the farmers union
The official name was Farmers Educational and Cooperative Association. A cooperative is "an autonomous association of persons who voluntarily cooperate for their mutual, social, economic, and cultural benefit."
We also called it the Farmers Co-Op.
We also called it the Farmers Co-Op.
Photo 4022, the Farmers Union circa 1950s, shared by Judy Aylor.
Here is a 1967 newsletter with photos of the employees (Bob Dietrich, Rudy Fritch, Sr., Carl Bernadt, Lyle Hunzeker, Ron Gilbert, Roy Briant, and manager Harold Gottula). It is Document 3.
The pictures are very grainy when blown up, but here they are:
a few advertisements
January 18, 1951:
December 22, 1955, Phone 2321:
January 31, 1960:
November 1964: Oh boy, plastic pails as a Christmas present for the little wife....But HE gets a Skilsaw....
