Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-02-20
PEANUT GROWERS BODY
TO NAME NEW DIRECTORS
District Meeting Will BE Held
in Suffolk on
March 8.
NINETEEN WILL nE ELECTED
Exchange Has on Storage 600, 900
HnEs Peanuts AMI Figures on Get
tinE "O1,000 MOr,-I9.l Crup lie
"lnrcd .0@o Larger Than 1920.
I Special to The TImc,.n,.r,.,,, i,

Especial to The Times Dispatch
SUFFOLK, VA, Feb. 1p.-Thc new
directors OF the Peanut Growers Tx.
change. Inc. with Headquarters at
Suioih' Va, and with a membership
OF over 5000 peanut growers. will be
nominated At district meetings to be
hold March 8, in each of the seven
teen districts throughout the peanut
growing counties Of Virginia and
North Carolina. Those district meet
inEs will all nc held on the afternoon
OF that date. and all signcrs of the
growers contract are expected to at.
tend. The directors nominated at
'hese district meetings will he the
nominees Of their respective districts
10 IN. annual meeting OF the stock
holders. 10 be held the second We'd
ntsday in MAY. when the directors
Tor inc ensuing year will be elected.
Nineteen VIII lie Named.
."e following are the directors
whose successors are to he nominal
ed at these district primary cleo
tons TO be held March 3:
Hansemond. j. o. Cutchin, Elwood,
Va: Isle OF Wight. DIR. G. j. Brad
SHAW CaFrsvilic. Va: Southa mpton.
l.. IL. Brantlcy. Ivor, Va. and W. i.
Story, CORTLAND. Va: Surry. william
A!hert G"a.tney. Spring Grove, Va {:
Sussex. \. ". Holt, Wakefield Va !:
NrcensV!lic, j. G. Lifscy. f.mporia
va: Prince George and Dinwiddic
j. H. Webb, Jr. Disputan,a. Va.
Beriic. y. V. Cobb. Windsor. =. O.;
Chowan. NJ. $. Elliott. Mege, y. c.:
Gates, w. j. Rountrcc. HobbsviIle. \
~ EcSecombe. VI. e. BrasweIi. Bat
ticboro, y. C.: Halifax. j. II. Alexan-
T.. j n ii
w. n. Taylor. Whitakcrs. y. g: Hert-
lord' Is. j. Nann, Como. y. C.; Mar
I'm, Dr. John ID. EiGss. Williamson.
- W northampton, ]. B. Stephenson.
severn. y. G.: pcrquimans, DR.. l. A.
w ara Belvidere. y. c.: Washington.
l. ). swain AIaclscys Ferry, y. {.
IN addition 10 the above nineteen
directors from the seventeen dis
cic's' there is one director at large
Tor .ach Of these two States: Vir-
Eihia-Hon. Il. Frank Story. Frank
I'm Va; North Caroiina-B. B. Ever
'''' fa!myra. y. g Their success
sors VIII be nominated by the deans
OF the College of Agriculture far
'hcir respective States. The nue
CHARACTER ana business integrity Of
.hc t"cnty-one men forming the
o"aru OF directors is SO fully appre-
clhleo by the growers that few, il
""!' IH"HSrs are anticipated.
hive G0O.nO9 Bags.
according 10 the EXCHANGES of-
iciai publication. the Peanut Grower
which is being sent GU this week To
an IT'S members. the exchange now
mas on storage about 100000 bnrs of
peanuts, and counts on getting about
zoo'ooo more bags. Its reports also
SHOW that the peanut crop of 1871
was 80 per cent larger than the 1920
crop. and that. Notwithstanding the
iact 'hat much Of the crop was moor
Iuaiit" as large per cent of il will
IAN IN the two higher grades as In
the Two lower grades. Its publish
ed financial report shows tina, tho
exchange has already paid out for
peanuts over 100000, ana thar I,
SIM has available about $500. 900 more
81 Inc Sl,0O0.000 loan secured through
the war Finance Corporation. or the
,o'ai amount paid out, $500. 900 has
neen secured from local banks here
IN SUFFOLK, and other places in the
peanut-Erowing counties.
The Peanut Grower also announced
that the exchange has not sold any
peanuts. and that ii will not sell a,
at the low prices prevailing Mt Inc
present time.