TWENTIETH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART II 167 



of the Iowa State Fair our sincere appreciation and thanks for the loyal 

 and efficient service rendered during the past year and tender to them 

 our hearty co-operation in the management of future fairs. 



We, your resolutions committee, desire to take this occasion to recom- 

 mend to the officers and directors of the Iowa State Fair that a perma- 

 nent headquarters be established in the Administration Building for the 

 secretaries and managers of the county and district fairs in Iowa, to be 

 presided over and in charge of the officers of the Iowa Association of 

 Fairs. 



During the past year the beloved wife of Mr. L. H. Pickard, a former 

 director of the state board of agriculture, passed to the great beyond. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Pickard had just rounded out fifty years of wedded life 

 when death separated this happy union. Mrs. Pickard had the honor of 

 casting the first woman vote ever cast at the state agricultural con- 

 vention. 



Therefore, Be It Resolved, That we extend to Mr. Pickard our heart- 

 felt sympathy and condolence in his bereavement. 



Respectfully submitted, 



H. S. STANBERY, 

 I. S. BAILEY, 

 C. E. HOFFMAN, 

 Committee on Resolutions. 



Mr. Stanbery moved the adoption of the resolutions. Motion was 

 seconded and unanimously adopted. 



The Chairman : The next order before us is the election of 

 officers for the ensuing year. 



The vice president was called to the chair. 



The Vice President : Gentlemen the first will be the election of 

 a president. What is your pleasure? 



Mr. W. W. Morrow : I place in nomination Mr. C. E. Cameron, 

 of Alta, to succeed himself as president. 



Mr. M. E. Bacon, of Clay county, seconded the nomination and 

 moved that nominations close; that the rules be suspended and the 

 secretary instructed to cast the vote of all delegates present for 

 Mr. Cameron for president. Motion was seconded and carried and 

 the secretary announced that he so cast the one hundred and nine 

 votes of the convention. Mr. Cameron was declared duly elected 

 president of the state board of agriculture for the ensuing year. 



Mr. Cameron again took the chair as chairman and made the fol- 

 lowing remarks : 



Gentlemen : I hardly know what to say to you ; how to thank you 



