Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-30
Weeks of Rain Has Done Inesti.
mable Damage, Declares John
Cownie After Tour
MUCH CORN UNDER WATER
cewnie Says Best Seed Will Not Live
Under Present Conditions - Many
Fields Will Have to BE RepIanted---
Meadows and Small Grain in spIen-
did Condition.
special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, May 30.-The three
members of the state board of control
have returned from their semi annual
visit to the state institutions. The trip
has taken them to each of the fourteen
institutions and on their return today
. Hon. John Cownie of the board. de-
clared that inestimable damage haA
been done to the crops by the wet
weather.
"Seed corn may be ever SO carefully
selected" said Mr. Cownie today, but
It will not live under water. 1t will rot.
This is lust the condition of hundreds
of the best farms of the state today.
saw field after field from the car
4 window where the corn is under Wa
ter. Much Of this corn is rotted now
and is gone and this on the best land
IN the state. On the hills where the
drainage is good the corn has stood
it better, but the rainy weather has
caused the weeds TO grow SO fast that
they have gotten start on the faa'in-
iers that will be hard tosovercome.
IF there should be. no more, rains
many farmers could replant their corn
fields and could vet raise a crop Of
corn, but the outlook now is not good
for corn. A great deal of corn has not
yet been planted ana a great eeal OF
ground has not even been ploweu' for
corn. Meadows are of course inSf1ne
shape, and oats Wac never looking bet
ter, but the oats needs dry weather for
"A time or 3: will all go to straw. DUR
ing the trip OF the board we visited
every section Of the state and / can
say from personal observation that
Corn is III bad shape just now tho of
scourse 1t can recover considerably II
there should be good weather from
this on
A Business men are becoming Son
vinced that there must COON be dis
covered some means of making small
renltttances. Banks, business men and
Officials are all complaining. In the
absence OF any better means pe0ple
..fwith bank accounts resort to the meth
sod OF sending personal checks. The
personal check is poor because there
IS no guarantee as to the worth OF the
cferls The other day an Iowa man
mailed a small remittance to a BUSH
ness concern in a personal check on
his local bank. The slip OF paper con-
stiti,ting the check was small when 1t
& started out. It went to the business
man who held the obligation. He
tmrliof. it over to his bank and that
bark sent it to its depository in Ce-
dar Rapids. This bank sent it to its
depository in Chicago This bank sent
I lit 10 Des Moines to its correspondent
here.
Each OF these banks thru whose
hands the check passed had tt, put
Z its endorsement on the back of the
check. Many of these banks have rub
s her stamps which are large and by the
time the check reached Des Moines 1t
]. had an extra slip of paper attached to
1t to carry the endorsements. The Des
Moines bank refused to handle 1t be-
cause of its mutiiated condition and
I sent it to another Des MONIES bank
4 which was known to do business with
y the bank on which the check was
drawn so that it could be collected and
Its journey stopped.
Nearly every day state officials re-
sceire renlittances in personal checks
4 for fees and the like. The Legislature
fixes the price of the fee and the books
Z Of the stete official must show that
: amount Of cash. If there is airy ex-
/ change to he paid he must force the
{ Des Moines bank to pay 1t Or else pay
It himself out of his own pocket. In
/ the case of one state official the per-
!. sonal checks became SO numerous that
4 the local Des Mofnes bank was pay
I ing out several dollars month in ex-
]. change charges. AS a result the state
!. officials who received fees have made
. rule not to receive personal checks.
To add to the aggravation ore con-
Germ recently sent in for five automo
7. bile license tags. The fee is So and in
stead Of sending one check so that
!. there would be but one exchange
charge it sent five separate checks.
!, This broke the carnel's back slnda the
secretary of state is, now sending out
the following notices:
"All fees required by law toabe paid
to this DEPARTMENT must be RENTED
for in full. in advance The law does
not permit a public officer to extend
4 credit for business transaction with.
the state. Sfs{
Personal checks and checks Of firms
or corporations. unless drawn with ex-
I change are subject to collection
charges of ten cents and upwards.
Many banks deduct the usual charges
for exchange from the face of checks,
thus causing a personal loss to the
public official when charged back to
him by the bank making the collec-
s tian
.'l'.faelSs can only be taken subject
; to collection, ard the fees can not be
entered untii after returns are made
by the hank making such collection,
thus eaosing delay of the business for
which the cheek was sent. RIO avoid
delay, remit by draft, express or
money order Please do not send per-
sonal checks'
One of the sensations of llfwa poll
tics during this campaign is the an
nouncement that former State Senator
c. A. Carpenter OF Columbus Junction
has come out for Cummins for senator.
Mr.. Carpenter is making speeches in
the interest of the governors senator
(, ial campaign in the First district, and
s is leading powerful influence to the
1 progressive cause in that territory.
Il In an extended letter in the Wa
i TrihDna of which T A Riprar