The Humeston New Era from Humeston, Iowa • Page 2

1 Humeston New Era Heck Sanford, Iowa PICKET! IS CHIEF McDonald Makes Appointments in Iowa G. A. R. NIGHT COLLEGES. The trustees of the City college have resolved to establish next fall a night college for bright boys who must work an the daytime for a living.

It is an admirable innovation, remarks the New York World. The old-fashioned American college course was laid out upon the analogy of seven years spent in learning a trade. The student was four years apprenticed to learning to become a bachelor. Three years more he practiced what he had learned, like a journeyman in a trade, and then he was a fully fledged master of arts course." His four years in college allowed generous vacations to teach ID and work in the hayfield in eummer. Under the modern point system with the aid of summer sessions, any bright boy can complete a college course in three years.

One year more in residence gives him a master degree In a night college a student can easily in four years, by reciting two hours every evening for 46 weeks, present the equivalent of the minimum cellege requirement. By reciting three hours each night except Saturday the minimum college requirements could be met within the college terms; or with night summer sessions in three years. LACY IS JUDGE ADVOCATE William Blades is Department Inspector; J. B. Denne, Mustering Officer, and A.

D. Collier, Patriotic Instructor. It is getting to be a cold and cruel world for the rat Not only is he being slaughtered by the thousands in localities where he is regarded as a disseminator of deadly disease, but the hunters are on his track for other purposes. London has a great rat- killing industry, the rodents-being "removed" in vast numbers because of the value of their skins for certain uses These skins are utilized for toookmaking and making photograph frames purses and parts of ladies gloves, and not less than $200,000 is paid out for the skins annually, making the rat-catcher's trade quite a notable industry- There are lots of rats in Scandinavia, and the Norwegian or brown rat is a big and bothersome rodent who because of his? fighting ability and other qualities has made himself a nuisance in various countries to which he has migrated. And now comes a consular report dealing with rat-catching in Denmark which says the business is extensive and a source of considerable revenue to men engaged in it, and who make from 75 to 90 cents a day.

With all the hostile agencies at work the rat would seem to run a fair chance of being exterminated. Yet a great many of him survive. They are having trouble with the automobile down south--an infallible sign of the south's reviving prosperity --and the Charleston News and Courier makes the suggestion that a very effective method of discouraging violations of the speed law would be to arrest the automobiles. An automobile held in custody could not be implicated in the perpetration of a new offense while the old one was pending-and the fear of being deprived of the use of their machines would cause the owners to exert their influence on the side of caution. Americans are again wearing diamonds.

Trade may still halt, and labor is not yet fully employed, but the gem trade, which slumped tremendously at the time of the panic, is again brisk. Maiden Lane announces that the American market for diamonds is again in a satisfactory condition. The value of precious stones and pearls imported in March was about nine times as great as the'value of those imported a year ago. Des Moines, June Hugh Pickell of Des Moines, was appointed chief of staff and senior aide by Department Commander Michael McDonald of the Iowa G. A.

who was elected toy a four to one vote to succeed General Milliman at the recent Fort Dodge encampment. Mr McDonald arrived from his home at Bayard and announced the following appointments: Department inspector, William Blades of Dubuque, judge advocate, John P. Lacey, of Oskaloosa; chief mustering officer, J. a. Dennes, of Traer; patriotic instructor, A D.

Collier, Sioux City. Dr George A. Newman of Cedar Falls who was reappointed assistant adjutant and quartermaster general, will be installed by Crocker post ot Des Moines. Dr Newman was at his desk at tne state house for the first time since the death of his wife, who was suddenly stricken on the first day of the Fort Dodge Whist Issue Up In Adel Church. Adel--For several months the Rev.

Charles Mayne, pastor of the Methodist church, has been waging war against whist playing. The Methodist discipline prohibits its members from engaging in "games of chance, and Rev. Mr. Mayne construes this to mean card playing regardless of the tme or place of playing the same. Some of his members believe that they have a right to decide for themselves what amusements they shall indulge in, and so have turned a deaf ear to the clergyman's appeals.

A climax was reached when MrS Stepnen i Douglas, a life long member of the Methodist church, refused to sever her connection to the ladies' whist club Mrs. Douglas was asked to withdraw from the church or stand trial and she chose the latter. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. I. A.

