The Ronan pioneer., 1917-02-23
FLATHEAD BEE ASSOCIATION

FLATHEAD BEE ASSOCIATION
In the fall of 1913, Supt. S. r.
Logan conceived the idea of a Co.
operative Bee association. With this
idea in mind he corresponded with
the A. I. Root Bee company of Me-
dina Ohio, one of the most prominent
bee supply companies, for informa-
tion concerning the establishment of
such an apairy in this district. This
company being very much pleased
with the idea. gave all information
possible and also donated three hives
of we'll bred bees. This gave foun-
dation for start in the present Flat
head Bee association.
Under the supervision of Mr.. Logan,
Attorney D. N. Mason drew up the ar
ticles of the association with the idea
of Incorporating the association as
soon as possible and with these pro-
posals:
First: To engage in bee culture,
both from an educational and COM
mercial view point.
Second: To promote knowledge |
of commercial operations and to in
troduce an element of industry into
the schools and develop a prastical
working knowledge of cooperative en-
terprise.
Third: To afford convenient
sinh fnp oof,, ct,,
tific investigation.
The amount of capital stock of the
association is one thousand dollars,
which is divided into ten thousand
shares at ten cents each. The shares
are held by any regularly enrolled
pupil, teacher or superintendent of
school district No. %. Any indi-
vidual of a community may sub
scribe stock but cannot vote Or hold |
office. Each stockholder of the
schools is entitled to one vote in per-
son or by proxy for each share of
capital stock held by him at the
time of election. After the articles
were drawn up it became necessary
to have officers to take immediate
action. There were no stockholders
to vote or hold office so with help
Mr.. Logan appointed the first officers
of the Flathead Bee Association as
follows:
Dewey Sousley of Arlee, president;
Esther Cary of Post Creek, vice presi-
dent; Supt. S. r. Logan, secretary;
Harold Resner of Roman, treasurer,
and four directors, F. w. Fry of Ro-
nan, Caroline Rich of Post Creek,
Frances Tobin of Arlee and D. N.
Mason of Roman. These held office
until May %, 1916, when their terms
of office were filled by stockholders
of the association elected according
to the articles. The first headquar-
ters of the Flathead Bee association
was at the st. Ignatius school. 1t
was arranged that all the colonies be
brought to this place during the
honey season. There the association
entered into a contract with the
school that they receive the honey
for taking care of the bees but with
the understanding that the purpose
be to increase the number of colonies.
They entered into it with spirit and
with the help of Miss Brown have
been very successful. AT the begin
ming of the school year 1915 they had
six colonies of bees. The winter be-
ing very severe they lost four of the
colonies. There were two hives in
care of the Arlee school, and altho
they We're cared for the same, good
results did not come from them as
at St. 1gnatius.
Owing to the fact that Post creek
was more centrally located in the
district and honey producing condi-
tions more favorable, the headquar-
ters were moved from St. 1gnatius
to Post creek. Here they were put@
under the care of director, Lillian
Lee.
At the last annual meeting of the
association, Robert Bennett Jr., was
elected president; Dewey Sousley
vice president; Lambert Demers, sec
retary; Esther Cary, treasurer and
Frank Boles, Albert Sattley, Lillian
Lee and Carr Brooks. directors.