Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-22
ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF STU.
DENTS IN VARIOUS LINES DUR.
ING YEAR VARIED.
EVERY COUNTY IN IOWA
REPRESENTED IN SCHOOL
Students Enrolled from Twenty seven
Other States as Well as Several For
eisn countries-Attorney General
Shows Value of Commerce Counsel
to the State.
pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, April 22.-The state COL
lege at Ames is engaged in collecting
the information upon which to base a
statement as to the accomplishments
of the students Of the college in var
lous walks of life. These students as
at present enrolled represent every
one of the ninety-nine counties of the
state. Each year facts are obtained
for showing as to what the students
are doing. The statement as to last
year shows that the reputation of the
college for doing things was we'll sus-
tained. 1t follows:
The year 1903 has brought the us
ual large number of victories to the
credit of the agricultural students of
the Iowa State College. 1t was thought
that the record for 1907 could hardly
be duplicated but it has been sur
passed" The following is a partial list
of honors won:
AT the international livestock expo
sition at Chicago the Iowa team won
the new trophy offered for the best
work i'm judging horses, cattle. sheep
and swine. An Ames student was high
man, winning the gold medal offered
by the Union Stock Yards Company;
and members of the Iowa team had
the highest individual ranking In the
judging of horses, cattle and sheep. OF
the five $3.50 scholarships offered for
student Judging the Iowa boys won
f1,voo \, 1.,,r H. 4.
lowed to any one school. In the ma
tional dairy show contest at Chicago
the Iowa team won the highest honors
and the national trophy and the
Hoard's dairyman cup for all round
judging of dairy stock, and two out oe
the four breed cups offered by the dif-
ferent breed associations.
I'm the grain judging contest at the
national corn show at Omaha the Iowa
team won the $1,000 trophy offered for
the best work in oat Judging, and in
the corn judging contest they won the
$1,000 Mexican trophy. In the contest
for prize articles on corn and grain at
the national corn show, Ames students
won nine first places out of ten, and
the tenth was won by an Ames grad
uate. Out of the thirty first. second
and third prizes. twenty-six places and
all of the gold medals were won by
Ames men. There were $50 articles
competing from the leading colleges
and corn growers of the United States.
In the student activities at Ames
the agricultural boys have maintained
a leading rank. Five of the varsity
championship football players were ag-
icultural students: four of the six
members Of the r-collegiate debat-
ing team which won q double victory
over the state normal, and thirteen of
the eighteen debates taking part in the
first series OF debates for r1e Kennedy
cup. were agricultural students.
I'm the college oratoricaI contest all
the winners were agricultural students.
In the state oratorical contest the
Ames representatives had second
place. A large proportion Of the posi-
tions on the student staff. bomb board
cardinal guild and other positions of
honor have been held by the agricult-
ural students during the past year"
Leading druggists of Des Moines
are in a novem ant which looks to l,av-
ing all druggists permits for sale OF
liquor cancelled in the city, leaving
every drug store without a permit. II
II known that the best Of the drug
gists did all they could last winter to
aid In having the bill passed to repeal
all the law In relation to sales OF liquor
IN drug stores. Nley fell that they
Ewould be much better on without this