B. Degree for Major Byers. 'lowa H. M. Byers of Des Moines was honored at the University of Iowa commencement exercises with the honorary degree of master of arts.

Alonzo Ahernethy made the presentation Horace M. Towner was given the degree of LL. with Carl F. Kuehnle giving the presentation speech. Governor Carroll attended the alumni dinner, and 358 S.

U. I. boys and girls received their diplomas. Ladd Put on Tabor Board. only changes in the board of trustees of Tabor college, to the commencement closing the year at the.

institution were that the new president, Rev. F. W. Long, took the place made vacant by the resignation of Rev. W.

J. Ferner, pastor of the First Congregational church, and the place made vacant by the death of Senator W. B. Allison is to be filled by Rev. G.

E. Ladd of Red Oak. Sons of Hermann Adjourn. Fort the closing session of the state convention of the Sons of Hermann, A. A.

Lutze of Sioux City was elected to the position ot grand president. Other officers are past grand'president, W. Wiese Mapleton; first vice grand president A. Kramer, Council Bluffs; second vice grand president, T. J.

Thorson, Davenport; grand secretary and- or ganizer, Carl Sioux City; grand treasurer, Frank Haaren, Sioux City; trustees, George E. Eisenberg- I er of Alvard, Theodore Stickel of Davenport and John Groth of Reinsen. Urges Insurance System. Iowa State Federation of Labor, in convention here, by a decisive vote, turned down a resolution favoring the initiative and referendum and woman's The convention recommended that the state establish an insurance system to provide for sick or disabled workers, also that the government, state and cities provide employment at union wages for all workers who cannot procure employment. Main Building of Industrial School for Girls.

lowan Is Oldest Good Templar. has the distinction of having among her citizens the oldest living member of the Independent Order of Good Templars in the world. This man is Luke Roberts, who has passed his eighty-seventh birthday anniversary. Mr. Roberts became affiliated with the first lodge of the Good Templars at Hemlock, N.

in August of the year 1852. At that time the order was but a year in existence. Flood Destroys Redfield Dam. high water has done several thousand dollars' worth of damage to the Redfield Milling company. The owners had just completed the dam across the river and the high water cut around the end nearest the mill and cut so much ground away that the sawmill was washed away.

Also the sluice and the mill were in so much danger that the dam had to be dynamited and destroyed to save the mill. Mason City Man Cuts His Throat. Mason Bunker, aged 45- years, a farmer residing near Plymouth, lies at the Park hospital in "this city, critically wounded. After serving as a district court juror the work so preyed upon his mind that he entered the back room of Undertaker Frederick's parlors and using his old rusty jack-knife haggled his throat so that death is probable. A number of women in Des Moines have made a demand on the.

state that a woman be placed at Mitchellvttle as business manager ot the state industrial school for girls there. The position of superintendent has always been held by men. The school has had a long career of usefulness to the state, but times it was very troublesome. Goy Welling of Kansas, before he left Iowa, was at the head of the school for a long time, and during his management is was a source of much trouble for the board in charge. Later under the direction of Superintendent Miller a reign of anarchy followed, which ended in a large number of the girls running away.

For a long time it was believed that the school would have to be closed. Then the new board of control took hold and found in Superintendent Fitzgerald a man of entirely different type. He organized the school with a matron at the head of each cottage, and with women in full charge of the girls in every department, Personally superintending the industrial work Then he organized an orchestra and began to interest the girls In music. Later there were added various forms of technical instruction not before given, such as cooking, sewing dressmaking, stenography etc. For a dozen years the MitcheUvile institution has.run along smoothly and hundreds of girls who had been found incorrigible at home were led Into ways of industry.

The graduates of the school are found all over the state filling responsible positions Ex cellent music teachers trace mu rical education to the school. Good stenographers have come from there, and filling fine positions. For a dozen or more years not a girl has BOftRD TO DIRECT HIGHER EDUCATION IN IOWA. fled from the industrial.school. This long reign 01 peace and con- entment led to jealousies and rivalries among those entrusted care of the girls.

