The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-11-22
HARMONIOUS MEET.
ING AT GREENSBORO.
Reports Show Large Percent
of Tobacco Pooled:
National Board also Holds Imp0r-
tant Business Sessions With
Several Members Present.

Pursuant to call the Green River
Tobacco Growers Association met at
Greensboro Wednesday. A great deal
of business was transacted.
The representation was much larger
than was expected on account of the
bad weather. A delegation was pres
ent from Spencer county, Indiana, and
these men promised that they would
act in concert with the Green River
district in all it's work TO control the
J sale of The 1907 crop. There was a
delegation from the Stemming district
also and the visit of this body was
also a good omen. The national board
was also in session and on the whole
the meeting was one of the most inn
portant yet held The delegations were
all enthusiastic. They are more de-
termined than ever that they and thef.
work shall not fail. There was per-
feet harmony throughout the whole
meeting and the business in hand was
attended to with directness.
One of the first matters taken up
was the reports of the pooling in the
different counties.
The Beaver Dam local reported a
membership of $50 members and all
pledged. Reports from other Ohio
county locals showed all the tobacco
belonginng4to A. S. of E. members and
considerable of that belonging to non
members as pledged. The general re-
port showed that about 80 per cent
of the county's tobacco was pledged
to the Louisville pool. The total crop
in Ohio county is reported to be
about two and half million pounds.
e. B. McEuen reported for Mclean
county. He said about 100000 pounds
had been pledged on October 10 and
about $4,000 pounds since then and
that pledges for 100000 pounds Were
out. The total pledged was about
2,250,000 pounds and the estimated
crop is 3,25O,OOO pounds.
Only about six crops are unpledged
on the south side of the river in Nc
Lean county, according to Mr.. Nc
Euen.
county, saying he had no definite fig
ures, but the expectation was that at
least 80 per cent of the crop was pool
ed.
T. S. Coke, j. C. Tinius and S. B.
Lee reported about 100000 pounds
pooled in Daviess. The estimated
crop is 100000 pounds. About 2OO,-
900 pounds of the 100000 pounds
pledged for delivery in Daviess coun-
! ty was from Ohio county.
]. w. Dunn reported that at least
! so per cent of the county's tobacco was
pooled to the Louisville warehouse.
He said that this was considerable NOR
than was pledged to the regular A
S. of e. last year, the other pledges
being to the home warehouse COM
pany.
Mr.. Jarboe of the Hardinsburg local
reported every pound in his local
pledged, but he could give no definite
figures for the whole county. He said
there was a little scare over the finan-
cial situation but he felt sure that half
of the county's crop of 100000
pounds was pledged.
The following were the delegates
from Ohio county:
John Sandefer, J. p. Foster, Robert
Plummer, Albert Cox, T. F. Tanner,
]. r. Wilson, j. c. Coppage, ]. A.
Webster, F. v. Humble, John Robin
son. '-'f
The National Board of Directors
held a meeting Wednesday afternoon
at the Columbus hotel, with all the
members present. With the excep-
ton Of L. J. Evans, Of Ripley, o.,
all the members Of this board are
Kentuckians and all but c. M. Han
ma, of Shelbyville, live in this imnle-
date section of the State. The meet
ing of the board was secret and no
announcement has been made as to
what the purpose of the meeting was
or what was accomplished.
The county finance committee re-
ported that 1t was unable to an
nounce a date for the opening of
pooling houses. '..r
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