The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-11
night RIDERS
give Warming
10 Tobacco Grower'sin Trigg
County.
Must Cease, TO Sell Tobacco to
Trust Buyers and Store
With Association.

Warnings of disaster, in case they
persist in selling or storing tobacco
outside the association warehouses,
have been fastened on the gates OF
many farmers in this county says a
Cadiz dispatch to the Courier-Jour-
nal, and many of tho growers, fear
ing dynamite or the torch, have can
celled contracts which they had made
to sell their crops outside the asso-
citation. Fastened to the gates with
prices of rope, or grapevine, the fol-
lowing notices mysteriously appear
ed:
If you don't put that tobacco in
organization and store it at Cobb
: or Cerulean we are going to give
you hell. Cadiz agreement is no go;
we are running this now.
NIGHT RIDER.
Frightened by these messages.
many planters have quickly obeyed
the command, and have delivered
their tobacco to the association ware
house in Cobb or CeruIean. Fearing
that their barns and even their
housesmight be burned. or blown up
with dynamite as has been done
in the dark tobacco districts, some
of the planters took no chances.
Others have ignored the warning
and will abide by their contracts.
The Cadiz agreement, which is re-
ferred to in the warning, was made
as q solution of the war between the
association and non-association grow
ers. Many of the planters had sold
their crops outside the association
and it was agreed that they should
be allowed to keep these contracts,
and in return they agreed to put all
future crops into the association.
This agreement has been in effect
and has been working satisfactory
until lately, when there has been
some dissatisfaction.
A recent attempt to blow up with
dynamite the tobacco barn OF a man
who refused to join the association
in Caldwell county, combined with
the warnings to the Trigg county
growers, has caused revival. of the
unrest which existed Immediately
after the'two stemmeries at Prince
ton were destroyed, and farmers all
over Trigg and Cardwell counties
are on their guard at all times.
Leaders of the Dark Tobacco Grow
-ers' Association condemn these
threats of violence and say that the
association has no knowledge of them
or of the men who posted them.
They are for peaceful methods only.
Among the Lodges.
Keystone Chapter, No. ITO. con-
ferred the Past Masters degree
last Saturday night.
Hartford Lodge No. CTS, F. & A.
M. installed the officers elected De-
cember 81. last Monday night. Five
petitions for membership were re-
ceived and the prospects are very
bright for successful year.
At the Maccabee banquet given at
the court house Christmas week.
among the bright talks, which were
made by both ladies and gentlemen,
none were enjoyed more than the
following piece of fun on gossip,
furnished by Mrs. Hooker Williams:
Say, have you all heard it? Well,
Mrs. Phipps said Mrs. Schlemmer
told her that Mrs. Newbolt said the
other day that Mrs. Long, while out
calling, told her confidentially, that
\ Mrs. Tinsley said she doubted it, but
Dit must be true, as Mrs. Griffin said
Mrs. Foreman told her that Mrs.
Alva Taylor said she had heard it in
Central City and didn't believe it
until Mrs. Georgia Keown told her
on her way from Darlington that she
hadn't heard it until Mrs. Pendleton
called to her and said not to mention
it to anybody that she said as much.
but that it was an evident fact, be-
cause Mrs. John Taylor said Mrs.
Alex BarnAtf told her the other f1au