Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — Institute Reports and Resolutions. [ARTICLE]

Institute Reports and Resolutions.

At the Jasper County Farmers’ Institute, last week, a Committee or Organization was appointed, with instructions to involve a plan to increase the public interest in these institutes. This committee prepared the plan embodied in the report here given: 1.,' Report or Organ zAtion. Mr. President:— v Your Committee ou organization having carefully considered the subject of the organization of the county for the coming year to close with- the next annual institute beg leave to report as follows: 1. We recommend that on Labor Day, September 7th 1896 that a Towushiw fair and picnic beheld in each Township of the county and that a vice-president be than selectectfor that township and a township organization be! then completed and delegates selected to attend the next institute. The place of these meetings to be determined by the executive committee hereinafter provided for who shall determine the same on or before July 4th,1896. 2. That an executive committee of seven be appointed to arrange the programme for the next annual institute and wo recommend that such committee shall consist of the following named persons:—Jotl F. Spriggs, Corneluis Bierma, Ed W. Culp, Richard Welch, Mrs. Eva K. Foltz, Mrs. Ida W- Randle aud 8. P. Thompson, chairman, to be appoihted by this institute, two of whom shall be ladies, and reside in each commissioners district, 3. We recommend that the following persons to-wit: Edwin P. Honan, Fitz W. Bedford, Rial B. Harris, Mrs. Caroline D. Martin and Mrs. Martha J. Wasson be appointed a committee of reception to see that the attendents at our next institute from the remote parts of the county be entertained and their attendance be made 'as agreeable and profitable as possible, of whom Edwin P. Honan shall be chairman. - .... '4. We recommend as officers of this association for the next ensuing year, for president Lucius Strong, secretary Lee (llazebroofc, treasurer Estella Parkieon, and that the next institute be held at the court house in Rensselaer under the auspices of said officers and the committee herein named and those named by the township meetings as hereinbefore provided for. 5. We recommend that during the institute lectures be held at the opera boqse each evening and that one of the meetings be conducted by the lrdies and that at least one third of the time in the programme be devoted to subjects of interest to the farmers wives and daughters. Respectfully submitted. S. P. Thompson. Bruce Porter. D. H. Yeoman. The Resolutions Adopted. The Committee on resolutions submitted the appended report which was unanimously adopted. Mi. President: — » Your committee on resolutions having carefnllly considered the subject of Farmers’ Institutes in Jasper County, Indiana report the following resolutions:— 1. That the thanks of those in attendance are due to Messers Jones and Kelsey officara nf this Institute,- for the and usefd presented. 2. The instruction of these institutes should be made as broad as the equal citizenship of the farmers of the county without distinction as to sex, or branch of thAt industry. 3. The benefits of the institute should go to all parts of the county and we recommend such an organization as will reach and interest farmers in every neighborhood. 4. This county is next to the largest in the State, is favorably located as to markets and hak a soil capable of producing all vegitation common to a temperate clime and with proper organization we ought to have an institute well attended as any in the State and we recommend to the committee on organization to take the matter np and provide for a still more interesting and profitable institute in 1897. 5. That all the news papers in this connty be requested to publish an account of this Institute to be prepared by its officers. Respectfully Submitted. Simon A. Dowell. Calvin E. Jenkins. Lee E. Glazebrook. Committee. Warren A Irwin make the most desirable farm loans of any firm in the county. I