Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-03-02
SUMTER SIGNING
UP PLEDGES FOR
REDUCTION OF
COTTON SOLIDLY
Committee Results Nearly 100 Per
Cent. But Much Work is Yet to
Be Done

The farmers of Sumter county are
going to reduce the cotton acreage in
this county one-third. That was made
evident at the meeting at the court
house at II o'clock Saturday when re-
ports on the results of the pledge
campaign were received. The meeting
was a bit of disappointment from the
fact that not all of the committees were
represented and most of the reports
were incomplete, but those figures that
were ready showed that the farmers
are signing up almost 100 per cent.
when approached and that the sign
ing of the county complete is only a
matter of committee efforts.
At the request of E. l.. Bell, of the
Americas committee, which was pre-
vented by a series of circumstances
from doing much work last week, the
workers were given another week to
SuA44RAStS tiiSii t,tSh iii titSii SopVSClFS
districts, and another big meet
ing was called for mex Saurdatyt at the
courthouse at 2 o'clock in the after
noon II is desired that every COM
mit,ee be represented at this meeting
and be ready to make finished reports
on the canvass Of the county.
A feature of the meeting Saturday
was the almost complete absence of re-
ports of refusals on the part of farm
ers to sign. Following was the result
Of the roll call of the various dis
tricts where organization meetings
were held Friday of the previous
week:
Pleasant Grove "A pledges signed; 2
refused to sign; many yet to be seen.
Plains-111 signed out of ia seen;
Is cards left to be signed and mailed
in; 90 yet to be seen.
Americus-31 signed, practically all
of them large farmers and planters;
many more yet to be seen.
Andersonville-9 signed; refused
Concord .-25 signed; 2 others prom
ised to sign; more to be seen.
Thompson-Many signed; no figures
ready; committee members on jury
duty during week.
Leslie.-27 signed in one-fourth of
Leslie district; more to be reported
and more to be seen.
1t was the concensus of opinion of
the meeting that quick action was es-
sential at this time, and the chairman,
George o. Marshall, was instructed to
begin Monday visiting the various com
mittees to learn how their work was
progressing and to assist in any way
in organization and showing the COM
mittees the importance of vigorous,
house-to-house canvassing of each dis
trict and locality. 1t was pointed out
by r. P. Stackhouse that the Plains
district committee made it's great
showing by getting to work early in a
systematic way When Mr.. Bell, of the
Americas committee, stated that the
rain and bad roads had interfered
greatly with the work of the city COM
mittee, a Plains worker inquired
whether the weather was any more I'M
favorabIa in Appa,-inuc than II, tho
Plains section.
1t was finally agreed that the drive
should continue this week; that all the
committees should set to work and fin
ish their task at once, so that the f.
nal report for the county could be
made at the meeting next Saturday. 1t
was agreed that the names of those
who had already signed should be pub
lished as soon as the list could be
compiled by the secretary and that
the complete list of loyal farmers
should be published after the reports
we're received next Saturday.
B. w. Bacon, who made the excel
lent report for the Plains committee,
informed the meeting that his commit
tee had instructed him not to turn in
any of the pledge cards which had been
signed until the final reports from
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