PROCEEDINGS STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 17 



the scout executives, leaders and boy scouts and would also accept any 

 contribution to their mess fund that the board might decide upon. 



The executive committee decided to submit a proposition to the boy 

 scout committee, providing for free admission for the leaders and boy 

 scouts, and also for a contribution to the mess fund amounting to $30 

 for each team of eight boy scouts and leader, with the understanding that 

 they were to perform the services outlined above. 



The following rule was adopted for the state horseshoe pitching con- 

 test: Frank Jackson of Kellerton, Iowa, 1920 state champion, will con- 

 test for the 1921 championship with a member of the winning team in 

 the tournament, best three out of five games of 21 points each, for a 

 purse of $50 and a medal to the champion. The present state champion 

 is excluded from participating in the 1921 state tournament. 



The following propositions for bands during the period of the state fair 

 were brought to the attention of the committee: 



Fort Dodge Military Band, twenty-five pieces, August 26 to September 

 2, inclusive, $2,120. 



Fischer's Burlington Band, twenty-five pieces, August 26 to September 

 2, inclusive, $2,200. ■ 



Morgan's Rainbow Division Band, thirty pieces, August 26 to September 

 2. inclusive, $2,500. 



Argonne Post Band, thirty-one pieces and four singers, August 26 to 

 September 1, $1,822. 



Henry and His Band, thirty-four pieces, August 26 to September 1, 

 $1,914. 



Josephine Harper, twelve-piece girls' orchestra, August 26 to Septem- 

 ber 2, inclusive, $275. 



Winterset Boy Scout Band, sixteen pieces, August 26 to September 2, 

 inclusive, $350. 



The secretary w^as directed to close contract for the Fort Dodge Mili- 

 tary Band for an engagement August 26 to September 2, inclusive, for the 

 sum of $2,120. Also Josephine Harper's Twelve Piece Girls' Orchestra for 

 the full period of the fair, for $275. 



The secretary was also directed to secure a proposition for Morgan's 

 Rainbow Division Band for two days, August 26 and 27; also a proposition 

 from the Argonne Post Band, August 28 to September 2, inclusive. 



Mr. Charles Pye, secretary of the Iowa State Teachers' Association and 

 Mr. Welch, director of the school exhibits department at the Iowa State 

 Fair, submitted a proposition to the executive committee for bringing out 

 a more comprehensive consolidated school exhibit. They informed the 

 committee that the National Educational Association Convention, which 

 will convene in Des Moines July 4-8, is planning on a very extensive con- 

 solidated school exhibit. They proposed that if the state fair management 

 w'ould pay the freight on such exhibits as would be suitable for the state 

 fair, that they would arrange to have a committee pick out these exhibits 

 and see that they were delivered to the state fair grounds immediately 

 after the Teachers' Convention. They would also arrange for a committee 

 to install these exhibits at the fair. 



