The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1915-03-12
Threshermen of. the State to Or
ganize.

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The initiative in the organization of
a state threshermen's association was
taken on Saturday when more than
100 farmers and threshermen of the
county met at the Frederick Y. M C.
A. and effected a Frederick county
threshermen's association. 1t is the
first organization of its kind in the
state. Like associations will be form
ed in rapid succession in Montgomery,
Carroll, Howard and Washington
counties.
The association will have as it's OBJ
ject the regulation of the prices of
threshing in this county and in the
state, and securing legislation that will
be favorable to the threshing interests
of the county and state.
Officers of the county association
were elected as follows: Isaac l.. Han
ky, Frederick, president; David Oland
Tuscarora, vice-president; Harry L.
Layton, Monrovia, secretary; Charles
w. Harp, Myersville, treasurer.
Committee on constitution and by
laws: George O. Grossnickle, d. G..
Zentz, Elmer S. Derr, Raymond E.
Cashour and c. A. Rodgers.
The threshermen will hold another
meeting for the adoption of the con-
stitution and bylaws in the Frederick
Y. M. G. A. on Saturday, March 20,
when an organizer will come to Fred
erick county from Mechanicsburg, Pa.
This organizer will then go to Mont
gomery county and to the other three
counties with view of bringing about
the state organization as rapidly as
possible.
Nearly a hundred threshermen be-
came members of the association on
Saturday. There are many more who
Will join the association at the next
meeting which is to be held within two
weeks in this city, The membership
fee is SO year.
Those who delivered addresses at
the meeting were: Charles N. Kiseck-
er, manager of the Emerson -Branting-
ham Implement Company, of Waynes-
boro, Pa; A. R. Brubaker, of Rohrers-
town, Pa, president of the Pennsylvan-
la State Association of Threshermen;
l.. l.. Hankey, who acted as chairman
of the meeting, and F. R. Meyer, of
the Huber Manufacturing Company,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Cleated traction engine wheels were
discussed for short time 1t was the
opinion of the threshermen that cleats
do not harm the State roads and that
the smooth bands recommended by the
State Roads Commission are unsatis-
factory.
Among those who joined the asso-
citation are: Charles A. Wolfe, John C.
Ambrose, Felix A. Stouter, William
Kump, John w. Ohler, Charles H.
Krise, H. ]. Wood, David G.. Zentz,
Albert L. Hauver, Keller R. Kline,
Dora Kline, Daniel K Hoover, Daniel
S. Gernand, Charles w. Harp, John l..
Cline, Charles l.. Cline, Charles e.
Miller, Arby L. Slifer, o. a Kepler,
John w. Rott, William G. Rott, Roy
Schaeffer, George H. Smith, Charles H
Dixon, Charles T. Wallace, John T.
HORNE, H. w. Schaeffer, Henry A.
Kefauver, Joseph c. Huffer, A. c. Kel-
ler, James G. White, J. T. Seak, Isaac
L. Hankey, George Eichelberger, Har-
vey Ramsburg, j. M. Engle, E J. Ut
terback, George w. Ramsburg.
Martin L. Weddle, J. W. Clemson,
Edward G. Valentine, A. 2. Burrier,
Milton Fogle, David w. Stitely, Rich.
ard A. Keeny, Edward Crumrine, A. A.
Peddicord, Ernest V. Hood, o. T. Davis,
G. Brashear, David G. Drummer, Harry
Thompson, Vernon Carver, Elmer F.
Mullinix, Clifton A. Mullinix, Samuel
E. Mullinix, Harry r. Mullinix, Sam
uel R. Molesworth, Harry L. Lakin,
John L. Walker, G. U. Lawson, S. G.
Schwartz, Raymond Schwartz, J. B.
May, Harvey May, Fl. d. Summers,
David GLAND, William H. G. Gross, Ell
mer S. Derr, Harvey G. Baker, J. Har-
ry Grove, Granville L. Wachter, L. S.
Ramsburg.
Albert Fogle, ]. 7. Fogle, w. L. Hess.
M. o. Ramsburg, John d. Grabill, JOS
eph Hilderbrand, William G. Eyler,
Marcellsu Wachter, William H. Rem,
G. o. Harne, Raymond E. Cashour, w.
e. Corum, George o. Grossnickle, c.
A. Rogers and ]. H. G. Best.