The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26
Salary Fixed at $3.50 a Year
Secretary to Get SI20,
Treasurer, S25.
STOCKHOLDERS MEET
TO ADOPT BYLAWS
81 Family Tickets Are Approved
By DirectOrs-13S Mem
bers Now.

executive, county fair expert of long
and wide experience and specialist in
handling fair concessions, last night
was elected superintendent of the 1916
fair to be given in the fall by the Cape
County Fair & Park Association.
His election was made by the board
Of Directors at board meeting which
followed a meeting of the stockholders
last night in the Commercial Club
rooms. The stockholders adopted their
set of bylaws, which were drafted in
conformity with the charter recently
granted by the Secretary of State.
The directors last night also fixed
the salaries of the officers, as follows:
Secretary, $120 a year; supcrinten,
dent, $3.50 a year; treasurer, So per
year.
All of the officers WHO handle the
moneys Of the association viii 20 re.
Glired to give a surety bond as 4 part
OF their qualllcatlOnS.
The directors lil,cN Sc fOrmal'y
elected to MEMBERSHIP ali those who
have signed the fair association petit
tions, but failed to get names in the
list of Sc charter members of the
association. The association now has
1913 members. Their dues of $40 each
will be collected at once by the men
who circulated the various petitions
for the names.
From this time on no person will
be elected to membership in the Assoc
ration unless his initial fee of $40
accompanies his application for mem
bership. Likewise every member of
the board of directors will be duly
qualified TO solicit memberships and
to collect the money and give the ap-
plicant credit for it through the office
Of the treasurer.
A large number Of stockholders at
tended the meeting last NIGHT when
the bylaws were adopted. A tenta-
tive list of laws had been drafted by
Judge Edward D. Hays, who has done
most of the legal work connected with
the organization of the association.
The bylaws were adopted by the
stockholders after a few changes in
detailed matters had been made.
Several weeks ago when the as
sociation first was launched, it was
proposed to have the holders of tick
cts to the fair vote their preference
for officers of the association at the
gate on the last day of the fair. The
winners in this preferential vote were
to be recommended to the directors as
officers who should be elected by the
and the directors were to
be elected By the stockholders at their
in December.
This system vas abandoned, how
over, as inexpcdient, impracticable
and unnecessary. The stockholders
meetings will be held annually on the
first Monday Of December. The vot-
ing will continue FROM l D. m. to >
D. m., when the ballot boxes will be
closed, the votes counted and the direc-
tors will meet Immediately afterward
to canvass and receive the vote.
No proxies will be allowed under
the bylaws adopted, and enc person
may purchase put one share or men,
Dcrship in the association.
A feature of The fair organization
that was adopted by the board Of di-
rectors and which is expected to make !
much for the success Of the fair, is
the 81 family ticket. This ticket will |
be good for all days of the fair and |
will allow d man OF woman to take an !
entire family inside the gates each |
lay. By family, the board means a !
nan and his wife and their children.
Other relatives outside the immediate !
'amily circle are rot included within
;cOpe Of the ticket.
Such tickets have been IN use at the
Anna, H., fair for several years and
heir use has been very beneficial to
he fair. Single admissions will be
.5 cents.
1t was also determined at the meet
ne to have the Cape fair represented
t a meeting of the Southeast Mis-
iouri and Northeast Arkansas Short
hip Circuit to be held Monday at
'iggott, Ark, for the purpose of set
ling accounts.
The Cape association viii not be
included in the account settling for the
eason that the present association is
ntcring the circuit for the first time.