The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-19
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ALLIANCE NOTES. Jon
ALWAYS give the name and number Of
your Alliance, your postof6ce and your
county, plainly, when you write to the
President, Secretary, Trustee, Business
Agent or Chairman of Executive Com
mittee of the State Alliance.1
Bro. Mcdowell, of Tennessee, in
forms US that meeting of the Ma
tlonal, Board of the Farmers and
Laborers' Union will meet in the city
OF St. Louis on Saturday, the 3Oth
inst.
BRO. D. Reid Parker, District
Lecturer, we are glad to learn, is
making splendid progress in our
work and especially in the important
matter of increasing our business
agency fund.
Bro. S. c.. Brown, of Catawba
county, writes that the cotton crop
has been cut off at least one-third-
that the farmers of that famous wheat
county are seeding more than ever
before and will make and use of more
compost than aver before.
We see that the reception
committee to arrange for the re-
ception of the delegates to the
Farmers and Laborers' Union,
which meets on the 3rd prox. in the
city of St. Louis, has arranged terms
with the St. James Hotel at $1.25
per day.
p. Q. Kiger writes as follows,
dating his letter Mana, Yadkin county,
Nov. 18th: elf you will allow me a
little space in your valuable paper, |
will give you some idea of what the
farmers of this section are doing in
regard to the Alliance. Mr.. John
Hampton, the Organizer of this county,
was wi4h US Saturday night last and
succeeded in organizing a Club at
this place to be known as the Enonon
Farmers Alliance, with the following
officers: S. T. Conrad, President;
John Brinkly, Vice President; J. H.
Smith, Treasurer; J.. 81. Sailor, Lee
turer; II. T. Bran, Assistant Lecturer;
John Knott, Doorkeeper; G. D.. Knott,
Serg't-at-Arms. The prospect is good
for a large lodge within a short time.
Jas. R. Wright, of South Shore
Alliance, No. 1887, Tyrrell county,
says the sister Alliances, South
Shore, Lone Star, and New
Foundland, have established an ALI
ance store in the centre, with Capt.
J.. W. Harnett as clerk. We expect
to make it a great help to us. We
are nearly all poor people, but are 60
ing to do all we can in the cause. We
can't do much this year, however, as
our crops are badly cut off by the
wet season. We hear some say, out
side, it will not amount to much, be-
cause there are no moneyed men in
the order, but I think we can do bet
ter without them than with them, for
they keep poor mems noses to the
grindstone. would say to the breth-
rem, stand to the guns until the last
trust, combine and other enemy falls to
rise no more
Bro. D. M. Arrowood writes from
Little Salem Alliance, No. 1901, and
says there is a travelling agent around
through that country selling a pillow
sulky. It is manufactured by the
Cahill Manufacturing Co., GAINESVILLE,
Tenn. They are selling a very great
number of them at very high price,
either for cash or credit. A good
many Of our brethren are buying
them. Brethren, is not that against
our principles 2 Have we not a State
Business Agent ? If you want the
Cahill Manufacturing Co.'s goods,
why not get them through our Bust.
ness Agent I think our principles
demand that we should not buy at all;
our order will do US no good, fnan'
cially, while we patronize these travel
ing agents who go over the country
seeking whom they may drag into
their coils.
Bro. Ebert A. Woods, Secretary
of South Durham Alliance, No. $50,
of Durham county, writes that his
Alliance is still alive, with some good
members and some bad oles One
member carried his cotton Eve miles
out of the way in order to get il
wrapped in cotton bagging. cat oul