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THE ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 

 APPLE DAY, OCT. 20, 1914. 



Perhaps the most significant event in the life of the 

 Association the past year was the incorporation under the 

 laws of Massachusetts. Heretofore we have had no legal 

 standing in the Commonwealth. It seemed most fitting to 

 select National Apple Day, the third Tuesday in October 

 falling. this time on October 20, 1914, as our day for incor- 

 poration, and so at this time officers and past officers met at 

 the State House at eleven o'clock and took the legal steps to 

 incorporate. Among those present were, Wilfrid Wheeler, 

 Edward R. Farrar, Herbert R. Kinney, F. Earland Gilson, 

 Charles A. Wilson, F. Howard Brown, A. Warren Patch, J. 

 Jjewis Ellsworth, Willard A. IMunson, Ingram J. Margeson, 

 Herbert 0. Mead, Herbert A. Cook. 



When we say that before one o'clock the legal forms had 

 all been successfully compiled with the average member may 

 not realize how quickly and easily it was all accomplished in 

 this case. For it was known to the Secretary that there 

 were all sorts of legal entanglements of red tape which had 

 made it necessary for other Associations to take as many as 

 three separate trips to the State House before the legal re- 

 quirements were complied with. Through the courtesy of 

 President J. Lewis Ellsworth of the Worcester County Farm 

 Bureau we were supplied with a complete guide to incorpo- 

 ration and everything being done ahead of time which was 

 possible, the incorporation proceeded without a hitch to com- 

 pletion in record time. 



