SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART I 19 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. 

 October 25-27. 



Members present, Cameron, Olson and Corey. 



The purpose of the meeting was to make arrangements for paying 

 bills on file and running expenses up to December 1, 1916. The Central 

 State Bank, Des Moines, agreed to loan the board $20,000 on a note 

 endorsed by the members of the board personally, with interest at six 

 per cent. 



The secretary was instructed to draw up the note and send it to each 

 member of the board for their endorsement. 



The claim of F. F. Faville, Storm Lake, amounting to $115.20 for legal 

 services in 1912 was allowed and ordered paid. 



Mr. N. B. Ashby and Mr. George Hamilton appeared before the com- 

 mittee asking permission to use the poultry cooping at the fair grounds 

 for the Iowa Poultry and Pet Stock Association Show. The committee 

 agreed to allow them to use the cooping at a rental of $100. 



The program for the State Agricultural Convention was discussed 

 and it was decided to co-operate with the County and District Fair 

 Managers' Association in putting on a joint program. The secretary was 

 also instructed to extend to Mr. J. C. Simpson, secretary of the Minnesota 

 State Fair, an invitation to address the convention. Also to extend 

 an invitation to Dean C. F. Curtiss to address the convention relative 

 to his trip to the Argentine. 



The committee conferred with Mr. 0. A. Weaver relative to purchasing 

 lot 1, block "A" Cottonmill Addition to Grant Park, located at the south- 

 west corner of the fair grounds; also with Emil G. Schmidt, president, 

 Des Moines City Railway, relative to lot on which to move Weaver's 

 drug store at the northwest corner of East Thirtieth and Walnut streets. 

 The committee made Mr. Weaver a proposition to pay him $1,200 for his 

 lot, clear of all encumbrance and special assessments, he to remove drug 

 store and all other small buildings. 



The committee instructed the secretary to communicate with the mem- 

 bers of the board and if this proposition was satisfactory, and provided 

 Mr. AVeaver accepted same, to execute and sign contract for the purchase 

 of said real estate. The secretary communicated with the members of 

 the board and the following members voted for the purchase of the lot 

 for the sum of $1,200: Morrow, Tribby, Curtin, Legoe, Curtiss, Sheldon, 

 Mullen, Pike, Cameron, Olson, Reeves and Corey. Members not heard 

 from: Phillips, Escher and Tow. 



October 3 the secretary entered into contract for the purchase of said 

 lot with Mr. O. A. Weaver for the sum of $1,200; $100 paid at the time 

 of execution of contract; $200 on or before October 16; $400 as soon as 

 the store and buildings are removed from the lot and the balance, 

 $500, when warranty deed and abstract are delivered to the secretary of 

 the State Board of Agriculture. 



