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Show PREPAWNCFOr ' CONVENTION. - rarmers Meet and Appoint Committee ,of Arrangements. j PRESIDENT PARRY IS OVERLOADED.' 'An Interesting and Amusing- Farmers Farm-ers Meeting Held last Wednesday Wednes-day Night In Cedar City. In nnsivcr to 11 'all for u funipr'n mi'etlnjf to miilfi-arranifinents for tin-lioldlnc tin-lioldlnc of it enuntv convention of the farmers of Iron County, that vvhr made in the meetinir Ihhi Sunday a siniill hut select body of the Farmiilu' fraternity met n tlic school bniidlntr lust Wed nesday evening. Wp hay hi-lect'iul vised-ly, vised-ly, for they had selected themselves feeling that their duty to themselves and their fellow craftsmen required that the movement for the holdintr of a farmers institute reclevesueh eneounig ment as would cause it to materialize. The meeting was called to order lv Hon. John Parry, who read the letter received last week by the secretary of tlit Farmer's Institute of Oedar City to Co-operate with the Agricultural col-lege col-lege faculty, or certain members thereof there-of in the holding of a county Farmers Institnto In our county nt Cedar City. After reading the letter Mr. Parry suggested sug-gested that two committees of three members each be selected, one on invitation invi-tation and the other on program to talce in band the malting of the arrang-ments arrang-ments for the expected couventloh'. The secretary was requested to write to Director Wldsoe and ascertain as soon as possible tli 0 time when it would be convenient for tho members of the coilego faculty to be present. And In conformity ivlth tho suggestions of Mr. Parry ib waB decided to authorize tho president to Select two committees, but that they were not to bo selected from among tho persons present, and that the president himself should be tho chairman of these commltees, Ordinarily Or-dinarily President Parry has aliown himself willing to sacrifice time and epuvenlcnce in tho interests of tho wcl-fureof wcl-fureof tho commuulty, but when the full ttfTect of ' this engagement dawned 'upon lilm ho llrmly declined totaUotlic job. Said the gentlemen, I am willing to do my sintro and more than my share, --. - rr but when It comes to requiring me to V do It all, r draw the line. Although u motion to adjourn Had been put and carried car-ried It wns evident that the busineas was not finished; tho assembly Immediately Imme-diately resumed business. The" former action wa8 1 econsidered and a resolution taken to have the house appoint the committee prevailed, with tho same restriction re-striction that had been placed upon the chairman, via: none of the commitee-men commitee-men were to be s-eleeted from among those that were present. This resolution resolu-tion resulted in the selection of John Webster, William Honehen and R, V. Heyborne us committee on Program, . and Edward Parry, M. D. nigbeo and Thomas Itladeri committee on invitation. invita-tion. Uriah T Jones wna appointed to notify the eomuiitleemen of their appointment, ap-pointment, explain to them tho duties du-ties that were required and report at the next meeting which is to be held at the same place,,ne.t Wednesday even-Ing. |