Organizations
Collection for organization entities.
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- P.A. Rice Lumber Company (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- Early Grand Junction company run by brothers Phidelah "P.A." Rice and William "W.A." Rice. They established a sawmill, Mesa County's first, on Pinon Mesa in 1883. They also ran a lumberyard near 249 S. 4th Street in Grand Junction.
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- P.E.O. International, BY Chapter (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- Also known as the P.E.O. Sisterhood. An organization of women advocating the advancement of women. Organized chapters existed in Grand Junction by at least 1928. Grand Junction seems to have had several chapters, with names corresponding to letters of the alphabet, including chapters N, BY, and AQ. Early BY members included oral history interviewee Grace Wade, Beulah Baker, Annabelle Dunn, Carol Summers, Grace Kruger, and Violet Myers.
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- P.E.O. International, CD Chapter (Palisade, Colorado)
- A Palisade chapter of P.E.O., an organization for women, began in 1928. Original members included Ruth Tilton, who was selected as guard, and Julia Aspinall. According to Tilton, the Grand Junction P.E.O. would not sponsor the Palisade women who were trying to begin their own chapter and dismissed the Palisade members as “Just a bunch of farm women.” The CD Chapter sponsored the Palisade Public Library. According to the website of P.E.O., the international organization began in the Midwest in 1869. It now consists of over 225,000 members in 6,000 chapters. It contributes to charitable causes, including scholarships and educational grants for women all over the world.
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- Pacific Fruit Growers (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- According to oral history interviewee Albert Phillips Jr., the Pacific Fruit Growers was a privately-owned organization that marketed fruit from the Grand Junction area. It dissolved around 1961.