The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-04-08
ON THE COTTON WAREHOUSE
PROMISED FARMERS UNION.
RESOLUTIONS WERE PASSED
At the Quarterly Meeting Expressing
Doubt as to Ardmore Keeping the
Faith in the Proposition-Union
Reorganized Friday.

The Farmers Union Of Carter coun.
~ wants the Commercial Club of this
city to begin to get busy and com.
mence to do something toward the
erection Of the cotton warehouse that
has been promicsd. At the regular
quarterly meeting Of the Union held
at Round Up school house i'm this sec.
tion about twenty-five miles west of
Ardmorc, resolutions were passed call.
ing upo tn moCohm hrd NH NH shr
ing upon the Commercial Club to do
something. j 7. Taylor, secretary OF
the Union for the Twenty.first record
ing district. was in the city Yesterday
having returned from the meeting held
at the school house. Mr. Taylor stated
that the Farmers Union O. the Twen-
ty-First recording district.had been
dissolved and Carter county union
organized in its stead. The Carter
county union will embrace all OF the
territory included in the boundaries
, of Carter county. The ne wordCr will
not be chartered until the state union
has been organized under the laws
I OF the now state Oklahoma, an dthat
all union men in Carter county will
participate in the election Of officers,
regardless of past affiliations.
The new organization promises to
be a strong one in every particular
Mr. Taylor also stated that a great
many of those present at the meet.
ing expressed some doubt about Ard.
more making good in regard to build
ing the cotton warehouse. and that the
following resolutions were passed con.
corning the propositions;
Whereas. the Commercial Club OF
Ardmorc. Okla. did enter into an
agreement the Farmers Union of Car.
ter conuty, whereby the city of Ard.
more was TO erect and have completed
by Sept. lst. 1907, a cotton warehouse
In said city for the use and benefit
vi inc Il dTIltTh mon, ana
Whereas, 1t will require somc length
| of time to complete the erection of
a warehouse, and inasmuch as there
has been no definite steps taken by
the citizens of Ardmore to comply
with said agreement. Now therefore be
It resolved. That it is the sense of this
body that Ardmore Is in honor bound
to the fulfillment of said agreement
and that We demand that work on said
warehouse begin within thirty days
from date and to that end a special
committee consisting OF J. T. Butler,
X. NJ. Sanders, ]. w. Jones, John Dick
erson and w. McElroy, is hereby ap-
pointed to act in conjunction with the
standing warehouse committee to
meet with the Ardmore Commercial
Club committee I'm Ardmorc, on Satur.
day, AprIl 10, 1907, at 2 o'clock p. m,
So that an early date may be arranged
for the commencement of work on said
warehouse
BE II further resolved, That unless
immediate action is taken by Ardmore
toward theerection of a warehouse
that 1t is the sense Of this body to
be proof conclusive that Ardmore does
no and never did intend to comply
with the agreement entered into with
the Farmers Union and II after thirty
days steps are not taken to comply
with sad agreement, the Farmers
Union of Carter county will immedi
ately begin theerection Of awarehouso
at some other place omre appreiative
Of the farmers trade in Carter county
BE it further resolved, That copy
Of these resolutions be furnished the
Union Review, the Ardmoreite and the
Morning Democrat, with request tc
publish same
J. r. GOTCHER, President
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