The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-02

been closed all winter, will be re
opened early in May.
Former residents of Mills county
have formed a Mills County club OF
Des Moines. About twenty are chart
er members.
More than 100 900 are expected to
be guests of Sioux City during the
observance of the diamond jubilee
week June 9-14.
Bodied heads may be all right Tor
some people, but not for Miss Helen
Schultz, Iowa's bus queen, and head
Of the Red Ball Transportation Com
pany.
March building contract sin Iowa
amounted to $3,740,300, according to
figures. Construction started In
March over the state amounted to 49,
los, 800.
Charles Crane, u, Of Maquoketa'
has the neighborhood agog. Crane
startled the village by purchasing a
coffin saying he wanted every lin
readiness"
The campaign for purebred sires
to head dairy herds has resulted In
the assurance that four will be placed
in Cherokee county. Possibly a fifth
will be added Immediately.
The Seventh Day Adyentists OF the
United States will meet in Des Moines
Oct. 1924. Cecil X. Meyers, secre-
tary, notified George z. Hamilton.
There will be 1000 delegates.
Barge traffic on the Mississippi,
which is carried on with a system of
stations and switches as railroad
trains, has been opened at McGregor.
A motor boat pulls a long chain OF
barges.
The report of operations Of the po-
lice department of Des Moines for the
month of March show that 1,026 per-
sons were arrested during that per-
iod. In 1913 accidents, 81 people were
injured.
A lost estate, somewhere in the
center of Iowa. is being sought by
Charles T. Dewson of Londor Eng
land, who has appealed for help to 10
cate the property formerly belonging
to his father.
Not in many years has there been
such scarcity of feed for livestock
in Tama county, according to farmers.
Many cattle have recently been ship
ped from Traer before they were
ready for market.
Bloomfield people who have Sun
day show" feeling will still have to
go to Ottumwa for their amusement,
as the city council passed an ordin-
ance prohibiting movies and shows Of
any nature on that day.
Three hundred pupils of the high
school and pupils of the night school
of Marshalltown will participate in a
huge pageant called Builders Of De-
mocracy" which will be presented at
Franklin field, May 14th.
Winter wheat in Iowa came through
the past winter in good shape the
report Of Charles F. Sarle and Leslie
M. Carl Of the United States depart
ment of agriculture cooperating with
the state department, declares.
The Iowa Federation of Colored Wo-
mems Clubs plans to dedicate a new
dormitory for colored girls attending
the State University of Iowa, at their
twenty-third annual session, to be
held in Iowa City June End, 3rd and 4.
Because the cost of labor has sud
denly advanced after contracts were
taken for building to be erected on
the campus of Iowa State College, the
state board of education has called a
halt, and ordered the work suspended
until such time as the costs are low
cred.
President Pearson Of Iowa State
College, speaking in Des Moines this
week, told of the feverish efforts be-
ing put forth by the experts at Ames
to find some solution Of the grave
problem created by the corn borer
and predicted that unless success was
achieved within the next few months
the scourge Of this parasite would
cost the farmers of Iowa one hundred
millions of dollars.
The town of Maquoketa is giving
the rest Of the state lessen in the
efficient and economical administra-
ton Of city government. The City
Council has voted to abolish the of.
fees Of city clerk and city attorney,
thereby serving to the taxpayers con-
siderable money every year. The
city manager will handle the clerks
duties and an attorney will be en-
ployed whenever one is needed.
Hard-surfacing of 5000 miles of
the Iowa primary road system, so
designated as to form a network of
highways covering the whole state.
the issuance Of $S5,00O,O00 of a serial
bonds to be retired by monies out of
the primary road fund, and imposition
Of two cent per gallon gasoline tax,
one-third Of which would go to the
primary road fund and two-thirds to
the secondary road fund, will be ad.
vocated in a campaign which will be
waged by leading Iowa business men
during the next three years. The
campaign will be managed by a com.
mittee whose members will repre-
sent the large cities and towns of the