18 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



President Cameron directed tlie secretary to notify the board that 

 there would be a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture at ten 

 o'clock a. m. Thursday, June 27th, for the purpose of filling the va- 

 cancy caused by the death of Mr. Olson, Vice President of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, and to discuss general plans for the 1918 fair. 



BOARD MEETING. 

 June 27, 1918 



The board was called to order at ten a. m. with President Cameron in 

 the chair. 



The following members answered to roll call: Barney, Cameron, 

 Corey, Morrow, Weaver, Davis, Reeves, Curtin, Tow, Legoe, Sheldon, 

 Escher, Mullen and Pike. 



The minutes of the board, executive committee and special commit- 

 tee meetings, commencing with the board meeting on February 7th, and 

 concluding with the executive committee meeting on June 14 and 15 were 

 read by the secretary. On motion the minutes were approved as read. 



Mr. Cameron appointed as committee on resolutions Messrs. Curtin, 

 Sheldon and Weaver. Mr. Cameron sugggested that the committee pre- 

 pare appropriate resolutions in commemoration of the memory of the 

 late Mr. Olson, Vice President of the State Board of Agriculture. 



Secretary Corey read the following resolution which was -adopted by 

 the Minnesota State Agricultural Society. 



Whereas : It has been brought to the attention of the Board of the Minne- 

 sota State Agricultural Society that Mr. O. A. Olson, Vice President of the 

 Iowa State Fair Board, has recently been called to his final reward, and 



Whereas : Through his long association as a member of the Iowa State Fair 

 Board, Mr. Olson has been a frequent visitor to the Minnesota State Fair 

 and a close friend and co-worker of the membership of this board, who by 

 his earnestness and wise counsel has been found to be a great benefit to the 

 board members of this fair and of the fairs of the surrounding states, there 

 tore be it 



Resolved, That this board tender to the bereaved family of Mr. Olson in this 

 their hour of sorrow its sincere sympathy, and 



Resolved Further, That this board tender to the Iowa State Fairs its apprecia- 

 tion of the loss which the board has sustained in the untimely death of Mr. 

 Olson, and 



Resolved Further, That this resolution be spread upon the minutes of this meet- 

 ing and a copy thereof be forwarded to the Secretary of the Iowa State 

 Fair Board. 



Attest: THOMAS CANFIELD, 



Secretary-General Manager, 



June 7, 191S. 



Mr. Davis moved that the resolutions adopted by the Minnesota State 

 Agricultural Society be spread upon the minutes of the department. Mo- 

 tion seconded by Mr. Reeves and carried. 



President Cameron called the attention of the board to the vacancy 

 of the office of vice president of the State Board of Agriculture, brought 

 about by the death of Mr. O. A. Olson, Forest City, and requested that 

 the board take some action to fill this vacancy as provided by statute. 



Mr. Legoe moved that a formal ballot be taken. Motion seconded by 

 Mr. Barney and carried. 



The board was instructed by the president to prepare ballots to fill the 

 office of vice president. The president announced after the ballots had 

 been taken up that Mr. Mullen had received ten votes and Mr. Pike four. 



