Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-11
iNiLLlscA MAN APPOINTED TO
FILL OUT UNExPiRED TERM
or JAMES II. TREWlN.
LONG EXPERIENCE As
MEMBER OF LEGISLATURE
Served 40 Member Of Senate Appro-
priations During Last Session-Spe.
eial Significance in Memorial Service
Held by Supreme Court-Me mbers Of
Animal Health Board Reappointed.
Special to Times Republican.

{. Special to Times ReQDlCan.
Des Moines, May 11-Senator Frank
e. Jones. Of villisca, will go on the
state board of educa ton in place OF
and to finish out the unexpired term OF
James H. Trewin and to continue in
that succession. Governor Clarke has
appointed him to the place.
.ie experience of two terms in the house
and two sessions in the senate as
backing for his new duties. AS a
member of the appropriations com :
rnittee in the last state senate he went
deeply into the matter of expenditures
sor all the state institutions. He will
become at once valuable member OF
he education board.
Mr.. Jones has lived most of his 50
years at Nillisca, where he has been
Engaged in mercantile life and later,
to some extent. in banking. He has
been active in Sunday school work, as
superintendent Of the N. Z. Sunday
school in Villisca, and as treasurer or
the state association. He has high
school education and taught school in
younger days.
DR.. A. E. Kepford has gone to ST.
Joseph to speak at an interstate health
conference called by the comm ercial
bodies Of that city. He will speak on
the subject of health administration as
a com m ercial asset, which is 10 be the
central topic of the conference. It will
deal largely with the great value from
a strictly economic standpoint OF the
conservation of human life. The invi-
tation to DR.. Kepford came about thru
his association with the secretary OF
the Missouri state board of health at
the Memphis conference of charities
and corrections and later at the st.
Louis health conference. The theme is
one Dr.. eKepford has been seeking to
impress upon the people for many
years
The brief memorial services in the
eupreme court room yesterday has spec
ial Significance from the fact that three
OF the members Of the bench-Deeme r
Evans Gaynor-had sat at the feet
Of Judge John r. Dillon and taken les
sons IN law from him when he was g
lecturer at the state university. The
personal and touched with feeling. a:
20 Dillon and not much less as to Judge
Cook.
The interesting. fact was brought out
which will surprise many who have no
followed the lives OF these men, tina
as to Dillon he never was In Law
Office until after he was admitted t
the bar. Also, aItho he was one of tn,
ha nS
he never attended college and never
any school save small parochia
school for a short time. and then som,
lectures in medical school. His faith
er was teamster. He did study AND
become a doctor IN Pennington. Ate
about year he borrowed two Law
books and "read law" finishing hi
course when he had bought dru:
store which he ran because running ;
drug store in Davenport gave hin
abundant time for study, and Will
managing this store he completed hi
study of the law so he could be ad
nitted. He broke into the practice 0,
motion of Austin Corbin. It was year
later, after he had been on the bencl
many years, that he became lecture
at the state university law school an
had delivered his famous lectures a
Yale.
The supreme court spread upon it
records the resolutions OF the Scot
county bar presented as to Judge Dill
lon by Judge Bollinger. and as t
Judge Cook by Judge Theophilus.
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Governor Clarke has appointed D,
Thomas Downing, Of Washington an
l-
succeeded themselves on the state ami
NAL health board The former is
veterinary member and the latter
stock breeder. Both have been efficier