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not be able to get cattle from them anymore. I am in receipt of a 

 letter from him giving us a very cordial invitation to be present at 

 the next sale. 



Then, there will be no trouble in securing a good place to hold our 

 meetings. We can have the court house. And we have the public 

 parks, and some large stores, that are well worth seeing, and at the 

 other end of town there is Allentown's famous duck farm, where 

 they have between forty and fifty thousand young ducks in the var- 

 ious stages of growth. I trust we shall have the pleasure of seeing 

 you all at Allentown in the spring. 



MR. SCHWARZ: I second the nomination of Allentown. 



'MR. SEXTON: When is this cattle sale to be held? 



MR. FENSTERMAKER: Usually on Decoration Day. 



MR. SEXTON: I am a Grand Army man, and as such I can't go to 

 a sale on that day. As a Grand Army man I have other business. I 

 march to the graves of my fallen comrades. If that is the object 

 that takes us to Allentown I can't go there. 



MR. FENSTERMAKER: That is not the object; it is merely dis- 

 cretionary; no one is compelled to go to this sale. 



The CHAIRMAN: It is usually customary to hold the spring meet- 

 ing on Decoration Day. 



MR. BARNES: I wish to offer as a place of meeting, the city of 

 York. We have a court house that is unsurpassed by any in the 

 State, and we have first-class hotels. I therefore offer York as the 

 place for the summer meeting. 



The SECRETARY: We had the pleasure of meeting several years 

 ago at Somerset, in the southwestern part of the State. It gave us 

 a great deal of pleasure to have you there, and I am happy to say that 

 it would give us pleasure to have you return there. I would, there- 

 fore, offer Somerset. 



MR. McCREARY: Inasmuch as Mr. Riddle, of Butler, is anxious 

 to have us come there, and is not present at this time, I would be glad 

 to have the balloting held over until he can present the claims of his 

 home town of Butler. He will be here some time today. 



MR. HERR: When is the time of the summer meeting fixed? 



The SECRETARY: That is left to the Director of Institutes; he 

 fixes the time and we fix the place. 



DEPUTY SECRETARY MARTIN: There is one question in re- 

 gard to these meetings with which we have had considerable diffi- 

 culty for a numbei of years. Now, in the town of Clearfield, where 

 we had our last meeting, it was far from our desire to hold that 

 meeting on Decoration Day, and in fact we had arranged two other 

 dates, but found that on one of those dates it conflicted with the date 

 of court in Clearfield, and in the other with another objection equally 

 unconquerable, so we were between the upper and nether millstone 

 of postponing our meeting until that time. We should have, at all 



