Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-05-11
DENTISTS join IN BANQUET
Seven Hundred Members Of Society
Participate at Des MONIES.
FAvoRs ORAL HYGIENE PLAN
Only Living Charter Member of Orr
Eanixation Guest of Honor
Police Place Ban on siren
Horns.
Frou a STAFF correspoudent1

From q Staff correspondent1
DIES MONIES. Ia. May io--speciai
Telegram. 1.-The annual meeting Of thu
Iowa State Dental society closed with
banquet this evening. II was the fif-
tieth anniversary banquet and was the
largest meeting ever held, there being
over 70 members in attendance.
Ray Townsend. the only living charter
member Of the society, was q guest OF
honor. J. b. Monfort OF Burlington
closed the session with an historical re-
view Of the society and the progress OF
dentistry In Iowa. The organization
pledged support of the oral hygiene move
ment and the Owens bill to create de-
partment Of health at Washington.
Pat ban ON Sirens.
The chief OF police today issued orders
for strict enforcement Of the ordinance
forbidding use OF horns on autes In imi-
tation OF the fire department signal. This
sppiies to the siren noise makers and
the order will put hundreds OF them out
Of business In the city.
Witness. story Called False,
The story told TO a congressional COM
mittee In Washington relating to the ai-
legged reprimand Of a government meat
inspector for failure properly to label
meat In pes Mdines is branded here as q
fake and false. !. W. Culver. chief In
spector at the local packing house.
declares that nething Of the sort ever
happened. II was told 10 the COMMITTEES
W Caroline Bartlett Crane that the In
spector was caught falling to mark as
condemned q certain meat canned and
packed here.
The republican state convention date
was fixed today by the state committee
to the clerk TO find out specifically what
for July 10 In Des Moines At this cons
vsntion the principal business win be tho
selection Of two candidates for the SUI
preme court. as all the other candidates
for stats office win unauessionably bs
selected In tho primary. Judges Mccain
and sherwin are candidates for renoml-
nation. but will be opposed by three or
four others. The convention will also
select the state committee and transact
other business pertaining to the cam~
paign.
Proudfost Starts Campaign.
Senator A. v. Prcudfoot who ID to mako
the fight for nomination for governor 40
tina Taft candidate and supported by the
Taft forces. will open his speaking cam
paisn In Williamsburg, Iowa county. SAT-
urday afternoon. He will devote himself
purely 10 local issues. He has a campaign
headquarters open and Ia at work TO COR
raj the votes. He came in rather late. A.
Governor Clarke. the other republican
candidate was announced last year and
hss bean at work Q long time. and Prof.
Holden. who ia running independent. but
for nomination on the republican ticket.
entered last December.
bryan League IL Active.
II. O. Cue. secretary Of the Bryan
letter to members OF tina league calling
upon them TO stand for delegation to
be selected at the state convention a
Burlington next week for Mr.. Bryan. He
intimatss that Bryan would accept .
democratic nomination II rendered him
and declares that Bryan has not at any
time intimatsd he would refuse to run II
J nominated. The Bryan league will under
take to prevent instructions for Clark and
TO leave the delegation in such shape thai
, Il can support Bryan II the national con-
vention falls 10 make . nomination early.
Labor Troubles Settled.
The board Of control has learned thai
there will be no further controversy
over prison labor at the state prison. The
board some time ago received from thu
city clerk OF Fort Madison q resolution
. In which the city council called upon the
board to prevent prison labor from com
ing into conflict with free labor IN this
city. The president Of the board wrcts
the trouble was, a. the warden was I'M
able to find out. No reply has been re-
! ceived and II is learned from cutsids
criticism OF the board.
May Use the "Perkins' Law"
The state board OF parole has this weeh
for the first time been called upon to de-
. eide whether thu Perkins law which was
: placed on the statute books. shall be en-.
forced at the state institutions. This
. law authorizes heads Of institutions. upor
: the advice and consent Of the parols
board. to treat insane. feeble minded ard
criminal wards so that reproductions Of
the species will be impossible, The Law
has been on the statute books over a veal
and thus far no steps have been takeE
!. TO make It effective. but this will be done
very soon.
Insurance Business Grows.
In the forthcoming report Of stat
!. Auditor Bieakly II will be shown that tn
insurance business is steadily increasing
Ia Iowa, also that the business OF tn
insurance department Is on the increase
as shown by the money taken In At tina
department. The insurance fees receives
in 1901 amounted to $500 and last yea
TO s1i.ooo In the same ten years tn
! taxes received increased from ss2A0oo I,
, s3s4.ooo.
Iowa Oxford students.
Qualifying examinations for the Rhode
q scholarship at Oxford university will b
9 held in Iowa City next October. accord
. Ing to an announcement By Presiden
Bowman Of the state university. Eael
q state Is entitled to have two Rhode
= scholars In attendance at Oxford. Tn
scholarships are for three years and hav
!. an annual allowance of sl.5oa. an amour
!. sufficient for ordinary expenses.
!. The present Rhodes scholars from low
!. are william A. Ziegler Of Grinnell an
. Jacob A. o. Larsen OF Luther college
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