Midland Cooperator

NOTED COOPERATOR
RECEIVES HONORS
AND APPRECIATION
Chas. Ommodt Given Banquet
And Reception For His Able
And Faithful Services

The Board of Directors, operators
and patrons of District No. 11,
Land O' Lakes Creameries, consist-
ing of Wadena, Ottertail, Becker
Clay and Wilkin counties, tendered
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ommodt, of
Detroit Lakes, a banquet and re-
ception at the Park Hotel of that
city on Sunday, Sept. 17, in ap-
preciation of Mr. Ommodt's faith-
ful and able service to the Dis-
trict. More than two hundred and
fifty guests were present.

Chas. Ommodt, who has been the
Land O' Lakes field manager of
District No. 11 for the past eight
years, was recently appointed by
Commissioner R. A. Trovatten of
the Department of Agriculture,
Dairy and Food as Assistant De-
puty Commissioner of that De-
partment.

Appointed to Public Office
J. O. Biorklund, chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Eleventh
District, Henning, Minn., acted as
toastmaster for the occasion and
gave the welcoming address. The
following guests lauded the work
of Mr. Ommodt: S. P. Anderson,
representing
the
Barnesville
Creamery; Walter E. Johnson, New
York Mills Co-op. Creamery; Mr.
Herbert Holcomb, Detroit Coop.
Dairy Assn.; Mr. E. F. Selvig, audi-
tor of District No. 11, Deer Creek;
Mr. M. M. Olson of the Vining Co-
op. Creamery; and Mr. E. F. Matt-
sor, operator of the Wadena Co-
op. Creamery.

Eulogized by Speakers
All of the speakers stressed the
fact that Mr. Ommodt has ac-
complished a great deal for the
cooperative creameries in develop-
ing side-line operations, such as
cooperative trucking, poultry pur-
chasing, feed and flour handling,
and manufacturing of cheese and
ice cream; in establishing a uni-
form
system
of
accounting
throughout the 11th district; and
in securing the cooperation of the
operators and patrons of all the
creameries.

At the close of these remarks,
the creamery operators presented
Mr. Ommodt with a gold watch
as a token of their esteem and
appreciation, and a book contain-
ing the autographs of all the
guests was presented to him by
the board of directors of the 11th
District, Land O' Lakes Creameries,
as a memento of the occasion.

Mr. Ommodt responded to the
presentation remarks and thanked
everyone in attendance, assuring
them that he would try to serve
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RECEIVES HONORS
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APPRECIATION
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...them in the future as he had in the past.

A. J. McGuire, general manager of the Land O' Lakes Creameries, Inc., attending the banquet, spoke at length on the splendid work that Mr. Ommodt had done for the Land O' Lakes Cream-eries and was very much pleas-ed that the Department of Agriculture, Dairy and Food had secured the services of as highly qualified a man as Mr. Ommodt. Mr. McGuire stated that at first he had been opposed to Mr. Ommodt's taking the position offered him by Mr. Trovatten, but when he learned that the work of that office was to be along edu-cational and constructive lines, as well as law enforcement, he changed his mind and endorsed the appointment.

Following Mr. McGuire's ad-dress, R. A. Trovatten, Commis-sioner of Agriculture, Dairy and Food, spoke on the duties and pos-sibilities of the work connected with the Department. He stated that, though Mr. Ommodt was not an applicant for the position, he was chosen as the man for it, due to the fact that he had the wel-fare of the people at heart, was an expert creamery operator and accountant, and a true coopera-tor, who would put the advance-ment of cooperative creameries foremost at all times. In his selec-tion of Mr. Ommodt, he felt that the progressive people of Minne-sota would approve.

NRA policies provide a palliative for our economic ills, but coopera-tion alone furnishes the remedy.