Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1910 — Indiana Fanners Meet in 8th Annual Convention on Dec. 20th. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Fanners Meet in 8th Annual Convention on Dec. 20th.

The Farmers’ State Congress of Indiana will hold its eighth annual convention in the Appellate Court room, State Hqvyse,.Dejc..2O and 21. There will of interest to farmers will be discussed by men who are authorities cn farm management. Among the speakers will be William Holton Dye, president of the Indiana branch of the National Conservation Association; Charles L. Jewett, president of the Indiana Council of the National Civic Federation, and President Stone, of Purdue University. The congress was organized seven years ago and has been active in the interests of the farmers of the state, being to them what the Farmers’ National Congress has been to the farmers of the nation. Its membership consists of three or more from each county-of the state as appointed delegates, county farmers’ institute chairmen being delegates by virtue of their position, as are also those who were delegates to the last session of the Farmers’ National Congress. Farmers of the state are invited and requested to be present and will be accorded all the privileges of the meetings and will be given opportunity to take part in the discussions. From assurances already received by the program and other committees it is expected that the coming session will be by far the most important in the history of the congress. The program follows: Tuesday Morning. Address—Governor Marshall.

Address—“ The Importance of Farmers Being Represented in Congress and State Legislature,” L. J. Coppage - , Crawfordsville. Address—“ Why We Do Not Get the Legislation We Want and Should Have,” John M. Stahl, Chicago. Tuesday Afternoon. Address—“ Should the Farmers’ Congress and Farmers’ Institute Be More Closely Allied, and How to Secure It?” D. F. Maish, Frankfort. Miscellaneous business and appointing committees. Tuesday Evening. Address—“ Report of Last National Farmers’ Congress—lts Manner and Effect,” Joshua Strange, Marion. Wednesday Morning. Address—President Stone, of Purdue University. Address—“ Uniform Laws of the State,” Charles L. Jewett, president of the Indiana Council of the National Civic Federation, New Albany. Report of committees. Wednesday Afternoon. Address—“ Conservation of Our State’s Natural Resources,” William Holton Dye, Indianapolis, president of the Indiana branch of the National Conservation Association. Time for a discussion of all subjects will be allowed at the various sessions. £

This was the third year in which we have secured Mr. L. B. Wickersham to lecture here. We took pains to look him up before we engaged him the first time, but he has now, with Sunday lectures and a sermon, given us six addresses, and his house is larger every time. The single ticket receipts this time were eighty-one dollars and seventy-five cents —a sum that probably no other man could havj realized. Wickersham has been our standard for some time and few came up to the standard, though we have had some good ones.—W. E. Ray, Colby, Kansas. At the M. E. church, Friday evening, Dec. 9th.

A club house, built jointly by a number of Moroccoites, on the banks of the Kankakee river, was informally dedicated on Thanksgiving day, with a turkey dinner and a general good time by its owners and some of their friends. The main building is 12x48 6 ’feet, one story high, and is partitioned into several rooms so that a goodly number of people can be accommodated at a time. There is also a kitchen, and an 8-foot porch running the entire length of the building.— Kentland Democrat.