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Show DIRECTORS CHOSEN FOR FARM BUREAU W. N. Petterson Is Secre-jtary-treasurer ; General Meeting Sept. 13. sJLolal to The Tribune. fcODKN, Aug. 31.--Additional progress IrAthe organization of the Weber county fagm bureau, which was launched at a rnjetlng held In this city a week ago. bm been made by the selection of a sec-rejUry-treasurer and eleven directors, according ac-cording to an announcement today by D. D. McKay, president of the new organization. or-ganization. W. N. Petterson. superintendent superinten-dent of the Weber countv public schools, baa been named secretary-treasurer of the hiupau. All of the officers of the bureau have ndfcv been named, Mr. McKay having been sheeted president at the meeting a week u) and .lames R. Pens of Hooper, vice pflreldetit Mr. McKay, who was the original promoter of the organization, is a resident of Jhintsviilo and president of thfe Ogden Valley Commercial club. In rile farm bureau it i Ills plan to widen tip scope of the valloy organization, which Is composed largely of farmers residing re-siding In the Hurtsvllle, Uberty and Eden diat rlcte. It la provided !n the constitution that cch district shall have Us farmers' bunch association, such organization to )e represented In the central bureau by a -director. Several commercial corporations, corpora-tions, such as the Amalgamated Sugar coftipany, Ogden Clearing House association associa-tion and Ogden Packing & Provision company, com-pany, are also entitled to a representative on the hoard. The district directors that have so far bee n na mad a re Oav Id I la ncock, West Weber; Albert Green. Taylor; T. R. Jones, Kuneavllle; Martin T. Brown, Roy: Thomas K. Powell, Marriott; John Bailey, .Vnrtli Ogden; R. T. Rhees. Pleasant View; .1. U Pobson. Plain City; A. W. Marriott, Mar-riott, Warren: J. M. Wheeler. Slater-vflle; Slater-vflle; .lames R. Bens, Hooper, and J. F. Hartoii, Ogden. representative of the Amalgamated Sugar company. Preildenl McKay has Issued a call for a gdneral meeting of the farmers of the yiiMtv, fo be held in the county build-in build-in In this city on Monday afternoon, September 13. At that time a definite plhn of action and programme of work ill be outlined In detail. |