The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-19

last meeting | received a one-dollar
subscription from u member who de-
serves great eredit4and honor for her
devotion to the cause. The subscriber
is sister Mary Pickett, the first to
subscribe last spring to the fuudt to be
paid the first day of November. She
is a widow lady, her husband having
died in the army of typhoid fever.
He left her with six children to battle
for; God prospered her, and she has
raised them all. She was among the
first sisters to join our lodge and has
always been and is now ready to as
sist in the good. work. Brethren,
come forward and do your duty as
sister Pickett has done, and we will
nave nothing to fear.
Secretary Craddock, of Alliance
No. 577, dating his letter at Hobton,
renews his subscription to the Pro
GREssIvE FARMER and says: No ALI
anceman should try to do without it,
as it is almost an impossibility to keep
the order on the track without it. We
have call meetings every Thursday
night to keep our Alliance posted in,
regard to the cotton movement. Cot
ton crop is very short in this section,
some farmers being hardly able to
pay for their guano and provisions.
It wouldo.bso a blessing to them to
abandon the former, also the latter on
time. Better live as nude as the
primitive man and. eat their bread on
the head of a barrel than 60 in debt
these rigorous times: Hogs are rapid
ly dying of cholera a few miles off.
A'Goshen Alliance farmer lost about
go IN a month, others are correspond
ingly losing. The epidemic is fearful
to contemplate. We have about 20.
staunch members in No. ST., the rest
are careless in attendance. l am do
ing all I can to raise more funds for
State business agency and have sue
coed in collecting a 'Gmite" and more
to collect. May God in His infinite
mercy protect, preserve and prosper
the Farmers Alliance throughout the
world. Much success to you, your
most excellent journal and your loved
ones.
-Resolved, By Red House Alliance,
No. 761, that the Subordinate ALI
ances of the State are earnestly re-
quested to use less space in the COL
umns of our State organ, in passing
resolutions, in order that the editor
of that paper may devote more of it's
space to general, State and National
news, and thus make it the best family
paper in the State. T. W. Long,
President, J. E. Jordan, Secretary.
We thank our brethren of Red
House Alliance for the above resolu.
tions. 1t gives us an opportunity to
say that we are frequently urged to
publish resolutions in regard to local
grievances, which should not be
known to any except those directly
interested. Again through the per
sistent Importantly of brethren we
are often led to publish resolutions
which are of little interest to the gen.
eral reader. We try to be accommo-
dating and desire to give all a hear
ing in our columns, but brethren will
please remember that if their resolu-
tons do not appear, that the editor
thinks either that they will do the
cause no good, or will be productive
of actual harm. And do not forget
the responsibility on the editor in
these matters and that he is in a posi-
ton to survey the whole matter and
mast do what, in his judgment is
best for our noble order.