The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-05-12
Big FARMERS meet,
TO Be HELD HERE IS
FORSTATE'S BENEFIT
Bankers and Louisville Board Of Trade
Unite to Make Farmers Chautau.
qua Really Worth While to
All the State.

All the State.
The proposed three days chautauqua
for the farmers throughout the state
Of Kentucky to be held In the various
counties Of the state during the COM
ing summer has the hearty co-opera-
tion of local business men identified
with the State Bankers Association
and the State Department Of Agricul-
ture. The plans are being handled
through a special committee Of which
Col. James Speed, Of Louisville, Is
chairman. Mr.. N. s. Calhoun, of the
Bank of Maysville, who is also chair
man Of the State Bankers Associa-
tions Executive committee, Is very
much interested jim seeing the Chau-
tauqua all over the state success.
Messrs. George Kirk, County Agent,
Carl Dodds, Secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce and all county officials
are much interested.
The followins sffrom the State Bank
ers' Journal gives some idea of the
plan:
A plan for rural development in
Kentucky through educational tent
meetings in sixty counties and survey
of rural life conditions, was launched
about the first of the year under the
direction of a committee of the Board
of Trade of Louisville. After this
movement had been gotten under
headway, the committee met the Louis
vile Clearing House Association and
asked that the Kentucky Bankers AS
sociation be asked to cooperate in the
work.
The Clearing House was so Impress
ed with the undertaking that the Exc
tive Committee of the Bankers Asso-
citation was asked to meet in Louisville
to consider the proposition.
The committee met at the Seelbach
the 23d of April, and after due consd-
Grafton of the matter, decided to CO.
operate with the Board of Trade in
this campaign for the betterment of
the State. At this meeting a commit
tee of three was appointed to solicit
funds from the bankers of the State,
also to cooperate with the committee
of the Board of Trade which is hand
ling the whole campaign.
The committee appointed, was as
follows:
Messrs. ]. c. Cardwell, John W.
Barr, Jr., and H. G. Smith.
That the bankers of the State may
understand the strength of the move
ment, it is merely necessary to give a
list of the men who are serving on this
State Development Committee. The
names follow:
Messrs. Robert W. Bingham, Chair
man; Charles F. Huhlein, Vice-Chair-
man: John NJ Atherton, A. T. Hert,
John B. McFarran, Wood Grady, E. W.
Hines, H. D. Ormsby, F. M. Sacket,
James Speed, Foster Embry, Lewis
Humphrey and Charles Segner.
The following extract from the
Board of Trade Journal of April 10Th,
will give the busy reader an idea of
how the campaign is to be carried
out:
1T will have the backing Of many Of
the most influential men in tha city
and State and the cooperation Of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, the State Department Of Agri-
culture, the College Of Agriculture,
and its Extension Department. the
State Department of Education, Roads
and Health, Kentucky University and
the State Normal School,
"The actual educational work will
be gotten under way early in July and
will continue through August and into
September. 1t is planned to have
three days tent meeting in each coun-
ty These farmers community meet
ings will be in progress in three coun-
ties at the same time, and the pro-
grams will be rotated in such way
that 1t will be possible to use the same
corps Of instructors for all meetings.
In this way it is expected to conduct
meetings in sixty counties before the
end of the summer
Following these schools the COM
mittee hopes and expects to have one
Of the Eastern Research Bureaus to
conduct an exhaustive survey of var
ious counties In the State and then to
make report on each county which
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