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Show FARM BUREAU H WELL ORGANIZED Additional progress In the organization organiza-tion of the Weber county farm bureau, bu-reau, which was launched at a meet- ing held in this city a week ago, has , been made by the selection of a secretary-treasurer and eleven directors, according to an announcement by D. D. McKay, president of the new organization. or-ganization. W. N. Petterson, superintendent super-intendent of the Weber county public schools, has been named secretarj'-treasurer secretarj'-treasurer of the bureau. All of the officers of tho bureau havo now been named, Mr. McKay having been selected president at the meeting a week ago and James R. Beus of Hooper, vice president. Mr. McKay, who was the original promoter pro-moter of the organization, Is a resident resi-dent of Huntsville and president of the Ogden Valley Commercial club. In the farm bureau It is his plan to widen the scope of the valley organization, organi-zation, which Is composed largely of farmers residing In the Huntsville, Liberty and Eden districts. It Is provided in the constitution that each district shall have its farmers' branch association, such organization or-ganization to be represented in the central bureau by a director. Several commercial corporations, such as the Amalgamated Sugar compan', Ogden Clearing House association and Ogden Og-den Packing & Provision company are also entitled to a representative on the board. The district directors that havo so far been named are David Hancock, West Weber; Albert Green, Taylor; T. R. Jones, Kaysville; Martin T. Brown, Roy; Thomas E. Powell, Marriott; Mar-riott; John Bailey, North Ogden; R. T. Rhoes, Pleasant View; J. L. Rob-son, Rob-son, Plain City; A. W. Marriott, Warren; War-ren; J. M. Wheeler, Slatervllle; James R. Beus, Hooper, and J. F. Barton, Ogden, representative of the Amalgamated Sugar company. President McKay has issued a call for a general meeting of the farmers of the county, to be held in tho county coun-ty building In this city on 'Monday afternoon, September 13. At that time a definite plan of action and program of work will be outlined in detail. -rr |