AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Chicago's Great Week. — 



Chicago wants the Earth, and week be- 

 fore last it looked as if she were going to 

 get what she wants. The city put on 

 gala dress. Huge sky-scrapers, some of 

 which are as homely as they are tall, 

 came out dressed from sidewalk to flag- 

 staff in the gayest of colors. The build- 

 ings of the city caught the infection of 

 the hour and of the populace, and ap- 

 peared attired for the occasion. Terra 

 cotta and red, white and blue vied each 

 with the other for the best seats in the 

 synagogue. The price of 15,000,000 

 pounds of honey were spent in covering 

 the nakedness of inanimate building 

 material. How many pounds of honey 

 went down the throats of voters in the 

 form of " old rye " diluted, while this 

 bunting waved, deponent sayeth not. 



It was a great week for Chicago, and 

 the world and his wife who were her 

 guests. Notables stepped on each 

 other's toes in street and hotel corridor. 

 Generals and diplomats and cabinet 

 officers were more numerous than the 

 festive summer drones in the average 

 apiary. 



On Friday, Oct. 21, the buildings of 

 the World's Columbian Exposition were 

 dedicated. ^The representative of the 

 American Bee Journal was in attend- 

 ance, to see if perchance the orators of 

 the day would by chance drop into some 

 poetical or figurative reference to wax 

 foundation or beeology. But the honey- 

 mouthed Cbauncey Depew and the fiery 

 Kentuckian — Henry Watterson — did not 

 thus digress. Into the largest building 

 on earth our reporter carried his quill 

 and note-book in vain. 



There, with nearly thirty acres of 

 good-natured humanity stuggling for the 

 possession of 75,000 chairs, our repre- 

 sentative waited and watched for the 

 hour of opening. When it did come, 

 nearly 100,000 white handkerchiefs 

 waved the Chautauqua salute, and for 

 an instant the forest of faces became a 

 field of white clover. At this instant it 

 was estimated that one-eighth of a 



million of people were in the great 

 "Manufacturers and Liberal Arts" 

 building. But at this point the reporter 

 dropped his quill, for fear that soon 

 some distant reader might intimate that 

 he (the reporter) lived in Chicago. 



The Dairymen's Associa- 

 tion of Illinois have issued their 18th 

 annual report— a book of about 240 

 pages, bound in cloth. Through the 

 kindness of Mr. W. R. Hostetter, of Mt. 

 Carroll, Ills., the Secretary of the asso- 

 ciation, the Bee Journal has been 

 favored with a copy, which contains the 

 proceedings of the convention held at 

 Kewanee, Ills., on Feb. 24, 25 and 26 

 1892. 



Mr. J. M. Jenkins, Wetumpka, 

 Ala., we learn through a good friend of 

 ours, is to be married "in a few days" 

 to a most excellent lady of Little Rock, 

 Ark. We wish to congratulate them in 

 advance upon their evident mutual good 

 fortune and glowing prospects. 



Convention Notices. 



IOWA.— The Eastern Iowa Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation will meet at Maquoketa. Iowa, in 

 the City Hall, on Dec. 14th and 15th, 1892 

 All are invited. Frank Coverdale, Sec. 



Welton, Iowa. 



NEW YORK.— The next meeting- of the Alle- 

 gany County Bee-Keepers' Association will be 

 held at Mrs. H. Green s, in Angelica, N. Y at 

 2 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 28, 1892. All bee- 

 keepers are invited to attend. 



Friendship, N. Y. H. L. Dwight, Sec. 



MISSOURI.— The 7th semi-annual conven- 

 tion of the Missouri State Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, will be held at the Court House in 

 Independence, Mo., on November 17. 18, and 

 19, 1892. An Interesting and well-arranged 

 programme has been prepared, and we extend 

 a cordial invitation to all bee-keepers to meet 

 with us in this very important convention, 



_. . W. S. Dorn Blaser, Sec. 



Higginsville, Mo. 



WISCONSIN.— The Southwestern Wisconsin 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will hold its next 

 annual meeting as Boscobel, Grant Co., Wis 

 on Jan. 13 and 14, 1893. All members of the 

 Association are requested to be present as the 

 following officers are to be elected : President 

 Vice-President, Secretary. Assistant Sec, and 

 Treasurer. Blank Reports will be sent each 

 member, for the year 1892, with instructions. 

 A cordial invitation is extended to all bee- 

 keepers, and especially to those that would 

 like to join with us. Each member will be no- 

 tified at least one month before the meeting. 



Boscobel, Wis. Edwin Pike, Pros 



