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Auditing Committee — Mr. Compton and Mr. Fidler. 



Committee on Resolutions — Mr. Lamont, Mr. Calvin, Mrs. Schenclc, 

 Isaac Reamer, Mr. Jolinson. 



Committee on Nominations— Mr. Knox, Henry Sclilosser, Mi's. Lamont. 



Legislative Committee — Mr. Johnson, Mr. Drischel, Mr. Burnside. 



TROUBLES OF THE RETAIL DAIRYMAN. 



I. B. CALVIN, KEWAITNA. 



Mr. Calvin: I want to emphasize one point made by Mr. Goodrich, 

 and that is love for the dairy cow. It is a iisual thing, I hope, for you 

 dairymen to carry a nubbin around in your pocliet as you go through 

 your herd and give the cow a nubbin instead of a clubbin'; speak as 

 gently to her as to your neighbor's wife; put your arm around her neck, 

 pat her on the cheek, lover her a little, (the cow I mean— not your neigh- 

 bor's wife.) [Laughter.] I live in the little town of Kewanna, a town 

 of about 700 people. I started peddling milk two years ago the 16th 

 day of last September. We have run our wagon ever since then, and 

 twice a day in the summer, Sundays, holidays and everything included. 

 We claim we are making money now. We run it the first year probably 

 without veiy much profit. But what I want to say is this: We have one 

 of the nicest little towns, inhabited by the nicest people in the State of 

 Indiana— Plymouth excepted, of course. Now then, for me to come up 

 here and give the trials of a retail milkman puts me in mind of a deacon 

 ■vfrho always asked the blessing at the table. He asked the blessing. 

 and after he got through they went to eating and everything was spoiled. 

 The potatoes were burned, the steak wasn't done, the coffee was too weak. 

 And he went to grumbling about what he had to eat. His little daughter 

 was at the table, and she says, "Papa, does the Lord hear everything you 

 say now, just the same as when you asked the blessing?" He said, 

 "I suppose he does, daughter." "Well, then," she says, "which does he 

 believe?" I am afraid if my Kewanna folks knew I had troubles and 

 that I come up here and talk about thi>m and they know what I think 

 of them, they would wonder what they are to believe. But I must say 

 I think well of our community. But it makes no difference in what 



