Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-04-29
TRADE P APER
TELLS OF CHANCE
CURRENT ISSUE OF FARM MA.
cHINERY REFERS TO REoR-
oANIzATIoN OF PLANTS.
DAM AN OFFICER
Ottumwa Manufacturer 10 Included on
Directorate Of the Reoraan-
ICED Deere e co.-0ives
All Houses.

| Inc reOrS60lZ6ClOn Oh DeeEe q W.
In which the Dain Manufacturing Co.,
of this city is included is told about
in the current issue Of Farm Machin-
cry, trade paper published April IL
in St. Louis and Kansas City. Joseph
Dain ia included in the directors. The
Farm Machinery story follows:
The reorganization Of Deere & Co.,
Moline, Ill.,, with capitalization OF
| $5O,O00,0O0 was completed last week.
Directors, officers and an executive
committee Of seven members were
elected. Concerning the reorgan1za-
ton, William Butterworth, president
| of the company, made this statement:
"The reorganization Is unique IN the
implement world, because it brings to-
gether six non-competing manufactur-
ing companies and twenty-five selling
organizations. No one of these COM
panies has been competitor of any
other, nor do the products OF any 1ac-
tory, compete with the products OF any
other The combined output OF all
these factories has been heretofore
sold to the same selling organizations,
and none of these factories were rivals
of Deere & Co., in the implement and
wagon trade.
1T will thus be seen that the new
company is in no sense trust, nor
combination of rival concerns.
Deere & Co., were originally In
corporated for term of fifty years
and, on account of the approaching
expiration of their charter, it was nee
essary to make this provision for a
continuation of their business"
Dain 10 Included.
Factories included in the new or
ganization according to the official
announcement, are:
Deere & Co., Moline, manufacturers
of plows; Deere & Mansur Co., Mo-
line, manufacturers of corn planters;
Moline Wagon Co., Moline, manufac-
turers of wagons; Marseilles Co., East
Moline, manufacturers of shelters;
Dain Manufacturing Co., Ottumwa,
Iowa, and Welland, Ont, manufac-
turers of hay tools; Kemp & Burpee
Co., Syracuse, N. Y. manufacturers
of manure spreaders.
Many Selling Agents.
Selling organizations and branch
houses are:
Deere & Co., Minneapolis, Mimi;
John Deere Plow companies in Omaha,
Neb; Kansas City and st. Louis, Mo-;
Indianapolis, Ind. Baltimore, Md;
Syracuse, N. Y; Dallas, Tex; New
Orleans, La; Nashville, Tenn; At
lanta, Ga; Oklahoma City, Okla;
Sioux Falls, S. D.; Denver, Colo;
Portland, Ore; Spokane, WASH; and
San Francisco, Cal.
John Deere Plow companies limited
in Winnipeg, Man.; Saskatoon, Sack
atchewan; Regina, Saskatchewan;
Calgary, Alta; Edmonton, Alta.
General officers elected by the new
Deere & Co., are:
President = William Butterworth,
Moline, Ill.
Chairman executive committee
Willard L. Velie, Moline, Ill.
Vice president-Charl G. Weber,
Minneapolis, Mimi.
Vice George N. Peek,
Omaha, Neb.
Vice president George W. Mixter,
Moline, III.
Vice president-Burton F. Peek,
Moline, Ill.
Secretary chiller Hosford, Moline,
Treasurer-George W. Champion,
Moline, III.
Dain on Directorate.
From among the officers, this execu-
tive committee of seven members was
appointed:
William Butterworth, Moline, ILL.,;
w. L. Velie, Moline, ILL.,; Charles G.
Weber, Minneapolis, Mimi; George
w. Mixter, Moline, ILL.,: G. N. Peek,
Omaha, Neb.; Floyd R. Todd, East
Moline, ILL.,, Burton F. Peek, Moline.
The board of directors elected is
composed Of:
William Butterworth, w. l.. Nelie,
G. w. Mixter, F. r. Todd, B. F. Peek,
S. Hosford, G.. w. Champion, R. B.
Lourie and w. D. Wiman, all of Mo-
line; c. G. Weber, Minneapolis; G.
N. Peek, Omaha c. w. Mansur, st.
Louis; S. H. Velie, Kansas City;
Joseph Dain, Ottumwa; C. D., velie,
Minneapolis; ]. G. Duke; Dallas; H.
w. Hutchinson. Winnipeg.
Papers certifying to changes made
necessary by plans outlined above,
and covering both the manufacturing
and the selling organizations, have
been filed with the secretary of state
at Springfield, and with the recorder
of deeds Of Rock Island county.