The Farmers Cooperative Association of Bridgeport filed articles on October 25, 1916, with $10,000 capital and signed by: W. C. Muhr, J. A. Muhr, E. G. Rouse, W. J. Cochran, Harvey Hascall, Gus Mittlestadt, W. T. Todd, George Sudvka, W. D. Cocke, Thos. Carter, I. E. Oliver.'G. A. Seslar, H. D. Mcwilliams, C. W. Mount. S. H. Burkey, Floyd Friend, J. L. Muhr, William Powell, George Miceke, T. O. Dugger, E. P. Lov, and James F. Turst.

Farmer Union of Bayard was incorporated on March 17, 1917, by: George Harms, John H. Helzer, O. S. Smith, Willie Linn, Ira Bigelow, W. E. Garwood, G. A. Norgren, G. W. Suhr, Hugo Diedricksen, G. S. Sawin, R. M. Garwood, John Peuse, I. C. Hanson, I. C. Watt, A. J. Dunham, D. H. Henderson, W. F. Gray, D. E. Meredith, Henry C. Knott, George N. Lee, C. F. Prouty, George C. Fox, Argell Warren, Conrad Knim & Son.

Union State Bank of Bridgeport was incorporated with the following directors: E. N. Duer, John H. Adams, J. R. Minshall, Fred R. Lindberg, and the following stockholders : George W. Beerline, John Cavalt, E. W. Duer, Fred R. Lindberg, John H. Adams, C. A. Wagoner, Carl C. Stevens, Clyde Spanogle. J. R. Minshall and Mark Spanogle.

Churches The establishing of resident congregation in Bridgeport came soon after the town sprang up in 1900 with the Methodists in the field first. The Presbyterian, the Episcopal and the Baptist congregations followed. The Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical and Seven Day Adventist while having no church edifice, held occasional services in Bridgeport. The United Brethren congregation built a church in 1904, and maintained actively for quite a few years and then sold their building to the Presbyterian