The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-05
Alliances to. date.

business Agents will read the
notice of Bro. Carr, Chairman. of our
State Executive Committee.
An application for State charter
for the N. c.. F. S, Alliance will be
made this week to the Legislature.
Over one thousand memorials OF
Alliances to the Legislature on the
State Alliance demands will be. laid
before that body this week.
Farmers Alliance No. 225, of
Vance county, condemns the act of
the present Legislature in appropriate
ing public funds to defray the ex-
penses of the late Inauguration.
1t is announced in the Asheville
papers that the Buncombe County
Alliance will be organized in that city
on the 26th day of February;hand that
<Prest. S. B. Alexander will be present.
ar--Isham Royal, Deputy Organizer
of Sampson county organized, Ever
green Alliance in School district No.
SO, on the 22d, of January last. There
are now forty-odd Alliances in Salnp-
o county ~ >'-3"
BRO j.. r. Maynard, of MorTisville
Alliance, having been elected Core
spending Secretary for The Pro.
GREssIvE FARMER, sends a lengthy and
interesting letter which is crowded
out of this issue.
In ordering Alliance Seals, the
brethren are respectfully requested to
order directly from the manufacture
ers, and not through this Office. See
their advertisements in The Pro
GREssIvE FARMER.
The members of Olives Chapel
Alliance, No. 25l, have agreed to buy
no more coffee unless the price is re-
duced to fifteen cents per pound. If
this resolution is adhered to the ALI
ance will doubtless be benefited, even
though the price of coffee is not re-
duced.
We mailed last week to the Sec
retaries, the last of the certificates for
subscribers toevthe Business Agency
Fund, which had reached our office
from the Trustee. They will please
sign and return the receipt enclosed
to them. We hope now to be able to
keep up.
w. l.. Marshall, of Oak Grove
Alliance, No. 478, says: alt gives me
pleasure to inform you that our Ali
ance is progressing finely, and that
membership now numbers seventy
seven. We are still receiving appli-
cations and are looking forward
to a brighter future.
Sandy Plains Alliance, No. 1919,
was established in October, 1887,
but, our correspondent says, "for a
long time it groaped in an almost do
nothing state" The lodge is now
rapidly growing in strength and infu-
ence and will soon rank with the most
active Alliances in the country.
Bro. E. R. Moore, of Mt, Tirzah
Alliance, Person county, says: "For
this quarter we have adopted an Ali
ance trade card, which the merchants
like, asst gives them a way for recog-
nizing the members of the order. They
are taking kindly to the system and
offer special inducements to us.
Deputy Organizer, J. A. Heilig,
of Rowan county, reports Alliances or:
ganized as follows since his last report:
On the goth Of Dec, at Bost's Mill, in
Gold Hill township; on the night of
the 28th of Dec at Union, in Provi-
dence township; and on the night of
the Sd of January, at Stirewalt's School
House, in Litaker township.
Theirs will be a meeting of the
Forsyth county Farmers Alliance at
Spanish Grove School House, on Satur-
day, February 9th, 1889. The same
delegates that were present at the last
county meeting are requested to be
present. The Alliance will be opened
at IL o'clock. There is business of
Importance to be transacted.
Bro. R. P. McLain, Deputy Organ
izer of Alexander county, reports
Alliances organized as follows: On
Dec. Sd, Rocky Springs Alliance, with
Thos. F. Murdoch, President, and R.
G. Allen, Secretary; on Dec. 9Th,
Pleasant Hill Alliance, WITH E. L.
Childress, President, and r. d. Nc
Cree, Secretary, Dec. 18th, Little River
Alliance, with A. L. Watts, President,
and j. G. Chapman, Secretary; and on