Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-06-13

1ClSm to Offer. Inc development u
system of public health work which
will enable state board or commits
sion to do the greatest good to the
greatest number is the work of years
The Thirty-fourth General Assembly
has given that work good boost an0
l believe that we should take the
good things we can get and not find
fault because we don't get more
Will Levy Tax for Roads.
County attorneys of Iowa will all
receive circular letters from Attor
ney General Cosson advising them OF
the ruling Of his department to the
effect that the road dragging bill
passed by the last legislature is ef
fective now and that the one mill
levy for the creation of a road fund
should be levied this year.
The purpose of the attorney gen.
eral in doing this was to inform all
the county attorneys that township
trustees will not fail to make the
levy.
In some quarters O, the state town,
| ship trustees have interpreted the
law to mean that the levy is not to
be made until next year.
The attorney general sent with
each letter, the official opinion of the
department on the law, together with
the following synopsis of the opinion:
1t is also the duty Of the town.
sh;o <cve<ooc ~ divide tov-nchin
into permanent road dragging dis.
tricts, appoint a superintendent of
dragging and to cause the roads there
in to be dragged in the year 1911, In
accordance with said act. and they
are authorized to pay the expense
township.
The township trustees have auth.
ority aside from the said act of the
Thirty-fourth general assembly, to
expend road funds of the township in
the dragging of roads
The one mill tax for dragging fund
provided for in said act, is not in
| cluded in but is in addition to the
maximum levy that the trustees may
make for road purposes under sec.
ton 1,52s of the Supplement to the
code of 1907, as amended
A township trustee may not accept
the position of and act as superin-
tendent of dragging, but there is no
objection to the superintendent of
roads doing so.
The said act took effect in all Of
it's provisions April 8, 1911, and on
that date chapter 101, acts Of the
Thirty-third general assembly was re-
pealed and superseded thereby.
Praises Board Of Control.
r. E. Stewart, superintendent Of
the Nebraska school for the deaf.
praised the Iowa board of control
| system in the management Of state
institutions at a meeting of the heads
of the different Iowa institutions in
Des Moines.
Year by year the wisdom of adopt
ing a centralized authority is being
demonstrated by the harmony, the
economy, the practical efficiency with
|
managed said Mr.. Stewart. "Other
states are following the example Of
Iowa by the enactment of similar
boards of control laws and it is fast
becoming the generally accepted
method"
Many Seek Hayward's Job.
Information is that there will not
be lack of candidates for secretary
of state on the republican ticket be-
fore the primaries next year. E. D.
Chassell, state binder, is an avowed
candidate and reports from Harlan
are to the effect that Rush" Bene'
dict, chief clerk of the house of repre-
sentatives, is really candidate and
will be in the contest. E. H. Gun.
ningham, prominent member of the
lower house of the Iowa legislature
and a resident of Buena Vista county
is also being mentioned. The latest
reports also state that E. w. Van
Duyn, state labor commissioner, has
been looking over the field prepara-
tory to entering the contest.
| Articles of incorporation.
Articles of incorporation Of the Lu
cas- Coal and Supply company of LII.
cas-, Ia, were filed in the office of
Secretary of State Hayward. The
capitalization was placed at $250,000.
C. N. Atkinson, S. II. Beverforden and
H. L. Byers were named as the Off
| GERS.
Tax Commission Meets In July.
| Professor Brindley, of Ames, will
probably be the first secretary of the
state tax commission. Professor
Brindley is tax expert. He has writ
ten a book on taxation in Iowa 1t
is the desire of the new commission
to have a tax expert for secretary,
because it is believed that in COM
piling the statistics and in making
the investigations such an expert will
be a great help to the commission.
The comm ssion is to recommend to
| tho pevt lopic1sfuro q now cvStom