ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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HON. N. E. FRANCE, 

 President for 1915. 



E. H. BRUNER. 

 Secretary for 1915. 



The 17TH ANNUAL CONVENTION 



OF THE 



Chicago-Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Association, 



HELD AT THE 



GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, CHICAGO, 



DECEMBER 17 and 18, 1914, 



was called to order at 10:30 a. m., De- 

 cember 17. by the President, Mr. C. F. 

 Kanrienberg. 



Mr. Kannenberg, President, ad- 

 dressed the Convention as follows: 



"Members and Friends: I welcome 

 you to this Convention and hope you 

 will have a pleasant time with us here 

 so that when you leave this hall for 

 ycur homes you can say that you did 

 not come here for nothing but that you 

 have learned something more in the 

 line of bee-keeping. That is what .we 

 are here today for. 



As I look around this Hall and see 

 friends whom I have seen before, 

 I am again reminded that I cannot see 

 them all. Some one is .missing, our 

 friend and brother Cavanagh, who 

 has departed from us just in the prime 



of life. He had to leave his duties 

 here and go yonder where life is 

 sweeter than on this earth. 



Brotlier Cavanagh was elected last 

 year representative of the Chicago- 

 Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion to the National Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation but he departed from us just 

 a week before the Convention met at 

 St. Louis. 



Now, when I think of myself as an 

 American citizen and read of the 

 terrible slaughter of men in the 

 European war and of the widows and 

 orphans left behind, I feel that we can 

 be thankful that we can die here in 

 peace. 



Now we come here to learn some- 

 thing about bee-keeping and the best 

 way to produce honey, not to talk 



