The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-12
MONTGOMERY WILL HOLD
 STATE FAIR NEXT FALL

next Wednesday night On the latter date the Executive Committee will hold their first meeting. They will nominate q secretary of the Assocfa- ton, whose name will be carefully considered by the Board of Directors at the next meeting Friday night, when the election of this officer will be Anal.
 The dates of the Fair are October 1S-24. There will be races. and this means. of course. that there will be running races. This subject consum- ed good deal of the hour and a half spent at the meeting last night Some one had written the secretary that he would not bring his horses to Mont gomery if there were to be. running races. Threats like these had no in fiuence with the Directors. They have their eyes open for things that VIII please the public. If races were to be at all. some at least must be run ming races. So 1t was decided by the Board that both running and harness races were to be pulled off daily at the grounds.
 The members of the board present last night were: President Forbes, Frank D. Kohn. W. M. Cox, Charles P. Anderson. Robert J. Chambers. ]. M. Kennedy. W. S Webber. J; V Haas. Louis Mccurdy M l. GreiL Horace a
 Chairman Forbes called the meeting to order promptly at 8:30 o'clock and asked for a report from Chairman Hood. of the committee who were to confer with Hon. T. A. Wilkinson, State Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries. to see what the state VIII do for the Fair. MT. Hood said that the State authorities had given great encouragement to the proposition. The belief was expressed that, Mir. Wilk- inson has seen that no wiser way for benefting the farmers and the peo- pie could be devised than for the De- partment of Agriculture and Industries to use its discretion and contribute to- wards the premiums to be offered on this big occasion.
 This committee was continued by the Board and will report probably finally at the next meeting.
 Next to report was Mr. Kohn. of the Soliciting Committee. He said the com rnfttee had been hard at work dur ing the past three weeks. They had received a frost here and a greeting there which kept them rather guessing all the time. However, after all the discouragement from some quarters, the committee was happy to report, said Mir. Kohn, that sumcient amount funds had been received to insure the successful opening of the gates of the Fair This statement was marked by applause of those present Resolu- lions Of thanks also followed the rec port of Mir. Kohn.
 Here Captain Forbes made q few earnest remarks about what the Fair meant He was In earnest about what the success of the Fair requires. The undivided energies Of the Directors are necessary for the big undertaking. With a big, continuour pull of all, the Fair can be made the most successful in Montgomery's history. He said that the people are interested and can be interested in the proposition. They are daily showing their confidence in the enterprise. No less than five people have bought shares of the Association stock in the past few days for which they paid par without accrued inter est. The Chairman concluded by ap- peaiing strongly to the members of the Board to exert every effort and bring all their talents into play to make tho Fair a success.
 The resignation of W. F. vandiver from the Directorate of the Associa- ton was accepted. Resolutions of sorrow at the death of a member of the Board. the late ". D. Westcott. were passed.
 The question of horse races was opened by the Chairman calling on Mir. webber to report on his trip to Mem