Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-02-10
HIGHWAY ENGINEERS.
whitney introduces Bill Regarding
County Roads in House-eaI-
kema Measure In Senate.

Des tioines.-County highway en-
gineers in place OF county surveyors.
are provided for in q bill introduced
in the house by Whitney of Wood
bury. The measure revises the road
laws, provides for securing funds for
road work, for the drainage of high.
ways, for securing road materials and
creates plan of county and town
ship road, bridge and culvert work.
The bill is the longest that has been
introduced in the house this session.
It being transmitted on fifty-two type.
written pages. In the provisions for
compulsory road dragging, Mr.. Whit
ney's bill conflicts with the bill in.
troduced by Representative Cunning
ham, which also provides for com.
pulsory road dragging. Mr.. Whitney
states that he received the sugges-
ton from Mr.. Cunpingham's bill.
Comprehensive plans for good roads
building, school of highway instruc-
ton, the creation of the office OF
county highway engineer and the abo-
lition of that of county surveyor are
provisions of good roads bill intro
duced in the senate by Balkema OF
Sioux. Complete revision of the road
laws of Iowa is contemplated by this
proposed law. 1t provides for tax lev
les and funds for the carrying on OF
good road building, it authorizes
changes in highways to provide bet
ter roads, it aims to promote the use
of wider tires, and it authorizes the
condemnation and purchase of lands
in the interests of better roads. on
clause authorizes that the course OF
roads may be changed in the same
cause and still another that there
shall be provision for proper road
drainage and road dragging.
Plan New Normal School.
Des Moines, Iowa. Il second
state normal school to be iaowu as
the Shenandoah State NorEai and
Commercial college and to be located
At Shenandoah, Page county. Ia, is
provided for in bill introduced in
the house by Representative Stipe OF
Page county. The measure provides
for an appropriation Of $4,000 to buy
the property of the Western Normal
college at, Shenandoah, make neces'
sary improvements, and to establish
the state institution.
1t is the purpose Of Representative
Stipe in presenting the bill to pro-
vide q state institution for the edu'
cation of common school and high
school teachers and for the educa-
ton of students in commercial and
business courses.
The state board of education Is
given the power and authority to con-
duct the affairs Of the proposed col
lege. The board shall have the same
power over the new school provided
for in the bill as it does in connec-
ton with the state normal school at
Cedar Falls. The same rules that ap'
ply to the Cedar Falls normal school
shall govern the new school.
Members of the faculty of the pro-
posed institution will be appointed
by the board of education, according
to the provisions Of the bill. The
measure provides that the salary OF
the president shall not exceed $4,000
and that the heads of the various
departments shall receive compensa'
lions not exceeding $4,000.
Petition Life 10 Cut Down.
The life of the saloon petitions Of
consent is cut down from five to three
years by bill introduced in the SEN
ate by Senator Smith of Mitchell.
The measure also provides that in no
case can more than one petition of
consent be circulated in a period OF
three years. 1t further provides that
all petitions of consent in effect July
1, 1911, shall expire in three years
from that date. Under the present
law the saloonkeepers have held five
privileges under one petition of con.
sent, and have had the privilege.
where it is necessary to circulate con-
sent petitions each year. In many
dry counties of the state the saloon
fight is an annual one. Hereafter, If
the Smith bill passes. the fights can.
not come but once every three years.
More Cash For County Auditors.
Senator Balkema is author of q
bill which operates to increase the
salary of county auditors of Iowa.
The measure fixes the salary of a
county auditor in counties having
from $4,000 to $4,000 population at
$1,000; in counties having from 35,-
QQQ to 80 ono nnnulati0n at 81 2QQ. In