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telling you I have had some experience of being a layman 

 in the city of Galesburg and elsewhere, in trying to make 

 convention folks happy, but I want to frankly say that we 

 could not have done the little that we have done if it had 

 not been for the co-operation of the various activities that 

 we have in the City of Galesburg. The response of these 

 activities, these luncheon clubs and the entertainment 

 given, has been one hundred per cent, and the reason I 

 believe, or one of the reasons that the response has been 

 one hundred per cent, is that through our Chamber of 

 Commerce and through our efforts we have been able to 

 put in thousands of people in the City of Galesburg every 

 year. 



For your information I want to tell you something. 

 Brother Taylor is off on the right foot. I don't blame him 

 for boosting his Harrisburg. I would too, if I lived down 

 there, but this little City of Galesburg, this town of schools, 

 colleges, churches and industries, and add in this City of 

 Galesburg the nineteen conventions this year and we have 

 put in the City of Galesburg fifteen to twenty thousand 

 people, and the City of Galesburg has profited through 

 those visitors not less than a quarter of a million dollars, 

 so. Brother Taylor, it pays to keep the good work up. 



Let me say, that the organization here for conven- 

 tions, also the spirit that has been exemplified here during 

 this convention, not only of the home folks but also of 

 the members of the Illinois Dairy Convention, through their 

 officers, has been a spirit such as is exemplified in a little 

 story that I am just about to tell. I also have heard it, 

 it is an old one — I don't get many new ones. But the story 

 goes something like this: 



Back in the old stagecoach days — there are very few 

 of us, only some of the gray-headed men like myself and 

 Mr. Caven can go back that far — you know they used to 

 travel by stagecoach in this country, and they were going 

 along and the colored fellow driving the horses of the four- 

 horse team had one of the passengers sitting on the seat 

 with him; and as he went along, he would flick off the 

 leaf of a tree or hit the bark of a tree, hitting anything as 



