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weaken everything that is evil, so may Thy Kingdom come through our 

 hearts and unite the world, we ask in Christ's name, Amen. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



MAYOR F. C OOK, GALESBURG. 



Members of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association. 



Your order of exercises include an address of welcome from me, the 

 Mayor of this city. 



I cannot feel that an association of this character, representing the ag- 

 riculturists, farmers and dairymen of this great state of Illinois, needs to 

 be formally welcomed to this city. 



The gratitude is always present in the hearts and minds of those who 

 have been the recipients of great good at the hands of others. You must 

 then know the minds and hearts of Gaiesburg people toward 1 agricultural 

 communities and associations. There is probably no city with more rea- 

 sons for kindly feelings toward farmers, or that has any deeper interest 

 in the progress of all things agricultural, or that is so fortunately situated 

 as to its agricultural environments, as is the city of Gaiesburg. 



Located in the bosom, of the finest farming lands of this great state; 

 cultivated by enterprising, thrifty, progressive husbandmen, it needs but 

 a ride of a few miles in any direction from our city to present to the eye 

 scenes of thrift andi rural beauty that equal the rural scenes transferred to 

 the canvas by the skilled artist 



Gaiesburg owes a great share of the prosperity it enjoys and standing it 

 has among the young and vigorous cities of the northwest, to the splendid 

 character of its agricultural surroundings. 



The encouragement it has received in business and educational affairs 

 from the farming communities' surr ounding it ds in no small degree the 

 source from which it has derived its prosperity. It is a source of delight to 

 the citizens of Gaiesburg that there exists between the city and' its agricul- 



