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form your progran^i for the spring meeting. Your spring meeting would 

 be one, two or three days' duration, and, as far as your concessions are 

 concerned, it would have to come after the spring meeting of state fairs 

 in Chicago, and at that meeting you could take up the matter of railroad 

 rates and you could take up the matter of forming circuits, as far as 

 your speed was concerned. I suppose every fair has its circuits, so 

 why not send your delegates down here to work out these matters? 

 The proposition of rates will be discussed in the legislature this coming 

 session and we want to be ready for it. 



I was in Chicago this past week at the meeting of fairs and they have 

 taken up the proposition of universal advertising. It is a matter that 

 can be worked out by the county fair boys just as well as the others. 

 Have your committee formed for the purpose of buying a universal system 

 of advertising and buy it in the aggregate. The state fairs at their 

 meetings do this and Mr. Corey can explain what the outcome of that is, 

 but you cannot get at those things in one day meeting at this time of the 

 year. The proposition, I think, is if you want to work together to send 

 your delegates for the agricultural society meeting and let them arrange 

 for the different speakers and this program and then report at the spring 

 meeting. The idea was, after your fairs had elected officers and they 

 had appointed the committees, to let them come together in the spring 

 and arrange for the different circuits. 



Mr. Mullen: When I received the program .it was unaccompanied by 

 any explanatory code and I honestly felt that it was a harness race instead 

 of a gallop for the spring meeting. It looks now as though the horse 

 is on me. I am in the position of the three sons who, on reading their 

 father's will, discovered that all the property he had consisted of seventeen 

 horses and he wanted them divided one-half to the oldest son, one-third 

 to the second and one-ninth to the youngest. Of course, when they came 

 to dividing the property it was almost impossible to divide, so they got to 

 quarreling together and finally a neighbor stepped in and said he had 

 known the folks for a long time, that they had a fine father and a good 

 mother, and in order to keep peace in the family he would give them a 

 horse and they could then divide the property in compliance with their 

 father's will. So the oldest got his one-half of the eighteen horses, 

 or nine horses; the next son got his one-third, or C horses, and the 

 youngest one-ninth, or two horses, and then they discovered that one 

 horse was left, and they gave that back to the kind neighbor, and so I 

 will give it back to you. 



The Chairman: Are there any further motions or remarks? 



Voice: I don't exactly understand the motion. If we have the spring 

 meeting, does it do away with this meeting? 



The Chairman: No. 



Voice: If we keep this meeting as it is. all wlio want to attend the 

 meeting may do so. 



Mr. Clark: As I understand this motion, it is simply that this execu- 

 tive committee will get the amusement people here at one time and you 

 can consult with them instead of waiting for them to come to your place. 

 That covers the ground as I understand it. 



