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5. Local Committee to Organize Meeting of Sintaluta Farmers 



1906. 



The following committee of Sintaluta farmers made 

 arrangements for a meeting of the farmers in the 

 Sintaluta district to discuss co-operative trading in grain 

 and to pledge support of the trading company proposed 

 by E. A. Partridge : 



E. A. Partridge, Al Quigley, Dave Railton, W. J. Bonner, 

 T. McLeod, James Ewart. 



6. Preliminary Organisation Committee of Sintaluta Farmers 



1906. 



E. A. Partridge (Chairman), A. J. Quigley (Secretary), 

 William Hall (Treasurer), James Halford, James Ewart, 

 D. Eailton, Sr., J. O. Partridge, William J. Bonner, 

 Thomas S. McLeod, W. Malhiot, H. O. Partridge, G. K. 

 Grass, Harold Bird, H. T. Smith, George Hill all of 

 Sintaluta, Sask. 



Subsequently this committee was enlarged to include 

 number of Manitoba canvassers. 



7. Provisional Officers of Grain Growers' Grain Company 1906. 



Provisional organization of the Western farmers' piont 

 trading company finally took place at Winnipeg, Julj 

 26th, 1906, when the following officers were chosen: 



President, E. A. Partridge; Vice-President, John 

 Kennedy; Secretary-Treasurer, John Spencer; Directors: 

 W. A. Robinson (Elva, Man.), and Francis Graham 

 (Melita, Man.). 



At a general meeting of the shareholders these same 

 officers were elected subsequently and the directorate 

 increased by two Robert Cruise (Dauphin) and T. W. 

 Knowles (Emerson). 



8. Sintaluta (Sask.) Farmers Who Pledged Personal Securities 



1906. 



Finding themselves $1,500 short of the necessary $2,500 

 for the purchase of a seat on the Winnipeg Grain 

 Exchange, the young trading company of farmers had 

 recourse to personal securities in order to finance their 

 start in business. The friends to whom E. A. Partridge 

 appealed and who immediately gave the bank their 

 personal notes were the following Sintaluta men: 



Dave Railton, Al Quigley, Tom McLeod, Jim Ewart, 

 William E. Hall. 



