Report of Missouri Farmers' Week. 



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Hon. C. L. Overall. 



ADDRESS OF C. L. OVERALL. 



fMr. Overall is Editor of The Campbell (Mo.) Citizen and a Member of the Missouri 



Legislature.) 



I am sorry that my friend and colleague, Mr. Brydon, who has 



just preceded me, made an excuse to you 

 this afternoon for being unprepared. Ex- 

 cuses become montonous when repeated by 

 several of the speakers who arise when they 

 are called upon, and I had the finest excuse 

 you ever heard of for being unprepared, but 

 will withhold it now. But I want to say 

 this: I can prove my devotion to agricul- 

 tural interests and my appreciation of the 

 invitation that was sent to me by the As- 

 sistant Secretary, Mr. Nelson, by stating to 

 you that I got up from a sick bed and came 

 here with a burning high fever, from which 

 I am now suffering. 

 On my way to Jefferson City about fourteen day ago, coming 

 to the Legislature, I felt I was just about the biggest something 

 in this country; I felt very great honors upon my shoulders, but 

 if we have fourteen days more of the strenuous life we have been 

 living down there, I think I will go back home and tell my people 

 I do not exactly like the treatment and apply for a different job. 

 When we reached Jefferson City I said: ''Wife, we are now out 

 of the so-called 'swamp east' Missouri; we are here among the 

 majestic hills which for centuries have overlooked the turbid 

 waters of the Missouri, where the health-giving ozone of the clean, 

 white bluffs of Callaway county permeates the air. Certainly the 

 'malarie' will disappear as if by magic here in this beautiful City 

 of Jefferson," but a few days after I arrived and had spent several 

 nights in an overheated room (I am used to a fireplace), I got an 

 awful cold, and last night began to shake and said, "Wife, I've got 

 a chill. Call up a drug store and get about four dozen No. cap- 

 sules of quinine." 



The medicine helped. Still I am not well, but I wanted to 

 come to this institution. I wanted to see the place where we send 

 so many of our young men and young women to be educated in 

 the very highest degree. I have a brother-in-law here in the agri- 

 cultural department, and about four or five young friends distrib- 



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