The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-03-26

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Sixteen hundred and elghty-tour
Sub-Alliances up to date.
The Toiler says that Mt. Vernon
Alliance, Bell county, Texas, has voted
to take $50, 900 stock in the Exchange
Up to the 18th inst. there were
500 Alliances in South Carolina ana
IS County Alliances had been organ
lied.
Remember that the quarterly
meeting of all the County Alliances is
on the first Friday, the day OF April.
Let there be a full attendance all over
the State.
Pleasant Grove Alliance, of Ala
nance county, at a meeting on the
9th inst, resolved to reduce the cost
of raising tobacco by dispensing with
no se of commercial fertilizers.
Information has reached this
Office of the death of Bro. S. G. Jones,
of Gum Spring Alliance, No. sc, OF
the county of Arson. His death
occurred on the 18th day of last Feb
ruary.
The Secretary of Lansonville
Alliance, Rockingham county, refer
ring to the membership of his lodge,
a 1.-THE older we get as an order,
the more do we become satisfied that
we should stand shoulder to shoulder,
for our mutual protection in this day
of combines, trusts" &c.
Secretary Dougan c.. Cox says
that two of the brethren of Alliance
No. 525, of Randolph county, have
recently met with the misfortune of
losing their horses b ydeath. Alliance
No. SIT has subscribed and paid one
of them $500, and has a subscription
list for the other which will be pre-
sented at the next meeting.
An Alliance exchange aptly says:
"Many members of the Alliance will
no doubt finally drop out of the order,
having become dissatisfied because
they could not have their own way.
Don't be alarmed, brethren; it would
probably not be best to retain them all,
even if we could do so. When at the
proper heat, the dross will run off and
leave the pure metal"
BRO. A. M. Sorrell, Secretary of
Brassield Alliance, No. SIS, Durham
county, gives a few items from that
quarter. The Alliance was organized
a year ago with sixteen members and
now numbers forty-nine. The brethren
are earnest and Jealous, and have con-
tributed largely to the Business Agency
Fund, notwithstanding their last crops
came near being a failure.
Bro. H. J. Ward, who is not a
subscriber, but hopes soon to become
one, writes from Mt. Gould, BERTHE
county, to say that his Alliance is
gradually growing in numbers and
usefulness. His and two other ALI
ances are considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of establishing an Alliance Store. The
farmers of this section of the country
are becoming greatly aroused and the
indications are that the Alliance will
soon be a power in the land.
Secretaries Of Sub-Alliances will
greatly facilitate our work if they wiU
be prompt an making their reports to the
county secretaries. Do not wait to make
it at the quarterly meeting. The
County Secretary cannot do what he
should do on that day if he is to be
engaged in receiving your reports. He
should have all the reports compiled
by that day so he could give the
County Alliance any desired informa-
ton. For these reasons the law re-
quires the Sub-secretaries to make
their reports by the first of the month.
Let the brethren be prompt and faith
full. @
An exchange says: Some one.
asks why the Alliance cannot do the
work of a Farmers Institute ? 1t can.
It can do everything that a farmers
organization can do. At every meet
ing of a local Alliance there should be
practical questions discussed. These
may be of a political character, of a
social character or in regard to prac-
teal farm work. There are hundreds
of questions that could be considered
with great profit. Never permit a
meeting to be dull or undressing.
There is no need Of it. Strive to get
those who never talk to say something
No difference if a man cannot talk
elegantly. 1t is not elegant speeches
that are needed, but practical speeches.
R. P. McLain, Deputy Organizer
of Alexander county, reports as fol,
lows: In Alexander county, on Janu.
airy 18th, Cedar Run Alliance was
organized, Solomon Davis, President.
and D. M. Baker, Secretary; on the