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 I 328 GEORGE H. HIMES. ^ Dr. Perry Prettyman, vice-presidents; A. G. Walling, secre- tary; David Powell, treasurer. At a meeting on January 7, 1860, the annual membership fee was fixed at $3.00, and A. C. Gibbs, A. C. R. Shaw and A. G. Walling were elected dele- gates to the convention to be held in Salem February 22, 1860, for the purpose of organizing a State Agricultural Society. At a meeting held July 7, 1860, the first address before the society was given by Judge George H. Williams ; and considered from the viewpoint of the present day it was in large measure prophetic. At this meeting the annual dues were reduced from $3.00 to $1.00; and owing to the ''indifference of the people of Portland" the constitution was amended so as to give the executive committee the power to appoint the place for holding the fair wherever the "greatest inducements" were offered. And in the words of a Portland paper of the time, "The narrow-minded course and uniform indifference manifested by the citizens of Portland, with but one or two exceptions, toward the producers of the country, was the cause of this change." It was finally arranged, however, that the fair should be held on October 2-3, 1860 the "first day, and second day until noon, in the city of Portland, and on the afternoon of the second day at the Union course, two and one-half miles east of Portland." The fair was held on the date named and was said to be a "very respectable exhibition." The exhibitors were as follows, with the number of awards each person received: Ankeny, Alexander P. ... 1 Hurgren & Shindler .... 1 Albright, Edward 2 Kelly, Clinton 1 Buchte.1 & Cardwell 1 Mead, W. B. & Co Bybee, Miss . 1 Miller, Adolph 2 Chittenden, Miss 1 Morgan, David 1 Combs & Nelson 1 Jacobs, H. S 3 Duf ur, A. J 2 Kingsley & Rees 1 Francis, Mrs. Simeon. ... 2 Ladd, William S 1 Frazar, Thomas 2 Pittock, R. & Co 1 Frazar, Mrs. Thomas .... 1 Pomeroy, F. C 1 Hall, AA T illiam 1 Powell/David 1 Holman, J. D 1 Powell, John 3 Holtgrieve, Henry 3 Prettyman, D. D 1