Superintendent, Fitzgerald is accused of showing favoritism and'of being lacking in discipline with the employes and heads ot departments. An investigation closed that the troubje arose-from tne disagreements among the help. Now comes the demand on the part of Des Moines women that a woman be made head of the institution and be given the authority to select tbe heads of departments, to the employment of the help and to direct the studies aufl the music. There are about 200 girls at the schol. They are from ten to eighteen years old.

mainly sent there because of lack of homes elsewhere and because ofj errors committed by reason of having no parental guide. With a religious turmoil still in agitation and a labor war impending. France is having her full share of exciting trouble. And it is no quieting factor in the situation that the monarchists seize on every chance to persuade the people that the only public permanent safety lies in the restoration of the old order of things. Hut restoration of a monarchy in these re publican days is too much of a reform crab-fashion, for any nation to adopt An association has been formed ii New York to promote by education public opinion and in other ways th building in foreign capitals of perma nent homes for American ambassa dors.

The education of public opinio up to the providing of homes in othe lands for the embassies will probably be the hardest part of this patriotic proposition. Iowa hasTfoliowed New York with a law against immoral theatrical per- iprmances. The outbreak of the "Salome" craze has aroused public opinion apparently, to the extent of demanding legislative interference. As American public opinion is, Tn the main, a healthy growth, the late flood pruriency on the stage has brought about, its own correction. Next September we shall be to Vlars--only 25.000.000 miles away.

ready with your horns. Long Lost Brothers Meet. Des party which was the means of bringing together two brothers who had not seen each other even heard of each other for twenty-five years, was that given by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cordary of 1123 Indianola avenue, South Des Moines.

The brothers who figured in the meeting were Charles Daniel of Portland, Oregon, Fred Daniel, a well-known resident for years on the South side. Big Boost for Council Bluffs. Council of a' that has been in circulation in Council Bluffs for several months of immense improvements that are to be made here by the Chicago Northwestern railway, war. made by officials of ihe company, who, in asking for le vacation of certain streets and lleyn. say that, an expenditure of to 5500,000 will be be- un at once on new terminals.

Straighten the Nishnabotna. Council a majority oi one vote, the hoard of supervisors as a drainage board, voted tc establish the Nishnabotna drainage district. The project contemplates the straightening of the winding Nishnabotna river by means of a drainage ditch, which will cross the current of the turbulent stream eighty-one times. College Trustees Elected. the thirty-fifth annual session of the Iowa State Christian conference, at LeGrand, trustees of Palmer college, the state denominational school, were elected in the persons of Rev.

A. C. Grafton. Orient; Mrs. A.

E. Trine and M. A. Gettis, LeGrand; Rev. L.

E. Follaus- bec, Des Moines, and A. N. Benge, Wincerset. A LeMars Priest Is Honored.

I investiture of Rev Father F. Fenerstein, priest of St. Joseph's church, as a prelate of the papal household took place here. Pontifical high mass was celebrated, Rt. Rev.

Bishop P. H. Garngan ot Sioux City officiating. ffl THO3. LAMBERT board composed of three well- taown residents of Iowa has been named to take charge of the states educational interests as represented in the three colleges that are supported by state aid.

The members of this new board are: W. R. Boyd, Cedar Rapids; D. A. Emery, Ottumwa, and Thomas Lambert, Sabula.

Into the care and Beeping of these three men are to be committed the larger educational interests of the state. tors for three great colleges, having from 6,000 to 7,000 students enrolled each year. Every phase of education is given in these colleges. Students are at work on the languages the classics, the sciences, law and other professions, pedagogy, manual train- Ing commercial studies, technical studies and agriculture in all it vari- new board, legally known as the "finance committee" of the new state board of education, will have di- state oar rection of an expenditure running up a million and a half a year. One- hird of this is steadily going into permanent improvements.

The support unds have been rapidly Increased. The state has been generous and ia manifesting a disposition to be more so in the view of a majority of the people of the state these three great colleges are just at the beginning of their great development, and It waa because of this fact that the demand was recognized that one small business board should be given authority to direct this development. Mr. Boyd has had a training in paper work. He was long identified with the Cedar Rapids Republican, and is recognized as one of the ablest editorial writers of Iowa.

He will resign as postmaster of Cedar Rapids to accept the place upon this new board or committee. He Is a state university graduate, a scholar and a man oi broad culture and high character. Mr Emery is a business man of Ottumwa. He is a graduate of the state university, and therefore represents fairly the scholar in. business.

