Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-11-27
State Capital Gossip
Many Items Of Interest from Our CORRESPONDENT
at Des Moines

of the disease. 1t is necessary to
commence treatment Immediately
dog from which contracted, and be.
fore rabies becomes manifest In the
patient himself
Yearly about twenty-five people in
Iowa are taken to Pasteur Institutes
outside OF the state for treatment
The treatment involves great expense
besides endangering the lift of the
patient through the waste of time
reaching the nearest institute. The
Iowa Pasteur institute is one of the
first to be established west of the
Mississippi river. and they are found
in only few eastern states. Mime.
sofa and Texas are other western
states where they have been estab-
lished. 1t takes about two weeks to
cure threatened rabies, and arrange.
ments will be made to take care of
those who come for treatment It Is
believed the new branch of medical
work will save number of lives an.
nually.
Convention Bureau Organized.
AS a means OF further increasing
the popularity Of Des' Moines as a
convention city the Commercial club
has organized a permanent conven.
ton bureau. Already $4,000 per an.
mum has been subscribed for the
uses of the bureau, the subscriptions
ranging from $500 per year down to
$40. Under the new plan subscribers
to the fund will be relieved from the
annoyance and expense of making
contributions for entertaining con.
ventions and taking advertisements In
convention programmes. In con.
sideration of sum paid by the Com.
mercial club convention bureau the
persons in charge of conventions VIII
agree not to solicit subscribers to
convention funds for contributions or
advertising. except where the sub
scribers are directly interested In
the line Of business which the con.
Vention represents The subscribers
to the convention fund agree to refer
all applicants for subscriptions for
entertaining conventions to the con
vention committee of the CONNER
cial club. By this plan the Com.
mercial club expects to put the Sc.
curing OF and entertainment of con.
yentions on purely business basis
and to do away entirely with the sub
scription list plan of entertainment.
Flies Enemies of Good Milk.
Cleanliness and ventilation are the
two necessary essentials or dairy,
according to DR. George NJ. Whit
aker. dairy expert of the animal in
dustry division of the federal agricul
tural department. before the dairy
men, of Des Moines DR.. Whitakss
= tho '-oonios- To Des-eMolnes to make
an investigation OF the milk supply
for the city. addressed dairymen OF
the city at the city library. Actual
pictures of stables, COW sheds and un
sanitary conditions SURROUNDING
diaries were shown The common
house fly Is humanity greatest man
ace. said DR.. Whitaker. 1t is no re-
spector of places and communicates
good food by contact with the foul
1t is the fly in milk that brings to the
public the germs and dirt sediments
and to guard against these enemies
of health Dr. Whitaker advises
closed milk bucket and screens in
barn windows. The proportion OF
germs is found to decrease consider
ably when the closed bucket is used
The address was given informally to
the dairymen.
Oes Moines Plan In Lincoln.
The city OF Lincoln, Neb., adopted
the Des Moines plan of city govern
ment at the election there Tuesday
by the overwhelming vote of three
to one. Reports indicate that the
plan won out with fully $500 votes
to spare. In order to study the plan
month OF SO ago. bevy of Lincoln
officials visited Des Moines and tool
observations OF the working of the
new system In actual operation
Their reports at Lincoln were mos,
satisfactory and the voters apparent
ly accepted them as evidence that the
Des Moines plan Is in every way
success.
Congratulated CAROLS.
About fifty of the immediate neigh
bors and friends of Gov elect and
Mrs. B. F. Carroll called on them on
the evening of Nov. 6. at their home
on East Ninth street, surprising then
by their arrival in body They e1
tended their hearty and cordial CON
gratulations and presented them with
magnificent bouquet of huge chrys
anthemums. George w. Franklin
made the presentation speech. ane
Mr. Carroll replied feelingly Re
freshments We're served and de-
lightful evening was spent.