Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-20
WAPELLo COUNTY FARMERS, IN.
sTlTuTE NAME LEADERS
AND ADJOURN
Wants Meeting Place and Hitchng
Raeks-Adopts Resolutions Against
Single Board of control-Bownar
Gives Lecture.

come and gone, but rot without it's
effect. The information gained by the
200 Or SO farmers who attended the
meetings in this city Friday and Sat-
urday Will soon be put to practical use.
The institute was one Of the best in
point of good farming gospel ever held
in this city and perhaps it excelled in
point Of discussions of subjects pre.
sented.
The election of officers which oc-
Cured Saturday afternoon resulted as
follows.
PresideDt-Lloyd D. Burton.
Vice resident-Frank Gephart.
Secretary-R. G. Hofmann.
Treasurer-W. !. A. g. Brown.
Township vice, observation-disclosures,
David Jay; Agency, L. F. Newell;
pioylLlo LLOYD Jenkins; Columbia, A. +.
iuier; Comp yi11iee,,- .osDfashsriS;
Dahlonega, Lincoln Dimmitt; Pleasant,
Fred Nee Chung. Green, E. D. Redburn;
Highland, George Evans; Polk, George
ChisInan; Richland, George Arnold;
Center, Frank Gephart.
Want conveniences.
Resolutions asking the board Of SUI
pervisoTs to set aside the east court
room of the Wapello county court house
for the use of farmers of the county
We're unanimously passed A commit
tee, composed of Charles Bloom, John
Armstrong and w. A. C. Brown, was
named to confer with the officers of
the Ottumwa Retail Merchants asso-
citation with regard to a hitching rack
for the convenience of farmers when
they come to the city. These provisions
are very necessary to the convenience
of the large army of farmers who visit
this city every week and the institute
intends to make vigorous effort to
secure these conveniences.
Against Single Board.
The institute arrayed itself against
the proposed single board OF control
for state educational institutions in the
following resolutions, which were
passed:
Whereas, We believe that the pres
ent system under which our agricul
tural institutions have so thoroughly
served the people of this state. could
not 30 an undesirable one, and
Whereas, We seriously question the
deSlraolllty or so radical a change as
the single board of control for our
state educational institutions; be it
Resolved, That we, the Wapellc
County Farmers institute at this, theil
second annual meeting, petition their
representatives in the thirty first gen
eral assembly to lend their influence
against the proposed system of estab
fishing single board of control fol
our state educational institutions, ana
Whereas, We can see where much
good can be accomplished for the PEG
pie of the state by having experiments
carried on by our agricultural college
to determine those varieties of cerea
which are best adapted to the different
localities OF the state, and
Whereas, The carrying on of inves
legations to the people of the state II
the way of short courses in stock ant
grain judging and farmers Institutes
are essential to the hest interests Of
the farmer, and
Whereas, At the present time there
is no fund appropriated that this worl
can be carried on; be it
Resolved, That we petition our rep
resentatives in the general assembly
to give their hearty support to the bill
introduced in the house by Representa-
tive Weeks and in the senate by Sena
tor Gale, which provides for the carry