Evening times-Republican., 1911-06-19
Greater Care Taken Of Eyes Of New.
Born lnfants-Still Further Reduce
tion Of Number Of Students at State
School Expected-Many Applications
for Normal Departments.
Special to Times-Republican.


blind at vinton averaged up 100 to
175 year; now the enrolment is only
1872 1t was feared that for some rea-
son not all the blind children were be-
cation was made 1t showed conclu-
sively that there are fewer blind
children than formerly in Iowa.
Dr. Murdock Bannister, Of the board
Of control. has sought to find out why
there are fewer blind children. He
can attribute it to no other cause than
that the physicians and nurses give
greater care to the eyes of new born
infants. Because of this lessening Of
the number Of blind children who
need the schooling of this little col
lege the Legislature has had to increase
the compensation. A still further re-
duction in the number of pupils at the
school may be expected.
Hon Ell c. Perkins, Of Delaware
| Iowa house, ventured back again to
the haunts OF the legislators the other
day.
Your people haven't hanged you yet
for what the legislature did or didn't
doo" was asked Of him.
| "No," he said jocularly. "You see
they haven't found out much about it
yet; the session laws haven't been
published"
Mr.. Perkins is not surprised at the
rumors that the bankers will go into
court to test the constitutionality Of
the law for taxation Of bank stock.
Il never quite convinced myself" he
said. "but that there were some big
holes in that bill" Mr. Perkins says
that politics is quiet in his part Of
| the state and nobody Is getting excited
about what Will happen next year
Superintendent Fred tMahannah, who
resigned as county superintendent Of
Cerro Gordo county to take charge Of
the organization Of the normal depart
ments in the high schools of Iowa, has
within the past few days installed him
self at desk in the department Of
public instruction and is engaged in the
preliminaries OF this important innova-
tion in the public school system. About
| 100 applications have been received
from schools for putting in the normal
(, department. or at least letters of in
qury. It will be necessary to prepare
some sort of an outline OF the work
and to indicate about what is expected
Of the various high schools receiving
the state aid for normal instruction.
This Will be done at once and later the
schools will be asked to show what IA
cilities they have for doing the work,
About forty schools will be started off
in the work next fall.
John J. Hamilton, newspaper man.
promoter, candidate for governor, re-
~ $t~s
invested In California land on which
he is said to have made a good thing.
Mr.. Hamilton will probably make his
home permanently somewhere in the
west.
/ Hon. Lorenzo D. Teter, who ably
represented Marion county in the low
er house of the legislature for a term
or two, has just returned from having
taken a post graduate course in law
at Harvard law school. Hon. George
l'C. White who represented Story coun-
ty in the legislature, has taken law
course at Yale since his retirement
from the legislature. More and more
it has become the custom Of lawyers
who have already had experience in the
practice to go to school.
The people Of Des Moines are today
voting at a special election as sort or
informal referendum on the advisability
| of purchase by the city of the water
works. The vote will not be final but
directory to the city council. II the
vote carries the council will negotiate
for a definite proposition from the own
ers of the water plant and then ask
the property owners to vote bonds for
| ny,a
time made a proposition Of sale Of
about s2,500,Oo0 but it is almost uni
versally believed this is figure much
too high. The company is without a
franchise now and is waiting the result
Of the vote today. It Is known, how
ever, that the company is secretly
working to defeat the purchase pro-
posal today.
The belief is becoming general among
the people OF the capital city that an
entirely new system will have to be
built in a few years and that the water
supply will have to be secured in some
way other than from the Coon river.
It IS not at all unlikely that Fred NJ.
Hubbell will become possessed again
Of the packing house property in this
city. He holds a mortgage for a large
sum on the property which Is to be
sold in Chicago by the receiver of the
Agar company. If he is compelled to
take it in on the mortgage company
will be formed to operate the plant. 1t
is known that while the plant was op
Grated it made money for the Agars
and that 1t was their business else
where that resulted in their failure. The
stock rates in Iowa are said to be ia
vorable to the packing house here.
BLODGETT STAYS IN PRISON..