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LEADER CHEESE AND BUTTER ASSOCIATION

Results from the 1900 annual meeting as reported in the Thursday, 11 Jan 1900 edition of The Reeseville Review.

Officers elected as follows:

President C. A. Buss
Secretary Henry Hamann
Treasurer Adolph Roth
Directors Friedrich Scheele
G. H. Kohn

About 460 cows were pledged for the upcoming season.  Louis Froehlich was the cheesemaker and manager of the factory.  He operated as a representative of John Habhegger, cheesemaker and wholesaler in Watertown.

About 1,500,000 pounds of milk had been delivered for the previous season.  Prices paid per pound were as follows:

Feb $1.10
Mar $1.00
Apr $0.75
May $0.75
June $0.75
July $0.90
Aug $0.90
Sept $1.10
Oct $1.10
Nov $1.00
Dec $1.00
Jan, 1900 $1.00