Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-04-09
DRIVE COMMITTEES
Of FARMERS ASSN.
MEET IN OTTAWA
PLANS ARE MADE FOR CAMPAIGN
TO INCREASE MEMBERSHIP
HOLD INTERESTING SESSION
FOLLOWING SPREAD AT CLIFF.
TON HOTEL.

On Wednesday evening at the elf
ton hotel in Ottawa there fathered to-
gether more than 100 OF the repre-
sentative farmers of La Sale county.
This was a 2et-tOgether meeting Of
the Chairmen of the difieren town
ship committees and their committee
men, who are to take part in the mem
bership campaign which the Farm
Bureau and the Illinois Agricultural
association are going TO put on in this
county. beginning April 10 and lasting
until May %. The first par. OF the
evenings program was a banquet.
Charles r. Nudge OF Eden town
ship, who is county chairman Of the
membership committee for the drive,
acted as chairman Of this meeting,
u. NJ. Holmes, president of Peoria
County Farm Bureau and vice preSl
dent Of the Illinois Agricultural as
ISOLATION, was the principal speaker.
Mr. Holmes came to this meeting
from Bureau county. whore he is
working on the team from the state
association which is securing mem
bers in that county He is very much
interested in cooperation among
farmers and believes that halfway
doing is no good in this world or the
next. He gave full information re-
gardng methods and experiences
which have been used so successfully
In other counties. He cOmplimented
this county on the efficient organiza-
ton already effected and expressed
himself as believing La Sale county
will secure more than 80 per cent Of
he FARMERS as members
II. T. Marshall. president of the La
Sale County Farm Bureau, member
OF the executive committee of the
state association and chairman of the
rock phosphate committee Of the state
association, explained part OF the
work of the state association and its
bearing on the local problems as they
affect farmers. He told how the state
association, when first organized for
business March /, 1913 employed q
secretary and one stenographer. Now
there are nine men and ten girls work
ing full time. The Office consisted at
first of two rooms. For the last two
and one-half months it has occupied
a whole floor in the Peoples Life
Building and today has almost out
grown these quarters.
Grant Sass of Usage township said
that, while living in Livingston coun-
ty, he was Il member of that Farm Blu
reau. and when he came into this
county he could not stay out of the
farmers organization. Several of the
men expressed themselves as conf
dent that their townships would goI
over the top" +. f. Stevenson Of
Otter Creek and vice president of the
Farm Bureau, said that If the drive
did not start before long he lid not
know what he would do to hold his
men back John Black of Allen said
that the farmers were beginning tOl
think in Il big way-instead Of count
ing by thousands Of men and millions
of dollars, il is millions of men and
billions of dollars, r. w. Esmond of
Utica township and first president of
the local Farm Bureau. expressed
himself as being confident that the
drive would be a great success Il. +. !
Strait of Dayton township and treas
urer of the County Farm Bureau, stat |
ed that at no time in the six years of
business did the Farm Bureau have |
to borrow money, but had always had
sufficient finances with which to- do
business
F. T. Richey of Eden told of the |
different departments in the Ameri- |
can Farm Bureau Federation and stat
cd that he felt that a bureau for the
betterment o. educational facilities il !
the farm districts should be establish |
ed, He said that the farmers of the |
United States should not be satisfied |
until their children have as good, i'll
not better, schools than the children
in the cities.
Ed Carter Of Earl said that they