Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-09-08
FARMERS ASSOCIATIONS.
Interesting Meeting Delegates appointed to
the Nashville ChonVe0tfoH.

Interesting Meeting Delegates appointed to
the Nashville chonye0tfon.
The second regular meetingof the
Montgomery County Farmers As
ISOLATION took place in the County
Court room Monday. The attend
ance was good, the members all
being representatives of the best
type OF our farming people.
President G. P. Warfield was in
the chair. The principal business
before the meeting was to appoint
delegates to the Farmers State
Convention, which meets in Nash
Vile on the 18th of this month,
and to adopt constitution and by
laws.
DR.. N. L. Northington moved
that committee be appointed to
select delegates from the county to
attend the Nashville Convention.
,rriire motion was carried, and the
chair appointed the following gen.
tlemen ON the committee: DIR. N.
l.. NOrthington, b. r. Burchett, t.
l.. Mabry, L. M. Reynolds, r. IL.
McFall and r. A. Wilson. The
committee at once retired to attend
to the duty of selecting delegates.
During the absence of this COM
mittee opportunity was given to
new members to come forward and
enroll their names and quitea num-
Der awaited themselves of the chance
afforded. An initiation fee of 25
cents was paid by all new members
and by some who had previously
Joined.
The committee returned after a
short absence and reported the fol-
lowing list of delegates
District No. III B Allen, ] Wilcox, X
Y johnson, w johnson, FINS Ewing,
No. Nv II Killebrew, John Ferguson,
W d Taylor, John RoIlow, N Lovelace,
James Pollard, w w Peacher
No2-R A Wilson, Ed Drane, John w
Jones, Clay Long, w q HARRISON, Thos +
No 1T L Mabry, t Southall, L NJ CIar-
dy, w b Griffey, ) Trammel.
F NorthingtOn, b + Moody, ST., w II Frey.
No 6-B K Burchett, Warfield, ID
Ross, g w Warfield, q II slaughter.
No7-A q Goodlett, w III Tandy, Il
Jenkins, ] Garrett, Thos higgins.
NoS-IP Howard, L Chiffon, II w
GseenhiIl, A Walthal, j Wooten.
No ST NJ Reynolds, q Friedrich, Levi
Cooper, W Fl Edmondson, r W Bethany
No lO-E NJ Nolen, VIM Rogers, IL b
Williams, L / Williams.
No ll-W l. Warfield, Jno A Travis, G Il
Rudolph, Jack Crouch.
No l2-W A Quarles, NJ V Ingram, viii
Pardue, Ben Gill, Pat Henry, w y Brandon,
+ II Yancey, IS NJ DeGraffenreid, r Coos
No lS-Bailey Johnson. R Steele, Jas E
Moseley, j Il Ussery.
No III Z Ransdall, Ross Wilson, Geo
No l5-Ed Hewitt, II Bigger, A Frech,
No I6-J NJ Blackford, Sid Batson, Thos
Batson, I Harper, Jno + shelton.
No &c Roberts, q Orgain, r Edmond
son, l. L Coke.
No isSR H McFall, w Martin, B
Powers, = Williams, John Minor.
No NV B Dunbar, w Allen, )
Fletcher.
Hon. John w. Jones moved that
any farmer present be invited to
attend the convention, waiving the
matter of his being a member of the
association. Esq. Slaughter amend
ed the motion to read that all farm
ers of the county, whether they be
members of the Association or not =,
be invited to attend the Conven-
ton. A discussion ensued as to the
question of who was entitled to
seats in the Nashville Convention.
The following from the by laws of
the Middle Tennessee Farmers
Association was read: "All farm
ers or those who are more interested
in farming than in any other pro-
fessiOn, vocation or calling, whether
appointed rs delegates or not. shall
be entitled to seat in this assOcia-
tiOn," etc.
This was considered conclusive
authority on the subject and the
motion was passed as amended.
Esq. Slaughter made the report
of the committee on constitution
and bylaws. The report as read
was adopted without discussion, eX-
cept a clause in the constitution
which says, 1.-THE Association shall
not take cogniZance of questions
purely political, except so far as
they may affect the interest and
prosperity of farmers" Hon. John
w. Jones, Mr.. John B. Furguson
and Gen. Quarles engaged In the
debate. 1t appears that such II
clause is inserted in the constitution
of the State Association and it was
argued that the county Association
being in line with and auxiliary
to that of the State, such a clause
would not be inappropriate. The
report of the committee was accept
ed as read.
G. III. Slaughter, John ROllOw
and r. III. McFall were appointed a
committee to confer with Hon. G..
w. Tyler, Judge of the County
court, and ascertain if the AssOcia-
ton could secure the use Of room
in the court house as Il place to meet
in, to keep its records. NC.
A vote of thanks was rendered
the GAINESVILLE press for the interest
taken i'm the welfare of the Assocla-
ton and for the full publications
made of the stock show.
On motion of Esq. Slaughter, the
Vice Presidents in the various dis
tricts were requested to receive
names for enrolment and to collect
dues.
A subject was now preached by
DIR. Northington that in our opinion
is the most important step yet TIA
ken by the Association and will be
of practical benefit to the farming
interests of the county. The doctor
said he wanted TO get the sense of
the Association on the project of
holding semi-annual fairs next year
one in the spring and one in the
fall. He spoke of the deep interest
manifested in the recent stock show
ot the Gave and arUuad that semi