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FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



HON. N. E. FRANCE, 

 President for 1916. 



JOHN C. BULL,, 

 Secretary for 1916. 



THE 18TH ANNUAL CONVENTION 



OF THE 



Chicago-Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Association, 



HELD AT THE 



GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, CHICAGO, 



DECEMBER 17 and 18, 1915, 



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

 cember 17th, by the President, Mr. N. 

 E. France. 



Mr. France, President, addressed 

 the Convention as follows: 



One of the features which induced 

 me to come to this meeting, if you 

 please, official duty. At your election, 

 whether it was a joke or otherwise, 

 they decided the ballot and put me 

 into this office, so as duty I am here, 

 and, may I say, I have the pleasure of 

 holding in my hand, as presiding offi- 

 cer, a gavel made from an apple tree 

 (this portion of it) which Brother 

 Langstroth had in his own home. This 



was a gavel which was presented to 

 the Chicago-Northwestern some time 

 ago. A mate to it was, at the same 

 time, donated to the National Asso- 

 ciation. I wish there were enough of 

 that tree left that each state organ- 

 ization all over the country might 

 have a souvenir. 



I would have called this meeting 

 together sooner, but it seems like the 

 social feature sometimes is worth 

 more to us than the entire Conven- 

 tion; they make that a point up in 

 our state — the social feature — and we 

 get together for the sociability and 

 the commercial feature as well. 



