Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-04-27
BUREAU ORGANIZED
Proceedings of Annual Membership Meeting
of Custer County Farm Bureau at
Fairburn, April 10th.

Office of the Secretary of the Custer
County Emergency Agricultural Bureau
Iiermosa, 3. D., April IS, 1918.
To the Honorable Board of County Com
mssioners of Custer County, Custer
South Dakota:
Gentlemen Referring to letter of
date April 2nd last, addressed to your
Honorable Board, by NJ. j Scanan as
temporary Secretary of the Custer Coun-
ty Emergency Agricultural Bureau, and
which contained list of members of
| said Bureau, together with a draft of
| $500 in favor of the Treasurer of said
ship of 81 90 paid by each of the 200
members Of said Bureau, the undersign-
ed now desire to state that as per call OF
| the temporary Committee of said Bu-
reau on March Both last, general meet
| ing Of the members of said Bureau was
| held at Fairburn in said County and
State, on Tuesday, the 10th inst, at
which the following business was trans
acted, viz:
The meeting was called to order by
temporary Chairman Mr. G. b. Smith
at ? O'Clock p. IN, about forty of said
members being present, also Mr.. W. W
| Underwood the Assistant County Agent
Leader from the Agricultural College Of
Brookings, 5. D., and Federal Agent
Homer Smith, state organizer of the
Boys and Girls Agricultural Clubs. A
report FROM the temporary Secretary was
read showing progress of the organiza-
ton to date, and after the above named
gentlemen had talked to the members
on the desire of the National and State
Agricultural departments for these or
CARNATIONS, the purpose being to in
crease the food supply of the country,
and explaining the benefits that might
be expected by the members of the Bu-
reau if properly organized and handled,
the following projects or lines of work
was then adopted by the Bureau meet
ing with director to superintend the
same, viz:
No. The Live Stock Industry Dir.
ector, A. Rasmussen, Fairburn, S d.
No. 2-Dairying. Director VIM. v
Miner, Hermosa, ). d.
No. 3-Animal Diseases. Director,
Chas. Edgerton, Fairburn, ). d.
No Road Improvement in the
County. Director, c. b. Smith, Fair.
burn, 5. d.
No 5-Eradication Of Destructive Ami
mails. Director, Otto Nordstrom, Fair
burn, S. d.
No 6-Boys and Girls Agricultural
Clubs. Director, Stanley Matteer, Her.
mosa, S. ID.
No. Home Economics. Director,
Miss Ethel Montgomery, Custer, S. d.
BY motion, it was then adopted by
the Bureau that the above seven direc.
tors of projects should constitute the
| legal Board of Directors for the year 1918
of the Bureau, with authority to select
working officers.
The following District or Community
Chairmen of the Bureau was then elect.
ed, viz:
Floyd q. Bond of the Pringle District
of Custer county, s. ID.
Charles Adair Of the Custer District Of
Custer county, S. d.
Wm. IL. Palmer of the Buffalo Gap
District of Custer county, S. d.
Frank Caple of the Folsom District of
Custer county, S. d.
Frank Walsh of the Dewey District of
| Custer county, s. d.
+. f. Verley, of the Fairburn District
of Custer county, S. ID.
G. j. kimball of the Hermosa District
Of Custer county, S. d.
Under the Constitution and Bylaws
thereafter adopted at the meeting, the
above naned Community Chairmen are
| authorized to name two or more mem
bers from their district which will then
constitute a Community Committee to
assist in advancing the projects named
and suggest other projects or improve
ments in Agriculture in their respective
communities.
The matter of the employment Of a
Demonstrators or County Agricultural
Agent then came up for discussion, also
the location of the principal office of the
County Agent, and Mr.. Lloyd Holiday
being present and having been sent out
| by the County Agent Leader l.. +. John.
son of the Brookings Agricultural Col
lege of the State, and recommended to
the Bureau of Custer county, 5. D., for
that position, il was decided by the Bu-
reau members present that the perman-
ent employment of Mr.. Holiday in that
capacity should be left in the hands of
the Board of Directors.
The matter of the principal office loca-
ton Of the Demonstrators or County
| Agent was then talked over at the meet
ing, and it appearing to be the sense of
those present that the largest part of the
work on the principal projects adopted
by the Bureau for the year 1918, lay in
what is known as the valley section of
the County, the principal office location
of the County Agent should be in that
section also, and the members of the
Fairburn Community ofthe County hav.
ing rendered to the Bureau, Office rooms