Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-09-27
MILLION POUNDS IN
one DAYS DRIVE
Success Of Meetings Saturday
Add to Belief That 1921 Crop
VIII Be Pledged

Il hiiiiOh pouiuS VI loOtSNO "SiS
added to the pool of the Burley
Tobacco Growers' Cooperative
Association as result of meet
ings held in Shelby, Mason. Mel
son. Meade, Boone and Carter
counties, Saturday.
Exact figures were not avail
able Saturday night. but growers
at each meeting signed contracts
for considerable acreage and
added to the growing conviction
that the 1921 crop will be signed
up in time to share in the bene-
fits of the pool.
John l.. Buckley spoke at Bag
dad to a representative audience
of Shelby county farmers. He
was introduced by acting chair
man Walters, of Shelby. and
made forcefuI appeal for united
action in behalf of cooperative
selling. Congressman Cantrill
had been expected but when it
was found he could not be pres
ent, Mr.. Buckley was assigned to
take his place. John E. Brown.
we'll known Shelby county farm
er. also spoke urging the grow
ers to sign. Four persons were
kept busy filling in the contracts
for the growers to sign after the
meeting for some time.
Mason Total Swelled
Hon. James n kehoe and Hon.
Stanley +. Reed spoke at Mays
lick, where $4,000 pounds were
signed up immediately after the
meeting. The Maysville Boys
Band rendered music and a big
crowd was in attendance. MIR.
kehoe said after the meeting that
Mason had between siXty-fivc
and seventy per cent and that the
county was "sure to go over with
i'll the next few days"
Organization Manager Joseph
Passonncau addressed good
crowd at Gray son, Carter county
starting the organization there
off well. a number of farmers
signing contracts. and Charles B.
Marvin addressed large, crowd
Of growers at Ekron in Meade
county. which also is just start
ing its organization.
At Bloomfield. James {. Stone.
spoke to a gathering OF farmers
and after his address many came
forward and signed contracts.
while the exact figures from none
OF the meetings, save that at
Mayslick. were available, Secre-
tary Walter B. Hughes said the
total pledges for the day probab-
" would be in excess Of q million
pounds
Ralph w. BARKER had two met
ings Saturday, one at Verona
Boone county. i'll the morning.
and the other at Walton i'll the
afternoon. Both were largely at
tended and at each many farmers
signed their crops to the assoCia-
ton. ln
Owen Farmers Ready
Congressman J. Campbell Can
trill, who returned from a four
day trip in Owen county, said the
farmers there were ready to sign.
He said that Owen had been one
of the best of the pool counties
and that all thaht is necessary is
to follow UP the educational cam
paign with solicitors to Clinch
that county for the organization.
!. w. Gaines, OF Lawrenceburg,
sent word that Anderson county
farmers were coming in to head
quarters and signing without be-
ing solicited and that an intensive
campaign to put the county over
the top would be put on Monday,
to last all week, if necessary.
Carrard Working Hard
At Lancaster meeting of bus
mess men and farmers was held
and it was decided to close the
stores Of Lancaster, Bryantsville
and Paint Lick for one day, or
two, if necessary, while the busi-
ness men helped the farmers sign
up the whole county. Secretary
John M. Farra said Garrard was
certain to be in line. Judge Lew
is l.. Walker, chairman for the
county, was the only speaker at
the meeting. 1t was conference
of the merchants and farmers and
no attempt was made to obtain
contracts, almost every farmer
havin galready signed.
Chairman Jesse S. Hooker. OF
Lincoln county, said his county
had about seventy-three per cent.
He asked that a thousand con
tracts and literature be sent at
once iudicatinC that IT is fhe IN