The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-04
AMONG THE
What the Organization is Doing
Throughout the Country,

Bro. i. NJ. Adams has been elected
a local agent of the Georgia Alliance
Exchange.
A writer in the Chicago Express
says the hope of the country is in the
referm press.
1t is generally understood that an
Alliance bank of Americas, Ga, is
an assured success.
The Texas Farmers Association, at
Dallas, has been incorporated with a
capital stock of 500, 900.
The Alliance at Clear Water, Fla,
will soon hold their annual fair, for
which a programme is being arranged.
The Georgia Exchange has in its
treasury $65, 900 rs a capital fund, and
the outlook for an extensive business
is good.
The Cloud County Alliance have
built their own elevator at Miltondale,
Kansas, and propose to do their own
shipping.
The Progressive Age, organ of the
Alliance in Alabama, will discard its
patent outside and be an all home
print paper.
Clay County, Kansas, Alliance has
formed a stock company with sufficient
capital to build an elevator and buy
and@sen grain. ,
The Monroe county, Ca, Alliance
will meet on the 9Th of February, at
10 O'Clock, when important matters
will be discussed.
1t is announced that there will be
a.joint meeting Of the Alliance and
the knights of Labor at Chattanooga,
Tenn, on the 7th of February.
The Atlanta journal says that the
Alliance has saved the farmers of
Georgia more. than 5000, 900 in one
year on the cost of fertilizers alone.
Cannons Creek Alliance, in New
berry county, s. O., has adopted the
Texas plan, and will supply its mem,
bers with cash to@make their crops.
The Farmers Alliance of Person
county are arranging TO build an ALI
ance factory at Roxboro. Two new
tobacco warehouses will also be built.
The Alliance meeting at Hickory
Grove was a fine affair. More than
1000 people we're present. Old
M~ecklenburg never does anything by
halves.
The Ringold, Ga, Courier says that
the Alliance men In Catoosa county
are very hopeful that they will get
the greatreforms through intended by
the Alliance.
The State Joaynal says it is because
corn is selling at IA cents a bHsRel
that the membership of the Alliance
is increasing at the rate of 1900. per
month in Kansas.
The AIliancemen in Thomas county,
Ga, have decided to build a cotton
warehouse at Boston, Ca, and u a
cotton seed oil mill and fertilizer fac
tory in connection.
The Alliance Advocate a Y that the
Montgomery Advertiser is as much of
an enemy of the Alliance as the jute
trust. The Alliance gave the iute
trust a black eye and will nov do the
same thing for the Advertiser.
Bro. WA. Graham writes THAI. he
and Bro. Hunter had a crowd to ad-
dress at Taylorsville, which was so
large that all out of doors would
hardly hold them. His Alliance,
Machpelah, has Is members to initiate
at next meeting.
The farmers are watching the DO
litical papers of Tennessee as they
never did before, and those that treat
us unfairly will cease to enter the
farmers household. Our members
have learned that warming an adder
in their bosoms is bad policy.-T0iley.
The Alliance men in Iowa, Kansas,
Dakota and other Western States are
sending in petitions to their represen-
tatives in Congress asking them to
enact laws to suppress gambling on
the Board of Trade by selling or buy
ing products which the owner does
not own nor expect to own, Right.
The Farmers Alliance has saved
the farmers of America SIS, 900, 600 in
Irvine, So, 10000 on bagging, and it
is claimed that through the opera.
tions Of the Alliance exchange dis.
counts have been secured that will
make the amount saved by farmers
$l0,O0o,90O annually. = PROGRESSIVE
Age.
The papers that aspire to be party
organs are very solieitous about i'm.
pressing the public that the members
of the Alliance deprecate the action at