20 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART I 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING 

 June 4=5-6, 1921 



Members present: Cameron and Corey. 



The purpose of the meeting was to meet the executive committee in 

 charge of the first reunion of the 88th Division. The committees met at 

 10 a. m. Sunday, June 5, in the lounge room of the Chamber of Commerce. 

 The plans for holding the reunion at the state fair grounds w^ere fully dis- 

 cussed by the members of the two committees. The following proposi- 

 tion was made by the executive committee of the state fair: 



The state fair will set aside the camp ground site occupied by the 168th 

 Regiment in 1917, consisting of about fifteen acres of ground for the 

 reunion camp site, carry water into the camp grounds and extend the 

 water line down the main street through the camp. Also extend the light- 

 ing system into the camp site, provide three additional toilets, provide a 

 ticket with a coupon for each day including Sunday, August 28, the ticket 

 not to be transferable, and good for re-admission at the outside gates 

 upon signing statistical check after coupon has been used. Tickets to be 

 sold by the registration committee at $1 each. All tickets are to be 

 turned over to the registration committee and receipt taken for the same. 

 At the close of the fair, all unsold tickets are to be returned and all tickets 

 used to be paid for by the registration committee. The state fair is also 

 to provide one thousand one-half sheet posters. The assembly tent at the 

 head of Grand avenue is to be available for meetings on Friday, Saturday 

 and Sunday; the stock pavilion to be available on Friday night, August 26. 

 The Argonne Post Band to be subject to the orders of the reunion com- 

 mittee on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 26 to 28 inclusive. One 

 box containing ten seats in the grandstand is to be assigned to the visit- 

 ing army officers for afternoon and evening Friday and Saturday. The 

 state fair is also to provide garbage cans and haul away all garbage. 



The executive committee, in charge of the reunion, agreed to lay out 

 the camp ground site, assist in locating water lines, light poles, etc.; also 

 to arrange for tentage, cots, and blankets free of charge for all men in 

 the camp; to be responsible for an accounting and sale of all tickets 

 turned over to the registration committee; to participate in a review on 

 Legion Day, Saturday, August 27. 



The secretary was authorized to order two 12-foot gates for draw gates 

 at race track; also two 12-foot park gates and one garden gate to be placed 

 at new entrance near 33rd and E. University avenue. 



The secretary also presented the proceedings of the Middle West Fair 

 Circuit meeting held at Kansas City on May 21. The secretary was 

 authorized to join this circuit, and remit the dues, amounting to $100, 

 same to be used in advertising the circuit in farm and live stock papers 

 and also for employing a traffic manager to assist the live stock exhibitors 

 making the circuit. 



The committee authorized C. F. Curtiss, superintendent of the horse 

 department, to attend the South Shore Country Club show on June 9 and 

 10 for the purpose of soliciting entries for the Iowa State Fair Horse Show. 



