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many of the fair members on my board don't feel it is worth the ex- 

 pense of sending me 150 or 200 miles to attend a meeting of this kind 

 when we are obliged to attend the district meeting representing our 

 own race circuit. That is sometime during the spring. I don't care 

 to attend three or four meetings in a year. We have the general 

 meeting in our own location w^here ten or fifteen get together. I am 

 sure if you have a meeting in the spring twenty-five or thirty may 

 come, but I don't think you will get any meeting at all like you have 

 here. 



President Estell : Does anyone wish to make a motion? Are 

 there any who wish to talk further on this subject? Do you wish to 

 take any action in regard to the remarks made by the gentleman as to 

 weeding out some of the attractions companies that are trying to do 

 business in the state at the present time or do you believe that the 

 fair secretaries should handle that matter themselvs. 



A ^Member : We are here for experience and giving our experi- 

 ence, and I possibly am treading on dangerous ground, but how many 

 of you secretaries that buy fireworks take your program and check 

 them up and see whether you get all you pay for or not? We did 

 twice and made money both times. 



President Estell : This is quite interesting. Has any one another 

 story to tell ? 



A Member : I had a little experience along the same line as the 

 gentleman who just spoke here. A year ago last fall at the time of 

 the fair I had some attractions booked and the morning of the first 

 day of the fair the booking agent came to the fair and he says : *'Mr. 

 Scow, it is impossible for me to furnish some of the attractions we 

 have booked." 



I said: 'Tf you can furnish me some just as good, all well and 

 good." He told me what he was going to furnish me. I said you 

 can't give that kind of stuff with that amount of money. He says : 

 "You will have to take this or we will pull the whole thing ofi^ of the 

 grounds." That is the experience I have had with one booking 

 agency. The same thing happened last fall, just about a week before 

 the fair I got notice from the booking agency that there \vas two 

 acts it would be impossible for them to furnish and they would have 

 to substitute something else. You will find in their contracts that 

 these booking agencies have a clause in there that they can substitute 

 at any time prior to the time of your fair with any act that they are 



