The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1905-02-08
PRESIDENT FULLER
ISSUES CALL.
Townships to Send Dele
gates to County
Convention.
ORGANIZATION PLAN.

Strong Appeal to Every Farmer in
Lanrens County to Lend His Indiy.
idual Effort to the Reduction of Cot
ton Acreage, Thus Benefitting Him.
self, While Helping Others.
To carry into operation for perma-
nent relief and protection for the fu-
ture, plan of organization adopted by
the Interstate Cotton Convention, and
agreeably to the call of Hon. Richard
Singleton, Vice President for South
Carolina, and Hon. E. ID. Smith of the
National Executive Committee, the
several Townships are hereby called to
meet at p. M, Saturday, February
llth to organize
L: BY the election of a President,
Secretary and Treasurer, an Executive
Committee and a Committee of three
on acreage and membership.
IL: The Township Association to
elect two delegates to attend the meet.
ing of the County Association, which
meets Saturday, February 18th.
Ill: Farmers and landowners shall be
asked to sign the following agreement:
we the undersigned farmers or land
owners living in Township,
Laurens County, S. c., hereby pledge
ourselves to reduce the acreage planted
by us in cotton and to reduce our con-
sumption of fertilizers in growing cot
ton as shown by the statement set op.
posite our names"
Nv: The Committee on acreage and
membership shall Immediately canvass
said Township and ask all farmers and
landowners who do not attend said
meeting to sign said pledge, and said
Committee shall return said pledge to
the Chairman of the Township.
V. Said Township Chairman shall
preserve said pledges, and they shall
Immediately report to the County
Chairman showing the total number of
acres planted in cotton in said Town
ship in 1904, and the total number to
be planted in cotton in 1906 the total
amount of fertilizers used in growing
cotton in said Township in 1904 and the
total amount to be used in 1905.
vi: To minimize the labor, to ensure
the canvassing of every foot of terri
tory, the collection of the required
data, and the securing of enrolment
and pledges, all of which are of vital
Importance to this movement, let sub
committees on acreage and member
ship be appointed, by the Township
Chairman for every School District.
VII; Each member is required to pay
the small fee of 25 cents to be paid to
the Treasurer, one-half of which will
be sent up to the Treasurer of the
County Association.
The following named gentlemen have
been appointed to organize their re-
spectivc Townships: Laurens, o. G..
Thompson; Youngs, w. p. Harris;
Dial, A. C. Owings; Sullivan, H. B.
Humbert; Waterloo, j. H. Wharton;
Cross Hill, w. B. Fuller; Hunter, r.
Z. Adair; Jacks, j. C. Mcmillan, Scuf-
fletown, O. p. Goodwin.
The people of every section are urged
to attend these meetings and organize.
Conditions now confront us, the gravity
OF which cannot be easily overdrawn.
Doubt, dallying on hesitation now,
would be doubly disastrous. No one is
asked to immediate himself upon the al
tar of his country, but all are called
upon to join hands in one supreme cf-
fort to avert threatened bankruptcy
and ruin. Sentiments of self preserva-
tion and patriotism alike appeal to our
countrymcn that present systems and
conditions must no longer continue.
Never before has there been an cf-
fort along this line that has assumed
such magnitude, or that has shown a
uthc of such unanimity. Already its
effects have been shown i'm a marked
degree. In few days the machinery
OF a mammoth organization will be in
complete working order throughout the
vast domain of the cotton growing re-
gions of the South.
Until more perfect organization is
perfected let every man realize that
there arc three proposition that must
obtain: First, hold surplus of this crop
until prices get to normal conditions.
Second, Il reduction of acreage and
fertilizers, % per cent; Third, a system
of storing cotton, SO as TO obtain adj
vanccs wherever needed.
A c. FULLER,
President County Cotton Growers Asso-
ciat.on.
Feb, 7th, 1905