GREENE COUNTY UNION AGAINST NIGHT RIDERS
MEETS , PASS RESOLUTIONS
THE MEMBERS OF THE GREENE COUNTY FARMERS UNION ARE BECOMING UNEASY ABOUT THE NIGHT RIDERS INVADING THAT COUNTY AND AT A MEETING OF A DISTRICT UNION HELD AT MARMADUKE A FEW DAYS AGO AT WHICH THERE WERE FOUR HUNDRED MEMBERS OF THE UNION PRESENT , THE FOLLOWIN RESOLUTION WAS PASSED WHICH WAS PRINTED IN MONDAY PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE. THE COUNTY PRESIDENT OF GREENE COUNTY ISSUED THE ADDRESS TO MEMBERS OF THE UNION WHICH IS ALSO PRINTED. BELOW.
THE BUSINESS MEN OF GREENE COUNTY ARE REQUESTED NOT TO BUY ANY COTTON ON THE STREETS OR FROM WAGONS UNTIL THE MATTER HAS BEEN SETTLED . IT IS REPORTED THAT SOME OF THE MERCHANTS OF GREENE COUNTY HAVE COMPILED WITH THE REQUEST AND IT MAY RESULT IN THE CLOSING OF THE COTTON MARKET OF THAT COUNTY.
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SOURCE : JONESBORO EVENING NEWS - SEPTEMBER 30, 1908
SUPPOSED NIGHT RIDERS STOPS REV. O.C. WILCOXSON IN BETHEL NEIGHBORHOOD
PARAGOULD , SEPT. 23 - THERE IS NO BUYING OR SELLING OF COTTON IN THIS COUNTY , AS THE RESULT OF RECENT AGITATION DUE TO THE APPEARANGE OF THE NIGHT RIDERS IN THE COTTON RAISING COMMUNITIES OF MISSISSIPPI . COTTON GINS HAVE CLOSED DOWN AND PICKING HAS STOPPED. LOCAL MERCHANTS ARE TRANSACTING BUSINESS ON A CASH BASIS AS THE RESULT.
THE AGITATION LOCALLY WAS STATED RECENTLY WHEN A LOCAL FARMERS UNION ADOPTED RESOLUTIONS REQUESTING COTTON DEARS TO SUSPEND BUSINESS FOR A WHILE AT LEAST AS A PRECAUTION .
A BAND OF MEN APPEARED AT BETHEL , FOUR MILES SOUTH OF PARAGOULD , LAST NIGHT. THEY STOPPED REV. OVID WILCOXSON AND DEMANDED HIS OCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.
THE APPEARANCE OF THE BAND HAS CREATED CONSIDERABLE EXCITEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY , HOWEVER AND THE SITUATION IS CONSIDERED A SERIOUS ONE .
FARMERS UNION OFFICERS AND OTHERS WHO HAVE INVESTIGATED THE ALLEGED APPEARANCE OF NIGHT RIDERS IN CRAIGHEAD COUNTY AND FOUND THAT THE REPORTS ARE OF THE OPINON THAT THE BAND OF MEN SEEN NEAR PARAGOULD WAS COMPOSED OF MARAUDER PROWLING ABOUT THE COUNTRY WITH NO DEFINITE PURPOSE OTHER THAN TO CREATE A DISTURBANCE AND A SCARE , TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE PRESENT AGITATION IN THAT SECTION OF THE COUNTRY.
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