On Tuesday, May 16, 1919, the property of the Farmers Cooperative Association was sold to ten individual farmers who are reorganizing the affairs of the company and will eventually merge the concern into a Farmers Union Cooperative Association. This merger will be made within, the next sixty days. In the meanwhile the property will be used as a receiving station for butter fat and eggs and business will be kept up as usual. The present name of the organization is the Farmers Creamery company, of which E. P. Loy is present manager and Frank Corl is operator.

The men who took over the creamer)- are E. P. Loy, J. E. Oliver, W. J. Cochran, Orville Dugger, Joe Niehus, Will Muhr, Gus Mittlesteadt, Clarence Mount, William Powell and Joseph Twist.

They are all representative farmers and stockmen of the substantial kind. They assumed liability for payment for the property and will retain ownership until a Farmers Union Cooperative Association has been perfected, which will be soon.

The manager advises us that it is the intention of the Farmers Union Cooperative Association to handle a number of lines of business as soon as arrangements can be made. They will handle cream separators, now having an agency for these, and will engage in general merchandise business including farm machinery, along the lines of the Farmer Union stores that are in operation at different places. The

manager also states that the requisite number of petitioners for the organization of a Farmers Union has been secured and the rest of the work of organizing is largely of a detail character.