Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-24
Iowa In Corn EXPOSITION.


Des Moines.-Iowa Will participate
IN the national corn exposition at
Omaha, Dec. 1919, 1908.
Governor Cummins has issued a pro-
clamation committing the state to par.
tlc1pat1on in the exposition in which
Iowa people are vitality interested
commissioners have been named to
represent Iowa at Omaha, and under
the direction of the college at Ames
this state is expected to occupy a
place of large Importance in the ex,
position.
An Iowa man, Prof. j. w. Jones'
formerly Of the Iowa State college, is
at the head of the business end of the
National Corn exposition, and as
ISOLATED with him are several noted
1owans, among them being Prof. P. G.
Holden, chief of the extension depart,
ment at Iowa State college Of Ames,
and Prof M. L. Bowman, also of Ames.
Council Bluffs and Omaha are Jointly
backing this corn exposition, and both
cities Will act as hosts and financial
agents. A large part of the incorporat.
Ing stock Is taken by Iowa men, and
there has been a generous rivalry on
the part of Iowa and Nebraska to in
terest other states in uniting with
them in this great undertaking.
The main object of this show will
be primarily the same as at the corn
show at Chicago. Something like
$685. 900 will be distributed as prizes
This includes land, farm machinery
and cash prizes.
oil ho Not
are urged to make exhibits of corn
and small grains, and enter them in
the contests for the prize money
1t will be remembered that Iowa
captured a large share of the pre-,
miums at Chicago six months ago and
that one man from Indiana was
awarded over $1,000 for his exhibit
from forty-acre farm.
To arrange for and to install a
suitable exhibit Governor Cummins
has appointed the following commits,
sion of leading business men, editors
OF agricultural papers and distin,
guished business men: Chairman,
Perry G. Holden, head of the extern
sion department of the Iowa State col.
lege at Ames; john Cownie, of the
state board of control; F. H.
Hopping of West Liberty: Charles
A. Cameron of the state board
OF agriculture; Melborn McFar.
lin, George C. White, President
Asa Turner of the Iowa Corn Growers
association; Henry Wallace, editor OF
Wallaces' Farmer; James Atkinson,
editor of the Iowa Homestead and e.
E. Faville, editor of Successful Farm
ing.
Milwaukee Road Sues HubbelI.
Charging that F. M. Hubbell and
F. G. Hubbell employed frenzied
finance methods to secure control of
the Des Moines Union railway, attor-
neys for the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul have filed a petition in the
district court asking that they be
compelled to return $500 shares Of
stock in the Des Moines, Northern &
Western railway, which it is alleged
they secured by fraudule4 means.
The plaintiffs aver that while in con.
troll of the Des Moines. Northern &
Western, the Hubbells distracted
from the treasury $500 shares of
stock and sold it to themselves for
$4,000, when it was worth $250,O00,
or ten times the amount they paid.
F.. M. Hubbell & Sons, F. M. Hub
bell and F. G. Hubbell are named as
defendants in the petition, which was
filed by Judge Cook of Cedar Rapids,
counsel for the Milwaukee in Iowa.
The Milwaukee bases it's claim to
the stock on contract made in 1894,
by which it purchased 1890 shares
in the DeS MOineS, Northern e West
grn ta,,"ay. but II AYERS tnat the
r na seculeu coh.loi ol tne com
pany anu were mus IN a position to
n; ah en a. ansea llansle OF STOCK
s mi.auul Tue hho"ieoge oWtne other
s'U T,l
rue pe.itlon sets out the various
III. lips anu leofsahiz 1s "nlch nm
Any Any RESUMED IN the present Des
MONIES Union railway company. 1t is
-. oo,ooo out OF 10000 shares OF
Ra,,wsv o mne Not An q western
made Whereby 1S soo shares wara !" a. 40
be turned over to Russell Miller az
trustee for the Milwaukee and later
an additional is AIS shares u,ar az =.
be secured for $4,000. About this
time the company reorganized under
the name of the Des Moines Northern
& Western Railroad company. In
the readjustment. Mr.. Miller got n.
400 shares instead of 16,SOo. It t.
claimed. Other changes followed IN.
til the Milwaukee claims it owned all
of the stock in the Des Moines Union
formerly owned nv the nas Moines
Northern & Western Railroad com
pany: me amount was $500 shares.
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