The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1921-08-23
]. N. Kehoe Greeted
By Immense Crowd

The first meeting in the interest OF
the Operative Tobacco Market
ing Association was held at the
courthouse in athis city Saturday
afternoon. The circuit court room
was packed to standing capacity and
, the speaker of the day, Hon. j. n.
pKehoe. of Maysville, was introduced
by Major ID. j. Burchett. Mr.. Ke-
hoe held his audience in remark
able manner and the immense crowd
showed intense interest. During the
course Of his remarks he stated that
there had never been any doubt
about the counties known as the
s'Hill Counties. such as Montgom-
cry and Mason, but that he had Wis
tied the so-called Blue Grass coun-
ties and had ample assurance that
these counties would pledge more
than rs per cent of last years crop
to the association and that within a
very short time.
A permanent county organization
was formed for Montgomery county
and Mr.. Clark b. Patterson chosen
chairman with Harry w. Lockridge
as secretary. The county organi-
zation was completed Monday and
the following gentlemen chosen as
directors at large:
Robert Howell, chairman; B. +.
Perry, w. l. Fitzpatrick, J. o.
Greene, Joe Conner, S. c. Barnard,
L. L. Bridgforth, W. 7. Highland,
r. T. Judy. W. C. Clay, T. B. Rob-
ertson. r. C. Baker, S. ID. Gay, A. B.
Ratliff. -.
The county was then divided into
precincts and the following selected
as committeeman in each precinct:
Beans--Sid Calk, John Stofer,
James Hoskins, Jake Lansdale, Dan
Prewitt. t
Levee-R. R. : Whitsett, C. B.
Hainline, Beall Hadden, G. c. An
derson, Newt, Hoskins, Thornton
Smelling. = d
Camargo-Dan Welsch, A. l.. Tip
ton, Frank Lockridge, Matt Ryan.
Jeffersonville-Henry, Hunt.
Smithville-G. D. Marshall, I. S
Osborne.
Spencer-H. B. Duff. w. N. Hiler,
II. B. Prewitt, Will Duff.
Howards Mill-Hughes Atkinson,
". B. Robinson, f. B. Quisenbery,
Will Carmichael.
Harts-T. B. Hill, F. P. Boyd, A.
S. Hart, Colonel Gatewood.
Aarons Run. P. Highland, Jno.
d. Henry, C. f. Duff, Alf Moore.
Sideview-W X. Prewitt, Rein
Palmeter, Joe Foley, Fisher Mark.
Grassy Lick-Roy Greene, W. S.
Howell, Shirley Mason, M. A. Prev
lit.
Only limited number of blanks
were here Saturday and about L.
100000 pounds was quickly signed
and many more would have been had
the blanks been available. It is
Thought Montgomery county will be
100 per, cent in favor of the plan,
and it is hoped that it will be the
first county in the state to "Go
Over the Top" Every grower that
has not already signed is asked to
see one of the committee in his pre-
einct or come to any of the local
banks. where the forms will be
available and sign up without delay.
There were about 100000 pounds
Of the weed grown in this county
last year and it is believed that this
|. amount will be signed within very
lthort time. With such an able
county organization as above named
there seems no doubt but that
Montgomery will be 100 per cent for
the association.
Mr.. Kehoe's talk was very en-
eouraging to the tobacco growers,
who stated that had the Blue Grass
counties done as the "Hill Counties"
wanted to do last year, the 1920
crop wosld have been held and not
dumped on the floor and sold at
such a sacrifice, but that now the
Blue Grass is in earnest and the sue
cess Of the movement seems assured
If we had never heard of the mar
keting association before we would
have known from the large and rep