The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-01-15
Plans Being Made For
Convention OF State Farm Bureau
Five Hundred Visitors Expected
at Eleventh Annual Meeting
of Mimi. Farm Bureau
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Preparations for the entertainment
of more than 500 visitors and dele
gates to the eleventh annual meeting
of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton are being completed by feder-
alton executives, says j. 5. Jones,
secretary-tr treasurer. The sessions, to
be held at the Lowry hotel, St. Paul,
from the more than sixty county
bureaus that compose the state fed
Grafton. Nationally known leaders in
cooperative agricultural fields are
listed as speakers, and if schedules
permit, member of the recently ap-
pointed Federal Farm board will ap-
pear. S. H. Thompson, president of
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton, will be one of the principal
speakers. Other guest speakers will
include Mrs. Beryl Hornbeck, of the
Illinois Farm Bureau.
In order to stimulate attendance at
the meeting, railroads offer special
fares, on the certificate plan, for the
trip to st. Paul and return.
A home and community training
school will be opened at a. M, on
Monday, January 20, in the Hotel
Lowry banquet room with discus
sion on why Home and Community
Work in the Farm Bureau" with
Mrs. E. V. Ripley, home and commu-
nifty chairman of the Minnesota Farm
Bureau Federation, presiding.
One of the features of the after
noon meeting will be the report by
Mrs. E. V. Ripley, state federation
director, on the recent American
Farm Bureau Federation convention
in Chicago. County chairmen will
report on unit activities at an eve
ming session.
Co-incident with these sessions will
be a special meeting of representa-
tives of the state bureaus subsidiary
organizations, the mutual insurance
division and the service corporation.
A general session on Tuesday will
be conducted at University farm audi
forum, with the presidents address,
by president A. j. Olson, the prin-
cipal feature. Sectional committees
will be appointed during the morning
session. Mrs. Hornbeck will speak on
'The Farm Women's Opportunity"
during the afternoon session, when a
playlet will be presented by the Col
lege of Agriculture. The afternoon
session will be closed by an address
by president Thompson, of the Amer
lean Farm Bureau Federation, on
"The American Program for Ameri-
can Agriculture"
Committee meetings will be con-
Quoted Tuesday evening. Director j.
S. Stevenson will preside at a morn
ing discussion session on Wednesday,
when the delegates will again meet
at the Lowry. Plans for grain, live
stock and wool marketing will be dis
cussed at Wednesday mornings meet
ing, with specialists discussing each
phase of cooperative marketing.
Thursday will be given over to
business sessions, with chiefs of divi-
sional activities reciting accomplish
ments of the past year and plans for
1880.
The election of president, first
and second vice president and two
members of the executive committee
at Thursday afternoons business ses-
sion will close the convention. Pre-
sent officers and directors are A. j.
Olson, president, of Renville; Hag-
barth Bue, first vice president, North
field; H. M. Green, second vice presi-
dent, Lake Crystal and T. E. Cash
man, Owatonna; G. w. Freeman,
Zumbrota; Mrs. E. V. Ripley, Menah-
ga; G. w. Alfs, Aitkin; j. w. Stew
enson, Winnebago and M. E. Jacobs
on, directors. Retiring directors are
Mr.. Freeman and Mr.. Stevenson.