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Mr. J. O. Lauer, Bremer County : I move the repcjrt of the 

 Credentials Committee be accepted as read. 



Mr. Earl Ferris, Franklin County: I second the motion. 



The President : It has been moved and seconded that the 

 report of the Committee on Credentials be approved as read. All 

 those in favor of the motion say Aye — opposed the same sign. 

 Motion carried. 



Mr. J. O. Lauer, Bremer County: I want at this time to refer 

 to three letters which I received from some of our absent mem- 

 bers. You are all acquainted with Mr. Clark of Marshalltown : 

 Mr. Kaskey of Manson and Mr. Beckner of Clarinda. They are 

 absent today on account of illness. Mr. Kaskey of Manson this 

 year, in August I think it was, sufifered a paralytic stroke on his 

 left side, and at the meeting of the Entertainment Committee 

 which I attended at Fort Dodge some five or six weeks ago, he 

 was there and stated he expected to be here today. However, 

 the representative from there says he did not feel able to make 

 the trip. J. C. Beckner of Clarinda and Mr. W. M. Clark of Mar- 

 shalltown are both under the doctor's care and the three have 

 asked me to kindly remember them to this organization today. 



The President : The next will be the report of the Committee 

 on Resolutions. Are you ready to report? 



Mr. L. R. Pike, Harrison County : The report of the Resolu- 

 tions Committee reads as follows : 



RESOLUTIONS. 



WHEREAS, Mr. O. A. Olson, our vice president, departed this life on 

 the 26th day of May, 1918, and whereas Mr. Olson for many years past has 

 been prominently identified with the Iowa State Board of Agriculture, 

 both as director and as vice president, and whereas the long continued 

 and faithful service of Mr. Olson as said member is known and appreciated 

 by the board and the delegates at the State Agricultural Convention, 

 therefore be it 



RESOLVED by this convention that in the death of Mr. Olson we feel 

 the board has lost one of its most influential members; the State of Iowa 

 has been deprived of the services of a very useful and able citizen and 

 the board members and delegates at this convention feel that they have 

 sustained a very great personal loss in his death. 



BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this board and the delegates at 

 this convention tender to his bereaved wife and son, in this time of their 

 sorrow, our most sincere sympathy and condolence, and be it further 

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