The book closes on the Laurel lumber yard

In May 1943, the St. Anthony & Dakota Lumber Co. was sold to the Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association as part of a $2.3 million deal that included 135 grain elevators and 38 lumberyards located in several Midwestern states. The yards in Dixon, Concord, Coleridge and Laurel were included in the deal. For the next four years, the former St. Anthony would be known as Farmers Lumber & Supply.