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Des Moines, la., Nov. 3, 1906. 



Officers and Members of the loiva State Dairy Association, Cedar Rapids, 



Iowa: 



Gentlemen — The Commercial Club and the Greater Des Moines Com- 

 mittee send greetings and congratulations to the Iowa State Dairy Asso- 

 ciation, in convention assembled. 



It would please the Capital City and all of its great interests to enter- 

 tain the convention next year. 



Mr. F. A. Leighton, the bearer of this message, is a member of this 

 club and is fully authorized to extend the invitation in our name. "We 

 have requested him to represent us and make a plea for Des Moines. 

 He is authorized to pledge in our name the usual courtesies. 



Wishing your great and important convention the best meeting in its 

 history, I have the honor to subscribe myself, yours very respectfully, 



Mii.o Ward, Secretary. 



F. A. Leighton, Des Moines — Mr. President, Ladies and Gen- 

 tlemen: I am authorized by the Commercial Club of Des Moines 

 to offer this association as much money and as much entertain- 

 ment as any city in lovva for 1907. We will see that you are well 

 taken care of, and this Commercial Club appointed a committee 

 composed of Messrs. Berry, Nettles, Parker, Sharp and Wentworth 

 to help solicit this convention, and I am going to turn this matter 

 over to Mt. Wentworth. 



Mr. Wentworth — Mr. President and Members of the Conven- 

 tion: This, as you well know, is a matter the settlement of which 

 rightly devolves upon your executive committee. The members 

 of an organization such as the Iowa State Dairy Association seldom 

 bother with detail as regards meeting places, or things of that kind, 

 and delegate those duties to an executive committee, but at the 

 same time when the Commercial Club broached this matter 

 through one of its members, Mr. Leighton, about securing this 

 great association to meet in their city, I promised to help. I wish 

 to state, gentlemen, that in the entire history of the association you 

 have never met in Des Moines. They have entertained politicians 

 and have entertained ministers and are getting to have quite an 

 appetite for conventions, they want to entertain some of the real 

 people in the future, and for that reason they desire to have the 

 Iowa State Dairy Association meet with them the coming year. 



Des Moines has been just a little bit backward, in years gone 



by "doing things." You will find that is a fault that comes 



to cities or peoples accustomed to having things handed to them. 



They have watched the work of the other cities in the State and 



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