Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-06-10
hurley 4S|GN-UP'
STARTS IN RUSH
Big Growers First To Join As
! 1895, 900 Pounds Are .
Pledged First Day
DRIVE NOW IN BLUEGRASS

X Marketing Association, ut the opening
meeting of the active sign-up campaign
here today.
( Acreage represented by the sigma
| lures was more than 100, with AN
| average production of about 1000
pounds to the acre. Two hundred anu
thfrty-fve growers signed the contract.
/ Many more were forced TO go home
| without having an opportunity 10 sign.
/ on account Of lack of clerks 20 attend
TO item.
| Growers from three counties III
! Indiana and four in Kentucky were
kamong those who bound themselves by
the provisions of the fiVe-year contract
| OF the association.
I Three farm organizations in Carroll
County made the day special one fO'
their members, and held special meet
ings on preceding days to urge them
! to sign the contract immediately The
Farmers Union was represented by ~
| per cent Of its members. Approximate
| figures indicated that the percentage
| of the Farm Bureau was about the
\ same The Eurekas, secret society
\ Of farmers, had held special meetings
Fgo bring the benefits of the plan before
It's members.
| Signing began with the arrival Of the
.irst printed contracts from Louisville,
I and continued all morning without il
terruption. BY noon more than LOO
growers had signed, and others were
.croWdlng 10 the tables faster than
clerks could prepare the papers for
| signature.
Curtis Montgomery, Client, Ky, was
Che first grower TO sign the contrac-
He is one of The largest producers OF
Carroll County, ana OWNS about coo
acres OF land suitable for raising to
! hacco. He stayed in CarroltOn ali
night in order to have the opportunity
| TO sign first
Despite the fact that d rain the night
befOre the meeting had made Il perfect
tobacco setting season, hundreds ct
farmers dismissed tie chance in Orde:
4 u dblCllu liiC ny lp " NtpNN
in the morning, The square around tia
courthouse, where the signing was III
progress, wus$crowded with farmers
and their families. y constant stream
/ continued to pour into the town during
| the entire morning and early aftei-
| noon, as the districts more remote
| from the town sent in their conLin-
| gents.
At noon, after the arriVai Of Judge
Robert w bingham, Louisville, CHEZ
| speaker of the day, and chairman of
| the organization committee of the pro,
posed association, d procession OF
| growers, headed by band and group
of growers who had signed the COLI
| tract, marched frCm the courthouse to
| the scene Of the barbecue and burgoo
feast and the afternoon speaking. 1t
IS estimated that 1000 farmers TOOK
part. In addition to these many had
! gone ahead OH foot and i'll cars.
Following the burgOo feast at 80
| O'Clock, Judge Bingham addressed tie
crowd in one of the towns warehouses.
! Ralph NJ. Barker, member of the or
| sanizatiOn committee, i'll introducing
/ Judge Bingnant, read a telegram froll
[ VI. y. Wilson, campaign secretary OF
/ the association being formed by Vir-
, gina and Carolina growers, expressing
congratulations and good wishes.
| Prolonged applause was given Judge
Bingham'S prediction that ali adequate
cooperative association law would be
readily passed by the next session OF
the Kentucky les Stature.
AT the conclusion of Judge bingham s
| address, james {. Stone, Lexington,
/ member of the organization committee,
| speaking as Il representative of The
growers of the Bluegrass, thanked the
| growers of this section for the impetus
! they mac given the campaign, and as
Sured them that the growers of his
| section would not be slow to follow the
example. He said that without eNcep
! ton every man he had consulted in re-
/, gard to the formation of the proposed;
association, had been in favor Of the
| movement without reserve.
Other meetings at which the con
| tract eff the association will be offered
to the growers Tor signatures will be
held the week of June f3, DIT Shelby
vile, Lexington, Maysville, Danvile,
| Richmond, Cynthiana and possibly
other points. Aaron Sapiro, attorney
for twenty-five California cooperative
associations and considered to be one
of the greatest authorities ON coop
erative agriculture in the world, will
address these meetings.
The following names were an,
nounced as members of the organize
| ton committee:
Judge Bingham, Louisville; Mr..
Barker, Carrollton Edward Bassett.
Desha Breckenridge, Harry Giovanoli,
! Shelby T. Harbison, Charles y. Man
| ming, William A. Mcdowell, DR.. Frank
L. McEey, James G.. Stone and Miss
Sunshine Sweeney, Lexington; L. s.
Burnam, Richmond Johnson n. Can
den and W. Z. Simms, Versailles
Samuel Clay and John T. Collins,
Paris; J. n. kehoe, Maysville; tie
Rev. John f. Knue, McQuady; \. e
Ridgeway, Falmouth, and w. A. Cle,l.
ents, Springfield.
Watch for the announcement
of the big Piano Contest at
Muncy Brec.