| Show A MIGHTY institution the stockholders meeting g of operative cooperative co mercantile was WAR held belli in ID the office to day monday april 6 aib b at loov ahre was a fair representation ol 01 stockholders stock hold era present the principal business before the mooing was waa the d twenty seventh annual report which was wag reau by the secretary it states that the salt salts 9 u 1895 wert more than they the year previous upwards Jp warde of one hundred and fifty oar car loads loade of wheat have bavo been marketed at remunerative fi fiuren fiu guret ref but the dried quit market bus baa been very dull and aad prices have ruled low it to la probable that unless the truit fruit growers of this take more care and put up a better grade of dried tault their market will be an ga ex themely limited one OB as the call california evat evaporated orated dried fruit bruit while not f floe fine flavored as aa our own la is put a a much mure attractive manner is aej commands a readier sale in the M 1 I factories fao toria have been mantti mant tB lured pairs paira of boots bools and aap 1 and bozon of overalls and akk i abere was paid for frelent and charges during the year artie cash receipts have bave been 96 nearly all departments have do well on the ath of october last jast the om corporation would have expired aj limitation of law on the of et september dep a new corporation was waa j formed and out of shares 1067 were represented personally or hy by 1 proxy in the new corporation the term lerm for which the institution la Is now incorporated Is ia fifty years from thell of 0 september 1895 the business was do not interrupted for a single day aay as the books of the old ati n were closed and the balanc carried oward forward o ward to the new on thosas the sac evening and cigut 1 hereafter there will be but 0 meeting of stockholders manually ana anu ally owl OB the ath of april of each year y the profits realized zed the past paa years have been A dividend of 0 four per par coat cent was do for the half year ending A apryl jtb I 1 a conclusion the presidents president s report states taut abat there has been abundant abunda mL cause for thankfulness for tae ty of the institution the few post past years have been trying ones for alt all engaged in burines bu aines sines and maey maby have one BOS cambou cum bed to the preE pressure sure of the aimee but bat w with th the bleas of a kind and muros 1 tul jul providence the patronage and consideration of its friends and customer the institution has bag succeeded lo in earning ing a lair fair return upon the capital invested and enters upon the year of its iti incorporation re period j thankful for past favors and with owl Z 1 I aident expectations of greater ancee in future no election of at officers and directors will be held bold this year the i vo ration provides that the he officers officer shall serve until april 1897 when the next annual election will be hold held |
