Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-10-04
PLAN LIFE PENSION
CARPENTERS to Provide Fund to Aid
Aged Members
NOMINATE GENERAL OFFICERS
President William o. Huber Nominal.
ed to Succeed Himself-List Of
the General Officers Named
by the Convention.

Des Moines, Sept. 27.-Friday
mornings session of the carpenters
convention was given almost entirely
to the nominations for general of.
| ticCrs, members Of general boards,
and delegates to coming labor meet
ings.
President William d. Huber of In
danapolis was the first nominee to
succeed himself. The list of general
officers nominated follows:
For president-William d. Huber
of Indianapolis, w. G. Schardt of
Chicago, Harry Payne of Rock Is.
land, Ill.
For first vice president-Arthur A.
Quinn of Perth Amboy, N. J.
For secretary-Frank Duffy of In.
dianapolis.
For treasurer-Thomas Neale of
Indianapolis, William Michaels of St
Louis.
Aged carpenters, who have served
long and faithfully in the ranks of
the brotherhood, will be rewarded by
life pensions, if recommendation OF
the constitution committee is approx.
ed by the delegates to the interna.
tional convention of carpenters and
joiners.
When the committee makes it's re.
port it will suggest an amendment to
the constitution which the convention
will be urged to favor. The amend.
ment provides for the establishment
of approximation benefit fund to
be used solely for the payment OF
pensions to aged members of the or.
ganization.
The amendment, which was pro.
posed by local union No. 419 of Chi.
cago, provides that any member who
has been a member for twenty-five
years, who has reached the age of
GO years and is incapacitated to the
extent that he cannot earn more than
IS per cent of the wages paid in his
district, shall be entitled to a pension
of $3.50 year.
About 500 Carpenters spent Satur
are produced.
Epilepsy Causes Deaths Of Many.
That One-fourth of all the deaths in
tie state school for feeble-minded at
Glenwood are caused by epilepsy was
the statement made by DR.. Roy Moon.
assistant medical director, speaking
before the state superintendent at a
meeting at the stat, house. DR.. Moon
also stated that the physicians at the
state schools had the doubl, duty of
attending childr@, in which both
YOUTH and senility are present. Ac-
cording to DR.. Moor, there are few
OF the inmates of the school VINO
grow to advanced age on account os
the fact that some part of the Lcdy
o; feeble-mindsd person ages .ung
before the other parts.
Big Sum For Premiums.
More than $4,000 has been paid
out by the state agricultural associa-
ton for premiums this year The
total amount is 1880. This is an
increase of $4,000 over the payments
of last year and more than two and
half times the payments of 1901
when the total reached $4,000.
The sums paid in the different de-
partments were: Horses, $1O.3S1;
cattle, $11,77S; hogs. s4.135; sheep,
$2,l46; poultry, $1,O36; agriculture,
s5,O74; fruit, 1892; pantry and kitch-
en-, SOS; dairy, 1902; horticulture,
SSH; fine arts. $1.152; schools, $417;
scholarships, $1,000; speed, $1O,735.
Issue Many Auto Permits.
Nine thousand automobile licenses
have been issued by the secretary Of
state this year, the payment Of fees
ounting to $4,000. The total num-
Der of machines in the state at the
present time is 22,5SO Employees OF
the sccretary's Office are certain, &C.
c"lding to the returns up to the pres
ert time, that the fall trade in the
machines will make the total of ma
chimes in the state at the close of
the year just twice the numter 1t
was Jan. /, 1910.
Found Home.
Iowa members of the Woodmen OF
the World have launched a move
ment to found a home for aged men,
bers OF that order. The institution
will be a memorial to Joseph Allen
Root, who founded the WoOdmen of
the World. 1t is expected to expend
about 100000.
Will Head League.
Henry Wallace becomes acting
president OF the Iowa Anti-Saloon
league, to succeed the Rev. E. T.
the retiring pastor of the
First Methodist church, who was
president.
Colonel Cummings Sword.
The state historical department
will acquire the sword of the late
Col. II. j. b. Cummings of Winterset,
who was colonel of the 39th Iowa
during the war. 1t will be the gift
of his daughter, Mrs. Laura J. Miller.
Phone Companies to Pay More Taxes.
Iowa telephone companies, under
the assessment made last July, will
pay taxes on an assessment about
100000 greater than last year, or a
total of about $3,947,O0O. There are
234 rural phone exchanges in Iowa.
State Capital Items.
Miss Nellie Brewster, who is at