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SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL ItEPOET OF THE 



Resol-ed, That we extend a vote of 

 thanks to the Leland Hotel for the use of 

 their sun parlor and also for the use of 

 their meeting hall. 



J. W. Newburn. 

 A. L. KiLDOW. 

 C. P. Dadant. 



C'^mmiUee. 

 Dr. Baxter — I move the adoption of the 

 report. 



The President — You have heard the 

 report of the Committee on Resolutions. 

 It is a partial report. The motion has 

 been made and seconded to adopt the 

 resolutions as read. Are you ready for 

 the question? 



The motion is carried. 

 The President — If you have any further 

 resolutions, we will have them later. 



REPORT OF AUDITING 

 COMMITTEE. 



On motion, the report of the Auditing 

 Committee was adopted. 



The President — Is there any other work 

 that has not been done? Are there any 

 other reports? If not, we will proceed 

 to the election of officers. The first thing 

 will be nomination for President. 



Dr. Baxter — Mr. President, we have all 

 been satisfied with your work, and I place ' 

 in nomination for President E. J. Baxter. 

 (Seconded.) 



The President — I thank you. Doctor. I 

 have served several years and it is not 

 possible for me to serve any longer. I have 

 too much work at home and I cannot give 

 the office the attention it requires, so I 

 wish you would excuse me. 



Mr. Dadant — We certainly have been 

 satisfied with Baxter and if one Baxter 

 does not want it, we will nominate another 

 Paxter. I place Dr. Baxter in nomination. 



The nomination was seconded by Mr. 

 Kildow. 



The President — Are there any other 

 nominations for President? 



Mr. Kildow — Move that the Secretary 

 cast the ballot for Dr. A. C. Baxter as 

 President. 



The motion was seconded by Mr. Dadant 

 and carried and the ballot was cast ac- 

 cordingly. 



The President — The next thing will be 

 the Vice Presidents, five in number. The 

 usual method has been to vote for five 

 men and the five receiving the highest 

 votes will be vice presidents in their order. 

 I will appoint Mr. Kildow and Mr. New- 

 bern as tellers. 



A ballot was taken and the following 

 were declared dulv elected: First Vice 



President, Mr. King; Second Vice Presi- 

 dent, Mr. Heinzel; Third Vice President. 

 Mr. Winthrow; Fourth Vice President, Mr. 

 Williams; Fifth Vice President, Mr. 

 Coppin. 



The President — Next are nominations for 

 Secretary. (A motion was made that Mr. 

 Stone be elected.) It was moved by Mr. 

 Laurie that the nominations be closed, and 

 the President cast the ballot for Mr. Stone, 

 which motion was seconded by Mr. Dadant 

 and unanimously carried. 



The President — I hereby cast the ballot 

 of the Association for Mr. Stone as Secre- 

 tary for the ensuing year. 



The President — Next will be the selection 

 of the Treasurer. Whom will you have for 

 your treasurer? 



Mr. Heinzel — I nominate Mr. Becker. 



The ^nomination was seconded by Mr. 

 Dadant and a motion by Mr. Troutner 

 that the Secretary cast a unanimous vote 

 for Mr. Becker for treasurer was carried 

 and tBfe ballot was cast accordingly. 



The President — Ladies and gentlemen, 

 This association has existed a long while 

 without an official seal, which is against 

 the law. We had a copy of the seal pre- 

 sented yesterday. I suppose you have all 

 inspected it. Now, what is your pleasure 

 about it? We must have a seal. It is very 

 strange to me that the auditor paj's any of 

 our bills without being officially sealed bj' 

 the Secretary. 



The Secretary — We teli him we do not 

 have any and that ends it 



Mr. Dadant — Every deed has a seal- 

 We just scratch it with a pen. 



Mr. Troutner — RTove that we adopt the 

 seal that is drawTi on the paper. 



Dr. Baxter — Mr. Dadant and I talked 

 this seal over last night. There is a bee 

 here in the foreground that would be bigger 

 than the hive, could not possibly get into 

 the entrance, so we thought we would like, 

 with that bee off, to change it around a 

 little and the word seal might come in 

 there, although if this is designated in the 

 place for the seal, it is not necessary. 



IMr. Dadant — I want to add one more 

 word. The word seal reminds me of a 

 village where the people were so green that 

 you had to mark chairs "chair to sit on." 

 It is the same thing if you mark this, 

 "seal", it means that we do not -know 

 what that thing is for. It seems to me 

 that we have intelligence enough to know 

 that that is a seal without having it printed 

 on. In regard to the drawing of the cells, 

 we want them to look as the bees build 

 them and therefore the edges of the cells 

 should be slightly rounded. The bees 

 always finish their cells, strengthen them, 



