Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-02-23
MORE CREAM
BODIES MEET
Sandstone Most Recent of
County's Large Industry
in Annual Session.
Beroun, Pine City and Rock
Greek Also Meet and
Elect Officers.

Several creamerieS of the county
have held their annual meetings dur
ing the forepart of this month and
during the past week the Sandstone
Farmers Cooperative Creamery, the
Beroun Cooperative, the Pine City
and the Rock Creek Cooperative
Creamery Associations held their an
nual meetings and closed their books
for the past year.
400 Eat at Sandstone.
The Sandstone Cooperative Cream
cry held its annual meeting in the
New Theatre in. that village Tuesday
and it was we'll attended by farmers
coming with their teams for many
miles. The meeting was called to
order by Gust E. Johnson, president,
with Nels Lundorff at his post as Sec
rotary. The annual report was read
and showed that 345,773 pounds Of
butter had been made in 1882 for
which the average price received was
1856 cents.
The creamery is being operated on
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good financial condition. The board
of directors consists of the following:
Gust f. Johnson, president; secretary,
Nels Lundorff; Guy Hendricks, ]. C.
Hansen. Fred Anderson, Joe Warner
and Louis Anderson. P. E. Robinson
is the efficient operator.
About 400 lunches were served at
noon and after the business session
the gathering was treated to an ex-
cellent picture show in the New
Theatre.
Ber0un Meets.
The annual stockholders meeting Of
the Beroun Cooperative Creamery
was held on Saturday, Feb. Is. at the
school house. A total of 1869
pounds of butterfat was purchased
during the year of 1892 at an aver
age price of 1887 cents per pound.
The total sales of butter for the year
amounted to S46,069.41.
William Won Busch was reelected
to the board of directors of the cream
cry and Fred Ausmus and Henry
Posel were elected to the places va
Gated by L. j. Ouradnik and Frank ].
Pavek. Other members of the board
are, Anton Racer, F. M. Kubesh, Leo
Haberman and F. w. Runa.
100 Attend Pine City Meeting.
On the same afternoon as the Be-
roun meeting also took place the
meeting of the Pine City creamery.
P. H. Anderson and S. A. Striegl were
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directors by the more than 100 stock
holders present. An amendment was
passed at the meeting authorizing
the board of directors to buy all
shares over three held by each mem
Der of the association at the original
price of $3.50. This does not mean
that members must sell back all
shares in excess of three but may do
so if they wish. The total amount
of paid up shares at the present time
is $11,0S5. The reports showed cash
on hands and in the bank in the
amount of S21, 3O1.46. with total as
sets of S55,353S3 The liabilities Of
the association amount to S29, 1884.
The total sales from all sources of
the creamery during the past year
amounted to S172,327.36 and butter
fat purchased brought the patrons
: $155,312.14. The cost of operation
was $2O,15S.97 and the creamery made
a profit of seven-tenths of cent per
pound for the year. Each creamery
patron received a final payment of
one cent per pound for all cream de-
livered during the year. The average
+ price paid for sweet cream during the
year was 22.09 cents and the average
price paid for all grades was 21.7f
cents.
The holdover members of the board
of directors are r. Odendahl. George
( Kick, George Dipprey, Anton Wanous
and Andrew Carlson.
? Rock Creek Meets.
j, Earlier last week-Tuesday-
4 stockholders of the Rock Creek
3 creamery met and reelected Ben
3 Johnson. August Peterson, c. H. Beav-
5 ers, w. P. Friday and Art Peterson
e to the board OF directors.
: The annual report read by the sec
J. rotary showed total sales of butter
e during 1892 of $47,O6O.2S. The total
r disbursements for the year amounted
l to $46,S42.98 and net profit of $118.3O
J, was made by the creamery. The
Y total amount of butterfat purchased
l during the year amounted to 1871
n pounds with the average price of 2O.46
cents being paid. A total of 238,112
e pounds of butter was made during the
!. year.