The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-01-12
ALLIANCE r

Mt. Gilead Alliance has perfected ar.
rangements for purchasing supplies for
this year.
Bro. S. Ohio Wilson reports Flovd
Alliance in Vance county
organized by him on the 9Th inst.
The, sub-Alliances of Chatham
county met at New Elam on the 9Th
inst. and organized aCounty Alliance
We hope to have at a very early dav
full and complete quarterly reports
from all the Secretaries of County
Alliances. They are now due, and we
hope to get them,
The Wake County Farmers Ali.
ance held a very interesting meeting
in this city on the 9Th inst. 1t was
largely attended and was entirely har-
monious throughout.
Bethlehem Alliance, in Moore
county, was organized on the 3rd ult.
by Bro V. N. Seawell, with II mem.
bers, w. H. H. Lawhon, President.
and J. W. Seawell, Secretary.
Buffalo Creek Alliance was organ.
lied, in Cabarrus county, on the 9TH
inst, by Bro, G. Mcdonald, with IA
members. Mr.. Paul Barnhardt, Presi.
dent, and A. L. Barrier, Secretary.
Tuesday mornings mail brought Us
reports of the organization of twelve
Alliances, and the number in the State
at this writing is two hundred and
seventy-two. The same mail brought
us sixty-four subscribers.
Bro. Geo. Ratliff, Deputy organizer
for Arson, reports five new Alliances
in that county, Cason Old Field,
Wightman, Cedar Hill, Brown Creek
and Hopewell. Thus old Arson greets
her sister counties with IS live, active,
working Alliances.
Chatham County Alliance was Or
ganized on the 9Th inst, twelve sub
Alliances being represented, with the
following officers President, J. W.
| Atwater ; Vice-President, T. J. Roe
Secretary, Richard Moore; Treas
urer, A. T. Lambeth Lecturer, A.
w. Wicker Asst. Lecturer, NJ. S.
Stephens.
Holly Springs Alliance is progress
ing. It now numbers about SO mem
bers, and several first-class men are to
be initiated at next meeting. Bro.
Burt, the President, says that he can
not remember a single meeting when
they have not received applications
for membership. We thank him and
other brethren for a nice New Years
present in the shape. of a good club of
subscribers.
Bro. H. I. Scarboro and Bro. D. A.
Clark, Deputy organizers for Mont
gomery county, have resolved to com
plete at an early day the organization
Of that county. They work together
and work solidly with the view OF pro-,
noting the good of the noble order OF
the Alliance. They have divided the
territory and gone to work in earnest;
We confidently expect to have gooa
reports from the county Of Mont
gomery.
The meeting of the Cumberland
county Alliance, held in Fayetteville
on the 9Th inst, was largely attended,
and the best of feeling prevailed. They
are beginning to look into the business
feature of the organization, and we are
glad to note this fact. Our farmers
ought to be better acquainted with the
methods of business which control the
commercial world, and they ought 10
have a system Of their own for man,
aging their own business. They VIII
have it just as soon as we are sum
GENTLY organized to avail ourselves Oh
it. It is the same system that IS WORK
ing with such great success and satlS.
faction in the Alliance in Texas. Ley
us push forward the work of organ
zation. .,.t
One of the Invest, most earnest anu
best harnessed Alliance mel IN all the
South is Bro. w. A. Austin, OF Union
county. There are now p Alliances
in that county, twelve of which nave
been organized by him since the rzosn
Of December. Bro Austin is a ousy'
and successful Alliance worker. le
is President of an Alliance, Deputy