The Threshers Form Union

THE THRESHERS FORM UNION

About 60 Were in Attendance Tuesday

OFFICERS WERE ELECTED

The Schedule for Threshing Rates Has Not Yet Been Fixed

The threshermen of Washtenaw county organized a union Tuesday in this city with three objects in view. 1st to secure favorable legislation for good roads, safe bridges, a lien on grain threshed, &c.; 2d for mutual cooperation in insurance; 3d to fix and maintain reasonable prices for threshing.

A lodge was organized known as Washtenaw Lodge No. 257 of the Threshers' National Protective Association, to meet at 1 o'clock on the last Saturday of each month in this city. About 60 threshers have joined the lodge and these are practically all the threshermen in the county.

the following officers were elected yesterday: President, Gottlieb C. Mann, of Bridgewater; vice president, Peter Gorman, of Chelsea; secretary, James Hanby, jr., of Dixboro; treasurer, Chas. E. Paul, of Chelsea; marshal, John Steinbach, of Chelsea; chaplain, William Sprigelberg, of Whitmore Lake; trustees, John Gordon, of Saline, and Burnett Steinbach, of Chelsea; inner guard, George Eaton, of Ann Arbor; outer guard, Fred F. Stein, of Ann Arbor.

J. B. Parker, the veteran subscription solicitor for the American Thresherman, installed the officers and Messrs. Mills and Barrows, who have been instrumental in organizing the lodge were present.

Daniel Reeves and Fred Goss of Saline were appointed a committee to secure a lodge room. James Hanby, jr., of Dixboro was appointed county deputy.

The following sub-business, or township committee, was appointed: John Breitenbach, Lyndon, Henry Van Aken, Salem, John Huteman, Superior, Henry James, Ypsilanti, F. F. Steinbach, Sylvan, W. F. Treat, Sharon, B. F. Schneider, Freedom, William Marken, Lodi, John Sutherland, Pittsfield, Paul Wheeler, York, Herman Gross, Saline, Fred Butler, Manchester.

The association is on good terms with the various manufacturers of threshing machinery who recognize the demoralized state in which the threshing industry has been. The schedule of rates for threshing has not yet been fixed.