Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-07-14
MORRISON COUNTYFAIR?
Street Fair Transferred to
Morrison County Agrl--
cultural Society

County Agricultural Cooperative So
ciety, turning over all of its moneys,
property, etc., to the new county agri.
cultural organization upon fling Of its
articles of Incorporation with the regis
ter of deeds, so that the society can get
in shape for the holding of a big
county fair this fall. The recently
elected officers of the street fair as
soclation were recommended as officers
for the new organization, for which a
set OF agreements were formed at a
meeting which followed tho other,
Geo. NJ. Kiewel acting as chairman
and N. N. Bergheim, secretary. and
articles of incorporation were drawn up
accordingly.
The provisions of these articles are
that the name of the organization
shall be The Morrison County Ag:lcul-
tural Cooperative Society with Little
Falls as its principal place of business,
the nature of which shall be the hold
ing OF annual exhibits of agriculture,
stock breeding, horticultural, mining,
industrial, mechanical and other pro-
ducts and resources of Morrison county
and to promote exhibitions of arts and
sciences, industry and skill and the
owning, controlling and leasing of real
and personal property for the holding
capitalized at s., 600, 1000 shares of a
being allowed to own more shares than
comes to par value of $500, and each
stakeholder will be entitled to but one
vote. It commences business on July
Is, 1911 and is Incorporated for per-
iod of twenty years, to be managed by
a president, secretary, treasurer and
nine directors, these twelve persons
forming a board of managers to be
chosen annually at the annual meetings
which are set for the first Tuesday of
December of each year at 10 .. M, at
the Offices of the secretary. Until the
annual meeting, the following were
chosen to act as board of managers: ::
Geo, NJ. Kiewel, president; N. N.
Bergheim, secretary; W. H. Ryan,
treasurer; and J. K. Martin, John
Vertin. -A.F. Kosloski, J. w. Stephen
son, F. A. Nelson, julius Jetka, l.. u.
Vessel, Jos. MoeSlein and Chas.
Sylvester, directors. The highest
amount Of indebtedness is placed at
81, 600. The incorporators are the above
named and Barney Burton and A.
Simonet.
Committees were appointed as
follows:
Executlve-Geo. NJ. Kiewel, N.
N. Berghelm. W. H. Ryan.
Finance-A. F. Koslosky, 5. j.
Vasaly, Julius Jetka.
Advertising-J. A. Stephenson, P.
J. Vasaly, E. NJ. LaFond.
Amusements-Chas. Sylvester, Geo.
Emder. l.. W. Vasaly.
The president and secretary act on
all these committees ex-of6cio.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
Septem Der II, Is. and l6, were chosen
as the dates Tor the holding Of the
county tair this fall, and owing to the
shortness of the time TO prepare for
same will be held on the streets and IN
vacant buildings of this city for the
most part.
1t was decided to divide the towns
OF the county into ten districts and
get exhibits from each. certain sum
to be offered for such exhibits, and
first, second and third sweep stakes
prizes to be offered for best district ex-
hibits and scoring the largest number
of points. They are:
! lst-Elm Dale and Two Rivers.
! 2nd-Swan River and Pike Creek.
! 3rd-Swanville, Cuidrum and Par
ker
Ath-Cushing, Clougb, Darling and
Green Prairie.
5th-Motley. Scapoia Valley, Kosing
and Rail Prairie.
9th h-kipley, Platte, Pulaski and
! Belle PRAIRIE
7th-Bellevue and Buckman.
Sth-Morrlil. Lakin anu Mt Morris.
! 9th-Pierz ana Agram.
lOth-Granite. Leigh, Hlllman. and
Richardson.
! 1t was decided to divide exhibit into
the departments and classes with
superintendent for each as follows:
Horses-Hen1y LaFond.
Cattle-John Medved.
Sheep-B. Burton.
| Swine-(3eo. Moeglein, Jr.
Poultry-Geo. Gordon.
Dairy and Dairy products-Wm.
iPantzke.
| Agricultural-J. K. Martin.
Horticultural-C. A. Carlson.
| Floricultural-C. H. Brown.
! Women's Dept.-L. O. Vessel.
Ihe secretary was instructed to pre-
pare set OF bylaws to present same
at-the next meeting Of the society, anc
the president was instructed to call {
meeting as soon as the finance commit
tee was ready to report
The Morrison County Agriculture
} Cooperative Society art'
, n e S in an excellen
: financial condition. $500 in cash ane
} $200 IN property being turned over tt
it by the street fair association. 1t il
Expected to raise $1,000 by the sale O
shares, and-to offer 81, 600 in premiums
at the coming fair. Communication
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