Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-20
DR.. VOD[N} SWITCHED
HEAD OF STATE HosPlTAL At
CHEROKEE TO De
TRANSFERRED
WILL HAVE CHARGE OF
NEW EPILEPTIc COLONY
Or. Henohes, Of lnsbriats Hospital, TO
Be Transferred to Cherokee Institu-
tien-Dr. crumpaeksr Retained a.
Head Of Independence Asylum
Policy 10 to Keep Good Men.
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Des Moines, June 20-Dr. NJ. N. Vol
denx now superintendent of the state
hospital at Cherokee, is to take charge
of the newest Iowa institution-the
epileptic colony or village. he
will retire from the Cherokee institu-
ton July / to take charge of the insti-
tuion at Woodward. DR.. Voldeng has
been in charge at Cherokee from the
time of the opening of that institution.
He was a resident of Des Moines at
the time of his appointment twelve
years ago. He has been popular and
successful head Of the hospital Tor the
insane, and he has given great deal
Of study to the question Of care of the
epileptics. His salary will be $4,000
year. For the present he will be con-
cerned chiefly in planning the institu-
ton, and it is expected this will be
laid out as the model institution Of its
kind in the world.
The state board of control yesterday
selected Dr. George Donohoe to be
successor to DR.. Voldeng as superin-
tendent of the hospital at Cherokee.
Dr. Donohoe is now superintendent of
the institution for inebriates at Knox
vile, just finishing up four year
term. He came from Boston and has
had wide experience in institution
work
This leaves the place at Knoxville
open for the present. 1t is probably the
least sought after Of any In the state.
Five OF six superintendent preceded
Donohoe and left withou regrets.
The board reelected to be superin-
tendent Of the state hospital for insane
at Independence, DR.. w. p. Crumback-
er. He came to the hospital in 1902.
and has had three terms Of four years
each. His next term will commence
June 81. The institution has been adj
mirably managed under him and Is
now largest OF the four hospitals for
insane.
The board also decided that Henry
w. Rothert should continue as dean Of
the corps Of superintendents, in charge
Of the state school for the deaf at
Council Bluffs. He gets another term
commencing Aug. 81. He has quit
counting the terms, but has been sta
toned at the school door for about
/ twenty years. Senator Rothert
was in fact, state senator in the fif-
tenth. sixteenth, ninteenth and twen-
tieth general assemblies. Along in
| 1887 the legislature elected him to be
| superintendent Of the deaf school. He
has seen it grow. He helped make IL
grow. He has seen 1t develop from a
very small school to one with the finest
possible equipment.
The policy Of the present board Is
evidently to be that Of the board since
its organization. keeping good men and
promoting wherever possible. There is
not at any one Of the institutions now
any weak spot.
In decision yesterday the Iowa su-
preme court indicated that good deal
of the regulating by ordinance in Iowa
cities Is without warrant Of law. The
| decision will invalidate all ordinances
OF cities and towns undertaking to re-
quire licenses from electricians and
others. save where the code makes
special provision for the same.
| In the town Of Akron, where the
town owns the electric light plant, a
man was prosecuted for wiring house
when he had failed to take out a IL
| cense as provided by ordinance. The
ordinance merely provided for q license
| to be issued by tho mayor and bond
for the electrician.
The supreme court, like the lower
| court, held this to be without author
| ity. 1t was not an attempt to regulate
| the method of wiring houses or to pro-
vide way Of doing the work, but an
| arbitrary rule that one must first take
out license before engaging in such
| work. The court holds there Is moth
| ing in the laws Of the state that will
| authorize city or town to do this.
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Warden Sanders Of the Fort Madi-
| son prison still, nominally. languishes
in custody for alleged violation of the
| all-powerful city ordinces Of Fort Mad
| ison.
| Assistant Attorney General Fletcher
got only part way to the prison town
when Sanders notified him that the city
| attorney. had left town and the case
could not be called.
1t is not the intention. however, of
of the state to defend the warden UNI
der. the ordinances, but to go at once
into district court to nullify the or
dinances and to get relief in that way.
The state is DESTROYS OF pushing the
case to conclusion at once.
800
State officials and others who have
been out in the state the past week re-
Eport hat never before In Iowa history
has there been such fine prospect for a
big corn crop. While in the northern
part of the state there has been In
places too much rain and in some parts
OF the south there was not rain enough,
more recently the rain and the sun
shine have been admirably distributed
with the result that corn IL declared 70
be generally two or three weeks ahead
of its schedule for the growing season.
The wheat and oats crops while not
quite SO good. are said to be very sat
isfactory. All over the state there has
been increasing interest in growing
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
b. local applicatioss.. - tAsy cannot reach tAe
| diseased portion of ne 81. There = only eos