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Show Fair Commission Goes fo Portland Governor and Board Leave Today School Exhibit Gets Minimum Mini-mum Allowance. One of the professors of the Agricultural Agricul-tural collego has been chosen as director of the State educational exhibit at Portland. Port-land. Prof. L. A. Ostlen wu-s selected to manage the exhibit at a salary of $1C0 a month. The fair commission appropriated appro-priated $3000 for an oducutlonnl exhibit. This news was communicated to tho , State Board of Education at Its meeting yesterday afternoon This Is tho minimum mini-mum amount that this board declared It could manage with. An appropriation of $6000 would not havo been too much, but It Is hoped that a creditable exhibit can bo prepared for the sum granted. The Lewis and Clark commission and the St. Louis fair commission held sep-nrato sep-nrato meetings yesterdav. They did not meet as was scheduled, as the St. Louis commission had a considerable amount of bills to pass upon and settle. Several people presented claims, some of them for bills that had already been paid. The two commissions will meet again today. The Lewis and Clark board will then receive from lnst year's board the exhibits used at St. Louis, and which can bo used again at Portland. This wilt wind up the business of tho St, Louis World's fair commission, which will then bo dissolved, Tho Governor, the members of the Portland board, the manager nnd secretary, secre-tary, and tho director of the educational exhibit all start for Portland tomorrow morning. It wns proposed that they should go tonight, but the time was not convenient for the Governor. |