The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-15
AMONG THE ALLIANCES.
What the Organization is Doing
Throughout the Country.

4A4OuSuOuG GAC NOuALIys
The Wisconsin Grange reports
progress.
Shawance county, Kansas, has 33
Sub-AIE ances and a membership of
more than 5000.
The Alliance State Exchange in
5peka, Kansas, does a business of
Yer $500 daily.
The cooperative store of the Will
OK county, Ca, Alliance at Rochelle
S doing a good business.
The Alliance gets more ~"buncombe"
than any other institution of the kind
in the universe. - VlndicatOr.
The Laborers' Union are arranging
to build a hall two stories high
Bush Hill (Mo.) Union Banner.
The Farmers Alliance of Arcadia
Parish, La, will put up a rice mill.
They made 2OO,O 900 barrels of rice in
1889,
Troupe County Alliance is discus
sing the propriety of holdlnga county
fair this year.--Southern Alliance
Farmer.
The State Alliance of Minnesota
again resolves that none but farmers
shall be eligible to membership
Granger, Nehama, Ne6.
The Alliance men OF Worth and
Irwin counties, Ca, propose erecting
a cotton warehouse as soon as their
cooperative store is completed.
The Farmers Alliance of the Uni,
ted States will establish agricultural
works at Iron Gate, Va, and supply
all Sub-Alliances i'll the country.
A Farmers Alliance lodge will
be organized at Plainfeld, in Back
Greek township, Randolph county,
next Saturday. - Greensboro North
State.
Chaplain Davis, of tie Georgia
State Alliance, is now editing an Al
lance department in the Advertiser,
published at GAINESVILLE, in Haber-
sham county.
The Edgewood Alliance, in DeKaIb
county, Ca, have adopted a rule to
fine every members absent from meet.
ings without excuse and have set apart
the money collected from fines as a
fund for the relief Of needy members.
Some men are holding off to see
what the Alliance is going to do, and
after it proves to be a success will
come in. If all were just such there
would have been no Alliance. 1t
takes men of courage to face conse-
quences.
The farmers have voted themselves
under ground all but their heads, and
[ hope that the next time they vote
for the old parties they will go head
and all under ground never more to
rise for it will serve them right
Exchange.
The recent convention of Presi,
dents of County Alliances resolved in
favor of a cons .itu.ional convention.
They also ~resolvei against alien owner,
ship of land, & measure which the last
legislature refused to enact.-Jefer-
SOnGGn.
The Farmers Alliance Of this
county are considering the purchase
of a lot ear the depot upon which to
erect a large warehouse. From what
we can learn their plans are very
nearly perfected and such a building
seems assured.-GreenvlIle Reflector.
Some of the daily papers of the
State are giving lots of free advice as
to the Farmers Alliance going into
politics. Now, the Alliance is not 60
ing into politics this year, or next, but
you may bet your sweet life they are
going to vote.-Bo8ton (G0.) World.
AS the Cordele, Ca, Alliance com.
pany proposes to erect a big brick
store at that place, the COrde can ad-
vises them to add a story above the
store and finish off a good hall. AS
Cordele is on a big and substantial
boom, this will no doubt prove a pay
ing investment.
In 1876 the farmers owned 10 per
cent. of the property in Georgia; now
only "a per cent. of the property is
held by farmers. Twenty years
hence, unless a new deal is made,
| their interest in the wealth Of the
State will be much Iess.-Southern
Alliance Farmer.
J. W. Upchurch, business agent
of Davidson County Farmers ALI
ance, will now devote all his time to
the interest of that order. He will
spend three days of each week in Lex
ington and three in Thomasville. The
Alliance is on a big boom in David
son.-Le1ingtom Dispatch.
President R. F. Rogers, of the