Tag: Directors meeting
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The directors increase capital stock 200%
All the minutes of the new Vegetable Growers Supply Co. were handwritten by J. B. Molitor himself. As I read these minutes more than 100 years removed from their original writing in 1918 and 1919, I have come to learn J. B.’s formulaic but in some places idiosyncratic use of language, including his very consistent…
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Securing lumber contracts and moving with urgency…
With corporate governance for the Vegetable Growers Supply Co. tidied up just a couple weeks ago and a three-person executive committee in place (J. P. Smith, president, J. B. Molitor, secretary and Joseph Rengel, vice-president), J. P. Smith called a special meeting of the board of directors on February 5, 1919 at 8 P.M. at…
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Officer elections and orders for wood
Later in the evening after the Vegetable Growers Supply Co. shareholder meeting on January 14, 1919, the directors held a meeting at 7 pm at Arcanum Hall in Rogers Park, Chicago, to elect corporate officers and to discuss orders for wood from the Wisconsin mills. With the new directors all present, J. P. Smith was…
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The search for space and the price of relief
At the January 13, 1919 directors’ meeting of the Vegetable Growers Supply Co., at Arcanum Hall, 7013 Ravenswood Ave. Chicago IL, the directors found themselves a bit behind on approving prior meeting minutes and promptly dispensed with approval of minutes from the past two meetings. President J.P. Smith then turned to two pressing matters: the…
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One demand rejected, two offers extended…
The directors of the brand new Vegetable Growers Supply Co. met at 8 PM on January 7, 1919, again at Arcanum Hall, 7013 Ravenswood, Chicago IL, just week and one day after their last meeting. The purpose of this meeting was to deliberate further on two pressing items: from whom to get lumber and what…
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From whom to buy lumber? Where to rent space?
Several of the directors behind the startup of the Vegetable Growers Supply Co. were already engaged in directing farmers’ associations. In the 1913, J. P. Wagoner, J. P. Molitor, Frederick Weber, J. P. Smith, Chas Hengesch, Robert F. Dilger, Peter Schumer, Micheal Leider, John Becker, Nicholas Platz, and Paul Nazig were elected the directors of…
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Off to Wisconsin!
The Vegetable Growers Supply Co held a directors meeting on December 16, 1918 at the Odd Fellows Hall, 7001 N. Clark Street, Chicago, but starting late at 9:00 PM after President J. P. Smith called the the group to order. The board appointed two board members to make a trip to Wisconsin to “see the…
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Don’t box me in
The oral tradition conveyed to me by my father was that Vegetable Growers Supply Co. was formed because the wooden box makers (produce was carried in wooden boxes to the market) were raising prices much too high for the greenhouse growers to accept. In response, they decided to form Vegetable Growers Supply Co. to make…
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