Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-01-25
GRAIN MEN TO MEET
Big Convention of Grain Dealers
at Des Moines Coliseum.
OPENS WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5
Committee of Club Women Has Made
Elaborate Plans for Entertain
ment of Delegates Wives at
sIoyt Sherman Place.
'PENS WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5

Des Moines, Jan. 15.-The sixth an |
nual convention of the Farmers Grain
Dealers Association of Iowa will be
held in Des Moines for three days.
beginning on Wednesday, Feb. 2. 1t
is estimated that 5000 or more mem
bers OF the organization with their
wives will attend. All meetings will
be held at the Coliseum
On Wednesday, the first day of the
session, the election of officers TO
serve for the ensuing year will be
held and all the other business of
the association transacted. The last
two days of the session will be de.
voted tn the exhibits and the pro-
grams which have been arranged by
the show managers cooperating with
the Commercial club.
On the first day the business meet
ing of the Farmers Cooperative Ele
vator Mutual Insurance association
will be held. A great many members
of the dealers association are mem
bers of the insurance association al
SO. so the delegates to the one will
be permitted to vote at the business
meetings of the other.
On Thursday at 10 o'clock in the
morning the Des Moines Women's
club will entertain the wives OF the
place. A committee of the club mem.
bers of which Mrs, w. F. Mitchell
was appointed chairman by the Com
mercial club, has made elaborate
plans for the entertainment of the
visiting women. They will be shown
through the historic club house from
the furnace room to the attic. An art
exhibit of the collection of the club,
with many other fine paintings own
ed by Des Moines people and paint
ings made by local artists and stud
ents, will be one of the main features
of the entertainment.
On Friday afternoon reception
will be rendered the visiting women
at the state capitol building A COM
mittee composed of the wives of state
officers. headed by Mrs. B. F. Car
roll. has charge of the entertainment
there and will show the guests
through the Offices, the library and
the historical building and give them
the opportunity of meeting Governor
Carroll and other state officials.
Following is the program of speak
ers and speeches to be held at the
Coliseum:
Snbiact. 'Rndustrbal Brotherhood
Miss Kate Barnard of Guthrie
Okla. commissioner of charities and
corrections for Oklahoma
Subject, The Game and the Play
ers''-.S H Greeley of Chicago
Subject, "Co-operation. Harry F.
Atwood of Chicago
Subject. Necessity of Co operation
M. F. Healy of Fort Dodge.
Subject. What Shall the Harvese
Be?"-Carrie Vaughn Anderson OF
Eagle Grove, Ia
Subject, Cooperation in the Cot
ton Industry"--Sam Hampton of Wa
co. Tex
Subject, How to Keep the Farm
Boy on the Farm From the Stand
point of the Farm Boy''-Roy II Nc
Wicker of Eagle Grove, la
Subject. what Has Cooperation
Accomplished for the Farmer?"--
James r. Dalton of Woonsocket, 8
D.
Subject, Cooperation Packing
House,. G. Mullin of Sioux City
ia.
Subject, "Black Listed Farmer Ele-
vator Companies"-E G Bergfield
manager of Farmers Elevator com.
pany of George. la.
Subject, TRANSFORMATION lanes
Manahan of Minneapolis. MINI.