The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-08-16
Tobacco Prices
Have Been Doubled
Optional With Members as to
Disposition, However-Of-
fcials Hope for Largest
Sign-up in Cotton Belt for
South Carolina

Raleigh, Aug. 13.-The Tobac-
co Growers Cooperative Associa-
ton passed its goal of $4,000
members last Saturday, when the
count of 1900 contracts received in
a single week revealed the fact
that another regiment of tobacco
growers had joined and pushed
their line past another objective.
With close to 490, 100000
pounds of tobacco on the basis of
the 1920 crop pledged to the asso-
citation and deposited in the form
Of signed contracts in the vaults OF
the Commercial National Bank OF
Raleigh, there is no doubt of the
success Of the organized tobacco
growers, officials declare.
Last weeks operation of the CO.
operative system in South Caro-
lima has proven that the association
has gained orderly marketing, fair
and standard grading and the un-
qualified loyalty of its members.
The final campaign of the past
week in Beaufort, Martin, Berie,
Franklin, Pitt and other eastern
Carolina counties has not only
brought in great numbers of new
members but has revealed a spirit
of staunch loyalty to their ,associa-
ton on the part Of the organized
growers.
In a single day last week
Claude McGee, of Franklington,
sent in 20S contracts from Frank
lin, county. L. E. Rogers, field
service representative Of the asso-
ciation, directing the recen. drive
reports. that more thar 500 new
contracts are on the way to Raj
eigh Headquarters and predicts that
another regiment Of signers from
Eastern Carolina will join the
ranks Of the association this week
and start the advance well toward
the $4,000 membership which has
become the new objective now set
for the Tri-State Association.
A committee of rs tobacco
growers, members of the associa-
ton from Pitt county, have set out
to visit every important merchant
of Pitt County with the question
where do you stand ?"
Committees of bankers and bus
mess men from Washington,
Robersenville. Wilmington, Wind
sor and Franklin have pledged to
take the field this week in the
drive for new members, and en-
thusiasm both among the growers
and the business men has reached
the boiling point throughout the
east, according to Ri. Works, Of
Kentucky and L. 3. Rogers, Of
Virginia, veteran campaigners who
rested in Raleigh over Sunday, fol-
lowing thet week of meetings.
That the association, it is de-
elared, has doubled the price Of
tobacco in South Carolina on the
auction floors and paid its mem
bers higher averages for their first
advance on this years crop than
they received last year, for their
entire crop is a subject of congrat-
ulatien among thousands of grow
ers whether in or out of the organ
iZation.
r. J. Works, member of the
Burley Pool who visited keadquar-
fers of the Tobacco Growers CO.
operative Association today said:
,, History is repeating itself in the
Carolinas and Virginia. Our asso-
citation doubled the price in South
Carolina and from what I have
seen in North Carolina I can
prophesy its certain success.
Large deliveries and enthusiastic
support of the association have so
exceeded expectations in South
Carolina, that the association ware
houses will be open another day
each week to receive and grade
deliveries, Mondays, Tue S d avs,
Thursdays and Fridays.
+ This dry agent disguised as a
plumber probably did it by going
to sleep under the sink.