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Show BOXELDER FARMERS 0BG1ZEA BUREAU Movement Is to Be Extended Extend-ed Through Auxiliaries in All Committees. Special to The Tribune. BRIG 1 1AM CITY, Dec. 16. An important impor-tant meeting of Boxelder county farmers farm-ers was held at Tremonton today for the purpose of effecting a county organization. or-ganization. Two sessions were held and were attended by upward of 100 prominent promi-nent farmers from all parts of the county. coun-ty. As a result of the meeting the Box-elder Box-elder county farm bureau was organized, with John P. Holmgren of Bear River City as president and J. C. Wheelon of Garland as vice president. Mr. Holmgren is one of tho best known farmers in northern Utah and Mr. Wheeion has a state-wide reputation as an irrigation engineer, being engineer of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company's extensive exten-sive irrigation system in Boxelder county. The sessions of the farmers' meeting were addressed by R. J. Evanston of the extension division of the Agricultural college col-lege and County Agent R. H. Stewart of Boxelder county. These men. being experts in their line, gave the farmers some valuable information concerning organization or-ganization and talked strongly iu favor of an organization In this county. As a result of the addresses forty-two prominent promi-nent farmers signed up for membership for three years in the Boxelder county farm bureau. The matter of appointing a secretary and treasurer was left In the hands of the president and vice president, but It was the sense of the meeting that this office should go to Brlgham City on account ac-count of its location. The matter of outlining a programme for the future was eliminated by the meeting and this feature was placed in the hands of the officers. The by-laws and constitution adopted today provide for a board of directors, selected as follows: One member to represent rep-resent the board of education, one member mem-ber representing each of the five, banks of the county and one member from each auxiliary organization hereafter to be organized in each of the communities communi-ties of the county. The president and vice president will call a meeting at an early date, when the completion ol the organization will be made and the selection se-lection of a board of directors to outline the future policy of the bureau will be disposed of. No time will be lost in completing com-pleting the work, so that the farmers may begin to receive the benefits of the organization or-ganization during lf17. |