Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-03-02
Convention Adopts Set of Resolu-
tions Thanking Commercial
League, President Spar
and Others.
OLD OFFICERS ARE REELECTED
Delegates Attend Moving Picture
Lecture at Orpheum, Clos
ing the Convention.

Friday afternoon the state
drainage convention was devoted
mostly to reports of committees, the
report of the committee upon resclu-
tions, read by Prof. John T. Stewart
of St. Paul, being as follows:
To the members of the Iowa State
Drainage Association: Your COM
mittee upon resolutions beg leave TO
make the following report:
Whereas, This meeting of the Iowa
State Drainage Association has been
of great interest and value to those
present, and whereas it's success Las
been largely due to the untiring ef-
forts CT the officers of the associa-
tion.
(1) Be it resolved, That we extend
our thanks to the president, H. M.
Sparboe, for his able services, and
to Prof. M. F. P. Costelloe for his
excellent and efficient work as Sec
retary.
(2) Resolved, That we extend our
thanks to the Webster City CONNER
cial League, the local members Of
the association and of Webster City,
for their interesting and liberal e'i-
tertainment provided for the Iowa
state Drainage association at its
eleventh annual meeting.
CD Be it resolved, That we ex-
tend our thanks and hearty appre-
citation to the musicians for their
splendid entertainment at the ban
auet rendered the association on the
evening of the 25th.
(4) Be it resolved, That the Iowa
State Drainage Association appreci.
ates the presence of Edmund II. Per-
kins, president of the national drain
age congress, at our eleventh an
nual meeting, and the association
extends it's thanks to him for this
visit.
(5) Be it resolved, That the grow
ing realization of the economic i'm
portance of drainage to the entire
state of Iowa can be met and furth-
er advanced only by a more gener-
al membership in the association,
and that the ensuing year have for
one of it's objects the aggressive
campaign for a fuller and more rep
resentative membership, thereby en-
listing the interest and co-operati;n IL
of those most vitality affected by
drainage improvement.
Whereas, it is the sense of tie
Iowa Drainage Association that our
drainage laws should be so changed
that the boards of supervisors be re-
lieved of any responsibility fer
drainage organization, construction
and maintenance, and that the bust
ness management of drainage dis
tricts he vested in a board of three
drainage commissioners elected from
the land owners in the district by
vote of the property owners in the
district; the voting power Of each
Individual to be in proportion to his
holdings of assessable land in the
district.
Be it resolved, That the Iowa
Drainage Association endorse Senate
File 262 for an act to safeguard
water supplies to prevent the dis
charge of sewage or the deposit OF
garbage into lakes, ponds, natural
or artificial depressions or reser-
yoirs, rivers or other water courses
or upon land subject to overflow: TO
provide plan for enabling cities
and towns to provide sewage treat
ment for existing sewer systems, and
to provide for the supervision, di-
rection and care OF sanitary installa-
tions.
The foregoing resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
President Sparboe thought that
much of the success of this conven-
ton had been due to the untiring
efforts of Secretary Costelloe OF
Ames, who was a splendidly hard
taskmaster and kept them all work