Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-12-23
ORGANIZATIONS HOLD
JOINT ANNUAL MEETING
Large Crowd Attends Merged Meet
ing of Farm Bureau Association
and Agricultural Society.

large and enthusiastic crOWu al
tended the merged meetings of the
Stevens county agricultural society
and the Farm Bureau association in
the Strand theatre last Saturday af
ternoon. After holding short meet
ing in the Commercial Club rooms
the members of the Agricultural SOC
iety joined forces with the farm bu-
reau which was already gathered in
the theatre. G. F. Kirk was re-elect-
ed president, P. G. Summers vice
president and w. A. Buss secretary
and treasurer of the Farm Bureau as
sociation for the coming year. R. w.
Keeler, e. E. Walpole, Chris Mic
haelson and John Hanrahan were
elected the executive committee and
Mr.. Kirk was elected delegate to
the state association. The agricultur-
al society reelected Max -Trantow,
president, e. Mecklenberg vice presi-
dent and Carl WoIlthah secretary. w.
E. G. Saunders was elected treasurer
to succeed w. F. Cooley.
=, The meeting was called to, order
by G. F. Kirk who called for the re-
port of the secretary treasurer, w. c..
Buss. The report showed balance
on hand of $572.47 in the treasury.
Allen w. Edison county agent in
speaking of the projects given most
emphasis in his work this-year men
toned particularly boys and girls
club work, general livestock work
and weed eradication. He said he had
spent most time on these three things
because he considered them most i'm
portant.
In accordance with decision made
at the annual meeting year ago the
constitution was amended. To make
the constitution comply with the law
of the State, a clause was inserted re-
quiring the making out definite pro-
gram of work each year by the asso-
citation for the county agent to carry
out. An amendment was passed to
make the incorporation of the organ
ization permanent instead Of for ten
years only. The membership fee clause
was changed to read $500 instead Of
$3.50 and to make membership per-
manent in the association to do away
with the expense of putting on a
membership campaign every year. A
clause was inserted providing for a
board Of directors to be made up Of
heads Of the township units which
should have power to act as the NOM
mating committee. Forty-six voted
in favor of the amendment.
With the arrival of members of the
agricultural society the meeting was
handed over to the society and Max
The report of the secretary, Carl
Wollthan was read and accepted. A
vote of thanks was given to Mr.. Woll-
than for his indefatigable efforts in
making the 1921 county fair a sue
cess. After the election of officers an
executive committee was chosen con-
sisting of Max Stevenson and III. Heg-
| lund from the first commissioner dis
trict, Will Gausman and ]. p. Stein
fort from the second commissioner
district, Fred Carlson and Charles Ey-
stad from the third commissioner dis
trict, Henry Dosdahl and Mike Ma
honey from the fourth commissioner
district, and p. e. Miller and M B.
Lord from the fifth commissioner
district. The agricultural society ad-
journed at this point, but remained
for the Farm Bureau meeting.
you can't legislate farmers into
prosperity" said p. e. Miller, who
was asked to give short talk on
''The Relation of Farm Bureau to the
Vital Interests of Agriculture
Mr.. Miller said the prices for the
grain this year were almost identi-
cally the same as in 1913 when a
great rally was held in Stevens coun-
tty to stimulate the livestock indus
try for farmers. The idea would prob+
!. ably have been carried out had not
the war came and a subseque mt rise