Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-16
STATE FAIR MANAGERS PUSH
WORK IN ORDER TO CON-
eLETE STRUCTURE
GOVERNOR CARROLL tMRPov.
ING FROM RECENT ILLNESS
Resident of Walker Files Complaint
Against Acknowledgment Gives
catarrh Cure Test to Extent of 14a
Bottles and Still Has catarrh-state
Capital News and Gossip.
Special to Times-Republican

| Special to Times Republican.
| Des Moines, June 16.-The greatest
efforts of the state board of agriculture
are now being directed toward the
completion of the new grand stand
which must be ready for use when the
fair opens August 81. The foundation
for the grand stand is in and the work
OF raising the steel work began Mon
day morning.
One must see that grand stand be-
fore he can appreciate it," said Presi-
dent Cameron today. When We built
the big swine barn we tried to tell
people how big it really but but one
couldn't appreciate it without seeing
it. 1t is the same way with this new
grand stand. Ii will hold an immense
number Of people. The greatest agri-
4 cultural state in the union should have
the greatest state fair in the union.
We've got it but its somewhat diff
cult to keep the buildings up TO the
growth in exhibits and attendance"
! Like all the other state institutions
/ " 1OWh me Sldlt AdlI has MOI re-
ceived overly benefcent amounts from
the legislature. Fortunately there are
! gate receipts and profits each year that
the directors have been able to turn
into Improvements. The old grand
/ stand is the last of the pressing needs.
All the other buildings are 100 small
but they are comparatively new. More
stock pavilions must be erected soon
and for a number of years YET all the
resources of the department will be
taxed to make improvements.
Curator Harlan of the state histori-
cal department has gone to ST. Louis
10 attend the second annual meeting of
/ the Mississippi Valley Historical Assoc
citation which meets there tomorrow.
Mr.. Harlan was instrumental in having
/ the association organized and will read
/ a paper on Conference of Historical
/ Societies." Professor Shambaugh is
also on the program
j. F. Sparks, of Walker, Iowa, In
! Linn county, has made complaint to
/ the state railroad commission that the
railroad there will not furnish him
1 ground on which to unload tile He
/ has shipped in twelve cars since Janu-
airy l this year, and while he claims
| the road is sometimes fifteen TO TWEEN
| ty days late In bringing the tile from
Mason City to Walker yet they insist
| on his unloading the tile at once UNI
der threat of charging him demurrage
and will NOT allow him to unload it on
the railroad land. 1t was such COM
plants as this that started the demand
for reciprocal demurrage some year.
ago.
The secretary of state is this week
sending out for the first time notices
10 corporations thar they must nav
their taxes and make annual reports
70 the secretary's office For many
years there has been on The statute
books a law requiring corporations 10
report annually but there was no pro-
vision by which the state could COM
pei them to make reports and no pro-
vision for an appropriation to notify
| them even. The result naturally was
that very few corporations reported.
Now the secretary will keep after them
and see that they all obey the law.
IN NON cIHOT d. N~dITDII. VINO mas DGen
sick at his home in this city for some
days, is improving and will be able TO
be at his office soon. A change OF
drinking water when he went to Fort
Dodge recently at a time when he was
already feeling none too we'll was the
cause of the trouble which resulted in
temporary indisposition. 1t prevented
his attending the commencement exer-
cises at Iowa City, however.
Glyndon, the old soldier who was re-
leased from the penitentiary recently
after serving a longer sentence than
anyone else in the United States, took
143 bottles of a certain kind of catarrh
cure-and still has the catarrh. ac-
cording to his story to the state board
Of parole. He claimed it was the only
thing he could get to relieve him. He
is now at Cedar Rapids. He draws 81:
a month pension from the government
which will support him and in a shor
time he will start on a visit to his rel.
atiyes.
The state library commission {.
making brave effort to get along witt
its hands tied to It's back by the las
legislature. The legislature very gen.
erously raised the annual appropriate,
for the commission and then stipulated
that only one additional clerk shoult
be employed. Under this provision tn,
commission must spend all the rest o
the money for books, when az a matte
! of fact it doesn't need so many NOR
! books and does need very much addi
. tional help.
AS has been many times pointed GU
the work of the library commission i
not to make big collection of book.
It keeps on hand a working collection
OF books and the work of the commits
sion is divided between keeping tnes
books in circulation in places wher
there are no Libraries and in llelpin,
the city libraries of the state and DOM
such other work. For time worl
was limited and few clerks could at
tend to sending out the books to thos
who asked for them. Now there is
good working collection Of books bu
SO many demands for them and 8
many city libraries are asking that AZ
expert be sent to advise them that tn
force Of clerks IL very much under thu