Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-09-18
OLD OFFICERS REELECTED.
First Annual Meeting Of the Western
Iowa Interurban Company.

First Annual Meeting Of the Western
Iowa interurban Company.
Des Moines, Sept. 16.--The Western
Iowa lnterurban Railway company
held it's first annual meeting in Des
Moines last night. The old officers
were elected as follows:
President-John A. Nash. Audubon
.President--Almer Stern, Logan
General Manager--H. H. Polk. Des
Moines.
Treasurer--Clyde e. Brenton. Dallas
Center. sn
Secretary--C. r. Benedict, Shelby
Executive Committee---John A. Nash
Almer Stern and e. w. Weeks.
Directors--B. F. Kaufman, Des
Moines, and Messrs. Nash, Stern, Polk
Brenton and Weeks and a man to be
named by Shelby county. The Shelby
stockholders were not able to be at the
meeting and the meeting passed reso
lutions authorizing them to name their
member of the board. 1t Is stated that
1t will be G. w. Cullison of Harlan who
served In the preliminary organization
in that capacity.
MIR. Kaufman was put on the board
Of directors In the place of J. w. Davis
of Avoca. Pottawattamie county has
not yet decided to go into the PROPOSE
| tion and has no representation on the
board Of directors ut present. Mr..
Stern was put on the executive com.
mittee in the place Of Mr.. Cullison.
The engineer of the company. James
Wilson, is now working at Guthrie
Center and was not present at the
meeting. General Manager Polk, how
ever. has weekly reports from him
which were gone over by the meeting.
He Is making satisfactory progress.
AS soon as he reeches Logan a general
report will be made to the stockholders
and officers and estimates will then be
made of the cost Of the road.
INSURANCE MERGER PROCEEDS
Injunction Case Dismissed and All
Obstacles Removed.
Des Moines, Sept. l5.-The legal OBJ
stacles % the $50,OO0,o0O insurance
merger Of the Northwestern Life and
Savings company Of Des Moines and
the Northwestern National Life In
surance company Of Minneapolis have
been removed by dismissal Of the
injunction suit brought against the
Des Moines company by q score OF
Dallas county shareholders. The en-.
tire files in the injunction case and
all the papers were withdrawn by
Thomas A. Cheshire. attorney for the
defendant Des Moines company, and
an entry was made on the court
records showing that the action had
been dismissed in its entirety. The
dismissal was signed by John Short
ley, one of the petitioning sharehold-
ers Of Dallas county and the plaintiffs
attorneys, Carr. Hewitt, Parker and
Wright. OF Des Moines.
The defendant company's attorneys
endeavored to keep the dismissal Sc
cret for fear that other shareholders
| would bring sr,t and thus place fur
Their Obstacles to the merger in their
way. News of the dismissal leaked
confirm the story.
The merger Of the Northwestern
Life and Savings company OF Des
Mones and the Northwestern Nation
al Life Insurance company OF Mime
| apolis occurred a month or SO ago.
| 5000. 900 being said to have been the
transfer price. The Des Moines COM
pany had insurance contracts and POI.
icies outstanding to the amount OF
| $4,000, 900, AID the Minneapolis COM
pany to the amount OF $34.000,000, sc
| that $5O,000,000 worth Of contracts
were involved in the transfer.
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