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BETTER FRUIT 



April 



THE BOARD OF CONTRAL 



Top row, left lo righl: E. C. S. Brainerd, Payette, Idaho; A. D. Moe, Hood River, Oicgon; A. W. Simmons, Freewaler, Oregon; W. M. Sackett, 



Hamilton, Montana; J. A. Westerlund, Medford, Oregon; Harry Jones, Wapato, Wasliington. Front row. extreme left: Jolin F. Davis, Spokane, 



Washington. Extreme right: E. C. Chase, Brewster, Washington. Front row (Executive Committee), second from left: C. T. Haskell, Wenatchee, 



Washington; W. H. Paulhamus, President and Manager, Puyallup, Washington; Truman Butler, Hood River, Oregon. 



Mr. Chase, while still a young man, 

 has made a record for himself that any 

 man can justly feel proud of. Those 

 who met liim at the Tacoma convention 

 felt very much impressed with his sin- 

 cerity and ability and feel, without ex- 

 ception, that he will render valuable 

 services in his position on the board of 

 control. 



While not so well acquainted with 

 the fruitgrowers at large as the other 

 members of the board, he has an inti- 

 mate acquaintance with the fruitgrow- 

 ers of his own district, who showed 

 their confidence in his ability and 

 judgment by placing him as the repre- 

 sentative of the Wenatchee district on 

 the Board of Control of Ten. 

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MR. A. W. SIMMONS, Freewater, Ore- 

 gon, Member of the Board of Control 

 of Ten, Representing Walla Walla 

 District in the Fruit Growers' Coun- 

 cil of 107. 



Mr. A. W. Simmons was born in Cass 

 County, Nebraska, February 1, 1856, 

 and is now 59 years of age. He at- 

 tended the public schools in Nebraska 

 and afterward the State University of 

 Nebraska. 



During his early life be was a school 

 teacher, afterward going into the mer- 

 cantile business, and still later on en- 

 gaging for twenty years in the drug 

 business in Dorchester, Nebraska. In 



the latter place he was for eighteen 

 years a member of the Board of Educa- 

 tion, and for a number of years was 

 mayor of that city. 



In 1906 Mr. Sinmions retired from the 

 drug business and moved to Walla 

 Walla, where he located on a well- 

 improved tract of ten acres set to fruit, 

 which is situated on the interurban car 

 line between Walla Walla, Washington, 

 and Milton, Oregon. In 1910 he re- 

 ceived first prize for the best ten boxes 

 of Arkansas Black at the National Apple 

 Show at Spokane, and at this show he 

 also had twenty-seven boxes of apples 

 on exhibit in the Walla Walla Valley 

 district display which also won first 

 prize. 



For two years Mr. Simmons was vice- 

 president of the Milton Fruit Growers' 

 Association and is now secretary and 

 treasurer of the State Line Irrigation 

 Co. For three years he was chairman 

 of the Fruitvale School Board. 



Mr. Simmons, while not a frequent 

 speaker on the floor, is generally re- 

 garde<l by the fruitgrowers who know 

 him as a man of good ability; a man 

 who will do more thinking than talk- 

 ing; a man who al all times will enter- 

 lain good, sound, sensible ideas for the 

 benefit of the industry; a man who will 

 render efTicicnt service in his new posi- 

 tion which he has assmncd. 



MR. E. C. S. BRAINARD, Payette, Idaho, 

 Member of the Board of Control of 

 Ten, Representing Idaho District in 

 the Fruit Growers' Council of 107. 

 Mr. Brainard was born at Onargie, 

 Illinois, October 13, 1863, and is now 

 51 years of age. His boyhood days 

 were spent in various towns in Iowa, 

 principally at Cedar Rapids, where he 

 attended the public schools, taking up 

 telegraphy under the direction of his 

 older brother. Al the age of eleven, it 

 is stated, he became a good operator, 

 being among the first telegraphers who 

 could read by sound; most of the work 

 at that time, particularly in the West 

 and Middle West, being done by the 

 old paper machines. At sixteen years 

 of age be was station agent at Clarks- 

 ville, Iowa, a town of about 2500 in- 

 habitants. Since that time he has filled 

 numerous positions with the railroads 

 in the Middle West and Northern 

 States in the station department and 

 operating department. His last posi- 

 tion in that line of work was chief 

 clerk for the Rio Grande Railroad at 

 Ogden, Utah, wliich position he re- 

 signed in 1902 to engage in dairying 

 and fruit growing. 



In 1904 Ml-. Brainard moved lo the 

 Payette Valley and since that time has 

 been connected with various irrigation 

 projects, lanil development and pro- 

 motion projects, at one time being over- 

 seer of seven ranches of forty acres 



