The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-12
TOBACCO GROWERS
ENTHUSIASTIC
Association Campaign Nov
ing Up the Valley
Rapidly
VERMONT DRIVE
TO START HERE

Windham County Growers to Meet in
BrattlebOro Wednesday Evening =
1888 Acres Signed Up i'm Five Con
neeticut Towns.
HARTFORD, Conn, June 12.-The
campaign of the Connecticut Valley To-
bacco association is speeding along the
Connecticut valley like a huge snow
storm, leaving a large number of we'll
satisfied tobacco growers and ardent en-
thuisiasts for the completing of the or
ganization.
Four very satisfactory meetings were
held last week in Massachusetts, and the
enthusiasm shown was gratifying to
those in charge of the campaign work.
Campaign Manager Joseph w. Alsop Of
Avon, who is also a member of the pub
lie utilities commission of Connecticut,
stated yesterday that in his opinion the
campaign in Massachusetts would go
much faster than that of Connecticut be-
cause the men seemed more anxious to
| sign the contracts. In some cases the
men did net want to read the contract
over before they signed it, stating that
they had reached the point that they
could not see the way out unless the asso-
Three meetings will be held this week.
the first on Mondsst evening in South
Deertield, the next at Sunderland on
! Tuesday evening and on Wednesday
evening the first meeting of the campaign
| in Vermont viii be held at BrattlehOro.
From the reports received at the Office of
the Organization this meeting will be
just as enthusiastic as the others for it
IS reported that the tobacco growers in
Windham county are anxious to get into
the association and they believe in this
kind of selling organization.
The fOllOw-up campaign, which has
just been started in the towns in the
lower Connecticut valley, is gaining each
day and five of the towns in the lower
part of the valley have over 1900 acres
signed up at this writing and more are
coming in each day. East Hartford has
I,S3S acres signed up; Glastonbury has
l62S; East Windsor has 1,736 acres
South Windsor has 1919 acres signed
and in Manchester where the acreage is
small there are 5J3tacres signed up, max
ing a total of 1893 acres in five towns
where the campaign has been going only
three weeks with six more to go. Judge
Levi Z. NJ. Hickey, chairman of the or
ganlzatlon committee, stated yesterday
that he was very well pleased with the
progress of the work and he thought
that after the men had finished setting
Out pants many more contracts would
be sent to the office. because he did not
blame the growers for wanting TO get the
planting done as soon as possible. The
canvassers are working evenings in the
canvass and this after they have com
pleted their days work, thus showing
chat they are in earnest to get the or
ganization going as fast as possible. {
On the west side of the Connecticut
river the campaign is gaining each day
and the growers are all working for the
success of the organization as fast as
possible. c. Z. Viets of East CRANKY and
Judge n. Z. Randall of CRANKY, who
are in charge of the work in these towns.
stated last week that in their opinion the
required number of names would be Sc
cured in their towns in a very short time
and that when the follow-up campaign
was started there would be very little
work to be done as the growers are all
very anxious to get the organization GO
ing and the task of selling their crop off
their hands as soon as possible
\ meeting of the organization commit
tee will be held at the Office of the com
mittee at No. IL Central Row, Hartford
on Monday evening, June 10.