The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-01-11
Is
CHOSEN ASNEXT
MEETING PLACE
Washington State Horticultural
Society Will Hold Annual
Session Here
LUKE POWELL is SECRETARY
This City is Chosen at Close Of North
Yakima Acknowledgements
Second Vice President

The next annual meeting Of the
Washington State Horticultural So
ciety will be held in Kennewick, this
city having been chosen at the close
of the annual meeting in North Yaki-
ma last week. The selection was due
largely to the efforts of District Hor-
ticultural Inspector Luke Powell and
County Agriculturalist Lee M. Lamp
son. To secure the meeting it was
necessary for the Kennewick repre-
sentatives to pledge themselves to
take care of any deficit that might
arise in handling the session.
For time it looked like II. w. Des-
oranges of this city would be chosen
to head the society next year as its
president. The practice of advancing
the old officers was adopted, however,
and ]. F. Sugrue, of Cashmere, was
elected president. The other officers
who were elected without dissent
ing vote are: j. L. Dumas, Dayton,
first vice president; H. w. Desgranges
Kennewick, second vice president; l..
Powell, Prosser, secretary; and Ed.
Remy, North Yakima, treasurer.
In the past it has been the practice
to chose the president from the town
where the next annual meeting is to be
held. This precedent was upset by j.
4 n,,,aoe =, 4loo oIocipo LaurC ,f fho
session when he announced that at
the next meeting he would propose
some radical amendments to the con-
stitution.
81 shall propose at the next annual
session." said Mr.. Dumas, "that we
amend the constitution and create
three classes of memberships, life
members, active members and annual
members. Life members shall be
those who pay fee Of SIS and this
money is to be invested in perma-
nent fund for the support Of the asso-
citation. Active members shall be
those who have paid annual dues for
two successive years and annual MEM
bers those who pay dues for the cur
rent year.
"Only life members and annual
members shall be entitled to vote or
hold office in the association. / make
this amendment in a movement to
place the control of this society in the
hands of those who have been putting
in their money and giving their time
to it for years and who are vitality in
terested. AS things are now the So
ciety is always subject to local
control and its policies may vary with
every change of location of the an
nual meeting. We want the policies
of this society made stable and pro-
gressive hence we need to put the con-
, troll into the hands Of those who have
been identified with it for at least two
years and not transiently attached to
: it."
Chairman OF the nominating COM
, mittee j. B. Adams prefaced his report
!. by saying the committee had been con.
q fronted with two precedents in making
its selection Of president. One OF
= these was to follow the policy of sue
4 cession and move the first vice presi
\ dent into the office and the other tx
a choose the president from the cit!
= where the annual meeting was to b
4 held. He said they had considereC
giving the presidency to Kennewick
o. but as that city had no man who wa
= long identified with the affairs of tn
: association they had decided to adop
the policy of moving up the first vic
president.