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Kanst was votpd a silver modal in recog- 

 nition of bis long and patriotic service 

 as secretary. The secretary's salary was 

 placed at $200. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club's meeting February 

 4 was a grand finale for the administra- 

 tion of President Kill and a happy 

 augury for the success of the administra- 



tion of President Asmus, who took up 

 the reins that evening. The other new 

 officers, Recording Secretary J. H. Pep- 

 per and Financial Secretary Frank 

 Johnson, also were installed. The retir- 

 ing president was presented with a hand- 

 some watch fob as a souvenir of his 

 term of office. 



E. F. Winterson and George Asmus 

 made a record by proposing ten new can- 

 didates for membership, as follows: Emil 

 Maerz, 242 South "Winchester avenue; 

 Paul Kubish, 45 Wabash avenue; Frank 

 Ayers, 396 Ontario street; F. Haage, 718 

 North Leavitt street; F. Krause, 62 

 Racine avenue; Chas. Zapfe, 753 Thorn- 

 dale avenue; R. F. Simons, 848 West 

 Harrison street; F. Merker, 1603 West 

 Twenty-second street; Charles Bemish, 

 45 Wabash avenue, and George Arm- 

 brust, of Oak Park. Chas. S. McCauley, 

 of Geneva, also was proposed. Robert 

 Lange and H. A. Olson were elected to 

 membership. Chas. F, Rohr resigned. 

 Many pledges of efforts to increase the 

 membership were made. 



H, N. Bruns, for the finance commit- 

 tee, reported that the financial operations 

 for the year were as follows: 



Balance from 1907 $ S49.39 



Receipts in 1908 1,079.07 



Total $1,428.46 



Kxpendltures in 1908 989.88 



Balance $ 438.68 



President Asmus announced his com- 

 mittee appointments, as follows: 



Revision of by-laws — A. T. Hey, L. 

 Coatsworth, H. B. Howard. 



Finance — H. N. Bruns, J. F. Klimmer, 

 Walter Scott. 



Transportation — P. J. Foley, August 

 Poehlmann, A. T. Pyfer. 



Good of the Club— Ed Enders, Frank 

 Pasternick, A. F. Longren. 



Sports — D. Erickson. 



A. T. Hey spoke of the work of the 

 Illinois State Florists' Association and 

 its meeting at Springfield February 16 

 and 17. He said the legislature will be 

 asked to appropriate $35,000 for the 

 work for florists recently started at the 

 State University. On the morning of Feb- 

 ruary 17 it is planned to put a bunch of 

 carnations on the desk of every member 

 of the legislature. At least 4,000 will 

 be required. Those who would like to 

 contribute flowers can ship in care of 

 A. C. Brown, Springfield. A good trade 

 display is expected at next week's meet- 

 ing. Certificates will be awarded to 

 worthy novelties. After the discussion 

 A. F. Longren booked over a dozen new 

 members for the state society. 



Joseph Kohout and others commented 

 on the Indianapolis carnation exhibition, 

 and it was voted to make the discussion 

 of a fall flower show a special order for 

 next meeting. 



Various Notes. 



Word has been received that Herbert 

 Heller, of Heller Bros., proprietors of 

 the South Park Floral Co., New Castle, 

 Ind., is ill at St. Vincent's hospital, 

 Indianapolis, where he was operated upon 

 February 5 and an abdominal tumor re- 

 moved. 



After many years at the corner of . 

 Michigan avenue and Van Buren street, 

 0. J. Friedman has received notice to va- 

 cate May 1 — a skyscraper is to go up on 

 the site. Mr. Beaumont said February 9 

 that Mr. Friedman had not yet decided 

 on new quarters, a store on the Jackson 

 boulevard side of the Wellington hotel 

 and another on Michigan avenue being 

 under consideration. Miss Nell M. Sisler, 

 for many years with E. H. Hunt, is now 

 bookkeeper for Friedman. 



It is reported that Wendland & 

 Keimel, at Elmhurst, are preparing to 

 double their plant this season. They have 

 made a first-class success with Killarney 

 this winter. 



oT. W. Davis, of Davenport, la., is in 



