10 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



merce has spared no effort in advertising this meeting. Mr. 

 Wills is too modest to tell himself what he has done, but I am 

 informed that they have advertised this meeting in every pnper 

 throughout the United States which has any interest in this class 

 of work, and done everything that could be done to make this 

 meeting a great success, and the advertising that the Chaniber 

 of Commerce has given to this meeting, which I understand is 

 the 43rd annual meeting of your Association, was such that we 

 believe the results of this advertising will be felt more at your 

 next meeting than it will at this meeting, and we feel that we 

 would be more than delighted if your Association could see its 

 way clear to come to Danville next year. We would like to show 

 you next year that this is only the beginning of what we would 

 like to do for your Association. 



We extend to you today the hearty welcome of the citizens 

 of this city and we want you .to feel that we are pleased to have 

 you here, and it will be our pleasure to do whatever we can to 

 make your stay pleasant, and we ask you to have the privilege 

 of our city and to meet our people, our officials and to make 

 yourselves at home, and wlien you come we are glad to see you 

 and we want you to come and go from Danville feeling that we 

 gave you a warm and hearty welcome and an invitation to come 

 here next year or at any time you may feel so disposed. 



1 thank you." (Applause.) 



Mr. Mason: ''In the absence of Mr. Credicott, which wc 

 regret very much, I will call on Mr. John B. Newman of Elgiti, 

 the Assistant Pure Food Commissioner of this state, to respond 

 to this splendid welcome wdiich we have just listened to on be- 

 half of the Mayor of Danville. 



Mr. Newman : ''Mr. Jones, representing the Mayor ot 

 Danville, on behalf of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association, 

 I wish to say that we think it is quite opportune that we should 

 come to this comnmnity at this time. Every person living with- 

 in the borders of the State of Illinois has heard more or less of 

 the wonders of Vermillion county. Personally, I have heard of 

 it as a great mining and manufacturing county and as a county 

 in which was located the progressive city of Danville. 



