Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-01-12
MAY BEGIN ACTION.
Custer Proceedings Against Polk
County Supervisors Considered
TAXPAYERS ARE INTERESTED
Directory Board Orders Attorney
Stipp to Lay Evidence Against
the Members Of the Board BE.
fore the Attorney General.

Des Moines.-Ouster proceedings
are to be begun against the members
of the Polk county board Of super"
visors. The Commercial club will
start the action under the Cosson law.
The directory board of the club has
ordered Attorney H. H. Stipp to pre-
pare the evidence and lay the mat.
ter before Attorney General Cosson.
The custer proceedings will come
as the climax to long agitation
against the business methods OF the
Polk county board. It follows sensa-
tional injunction suits filed some
months ago by the Commercial club.
These suits corrected some of the
more fragrant routine violations and
disregard of the law on the part OF
the board. Following these suits ex'
posures of other Irregularities came
thick and fast.
The action comes at time when
taxpayers are writing a flood of let
tiers demanding some decisive action
to change the manner and methods
Of handling the business of Polk
county. With mass of evidence of
many kinds at hand and backed by
the irresistible sentiment which has
been developing ever since the sys.
tematic and determined crusade upon
the board was started. The CONNER
cial club has concluded that the time
for action has come.
Attorney Stipp, who is preparing
the evidence for presentation to At
torney General Cosson, has requested
that further evidence which is to be
used in the proceedings be withheld
from publication until such time as
it can be formally presented.
solutic, Of Garbage Question.
81 believe that the time is rapidly
coming when the garbage from cities
will be collected and distributed over
the farms of this state" said DR..
Saylor, city health physician. "Un-
less the people of this state are more
careful they will find their farms in
the same condition as the farms Of
the east are, worn out. There is one
thing which will help to preserve the
richness of the soil and that is to
return to mother earth the elements
which we take from her. The ulti-
mate solution of both the garbage
question and the farm question is
the distribution of the garbage from
Just W It system can be invoked to
bring this about at a normal cost
am not prepared to say. Neither in
cineration or reduction are entirely
satisfactory in solving the garbage
problem although l believe than in
cineration is better than reduction.
But both end in waste. Under my
plan the garbage would do the work
it was intended to do, go back to the
elements from which it came and
help to enrich the soil"
The Coming Poultry Show.
arrangements are now being rap
idly completed for the state poultry
show which will be held in this city
the second week in January" Chas.
Guth. chairman of the committee on
arrangements, said. Our hope is
that this will be the biggest show ey-
err held 1t will be strictly a poultry
show. The show has grown to such
proportions that we could not afford
the dog fanSiers sufficient space on
the arena floor. We have arranged
for the finest system of cooping that
we have ever had, and we hope to
have the support Of every local poul.
try fancier in conducting this show.
We have secured it for Des Moines
each year, though often at financial
loss to the local association and we
want all chicken boosters to get be-
hind and boost this show. 1t will
then be the biggest ever held in this
state, and it has already been conced-
ed that Des Moines' poultry show
ranks with the best in the nation"
Bankers Boost Agriculture.
Iowa bankers are going to fall in
reform movement" said p. w. Hall,
secretary of the Iowa Bankers asso-
citation. Last week the council of
administration of the association met
in Des Moines. A resolution was
passed favoring the teaching of ag.
riculture in the schools, establishing
agricultural high schools and in fact
carrying out the program outlined by
Joseph Chapman at the meeting Of
the Des Moines Bankers club. Here
is a movement in which every bank
err in Iowa should become interested.
There is no reason, as Mr. Chapman
says, why Des Moines banks should
not have millions in deposits for it is
true that Iowa soil is not yielding
what it is capable Of yielding"
Will Make Prison Report.
The report OF the prison probe
commission will be made in January.
George Cosson, attorney general, has
announced that he will call Judge M.
A. Roberts of Ottumwa and Farley
Sheldon of Ames, the other two mem.
hers of the commission that investi.
gated the Fort Madison penitentiary,
to Des Moines during the first week
in January to review the evidence
secured by the board at it's different
sittings and to prepare . report i'm.
uediately thereafter.