The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-03-07
FOUR HUNDRED
ATTEND BANQUET
Representative Citizens of the City
And County Gather At A
Joint Banquet
AARON SAPIRO CHIEF SPEAKER

Four hundred representative citi-
zens of Paris and Bourbon county
gathered at the Mammoth Garage
Thursday night to welcome Aaron
Sapiro, and to take part in the Joint
banquet and social given by Bour-
bon County Farm Bureau and the
Paris Commercial Club. Mr.. SapirO,
who did so much to bring to a sue
cessful termination the organization
OF the Burley Tobacco Cooperative
Marketing Association, was in fine
voice and held the undivided atten-
ton of the big crowd from begin
ming to end of his very able ad-
dress.
The banquet, an array of tempting
dishes that would have appealed to
the appetites of even the most jaded,
was served by the ladies of the
Bourbon County Woman's Club, and
prepared under the personal super
vision of Mrs. Carl Crawford. There
was an abundance, and everyone did
full justice to his or her portion.
Prior to and during the serving of
the banquet a musical program was
rendered, comprising a solo by Mrs.
Edward Prichard, music by a saxo-
phone quartet, DR.. and Mrs. Harry
Mathers, Douglas Clay and Capt.
VIM. Collins, and the Bourbon Or
chestra, a solo by CaptRobert Har-
bosom, duet, my Old Kentucky
Home" by Mrs. Prichard and Capt.
| Harbeson, and community songs by
the audience, led by Harry Murrison,
Community Service Song Leader. A
moving picture was shown, picturing
the termination of grains of wheat
and corn from the kernels and the
proper way to prepare the soil to get
best results.
Attorney Virgil Chapman, of Paris
and Lexington, presided as toastmas-
ter and put the audience in a splen-
did humor, with number of anec-
dotes, intermingled with flights of
oratory, to listen to the address of
Mr.. Sapiro. Bourbon county people
had been waiting for a long time to
hear Mr.. Sapiro and the ovation ten
dered him at the close of his adj
dress evidenced their appreciation of
his wonderful plea for cooperation
Mr.. Sapiro paid glowing tribute
to the memory of the late John T.
Collins, and said he regretted that he
was not spared to see the wonderful
results of his efforts. He said that
the work done by Bourbon county
people was the best piece of co-opera-
tive movement he had ever seen. The
report of one warehouse in this dis
trict, he said was classic. The figure
they had given for the turning over
to the Association of the property
was $4,000 less than anyone else
had said it was worth Edward
Burke, of Paris, he said, had made
the whitest and squarest report he
had heard of in the organization of
the association. Each bank in Bour-
bon county had advanced it's COM
plete legal limit There had not been
single report of failure to deliver
in Bourbon county. In every COM
munity he had been in, not only in
Kentucky, but in neighboring States,
he had bumped up against men
from Bourbon aiding in putting the
movement over in these sections.
The speaker told of persons in 9TH
er counties who had violated their
contract by marketing their tobacco
outside of the pool in the names of
their wives and sisters, and that ac-
ton would be taken against them
this week. There is a law in Ken
lucky, he said, against a man vio-
lating the law by hiding behind his
wife's skirts. With the aid of Col
Inns, Burke and the banks of the
county. Bourbon did most to put
over the association, he said.
Mr.. Sapiro complimented the
Paris Commercial Club for having
extended its influence outside of the
limits of the city and into the
homes of the farmers by combining
with the Farmers Bureau. The
problem of the farm is the problem
of the town. Bourbon county sent
out men who thought and acted in
terms of service only. "Men and wo-
men of Bourbon county, l bow to
you. 1t is a privilege to have met
you," he declared in closing.