The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-02-05

STATE AGRICULTURAL aocu3Y.
RAMSEY County dives ~ Sssisty $780,
z, 6es rsfm.N hAsA IL A4csptsd..
: The annual meeting Of lie stats Agricultural
society was held At St Paul The attendance
At the meeting was unusually large, including
representative agriculturists from all parts OF
tho state, who have come in as delegates from
the various agricultural and horticultural soei.
cites Throughout the state. ---. -,
Tho Ramsey and Nicollet county agricul-
turai societies sent delegates to the meeting,
but they were excluded, neither society having
held = fair during the past year, Is required
BY Law.
n p. Clark. chairman Of the committee Oh
the location Of inter hrbAt, state fair grounds.
made verbal report He said TIC Meth:
bers of the committee had dono great deal Of
hard work for the purpose of securing grounds
between the two cities, but without any sue
cess, when the Ramsey county poor farm was
rendered rendered the society BY the county COM
grstitied at the lberality Of Ramsey Gonty III
this matter, and recommended unanimously
the acceptance of these grounds. The com.
hittee appoihtea 81 the city, hall evhferenee
was then invited thtS the tkesttns; MaSir 81:
Brien. on behalf Of the county comlaissaiftt;s7,'
addressed the society. He said:
We propose to place this property in your
hands without restriction We propose to
give you S2OO, COZ worth of land and buildings
[Applahse. I; YDn can plant your home We
eay, here is Foundation for your society; and
then we expect IN retiirn fer thtt, tlat tho ps.s
<~&kk H. oAo~ a. ~:,1>e
make tho necessary contributions to enable
yon tograce that property, with the buildings
appropriate and proper for your purposes.
J. Harms then moved that the offer Of the
Ramsey county commissioners be accepted
He said:
This is magnificent gift. We should accept
it in the spirit III which It is given. We should
adorn those grounds and improve them until
they will complete in beauty and convenience
with any fair yretinls in the Union. believe
that every member Of this Society Is in favor OF
accepting these grounds. ana that n'Eety ,it,s
out of every hundred farmers in the state vii
be willing to be taxed to raise the funds to
make those fair grounds what they should be.
After addresses by various members Mr.. Har-
ris' motion accepting the gift of the Ramsey
county commissioners was adopted unani-
mousy by acclsmstion Some one asked May
or OBrien for how long time this gift was
made, and the latter responded, ''as long as
the State of Minnesota and this society have
an existence The thanks of the society
were then tsndereA for the ether offers that
On motion of Mr. Harris; the s3ciety's conf
mittee on the fair grounds, together with the
officers Of the society, were authorized to con-
duct all business connected with the transfer
Of the fair ground and apply to tho lesis-
lature for such legislation as may be necessary
in the matter, and such al appropriation fol
improving the grounds as may be sufficient fol-
inonof1iltp nSaS
The committee authorized to act with the Of
fcers Of the society in completing the transfer
of the grounds consists Of n. +. Clark, St
Cloud, chairman; Clark Thompson, Wells; J.
+. Norrlsh, Hastings; Col: Stevens, Minneapo'
lis, and C. A. De- Graf, GAINESVILLE.
Resolutions were adopted asking the legsla.
ture to pay the expenses of farmers institutes
E. c. Judson, the secretary, presented hif
annual report of the expenditures in conEec-
ton with the annual fair. The items are sum
$l,71l; paid to officers, assistants, gate keep
1850; premiums, s4,C67; total cxpendi
lures, s1O,76623. The Indebtedness of the
eociety is given as follows: Premiumt
n IN dispute ,ra and Hhpa' nsto s:s bill
mania bank, st. Paul, $500; total, s3,4lhO
The treasurer, Frank ]. Wilcox, also presented
his report: This shows receipts for THE zeal
from all sotrces amounting to $l4;53l, and TIKI
total expenditures, including The state faiE
items named in the secretary report, amount
ing to sl4,5l2.9l, leaving cash balance on
hand of $500.
-. The election of officers was had. For Presi
dent Whole number of votes St; Necessary
for CHOICE a; N. p. Clark, St. Cloud, So
Clark W. Thompson, Wells, rs; John F. No.
rish Hastings e; Scattering, l.
Gen. Baker said that the ballot indicated
clearly the sense of the meeting as to the pres.
idency. The vote was also in accordance with
the wishes Of the Ramsey county members, ant
out of courtesy to them, in view of the magnif
cent gift they had made made the "f society," h;
be be- declared c the unanimous choice 90 o.
the societ. for president which was done
The remaining officers were elected without
contest, tho secretary casting the vote of tn
society. These officers are as follows: =.
Vice Presidents-C A. De Graf, GAINESVILLE
G. T. Bailey, Duluth.
Secretary-R c.. Judson, Pennington.
Treasurer-F G. Wilcox, Mortified.
j. F. Norrish was chosen to the executive
committee in the place of Mr.. De Graf, and
James McHench and COL Clark. whose terms
Oh the board Of managers had expired, were
re- elected.
Col Stevens, Of Minneapolis, introduced a
resolution thanking the retiring president,
Col Thompson, for the able manner in which
he had conducted the affairs of the society dur
Ing his term Of Office; Gen: Baker heartily sec,
forts which had been made by Col Thompson
to keep the society On its feet were wonderful
almost marvellous. It had b6en with great
difficulty that the society had been kep
alive, and the fact that it was alive
and prosperous to-day was due more to Col
Thompson's energy, ambition and his influence
among the people Of Southern Minnesota than
to anything else.
large number of the members before
leaving for home, accepted an invitation to visit
the great stock farm Of Mr.. J. J. Hill, near St
Paul