The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-01-10
REGULAR SESSION
OF COUNTY union
Held on Last Friday and
Saturday.
Recommended Holding Tobacco
Ten Days In Hope That Sale
Will Be Made.

The regular quarterly convention of
the County Union of the American
Society of Equity was held at the
court house last Friday and Saturday.
The most important matter disposed
of was the practical approval of the
sale of the 1907 tobacco made at the
district meeting of the Tobacco Grow
ers Association held at Greensboro last
Saturday and a recommendation that
all growers not affected by the sale
held their tobacco ten days, to give
the Finance committee an opportuni-
ty to sell it all in a lump The cleo
ton of officers was of considerable
interest and resulted in the choice of
Silas l.. Stevens, man of the true
blue Equity type as President; ]. r.
Weller was made Vice President, C. e.
Smith was elected Secretary, and Cal
p. Keown was reelected Treasurer,
The minutes of the meeting follow:
Hartford, KY, Jan. 8, 1908.
The Ohio County Union met Friday,
January 3rd, at 10 o'clock a. m, in
Court Hall; The meeting was called
to order BY County President David
Moreland. who briefly stated the mat
tiers to come before the meettg. The
minutes of the regular October meet
ing and THE call session of Dec. Z,
1907, were read and approved.
On motion call of the roll of To-
Gals was ordered. The call showed
80 locals represented with 81 delegates
On motion the chair appointed the
following committee on resolutions:
E. G. Austin, A. b. Tichenor Burks
Tiehenor us1. Render and Jno. W.
Sanderfur On motion the following
committee was appointed to settle with
the County Secretary and Treasurer:
Jack Miller, Nat Lindley and r. G..
Hudson. The convention voted to
take up the election of officers for
the year 1908 as a special order,
the first business in afternoon ses-
sion. On motion the bill of Warren
Taylor for expenses as member Of
Finance Committee was referred back
to the committee with instructions to
hold sam, together with other such
bills until funds are received from
tobacco sales.
Adjourned to meet at lilo p. m.
Met at / o'clock p. M, with Presi-
dent Moreland in the chair. On mo-
ton the special rider, was the
election OF officers, in order that the
report of the special committee to
investigate the books of County Sec
rotary and County Treasurer might
be made. The report which is as fol-
lows, was adopted:
Hartford, KY, Jan. 3, 1908.
To the members of the Ohio County
Union A. S. of Ell
We, your committee appointed to
Investigate and compare the books of
the CountySecretary and CountyTreas-
urer, beg leave to report that we have
performed that duty and report the
following result: We find that the
County Secretary, @. NJ. Barnett, has
collected during his term the sum of
S246.15, all of which he has paid over
to County Treasurer, c. P. Keown,
as evidenced by receipts filed with us.
We Ind that County Treasurer, g. p.
Keown, received from outgoing Treas
ursr, d. Ford, the sum of $115.94,whic
added to the amount, $246.15 received
from the Secretary during the year
makes total of $4,000. We find
from warrants filed by County Treas
urer Keown that he has paid out by
order of the County Union during the
year the sum of $216.52, leaving a
balance II. his hands belonging to-
the County Union of $l25.57.
Also the County Treasurer has re-
ceived ON the Tobacco account the
sum of s4z.s5, and paid out on war
rant the sum Of $500, leaving in his
hands on that account the sum of
$37.57 as above leaving a total
amount IL his hands of $1c3.52 tol
date. Respectfully submitted.
]. L. Miller,
r. C. Hudson,
Nat Lindley.
Nominations being declared in or
der for County President, the follow
ing were placed in nomination.: s. L.
Stevens, Jno. p. Foster. j. r. Weller,
II. d. Durch and e. G. Austin. On
motion the election was ordered by
secret ballot On motion 1t was or