Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-17
HALE AFTER OFFICE
EDITOR OF DEs MONIES NEWS
WANTS TO BE POST.
MASTER.
is BEST FEDERAL
JOB IN THE STATE
Additional Reasons Made Public for the
Resignation Of Secretary Larson Of
the Pharmacy Commission - Deal
Said to Have Been Made to Trade
Jobs With Eaton-Packard at Fair.
Special to Times.RepuhIicau

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started for w. G.. Hale Of the De:
Moines Daily News for postmaster o.
Des Moines. The Des Moines postoffict
is the latest federal position in Iowa
and pays something like $4,000 year
salary Mr. Hale is an Iowa product
He was born in southern Iowa and fol-
some years was newspaper reporta,
on the daily papers of Creston They
he lived in Omaha for a short time
and worked on trade papers. but for
the past ten years or more has been IN
Des Moines, most of the time as editor
OF the Des Moines Daily News. He has
some endorsements for the position
that are as good as it is possible to get
The campaign for the place has but be-
gun.
h An additional reason for the resig-
nation of Mr.. Larson of Red Oak as
Secretary of the pharmacy commission
developed today when it was learned
that he had been promised trade be-
tween him and Eaton if he would take
the place of secretary for three months
That is If he would take the position of
secretary for three months he could
then resign and Eaton would resign as
commissioner. Mr.. Larson was then to
be appointed commissioner and Eaton
secretary. When the three months were
up. which was about two weeks ago,
Mr.. Eaton seemed more than willing to
remain as commissioner
/ In his first statement explaining his
resignation Mr.. Larson stated that he
did not want the position of secretary in
the first place but was candidate FOR
commissioner, and had taken the 10
1 sition of secretary under protest It is
now claimed that he was promised if
he would take the position for three
months at the end Of that time Mr..
Eaton would dispose of his interests in
the Shenandoah seed house and would
resign and accept the positioi of sec
rotary. Some claim that at the end of
the time Mr.. Eaton had discovered or
thought he had discovered, that he
icould draw as much salary as COM
missioner from the state as he could
as secretary and could hold his SIS a
month job with the seed house in ad-
dition while if he became secretary ne
would have to give up the seed house
job
Then it is claimed that Governor Car
roll came to the rescue of Eaton and
refused to make the transfer. The
pharmacy commission troubles are So: !!
to be far from settled yete.
State Horticulturist Wesley Greene
said today that he will not ask for the
$4,000 reward offered by Luther Bur-
bank for proof that his wonderberry
was nothing but the weed nightshale.
When he said this he pulled from me
drawer of his desk some more samples
that had been sent him by P. NJ. H:g-
ginboth, of Eldora. One was wonder
berry grown in his garden from seed
from the New York seed house and the
other was a weed which Mr.. Greene
says is nightshade and which Mr.. Hig-
ginboth said grew in his barn yard.
The two look TO be Identical
The wonderberry is nothing but
nightshade," said Mr.. Greene and ii
seems to me if any one wished to ask
for it he would be entitled to the s10.-
600 reward on such evidence as that
The nightshade might possibly in time
be developed into an edible berry
Stranger things have been accom- pnsh-
ed in horticulture but it has not been
developed into anything other than it
was originally thus far. Take the
tomato and the egg plant They are
examples of wonderful development in
to edible plants. There is of course
now no particular need of developine
is concerned. for we already have
! tp,,,, or
grow well here and satisfy every hum
an need"
Hon S. B. Packard, of Marshalltown
one time governor of Louisiana and for
many years consul at Liverpool, has
returned from Seattle where he has
been attending the exposition. After
the Iowa state fair this year he will
straighten up his business affairs in
Iowa and then leave for Seattle where
ne will make his home on Puget sound
Iowa will know Governor Packard no
more as a citizen of the state.
Governor Packard has been one OF
the most valuable citizens Iowa has
ever possessed. When made governor
of Louisiana and later consul at Liver
pool he was placed in positions of the
highest honor and trust He is man
of the highest intellectual attachments
and for many years has been spending
his time on his farm near Marshall
town and has interested himself in the
agricultural affairs of Iowa. He could
have been governor of Iowa, in the be-
lief of many people, IL he had allowed
the use Of his name in that connec-
ton.
For many years he has been super
intendent of the cattle department at
the Iowa; state fair. He has q wide
acquaintance among cattlemen and is
himself a breeder OF Shorthorn cattle
Under his management the cattle de-
pertinent Of the fair has grown to
gigantic proportions and for many
years has held the record Of having on
exhibit more breeding cattle Of pure
bred stock than any other fair in the
country.
| He interested himself in other agri-
cultural matters as well and It is due ia
Ilfs efforts that the pure stock food law
and the weed laws Of the state are on
the statute books. ~
Mr.. Packard viii locate some place
on the Puget Sound ana is leaving
Iowa for that locality because OF, the
: milder climate there. His family is IN
Seattle now.
II Mason City Store Robbed:
Mason City, Aug. 17.-Thieves looted
J the Park Drug Company store, located