PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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Iowa Seeks to Abolish Posters 
A bill recently passed in the upper 
house of the Iowa legislature to give 
cities power to license or regulate skat- 
ing rinks, dance halls, clairvoyants, and 
like things and persons, was amended 
on the floor to include billboards and, 
give to city councils the power to pro- 
hibit them. The Dubrique, la., Tele- 
graph-Herald says of the bill : “The 
measure with the amendment should 
have gone to the judiciary committee, 
where it would have been killed be- 
cause of its clearly unconstitutional pro- 
visions. No city council and no state 
has or can have the power to prohibit 
the erection of billboards. These are 
erected upon private property, and own- 
ership of private property being a vested 
right, the state is powerless to confis- 
cate that property or its revenue with- 
out due process of law. A billboard 
could be prohibited only if it interfered 
with the public health, the public peace, 
or public safety. If it is dangerously 
placed, so as to threaten passers-by, it 
may be regulated by ordinance.” 
New Law in Salem, Mass. 
The following ordinance has been in- 
troduced in the city council of Salem, 
at the instance of the Civic League: 
“Section 1. Within the meaning of 
this ordinance a billboard or sign- 
board shall include all signs, placards, 
posters, painted signs, pictures or other 
pictorial or reading matter. 
“Sec. 3. The displaying, posting, cir- 
culating or in any manner publishing 
any billboard or signboard within the 
lim.its of the city of Salem which is 
lewd, indecent or vulgar, or which pic- 
torial represents the commission or at- 
tempt to comm.it any crime or bodily 
violence is hereby prohibited. It shall 
be the duty of the city marshal to re- 
move or cause to be removed from any 
building, fence or other structure any 
billboard or signboard displayed or 
posted in violation thereof. 
“Sec. 3. Any violation of this ordi- 
nance shall be punishable by a fine of 
ten dollars for each offence. Each day 
or fraction of a day during which any 
billboard or signboard is displayed, 
posted, circulated or published in viola- 
tion of this ordinance shall be deemed 
a separate offence. 
“Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the 
city marshal to' prosecute all violations 
of this ordinance.” 
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3 inch at $5.00 per hundred 
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8 inch at 12.00 per dozen 
Young Plants, Perennials 
The following are young plants which 
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Campanula, mixed $6.00 per 100 
Coreopsis Lanceulata 5.00 per 100 
Delphinium Chinensis 8.00 per 100 
Dianthus Barbatus (sweet 
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Digitalis 6.00 per 100 
Gaillardia 6.00 per 100 
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Tritoma Pfitzeri 8.00 per 100 
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