Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1920 — FARMERS’ASSOCIATION GROWING [ARTICLE]

FARMERS’ASSOCIATION GROWING

ORGANIZATION CLOSER TO ONE HONORED PER CENT GOAL THAN ANTICIPATED. Information just released by officers of the Indiana Federation of Fanners’ Association is to the effect that the organization is doser to the one hundred per cent goal than was anticipated for this early in the summer. H. C. Reid, state organizer, has completed arrangements with farmers in Jasper, Owen and Dubois counties to put on membership drives to perfect county associations which will be aciliated with the parent body. The addition of Jasper Owen and Dubois counties will bring the total number of organized counties up to eighty-nine. These are Brown county, in the eighth district, of which L. Mil Volger, of Hope, is the district director; Elkhart county, in the second district, of which R. L. Thompson, of Topeka, is director, and Perry county, in the ninth district, of which J. J. Brown, of Rockport, is the district director.

The membership drive in Owen county is to open August 16, and the drive in Dubois county is to start at the same time. Owen county is in the seventh district of the Federation and will make that district one hundred per cent organized. J. W. Raub, of Ellettsville, is the district director. Dubois coun;y is in the ninth district and will eave Perry county as the only unjrganized county in the district. The addition of Jasper county will make the third district “over the top.” E. E. Reynolds of Lafayette s the district director. The memjership drive in this is to open September 13. The three counties which have signed up for membership drives, ;o become affiliated with the State federation, will be in the fold in ;ime to have accredited delegates to the second annual convention to be held this fall. Every effort is to be put forth to have the remaining hree counties —Brown, Elkhart and >erry—organized in time to partici>ate in the convention thereby wringing the Indiana farmers up to ninety-two counties organized, the first in the Middle West to be fully one hundred per cent organized. President John G. Brown, of Monon, and Lewis Taylor, General Secretary, attended an important conference of state presidents and secretaries held at Ames, la., during the last week. Mauriet Douglas, Second Vice-President, Represented the Federation at a meeting of the Indiana Commercial Secretaries’ Association held at Michigan City. He spoke on “Organization Among the Agriculturists.”