaviest.
An interesting addition will be made
in the Iowa Official Register OF RED
Book" as it has come to be known,
this year Guy Brewer, Of the secretary
of states office, purposes to print in
the Register the picture of every mem-
ber of the Thirty-th general assem-
bly as we'll as his biography. Several
other new features may be added. The
Iowa Register is now one of the most
complete Of any issued in the country
by a state.
The state of Iowa, itself, is the big
gest farmer in the state Its exhibit OF
farm products made in the corridor OF
the capitol this week and superintend :
ed by John Cownie of the board of con-
troll. was among the best in the bunch.
The state institution farms during
the last year produced about $250,O0O
worth Of crops. 1t is thought no other
farmer in Iowa did as we'll.
The state farms produced eighty five
different things good to eat and good
to wear. These ranged from mangel-
wurzel to spinach.
Kale of which the state farms grew
1854 pounds, 6,29s pounds Of kohl
rabi, 700 pounds of leek, 208,000 pounds
of mangel-wuzel, 700 pounds of ZEN
dive, 200 pounds of celeriac, S46
pounds of. olra, 1906 pounds Of salsi-
fy, 21,922 cantaloupes, 25,060 squash
and 1880 watermelons were among the
various products which the farms un-
der control of John Cownie gave to the
world this year.
Think of 2,115,951 pounds Of milk.
41o,51O pounds of cabbage, 114,444
pounds of carrots. 1o5,2s9 pounds OF
green onions, 109,496 pounds of par
ships, $50 citron. 194,577 pounds of
pork, 5.3s5 pounds of caulif1ower, 110.-
322 pounds of rhubarb, and 247,S27
pounds Of sweet corn all produced by
the same owner. That's what the state
farms did.