Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1919 — CATTLE MEN ORGANIZE [ARTICLE]

CATTLE MEN ORGANIZE

BREEDERS OF POLLED HEREFORDS FORM STATE ORGANIZATION. The Indiana Polled Hereford Breeders Association was organized at Hartford City, Wednesday, at a meeting held in the Hartford hotel, which was attended by twohundred live stock men from Indiana and other cities of the Union. F. A. Stinson, of Huntingburg, was elected president; Fred Reppert, of Decatur, secretary-treasurer, and J. E. Green, of Muncie vice-president. The new organization is not to be affiliated with another state organization formed at Lafayette some time ago, but is to be distinct by a Polled Hereford organization to breed hornless cattle. ■B. O. Gammon, of Des Moines, la., national secretary of the American Polled Hereford Breeders’ Association, had charge of the meeting, and assisted in perfecting the organization. Overton Harris, of Harris, Mo., widely known as a breeder of Polled Herefords, also attended the meeting and made an address. The new organization starts off with a charter membership of thirt-two, as follows: Fred Reppert, Decatur; W. 0. Modline and G. F. Slaterfi, Upland; Jacob ■St. John, Pine Village; F. 0. Hagemann, Herman Aldridge and William Hagemann, Mt. Vernon; F. R. Mullendore. Franklin; W. M. Kister, Haubstadt; William Stalbaum, Tefft; 0. S. Bell, Parr; W. A. Wilkey, Sullivan; George Hudleson and Yeager & Montgomery, Owensville; Williams & Wright, Farmland; G. W. Gossard, Kempton; S. R. Yonkey, Thorntown; J. O. Engle, Winchester; W. D. Myer, Aurora; W.- R. Secrist, Fairmount; W. H. Buck, Lafayette"; J. H. Hepp, Winamac; Biven Coburn, Medaryville; Cary Harper, Litzon; Earl Tuhey and J. E. Green, Muncie; F. A. Stinson, Huntingburg; Jenkins Bros., B. F. Turley and Mart Lindley, Orleans, and Herbert Myers and A. C. Clippinger, Hartford City.

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