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Manuscript Group 66
Records, 1886-1938
4.5 cubic feet
The records of the Standard Dairy Company were donated to the University of Idaho Library by Henry L. Day in September 1971. They were processed by Judith Nielsen in July 1985. Additional materials were added during the processing of the Day Mines group of records, 1988-1992.
The Standard Dairy Company of Wallace, Idaho, was incorporated under the laws of the State of Idaho on December 27, 1920. In addition to the obvious purpose of producing and selling dairy products, the first purpose stated in the by-laws is the acquisition and disposition of land.
The company began with $100,000 in capital stock of which only 75 shares were subscribed, 25 shares each to Charles R. Mowery, Robert M. Jones, and Edward F. Gentry. Most of the remaining shares were traded to Edward Gentry, Eleanor Day Boyce, and Eugene Day for land and dairy stock, particularly Eugene Day's Osborn ranch which formed the nucleus of the dairy.
At the first stockholder's meeting in January 1921, Eugene Day was elected president, Edward Gentry vice president and manager, and P.J. Maggy, secretary-treasurer. After Eugene's death in 1923 Gentry became president and Henry Day the vice president.
By December 1938 the Day family, which owned 58% of the stock, decided they wanted to quit the dairy business while Gentry, the remaining shareholder wanted to continue. It was decided to liquidate the company and divide the property among the shareholders in proportion to their interest in the corporation. Gentry was given the diary farm, equipment, and livestock, while the Days received the land not connected with the dairy business.
The records of the Standard Dairy span the years 1886 to 1938, with the bulk of the papers covering the years the dairy was in operation, 1921 to 1938. The earlier records are those of the Osborn Ranch.
The papers include records of stockholders and directors meetings, correspondence, income tax returns, financial statements, ledgers, dairy route journals, a payroll ledger, check stub books, and voucher registers.
This is one of several record groups in the University of Idaho Special Collections Department which documents the business involvements of the Day family of Wallace.
The material in this record group follows the original arrangement of the material with one exception, the financial statements and balance sheets were transferred from the alphabetical file to the financial file. All of the original folder headings were retained.
Duplicate carbon copies of typed material, e.g. minutes and financial statements, were discarded. In cases where ledgers and journals contained the same information the journal was discarded. In all about 0.5 cubic feet of material was removed.
I. Organizational Records, 1886-1938 1 II. Alphabetical Office Files, 1921-1938 1-2 III. Financial Records, 1911-1938 2-3 & o.s.
Box Folder Description Items
1 1 Osborn Ranch - Abstract of Title, 1886-1913 1 2 By-laws - Standard Dairy Company, 1921 1 3-19 Records of Stockholders and Directors meetings, 1921-1938 287 20 Bound book of minutes, 1921-1938 1
21 Annual licenses, 1920/21-1938/39 76 22 Appraisement of Standard Dairy Co. by General Appraisal Company, 1937 1 23 Attachments, Writs of, 1922-1928 6 24-25 A-B Correspondence, 1921-1938 29 26 Canyon Creek Dairy, 1923-1924 3 27 Contracts - Sale of land, 1935-1938 36 28 C Correspondence, 1921-1938 110 29 Dead accounts, n.d. 1 30 Department of Agriculture, 1921-1931 10 31 Description of property owned, n.d. 4 32-33 D-E Correspondence, 1921-1938 80 34 Forms, n.d. 3 35 F Correspondence, 1921-1938 46 36 Gale McNett Purchase, 1923 3 37 Gentry spur, 1928 1 38 G Correspondence, 1921-1930 17 39 Hartford Accident & Indemnity, 1925-1931 22 40 Holstein Friesian Association, 1921-1927 27 41 H Correspondence, 1921-1934 86 42 Industrial Accident Board, 1921-1923 5 43 Inventory book, 1921-1938 1 44-49 I-N Correspondence, 1921-1938 196 50 Orangeade contract, 1936 1 51 O Correspondence, 1925-1937 14 2 52 Photographs, n.d. 8 53 Press Times Publishing Company, n.d. 3 54 Printing blocks, n.d. 2 55 P Correspondence, 1925-1938 38 56 Reems fire loss, 1926 23 57 R Correspondence, 1921-1937 38 58 Social Securities legislation, 1937 16 59 Solicitation & collection letters, 1930-1936 11 60 State milk law, 1926-1932 6 61 State of Idaho, 1921-1930 16 62 Stock certificate book, 1921-1938 1 63 Stock journal and ledger, 1921-1932 1 64 S Correspondence, 1921-1936 145 65 Trucks - certificates of title, 1928-1936 3 66 T Correspondence, 1921-1930 24 67 University of Idaho, 1929-1930 2 68-69 U-V Correspondence, 1921-1938 24 70 Washington Water Power rights of way, 1925 2 71-72 W-Z Correspondence, 1922-1938 99
73 Income tax - Employees, 1921-1934 13 74-77 Corporate income tax returns, 1921-1938 58 78 Capital stock returns, 1922-1926 5 79-81 Financial statements and balance sheets, 1921-1938 150 2.5 82 Check stub books, 1921-1932 15 3 83-84 General ledgers, 1921-1938 2 85-87 Dairy route journals, 1932-1938 3 o.s. 88 Payroll ledger, 1911-1938 1 89-93 Voucher registers, 1921-1938 5
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