The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-05-07

NAASA A4SS4
the Granville County Farmers ALI
ance Tobacco Manufacturing Co.,
Oxford, N. c., the only genuine
Alliance tobacco in the world" In
the foreground is a farmer blowing a
span of horses, while the curling
smoke from the golden leaf in his pipe
floats above him. Many thanks, friend
Morris, and when you shall have
booked to your Alliance brethren a
million pounds, and its praises and its
fame shall be sounded in ems of thou
sands of their homes. The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER will still have this first little
package
-Catawba County Farmers' ALI
ance will meet according, to adjourn
ment in the court house, in Newton,
on Friday, the oath day of May, 1889,
at 10 o'clock, a. NJ. Capt. S. B, Alex
ander, President of the n. C. F. S..
Alliance, and Maj. W. A. Graham.
have accepted invitations to be with
us and make speeches on Alliance
matters Of Importance to Sn members
of the Alliance, therefore it is desired
that all Subordinate Alliances send a
full delegation, and all members of
the Alliance are especially requested
to attend. this meeting and hear about
the objects and aims of the Alliance
in North Carolina. H. A. Forne1y,
Deputy Organizer. S7"s:@ 80
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Bro. q: D. Mason, writing from
Williams Mills, Chatham county,
says: "The farmers about here are
planting more corn and planting earlier
than common. This is a good, omen
andfspeaks we'll for this section. The
Alliance, So far as my personal obser-
-Vation extends, is standing firm, but
every device under the SUMS resorted
to to lead some astray, Circulars,
purporting to have the sanction of our
Business Agent, are being sent to.
many of the SuB-AIliances. Would
it not be we'll for The" PROGRESSIVE
FARMER to" give a caution in these
things? l do not believetlin rich
manufacturers using cheap convict
labor, but your columns are too
crowded for comment.
"A correspondent writing from
sLewiston Alliance, in the upper part
of BERTHE county, says the brethren
are enjoying the best Of feeling, which
is the feeling of being poor but on
the road to prosperity. This lodge
was organized last winter with sixteen
charter members aud now has a mem.
bership Of forty odd, with additions
at almost every meeting. We en-
dorsed the State Alliance resolutions
and abided by them and we are
almost ready to laugh at the over.
throw Of the guano agents in this
county. Some made their brag that
the Alliance men would them
down to buy guano, butsIthink the boot
is on the other leg. There is nobody
discouraged in our lodge.
in. Hall, of Piney Ridge Ali.
ance, No. 1,1l6, Durham county,
says: I think we, who have been
aroused to a sense of our needs, should
use all the influence that we can to
get farmers to- fill their wheat gamers,
to enlarge their corn cribs, to move
their smoke.houses from the Northern
cities and erect them on their own
farmers. and also to raise more clover
and. grass, and not depend almost ca
tirely upon the grassy plains of an
unseen prairie to Craze their horses
and winter their cattle. l am re-
solved to do all within my power to
kget the members of our Alliance to
adopt this rule: First, to make their
bread and meat at home, and then
raise what cotton and tobacco they
can. s,"'sa" afr:
Bro. J. N. Morgan, recently ap-
pointed Deputy. Organizer for the
county of Yancy, though without ex.
perience, went at once to work and
organized Alliances as follows AT
Prices Greek Church, March 28th,
with sixteen members, Rev. W. A
Robinson, President, and j. K. Blum
kinship, Secretary; at Indian Greek
Church, March 29th, with'J II. Par
rett, President, and 81. g.. Nancy,
Secretary; at Bald Creek Schoo1
House, March 30th, with J. w. Bur
ten, President, and WsL. Ray, Score
tary; and at Ivey Gap, on March Both,
with w. A. Honeycutt, President, and
j.. w. Briggs, Secretary. The organ
izer says he will be able to organize
at least twenty Alliances in this
county.
"A member of Bell Alliance, 189
Chatham county, says: II write yor
to say our Alliance is neither dead mol
taking a seven years sleep. We are
still increasing in numbers, and what
is much more to be rejoiced over, il