1915.

Mar. 1.  Order 230, A. W. Latham, first quarter salary 450.00
Apr. 5.  A. W. Latham, interest on deposit 85.96
June 1.  Order 231, A. W. Latham, second quarter salary 450.00
June 21.  Order 232, A. W. Latham, expenses secretary’s office
           November 25 to June 21, 1915 3,290.74
June 25.  Order 236, Premiums Summer Meeting 1915 172.00
Sept. 3.  Order 233, A. W. Latham, third quarter salary 450.00
Dec. 1.  Order 234, A. W. Latham, fourth quarter salary 450.00
Dec. 1.  Order 237, A. W. Latham, expenses secretary’s office
           June 21, 1915 to December 1, 1915 1,064.30
          
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                                                  $7,609.50
Dec. 1.  Balance on hand 4,906.00
          
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                                                 $12,515.50
Deposits, Farmers & Mechanics Bank $4,276.15
Deposits, First & Security National Bank 629.85
          
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                                                  $4,906.00

Annual Meeting, 1915, N.E.  Iowa Horticultural Society.

C. E. SNYDER, PRESTON, DELEGATE

Your delegate arrived at Decorah at nine-thirty, Wednesday, November seventeenth.  Full accommodations offered by the Winneshiek Hotel made the trip complete and homelike to delegates and members.

The convention was held in the old Marsh Hall, a very suitable place, offering ample room with all necessary accommodations for such a gathering.

Decorations showed much time and skill, resulting in a beautiful display of shrubbery-boughs, evergreen, etc.

The area of a table about one hundred feet long and six feet wide, running through the center of the hall, contained a great variety of apples surprising for this season.  Many, including C.H.  True, of Clayton county, proved themselves successful orchardists.

[Illustration:  Mr. C. E. Snyder, Preston.]

On various other tables large displays of agriculture, apiary, greenhouse and garden products completed the harmonizing of horticulture, floriculture and agriculture, including mentioned decorations appearing as a striking feature and an encouragement to the cause.

The meeting was called to order shortly after ten o’clock by President Geo. S. Woodruff.  The mingling of many instructive papers with humorous selections and music proved the program well arranged.  Same carried out very successfully held the interest of a not large but fair attendance throughout.  A paper and address by Wesley Greene, of Des Moines, should have reached the ears of every Iowa and Minnesota citizen.  A striking selection on “The Tree,” by J. A. Nelson, was descriptive, instructive, humorous and poetic.