Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-20
GOOD WATER NEEDED
SOME STATE INSTITUTIONS SEEK
BETTER AND MORE ABUND.
ANT SUPPLY.
COMPANIES ENTER
TUBERCULOSIS CAMPAIGN
Some Are Taking an Active Part ir
War Against the White plague in
1owa-State's Rifle Team Expected tc
Make Showing at Camp Perry
Other iowa News.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 20.-According to
State Architect Liebbe the next state
institution should be located on Lake
Okoboji, or Spirit Lake or Storm Lake,
because of the water question. Nearly
every state institution in Iowa has been
located without regard to the question
OF water. The Cherokee hospital was
first located on Okoboji and the Chero-
kee people then induced the legislature
to locate it itself and it put it at Chero-
kee on top of high hill, and it is nee
essarw to dig three deep wells to get
water and then the supply is not good
1t takes $4,000 to 10000 gallons of
water a day to run a big institution
like that at Cherokee. One or the other
OF the three wells is continually giving
out and has to have new strainer or
something. The water Furthermore is
full of lime, sulphates and gypsum.
There are three wells and they are used
alternately one each day. At Glenwood
1t was necessary to get the water from
the Missouri river bottoms and pipe
1t several miles to the institution.
The next line of activity in combat
ing tuberculosis is to be thru the life
| insurance companies. The Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company with almost
10000 policy holders in Iowa is sending
out bulletins at frequent intervals to
its policy holders on combating tuber-
culosis. The company is also Cooper
ating with the state board of control
bureau on the subject and 1t is ex-
pected that in time other life insurance
companies will be induced to take up
the work along the same lines
With these concerns 1t Is entirely a
preventative measure. Their policy
holders are examined by competent
physicians In the first place before the
policy is issued but after it is issued
! they desire their policy holders to keep
clear of the white plague.
| preventative measures are to be
taken UP by DR.. Kepford in the state
work, not only in the matter of t,lber-
culosis but in other matters as we'll
1t is believed that if the public is prop
erly educated on the questions of san-
tation and right living and how to avoid
contracting certain diseases that a
great deal of good can be accomplished
in prolonging the lives of the people.
/
Iowa's team at Camp Perry, Ohio,
which is making a big effort to cap
ture some of the prizes at this year
national shoot is the best team the
state has ever produced in the minds
of national guardsmen and they are
| convinced they will make good show
ing. Something more than putting a
gun to the shoulder and shooting is re-
quired of a member of the state team,
a knowledge of wind guages, heat
waves. nnirages and range finders is all
very necessary. Most anyone can sight
a gun fairly accurately with some
practice After that it requires good
judgment as to the velocity of the
wind and how to use the wind guage
Then if it is a hot day there are heat
waves rising from the earth that have
been proven to exert an influence or
the bullet that is absent at other times
Then if there is a mirage. as there very
frequently is on a hot day, the marks
man must know what to do again
: Some rnarksmen are able to see thru q
J actually is. Others can not.
II someone wishes to make a great
many million dollars he can do 80 b,
inventing a range finder. That is {
contrivance that will tell the guards
. man how far away the opposing arm,
is. In the navy and coast artillery tn y
are able to do this in four seconds bu
the infantry can not In the navy an.
~,
jects and by taking two angles tn,
distance is found by rules of trigo
nometry and telephoned to the gunne
in just four seconds. The infantry he
ing on the move can not do this Thu,
sometimes employ the method in
rough way to estimate the distance blu
it is quicker to fire three or four shot
with time fuses and watch the explo
sion. Usually it can be told quite &C
curately on the fourth shot but that i
q considerable waste of time. VIVA
is wanted is simple contrivance tina
every infantryman can carry with hir
and use for himself attached to ii
4. gun good deal as he uses his wind
| guage. Such an invention would max
the inventor Independently wealthy.
IL
Hall" which is the official organ of IA
u American League of Municipalities an
IT which is published in this city give
"a the program for the next annual con
!, vention to be held in Montreal begin
~ ming Aug. %. On the program Ar
Mayor Thomas Maloney, of Counc
Bluffs, who will participate in the dis
cussion of municipal Fairgrounds an
Councilman Charles D. Huston,
Cedar Rapids, who will engage in II
discussion on regulation and control (
: local public service corporations b
, state boards. The convention will cor
Il tinue three days. Councilman job
U MacVicar Of Des Moines is secretar
and treasurer. The. August issue
1.-THE City Hall" is special Montre,
edition and is the finest ever gotte
out by it. Neal Jones, private secre
tary to Mayor Mathis is manager
the publication.
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