Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-07-14
Street Fair Transferred 20
Morrison County AGrt--
cultural Society

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 q
meeting which followed tho other,
Geo. NJ Kiewel acting as chairman
and N. N. Berghejm, 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
of such exhibit or fairs. It shall be
capitalized at IS. 600, 1000 shares of a
par value of S. each, no one person
being allowed to own more shares than
comes to par value of $500, and each
stock holder will be entitled to but one
vote. 1t commences business on July
Is, 1911 and is Incorporated for per.
iOd of twenty years, to be managed by
q president, secretary, treasurer and
nine directors; these twelve persons
forming q board of managers to be
chosen annually st the annual meetings
which are set for the first Tuesday of
December of each year at 10 3. m.,. at
the Offices OF the secretary Until tho
annual meeting, the following were
chosen to act as q board of managers: :;
Geo, NJ. FKiewvl president; N. N.
Bergheim, secretary; W. H. Ryan,
Yartiu. a. T.. Kosloski, j. w. stephen
SOD, r. A.. Nelson, Jullusi letka, L. q,
Vessel, Jos. Moeelein. 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:
Execut,ve-Geo. NJ. Kiewel, N.
N. Berghelm. W. H. Ryan.
Financial. F. Koslosky, 5. J.
Vasaly, julius Jetka.
Advertising-J. A. Stephenson, P.
j. Vasaly, E. NJ. LaFond.
ADJUSTMENTS Sylvester, Geo.
Emder. l.. w. Vasaly.
The president and secretary act on
all these committees ex-ofhcio.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
Septembe Der II, Is, and 16, were chosen
as the dates Tor the holding of the
county tair this fall, and owing to the
shortness of the time 70 prepare for
same will be hello on the streets and IN
vacant buildings of this city for the
most part.
It was decided to divide the towns
OF the county into ten districts and
get exhibits from each, a 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, Culdrum and Par.
ker.
4th-Cushing, Clougb, Darling and
Green Prairie.
5th-Motley. scapdia Valley, Rosing
and Rail Prairie
6th-Ripley, Platte, Pulaski and
Belle Prairie \
7th-Bellevue and Buchanan. !:
Sth-Morrill, Lakin anu Mt. Norris.
| 9th-Pierz and Axram. W
lOth-Granite. Leigh, Hlllman, and
Richardson.
1t was decided to divide exhibits into
the departments and classes with
superintendent for each as follows.
Horses-HenIy LaFond. H..
I Cattle-John Medved. 4
! Sheep-B. Burton. 6#
+ Swine-deo. Moeglein, Jr. ~ 555$s
Poultry-Geo. Gordon.
Dairy and Dairy products ~ VIM.
Pantzke. ~
+ Agricultural-J. K. Martin.
-Horticultural-C. A. Carlson.
+ Floricultural-C. H. Brown.
Women's Dept.-L. O. Vessel. i
The secretary was instructed to pre-
pare set Of bylaws to present same
lathe next meeting Of the society, and
the president was instructed to call q
meeting as soon as the finance commit
tee was ready to report
| The Morrison County Agricultural
/ cooperative Society star s
n 9 s in an excellent
financial condition. 500 IN cash and
i 5000 IN property being turned over to
1t by the street fair association. It il
expected to raise 81, 900 by the sale Of
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