The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-12-30
SECOND Anniversary OF BIRTH
OF hurley SOCIETY JANUARY |
On That Day in 1906 the District Board Declared That Over 50 Per
Cent Of Crop Had Pooled and Organization Was Declared Co.

January LIST, is the second ami
versary of the true birth of the Bur-
ley Tobacco Society, for the work
previous to that date was only an
effort to establish it. But on the
first day of january, 1907 the Dis
trict Board declared that the fifty
per cent of the 1906 crop, which
the whirlwind campaign had been
working for, had been secured and
that therefore the Burley Tobacco
Society was go and that the pied
ges made to it were valid.
The Evening Session. -
At the evening session of Deem
Der 3rd, held IN this city, President
Hanna appointed Committee on
Pledges composed of Clarence LeBus
of Harrison county, c. S. Williams,
of Woodford, H. E. Swain, of Hen
ry, H. W. Denniston, of Clermont
county, Ohio, and S. E. Hampton of
Carroll This committee brought in
. a pledge which contained a proviso
that unless 80 per cent of the crop
of 1906 be signed up by January LIST,
1907, the pledge would not be bind
ing, and an arrangement was made
for whirwind campaign to secure
the nea essary amount. The time was
far too short for such an undertake
ing, that is had it been an ordinary
undertaking of that magnitude; but
the spirit that animated the tobacco
growers then was the kind that
would have made the mountain come
to Mahomet, and the various count
les went to work with a vehemence
that carried the day.
Counting the Acreage
The Executive Committee, to which
had been left the task of counting
the pooled acreage, met the day be-
fore, and all of the day of January
first were hard at it. Before the
meeting, Secretary Swain and assist
ant secretary Beckner had been writ
ing all over the district securing
statement from each county of the
amount of tobacco which the Asses
sor's book showed was grown in that
county.
But when the Executive Committee
met, it at once became apparent that
the Assessors reports could not be
relied on as they were in every case
entirely too low. So the reports of
the county equity organizations were
used instead, and these were always
two or three hundred per cent higher
than the official records.
Called One at a Time.
= The counties were called one at
time before the committee and the
acreage and pooled acreage given,
and the pledges for the pooled ac-
reage turned over to the committee
or one or two counties not wishing to
do this, showed their pledges for
the amounts claimed. A showing
was demanded of each. one.
One county, in which the workers
had had hard time and much OPP
position. turned in some figures which
OH examination proved to be partly
TIC amount which certain dealers
friendly to the organization had
agreed to secure. The delegates
were. Informed that their figures
could not he accepted, and thereafter
each county was called in and gone
over again 20 determine that no such
pledges had been included in its ie-
pot.
Counties in Movement.
After ali such had been weeded
out, and the returns all In, the COM
mittee reported back to the Board
that as near as it could determine
the district was composed of three
counties in Ohio, two in Indiana, one
or two in West Virginia; and thirty
FIVE III Kentucky. That there were