Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-24
OBJECTS TO GIRLS FINERY
Des Moines School Board Does Away
with Grade Graduation.
ONCE IN LIFETIME ENOUGH
Members Hold that Young Folks
Have Too Great Desire for
show and Put stop
to II.
CFrom a staff Correspondent

From a staff Correspondent
DIES MONIES Ia, May 23-(Specal Tele-
gram.)-A large number of undertakers are
In the city for their annual convention. The
convention will act upon important bills
which they expect to ask the Legislature to
make into laws.
Frank Daggett of ottumwa, president,
will preside. r. II. Mcbride, Des Moines,
and Charles e. Emerson, Creston, are first
vice president and secretary-treasurer.
Too Much FInery. ..
Too much dressing on the part of the
girl pupils of the grade schools has caused
the school board to do away with the usual
grad graduation exercises this year. There
will be nothing doing except the presenta-
ton in each school Of certificate of at.
tainment" showing that the pupil is quail
fled to pass from the grade school into
the high school, Heretofore exercises have
been held for all the graduates. These are
occasions for such elaborate dressing that
the board has decided to eliminate them in
the future.
Labor Leaders Meeting.
A. L. Urick, president Of the State FEEDER
alton of Labor, returned yesterday from
New York where he attended a meeting Of
tile board OF labor leaders which Is at
tempting to adjust international difficulties
in the National Electrical Workers union.
No solution of the organization problem
has been reached by the board, OF which
Samuel Gompers is chairman The two
factions of the Electrical Workers union re.
main intact and two national presidents are
asserting their authority
Meeting of Paper Dealers.
The newly organized state association of
jobbers in paper held a session In Des
Moines today. This association was formed
early in the year and plans to have meet
ings about four times each year. The
purpose is to consider matters of interest
to the trade Members were here from
Dubuque, Davenport, Cedar Rapids, Sioux
City and other cities.
Withdrawa from Ticket,
The secretary OF state received notice
| today OF the withdrawal OF William L.
White OF Wayne county as a cand date
for the democratic nomination for the
Iowa house.
State superintendent Riggs has just re-
turned from Kinbalton, in Audubon
| county, where he addressed a large out
door meeting on rural school problems.
Champion Iowa Cow.
| Secretary Simpson of the State Board
! of Agriculture today received word that
tn9 winner OF the $l,VOO offered by
me Iowa Dairy association for the
oest COW in Iowa is Dairy Maid" a
young hostein COW owned by Wilbur W.
MARSH OF Waterloo. Her record, which
closed for the year a few days ago, was
ABOUT l,WO POUNDS OF butter. Sne is to
De exhibited at the state fair.
Leaves the College.
Prof. Wayne Dinsmore OF the chair of
animal huspandry at the state college al
Ames has resigned and viii quit with the
close OF the present year. lie has been
elected secretary OF the Percheron society
Of America, with headquarters in Chicago.
| The Board of Education will meet sooh
20 consider all vacancies and probably 10
elect president.
state Herds All Right.
! The State Board OF Control has just
| had tested for tuberculosis most of the
| nerds Of cattle at the various state farms.
The result has been highly satisfactory
ana a much smaller number OF animals
under suspicion was reported than usual.
The report at the Independence hospital
showed that all the forty-tbree were free
| from faint. The state is following up the
! test with view to making all The STAKE
nerds entirely free and setting a good
| example for the owners of private herds.
VIA Get Allison Monument Funds.
| The Allison committee in charge OF the
| collection of funds with which to build
| in Des Moihes a monument to the late
William b. Allison will soon begin an
active canvass OF the state. The plan
OF having the funds raised by the scnool
cnidren was a failure also the plan
of having the bankers OF the state raise
the money. Now 1t IS intended to make
personal appeals to prominent persons.
/ More Iowa History.
Dwight G.. McCarty is the latest con-
tributor to the literature of Iowa history,
with his book, Territorial Governors of
the Old Northwest" which has Just been
published by the State Historical Society
of Iowa Mr. McCarty is a graduate OF
Iowa college at Grinnell and of the
Harvard law school, His volume was
prepared under the state historical society
of which Prof. Benjamin F. Shambaugh
Is editor.