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Elgin Echo
Elgin,
Iowa
February 19, 1925
Wadena Creamery Has Good Year
The annual meeting of the Riverside Mutual
Creamery Association of Wadena, was held Saturday, February 14, in
the Odd Fellows’ Hall. The meeting was well attended by the members
of the association and was called to order by the president, Wallace
Peters. The first matter of business was the electing of a secretary
and on motion, F. I. Schroeder was elected.
J. H. Wilson secretary of the association,
read the minutes of the last meeting and they were approved as read.
The secretary, then read a report of the business done during the
past year which showed that over $104,000 worth of business was done
by the association during the past year. Quite an increase over the
year before. W. F. More and Dean [?] Culbertson with the secretary
were to act as teller to count the ballots, to see who were elected
as directors of the association and after the balloting, while they
were counting the votes, several short addresses were made. The
first to speak was L. Popenhagen, the butter-maker. His talk was
short but to the point. He urged the farmers to hold up the quality
of their cream. J. H. Wilson spoke next along the lines of the
future outlook of their butter which he said looked good at the
present time. Fred Dinster and George Thompson received certificates
for perfect cream during the past year. The secretary stated that
they were the only two men who could boast of this. Mr. Harmer,
butter-maker at Oelwein, was present and gave a short talk on good
cream and what it means to the farmer in better prices for their
butter. After this the president made a few remarks which were
followed by C. Bechtelheimer, secretary of the Iowa Creamery
Association. He gave quite a long talk on the benefits of
co-operation of the creameries of Iowa. We were pleased to have with
us, Ray Anderson, secretary of the farm bureau of Fayette county.
His talk was short, but was very good. The last speaker was F. W.
Stephenson of Oelwein, of the state department of agriculture and
pure-food inspector. There was much food for thought in his talk and
was enjoyable. After this the following business was taken up and it
was voted to discontinue scoring and pay two cents extra for sweet
cream and the members and non-members of the association be paid the
same price.
The following men were elected as directors:
L. Hunsberger, J. H. Wilson, A. E. Oldfather, Ed Wenger, Ed Raftis,
Dave Jellinger, T. Thompson, W. [L.] Peters, J. M. Frey and Rich
Probert.
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