Williams news., 1919-12-26
REPORT OF w. F. [. A.
 MEETING

afternoon of the 2Oth of De cember. The presiding officer being absent the secretary call ed the meeting to order. After the minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap- proved, nominations for the of- ficers for the coming year were declared in order. George Me- Dougall was elected president by exclamation. Ed Hunter and Harry. Boulin were nomi- mated for the vice-presidency. MT. Hunter was elected unani. mously. L. w. .Cureton was re- elected Sec-Treas, without an opponent. The former Sales Buying committee, Ed Hunter, Harry Boulin, and L.. w. Cure ton, was reelected.
 The four mill proposition was discussed but turned dowp for want of funds. Next the warehouse proposition was talk en up and discussed. Many favored the proposition but at this point the Association was turned into a grievance meet ing. One member acknowl- edged the dealers right to set prices on his stuff but demand ed the right to set the prices on his own. He stated that he was obliged to take. what the dealer offered him and pay what the dealer asked for goods. An other complained that he paid the same price for goods that the town people pay, that he received his goods at the door of the dealer while the dealer must maintain a delivery svs- tenn for the man in town. He objected to helping paintain the delivery. system and receiv- ing no. benefit from it. One member stated that one dealer in Williams had paid S25 per ton for hay one week and sold the same hay for S39.5O per tor tella,e next weeks Another mem Der stated that another dealer had paid from S25 to s27. 50 for hay and was selling it. for 100 per bale, making it re- tail at something over S4o.OO per Ion. Another ,aember stat cd that he had heen offered S2.25 ner cwt for potatoes while the same dealer was sell ing potatoes Ion the same day at $4.00 per cwt. Another member stated that the same bacon that was retailing at soc. in Williams was retailing at 4Oc in Los Angeles. Many other grievances were offered but the secretary failed to note them all. The above are fair sam. pie. however. ' After this rem edies were discussed. The na- jority felt that the only way to get square deal here was to run business of their own. A farmers exchange was discuss ed frsts Next the cooperative store project was discussed. An overwhelming majority of the members favored the latter. The secretary enumerated a number of roughaplaces in. the Fsthorny road of such an under taking, but arguments yoverrul- ing all of these were plentiful and vigorous. Each member present was instructed to se- cure alBthe information possi- ble on the running of cooper latlve store and present the same at the next meeting of the Association which will be held on the 4th Saturday in Febru- ary, 1920. It was voted that the stockmen be invited to join with the farmers in this under taking.
 On page Is of the December 2Oth issue of the Literary Digest may be found the following: Five farmers ate a meal con slsting of steak, potatoes. corn. bread and butter, and coffee at a moderately priced hotel in Washington. They paid eleven dollars for it and then figured out among themselves that the farmers who produced the ma. terials got just eighty-two
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