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Wisconsin Rural Electric Cooperative Association / First yearbook, 1938
(1938)
Introduction: local cooperative histories, pp. 33-49
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WISCONSIN RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION tion is a real achievement. Mr. Frank W. Gates, recently of Elkhorn, is Manager of the ROCK COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE. Miss Veronica Thom was office secretary until prevented from returning to her position by a serious injury received while on vacation in Colorado. Mrs. Elizabeth Agnew is now bookkeeper and office secretary. Two servicemen are at present employed by the Cooperative. ' This Cooperative is purchasing its energy from Fairbanks-Morse Company of Beloit, the substation being located there on the property of the Company. The manager reports that satisfaction with their electric service is practically general throughout the project, and that all bids fair for successful operation. From J. 0. Woodman, who was the first to be connected in July, to the last connection made, there is a brightening of faces and a lift of tired shoulders, that express the thrill of gratefulness with which these farm residents view the realization of the hopes that have made possible for them by the construction of their REA electric lines. PROJECT Wisconsin-21 -Taylor The seven hundred members of the TAYLOR COUNTY ELECTRIC CooP- ERATIVE which was incorporated January 18, 1937, expect their 218 miles of line to be complete before the first anniversary of their incorporation. Their local office has been established at Medford. Paul J. Fleisch- mann is the Project Superintendent and Miss Hildegarde Ruprich of Dorchester, the stenographer. At 8 p. m. on the second Tuesday of each month the Board meets at the office to discuss the problems and set the course of their Cooperative. ANDREW E. HETLAND, President, Whittlesey JOHN OCKERLANDER, Vice-President, Dorchester HENRY BERGMANN, Secretary-Treasurer, Goodrich Directors: CHARLES PAUR, Medford HERB JANKE, Athens ALBERT BISCHOFF, Dorchester CARL M. NELSON, Medford ALBERT PINSCH, Medford JULIUS MILLER, Medford Staking and construction supervision was begun on this project by C. A. Jorgenson who was later transferred to Bangor. He was replaced by F. R. McFarland. The Contractor is L. G. Arnold., Inc. of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The TAYLOR COOPERATIVE is a member of the Wisconsin Power Coop- erative, Paul J. Fleischmann representing the Taylor group on the Board of Directors. The substation for their project is near Stetsonville on Unit 2 of the transmission line. If the interest and anticipation present among the members can be taken as indicative, the TAYLOR COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE will be strong and successful. a1 45
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