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Cage
520
Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company
Marcellus Farmers'
Elevator Company Records
1914-1963
4 containers.
3.5 linear feet of shelf space.
578 items.
Correspondence, accounting records,
elevator records, and journals.
Collection materials are in
English
In 1914, Marcellus area farmers formed the Marcellus Farmers' Elevator
Company as a farmers' cooperative enterprise. The company stored and sold local
grain, and also stocked and sold everything from fence posts and gasoline to
farm implements, and provided credit to farmers. In 1927, the company built a
grain elevator, which it expanded in the 1950's. The business was sold to a
larger warehouse firm in the 1960s.
The records falls into two series, the first consisting of accounting
records and miscellaneous correspondence, and the second of elevator records
and journals. The correspondence also includes records of stockholder meetings,
by-laws, and tax records. The cash, elevator, and journal records list various
transactions between the elevator and its customers, beginning in 1914 and
going through 1962.
This collection is open for research use.
[Item Description]. Cage
520, Marcellus Farmers'
Elevator Company Records. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Records of the Marcellus Farmers' Elevator Company, Adams County, were
received by the Washington State University Libraries in 1981 through the
efforts of Richard Old, then a graduate student in Botany at the
university.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Marcellus Farmer's Elevator Company --Archives
Grain
elevators, Cooperative--Washington (State)--Adams County
Grain
elevators, Cooperative--Washington (State)--Marcellus
Agriculture
Business, Industry, and Labor
Washington (State)
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Series 1: Accounts and
Correspondence
Accountants' Annual
Statements
1
1
1914-1923
5
items.
1
2
1924-1929
7
items.
1
3
1930-1936
7
items.
1
4
1937-1943
7
items.
1
5
1944-1950
7
items.
1
6
1951-1957
9
items.
1
7
1958-1959
7
items.
1
8
1960-1962
10
items.
2
9
Annual Stockholders' Meetings
Records
1953
64
items.
2
10
Amended Articles of
Incorporation, Farmers' Elevator Company
5
items.
2
11
Amended By-Laws, Marcellus
Farmers' Elevator Company
15
items.
2
12
Assets and Amended
By-Laws
1956-1959
16
items.
2
13
Excise and Employee Withholding
Taxes
1935-1943
23
items.
2
14
German-American Bank of
Ritzville, Notes
1915
1
item.
2
15
Insurance Coverage
15
items.
2
16
Marcellus Farmers' Elevator
Company Building Plans
17
items.
2
17
Merger of the Marcellus Farmers'
Elevator Company with the Ritzville Warehouse, Incorporated
1963
24
items.
2
18
Outstanding Shares of
Stock
1962
2
items.
2
19
Patronage Dividends and
Savings
1952-1962
5
items.
2
20
Patronage Refunds
1945-1946
17
items.
2
21
Personal Property
Taxes
10
2
22
Property Assessment
1942-1945
6
items.
2
23
Stock Dividends and
Loans
10
items.
2
24
Stockholders' Reports,
Insurance
46
items.
2
25
Stockholder Reports, Marcellus
Farmers' Elevator Company
1953-1962
36
items.
United States Income Tax and
Employee Witholding Records
2
26
1946-1958
55
items.
2
27
1949-1959
54
items.
2
28
1949-1959
46
items.
2
29
Wills and Marcellus Farmers'
Elevator Company Stock
14
items.
Series 2: Accounting
Records.
Subseries 2.1: Cash
Records.
2
30
1914
1
item.
2
31
Minute Book
1914
1
item.
2
32
1917-1921
1
item.
2
33
1919
1
item.
2
34
1922
1
item.
2
35
1925-1927
1
item.
2
36
1927
1
item.
2
37
1927
1
item.
2
38
1929
1
item.
2
39
1932
1
item.
2
40
1935
1
item.
2
41
1937
1
item.
2
42
1940
1
item.
2
43
1942
1
item.
2
44
1945
1
item.
Trial Balance
2
45
1924
1
item.
2
46
1929
1
item.
2
47
1933
1
item.
Subseries 2.2: Elevator
Records
3
48
Certificates of
Debt
1954-1955
2
items.
3
49
Certificates of
Debt
1956-1957
3
items.
3
50
Grain Contracts
1
item.
3
51
Official Grain
Standards
1
item.
3
52
Scale Book
1
item.
3
53
Shipping Scale
Weights
1
item.
3
54
Warehouse Receipts
1
item.
Subseries 2.3:
Journals
4
55
Dividends
1945-1962.
4
56
Journal
1914
1
item.
4
57
Journal
1918
1
item.
4
58
Minutes, Directors'
Meetings
1916-1926
1
item.
4
59
Minutes, Directors'
Meetings
1921-1934
1
item.
4
60
Records
1929-1939
1
item.
4
61
Voting Members of the Marcellus
Farmers' Elevator Company
January 25,
1963
1
item.
Subseries 2.4: Wheat Shipping
Records
Personal Records
4
62
1927-1934
1
item.
4
63
1934
1
item.
4
64
1935-1944
1
item.
4
65
1954
1
item.