Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-07
EVERY ADDITIONAL WET DAY
BRINGS ENORMOUS DAMAGE
TO FIELDS.
COMPLETE RUIN THREATENS
CROPS IN MANY SECTIONS
Two Weeks of Sunshine Needed to
Develop Average Yield in the State
Lberati composes March Entitled
sour Iowa." to Be Featured at State
Fair.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, July 7.-Hon. John
Cownie, OF the state board of control,
who is one of the foremost farm ers
of the state and by travelling about
the state is one of the best Informed
On crop conditions. as We'll as grain
commission merchants and others who
are Informed. all agree that the rainy
weather has very greatly damaged the
crop prospects in Iowa. A further con-
tinuation of the rain will ruin the
crops in many sections. Every day of
rain is an incalculable damage. Nearly
all the crops were in the ground before
the rainy weather set in this year but
corn is so weedy in many sections that
the fields may have to be abandoned
in some sections and haying and har-
Vesting is greatly delayed and the
crops damaged.
While much of the damage to the
crops has been permanent and it will
be impossible for them TO fully recov-
e the lost ground, yet if there should
be sunshiny weather for two or three
weeks there would still be fairly good
crops in many sections. But the crop
outlook IN Iowa at this time for ev-
erything except hay is gloomy accord
ing to the best information obtainable
here.
Put the state library and historical
building in the hands OF the state edu-
casional board of control is the next
move. AT the last session OF the leg
islature the supreme court which with
the governor and state superintendent
OF public instruction forms the board
of trustees of the library. urged the
legislature to relieve it of the work
There never was really any reason for
putting 1t under the supreme court ex-
cept that the law library is part of the
state library and the supreme court is
interested in the law library. But the
supreme court judges already have all
the work they can do and more too.
The control of the state library and
historical building could very fittinglv
be turned over 10 the state educational
board along with the archives depart
naent and the state law library as well.
7
Banks have been sent out by the
state mine inspectors for the reports of
thu coal mined in this state during
the past year. The reports will be re-
ceived in Il few days and it is the con-
tiden- expectation of the inspectors
that there will be shown a vast in
crease in the amount of coal mined
The amount has been increasing
steadily The coal mining business ir
the state means probably more to Poll
county than to any other county ir
| the state as more coal is mined here
| than elsewhere and more money paid
in wages to the employees in the mines
| hero than elsewhere. All of this money
or practically all of it is spent in Des
Moines. An increase in the amount OF
coal mined IS therefore looked upon
/ with favor by the Des Moines business
men.
! The Iowa Official Register, the dis.
tribution Of which began today from
TIE secretary of states office, is tn.
best that the state has ever been pro
duced. For the citizen of the stat
who has need of information the bool
IS a gold mine. Every politician in tn
state grabs for copy and every news
paper in the state has copy as an in
| dispensible article to refer to. The bool
| this year is several pages larger thar
heretofore and has about reached tn
limit of Improvement
! CT
master who has played several year
at the Iowa state fair, has compose,
a march entitled Our Iowa." to which
words have been set. The piece is t
be played by the Liberati band at tn
state fair this year. Several thousan.
copies of the march have been printe'
and furnished the department of agri
culture and will be distributed thruou
the state in order TO popularize it.
President Cameron and Vice Presi
dent Brown, Who, with Secretar
Simpson, form the executive committe
of the state board of agriculture, ar
in Des Moines giving their time to tn
preparations for the fair. Presiden
Cameron said today they are countin
on rainy spring developing into goo
weather by the time the state fai
opens. The railroads have given rat
o. fare and a half for the roun
trip which is the same rate that ha
been given each year for several year
with one exception. The railroads ar
adve, Using this rate and thus advertis
ing the fair and there is every indi
cation that the attendance will be ex
ceptionally large.
Governor B. F. Carroll has gone t
Fort Madison and Anamosa to investi
gate personally some of the applica
tons for paroles and pardons that ar
before him. The state board of parol
completed its hearings of fourtee
cases yesterday and went to Fort Mad
ison and Anamosa to interrogate tn
applicants. Governor Carroll accom-
panied them.
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