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of all, as I said a little while ago, that had anything to do. I 

 can't, on the spur of the moment, recall the names of all, though 

 I have called the roll and I think you have all done something. 

 No, there would not be money enough to do that. There would 

 not be over ii?15.00 or $20.00 left. 



Mr. Clark : This scarcity of money always worries mc. I want 

 to make this association a proposition. A proposition, I believe, 

 that will be of some benefit to them. I started out to open fairs 

 in 1913 by sending a postal card to every fair secretary, asking 

 him to send me a list of his entries and risks. I received those 

 lists for something like tifty-five or sixty fairs. From that list 

 I have made up a list of nearly seven hundred owners of horses — 

 race horses — in the State of Iowa. The names have appeared on 

 printed list that entered as race horses in the year 1913. I be- 

 lieve that list would be a pretty good thing for the secretaries of 

 the State of Iowa to have. I want to make this proposition to this 

 association : I will have those lists printed and furnish them to 

 any secretary who wants them, or any horseman, at a cost of 

 $2.00, and I will turn over to this association every cent over $15.00 

 that it is going to cost me to print those lists. If that is worth your 

 consideration, and you think there is any money in it to you, if 

 you want this list, there are nearly seven hundred active horsemen 

 in the State of Iowa, or men who enter horses with the idea of 

 racing. Some of them live in low^a, some in Missouri, and Cali- 

 fornia — all over the country — ^and every one of them is a man 

 who entered horses in the races in 1913. Personally, I would 

 have been mighty glad to have gotten a list of that kind at the 

 small cost of $2.00. If we can get thirty or forty secretaries here 

 to take that list, if there are forty, there is $25.00 in it for this 

 association. If there are enough who desire that list, if you will 

 notify me I wdll be glad to have it printed and turn it over to the 

 association, all in excess of $15.00, the actual cost of printing it. 



The President : Gentlemen : You have heard the generous 

 offer made by Mr. Clark of Marshalltown. Is there any action 

 to be taken on that proposition by any of the members ? 



The first thing now, gentlemen, is the election of the president, 

 and I take gi-eat pleasure in placing in nomination for the office 

 of president, Mr. H. C. Leach, of Bloomfield, the gentleman to 

 my left. 



Mr. Clark: It has been my lot to serve as president of this 

 association. I tried hard to get out of it for a year, and Mr. 



