The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-01
ALLIANCE NOTES.

ALWAYS give the name and number of
your Alliance, your postofice and your
county, plainly, when you write to the
President, Secretary, Trustee, Business
Agent or Chairman of Executive Com
mittee of the State Alliance.
BRO. D. M. Graves, of Selma,
writes: "Our people here are solid
on the bagging question; we are deter.
mined not to use the jute bagging at
any price. No weak kneed brethren
in Johnston"
-Edgecombe Farmers Alliance
has established an Alliance cotton
agency in Tarboro, with J. M.
Cutchen, as Agent. We predict that
it will be a success, for Edgecembe
farmers never do things by halves.
The following Alliances have
passed resolutions since our last issue,
~denouncing jute bagging and declar-
ing that they will use only cotton bag
cling in the future: Euphronia ALI
ance No. 9O3, Moore county; Auburn
Alliance, Nc. 40, Wake county; and
Snowden Alliance, No. l247.
Gross Roads Alliance, No. 1858,
at last meeting passed the following:
Resolved, That if any member of this
Alliance shall be kno wn to be engaged
in the purchasing, manufacturing or
selling spirituous liquors made out of
molasses or syrup Of any kind or
purchasing the same after it's manu-
factory, he or she shall be expelled
from this lodge as an immoral char
acter. .
There will be a grand Alliance
Mass Meeting on Wednesday night,
the 10th of October, Fair week. in
the city of Raleigh at s o'clock sharp.
Prominent Alliance men from this
and other States will be present, and
important matters will be considered.
Alliance headquarters will be estab-
lished on the Fair grounds, in full
view of the entrance gate, near Agri-
cultural Hall, in charge of L. L. Polk,
State Secretary, and will be kept open
during the week for the accommoda.
ton of the visiting members. Please
have this read at your meeting on the
4th of October.
Lambs Cross Roads Alliance,
No. GAG, of Wilson county, has re-
solved to expel any member who uses
jute bagging or who patronizes a gin
ner who keeps jute bsgging. The
correspondent says: "You may de-
pend on us to stand by the Alliance
until death. We want none but true
Alliance men in our lodge, and if we
find a Judas we are determined to
route him at once. / think I will be
able to send you a good list of SUBJ
scribers as soon as our members sell
some cotton, for we r aroused as
never before, and most of our mem
bers want your paper, Hereafter we
propose TO do our own thinking"
"A brother writing from Rocky
Mount, renewing his and and others
subscriptions, says: "Our Juvenile
Alliance met last Saturday in regular
meeting. We had seventy-two mem.
bers present and initiated ten more,
among whom were two ladies. I find
that we can keep better order since
ladies have joined our lodge. Brethren,
you must have ladies in your lodges.
They are the flowers of discipline.
We discussed several interesting sub.
jects, among which was the propriety
Of establishing a cotton yard and ex.
change in Rocky Mount. I think we
will be certain to have one. We
want to employ an agent to attend tc
our cotton and order such goods al
we need. / want to know If we cam
buy our goods through the State
Agent this fall. The time of harves
is right there, and it is time that W.
were up and doing. The farmers O.
this section are focking to the ALI
ance with the expectation of getting
some benefit this fall, and may they
not get disappointed. The farmers
of this section are united as they have
never been before by the lash of thu
combinations and trusts. Railroad
excursions are almost as bad this yea
as trusts. They have put the rate
!, down in reach of anybody and there
by drawn thousands of dollars iron
the Door farmers