He was a candidate for mayor last spring. Mr Lambert is also a newspaper man editor of the Sabula Gazette and has had long experience in the legislature as a house member and as state senator. He is a keen and business man, familiar with state business. They will be virtually dicta- IQWA RIVERS HAVE PICTURESQUE SCENERY. AN IOWA SONGSTRESS.

Clear Lake Conference Ends. Clear national confer- no ol' the Evangelical Lutheran irehes of America closed a very IILCOSBIUI session here after selecting as the next meeting place. Vermillion, S. and i N. were selected for the quarterly con- 'crerices.

Cresco Woman is 99. McLaughlin celebrated her iUUh birthday. She is the of five children, and has eleven grand children and three great- grandchildren. She is the last survivor of a family of twelve children. Fire i i Established.

Sioux limits may be established here, only brick and stone buildings being permitted within them. Restaurant Man Bankrupt. Des E. Clark, a Des Moines restaurant keeper, and his wife, Ethel M. Clark, havo filed petition in bankruptcy in federal court.

Their unsecured claims totaled $2,560. Hoboes Attack Ames a C. Srith, in charge of the Northwestern pumping station, was attacked and badly hurt by hoboes The two men concerned in the were captured-and after a pre- Hminary hearing were placed in the Nevada jail to await the action of tho grand jury. Daniel Davey Drops Dead. Mason Daniel Davey of the Fourth ward was stricken while talking with a friend on the street and died within a tew minutes.

He was GO years old and had been a resident here thirty years. No Waterworks at Leon. proposition for the issuance, of $35,000 bonds for the construction of a water works system in this city was defeated by 47 lowa Girl to Teach in Rome. Bessie Harris, daughter of the late Rev. B.

Harris of this city, former pastor to Secretary of the, Treasury Snaw at Denison, has been engaged to teach in the woman collego in Rome, Italy. IVUsa Flora Wilson M'ss Flora Wilson, daughter of James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, has made an engagement to go to Europe for a tour of concerts. She is an accomplished musician and has soprano voice of rare qualities. She as studied in Europe Miss Wilson was on an Iowa farm in Tama ounty. i S.

U. I lowa Viola Gehlln, a former member of this year's junior v. rlass in thP University of Iowa. vas in his California from a horse at Eiienborough, was i Wash and seriously, if not fatally ley, injured. i lrict i city is ro S8ag A arl tw di Scene in Palisade Park.

All the Iowa rivers have turesoue scenery along the way. "KosmiTirTI 1 Cl plc- The turesque sceuci? lowa river near the beautiful city of Iowa Falls presents some of the fln- esTscenery of the state. Palisade Park WHAT MAKES IOWA WEALTHY Fine Pickup for Fisherman. The largest and finest pearl ever found Jn Long Island Sound has been sold by Horace A. Saunders of South Norwalk to a New York specialist for So The pearl was found by William Redding, who had no idea of its value, and eSansed It on the spot for boat.

Saunders drove a crafty for he was once a Ceylon for pearls and knev instantly value of the flnd. The entire fleet BO oyster boats is now working the ot the sound around South Norwa in quest of more f600 pearls ana the treasure trove trepidation is Mitatlng even- the oyster openers in the restaurants of this Evening Register. Chickens, Dairy Cows and Apple Trees Add Much to Riches of the State. Chickens prosper In Iowa, like all othef iving things, and to-day there are 19000,000 chickens within the state 1 mlts. At an average price of 0 cenTM each they represent an investment of $5,700,000.

The Iowa hen has lifted many a mortgage; in fact, Se dairy cow and hen have been such great wealth producers that there are no farm mortgages to speak of in Iowa. Few people realize it, and none who have not looked up records would that there 7.000,000 is so named because ol the palisades of the river which In places rise high on either side and lend delight to boating and fishing along the beautiful stream. rees in Iowa. The fact is that until recent years the broad prairies ot owa were not thought suited to apple tree development, hut it has been proved that the apple crop of Iowa is of much importance and now almost every farm is incomplete without an apple orchard. The per capita wealth of Iowa very great.

It Is four times greater than Georgia's, more than twice great as Texas', and greater by far than that of either Indiana. Michigan, Ohio or Illinois. Iowa's per capital wealth is $1,828 and she has tively few millionaires. Thla is $510 greater than the per capita wealth ot the United States, which IB $1.318. Is it any wonder prosperity Iowa her 1 NEWSPAPER!.