ELECTION OF OFFICERS _ 71 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



The Chairman: The next in order will be the election of officers. 

 Nominations are in order for president of this society: 



Mr. Pollard: Mr. President. I should like to place in nomina- 

 tion for president a man who has been connected with the society for 

 a nuimber of years. A man who has always been ready and willing 

 to assume any burden of responsibility that the society might ask him 

 to do. A man that I think has had as nuch to do perhaps as any 

 other member of the society in helping to make it what it is. I take 

 pleasure in placing in nomination the name of Mr. Yager, of Fremont. 

 Seconded. 



Mr. Brown: If there is no further nominations, I move the 

 secretary be instructed to cast the ballot of this association for Mr. 

 Yager, for president. Seconded. Carried. 



Mr. Yager: Mr. Chairman, and members of this society: I thank 

 tlie gentleman who nominated me, but I am so'-ry that he did not know 

 me well enough to remember my name. I thank you very much for 

 the honor. I hope to fill the bill in so far as I am able to do so. 



The Chairman: Noiminations for vice-president are in order. 



Mr. Christy: I believe it will be necessarv for our friend Pollard 

 to get better acquainted with Mr. Yager the next year, and therefore I 

 nominate him as first vice-president. 



:Mr. Marshall: I move that the rules be suspended, and the secre- 

 tary be instructed to cast the unanimous ballot of this society for Mr. 

 Pollard for first vice-president. 



Seconded. Carried. 



The Chairman: Nominations for second vice-president are in 

 order. 



Mr. .C'lapin: I desire to place in nomination a man that I have 

 known for about thirty years. I do not want to take a poke at Mr. 

 Follard when I have to acknowledge I have forgotten his initials. 

 Knowing him only as Jake Hess of Omaha. I want to place in nomina- 

 tion Mr. Hess. He has been a member of our society for a great 

 many years, and one of the boys suggested his name as I know him, 

 Jake, so you will have to look him up and get his initials on the 

 record just right. 



Mr. Yager: I move you that the rules be suspended and if 

 there are no other nominations that the secretary be instructed to 

 cast the unanimous ballot of this society for Mr. Hess for second 

 vice-president. 



Seconded. Carried. 



Mr. Marshall: I wish to place in nomination Peter Youngers 



