Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-05
POULTRY.

Annual Meeting of the e-AsSOciatiOn-Elec-
tlon of Officers for the Ensuing Year, SC.
The annual meeting of the Lancaster
county poultry ass ociation was held in city
hall this morning.
The following members were present {:
Rev. ID. G. Tobias, president, Litiz; j. B.
Lichty, secretary; city; I. F. Evans,
treasurer, Litiz; Ii. II. Tshudy, Li.iz );
Charles Lippold, city; VIM. Schoenberger,
city John \. Stober. Schoeneck George
A. Gcyer, Spring Garden Joseph F. Wit
mer, Paradise; Chas. +. Long. city !;
J. B. Long, city Harry G. Hirsh, city !;
F. II. Diflender.fer, city, c. A. Cast, city :
Henry Wissler. Columbia j. NJ. Johnston.
city; T.B. Martin. Litiz: Jno. F. Evans. Litiz;
J. III. Miller. Marietta; J. III. Menaugh,
Spring Garden; J. II. Habecker, Spring
Gargen Ferdinand Schacfier. city; l.. G.
Martin, Spring Garden Martin Bowman.
Mount joy; Addison Flowers, Mount Joy
Morris Bachman, Strasburg; Edward
Brackbill, Strasburg; Samuel Engle. Ma
rietta: J. W. Bruckhart, Salunga: II. II.
Myers, Spring Garden.
The treasurer and executive committee
made verbal reports. showing the condi-
| tiOn OF the treasury to be in :, healthy
condition, and that the poultry exhibition
had been SO lberally patronizcd there was
no doubt that all the premiums offered
would be paid and a handsome balance left
over.
Mr J. \. Stober, from the committee
appointed for the purpose, reported the fol
lowing officers of the society for the ensuing
year:
Prcsdent-Rev. ID. c. Tobias. I.itiz.
Wee Presidents-Geo. \. Gcyer. Sprin.
Garden, and WI. kairoth, West Earl.
Corresponding Sccretcry-.JohnF T. Reed,
. city
Recording Secretary-J. b. Lichty, city
Treasurer-T. +. Evans, Litiz.
Executive Committee-li. Fl. Tshudy,
| Ltiz; J. A. Stober. Schoeneck Joseph
| Y. Trissler, city J. 3. Long, city; 5. n.
Wariel, Strasburg.
The report OF the committee was rC-
ceivcd, and the officers proposed were
elected by acclamation.
a discussion ensued as to the prophet,
of having a subcommittee OF city mem
bers appointed to act in conjunction Will
the executive committee. and to perform
their duties, as alternates during their ab
sence. Without arriving at final actor
the matter was postponed.
The society adjourned to attend the
poultry exhibition in Locher's buildlng
The Poultry Exhibition.
The exhibition continues to boom. On
Saturday over 1000 persons attended it.
Yesterday the fowls and chicks passed
their Sunday in comfort and comparative
quiet, only few attendants being present
to feed them.
To-day the judges who are to make the
award of premiums arrived and are now en-
gagged in rendering Judgment. They are
w. T.. Rogers, of Doyiestown, Pa, and
John Z. Diehl, of Beverly, n. j. They art
experts in the business, having been Sc
lected as judges of poultry bya congress o.
poultrymen. Their judgment may be
fully relied OH and will no doubt he salts
factory 10 all reasonable exhibitors.
| TO morrow there will be Il grand pigeon
flight from Quarryville to Lancaster, for Il
| prcmium-tO be awarded the first bird
| that reaches the exhibition room. There arc
six entries and a close contest may be ex-
| Dccted. The birds will be let fly at Quar-
ryvillc at > o'clock p. m, and may be
expected at the exhibition rooms about !:
o'clock. where the competing birds will be
shown.