The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-04-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.


= New Hampshire and Massachu-
setts are calling for Alliance organ
izers.
< West Virginia has ffty-four
Subordinate and four County ALI
ances.
= Bro. J. S, Humphreys, of Shan
non, N. O., will receive subscriptions
for The PROGRESSIVE FARMER in his
vicinity.
= A. G. Quicker and the Durham
Tobacco Warehouse are new adver-
Users this week. Mr.. Quicker repre-
sents Kings Home Co operative Sup
ply Association.
Where r those who prophe-
sled death, destruction and other
calamities as to the Alliance in this
State and Nation? Maybe it is dead,
but if SO, it is the liveliest corpse that
we know of.
President Carr writes in answer
to "Sub-AlIiance "that the eligi-
bility clause must be rIgidly adhered
to and charges should be preferred
against any Sub-AlIiance at once for
a violation of it."
* The Durham Fertilizer Com
pany received orders for 835 tons Of
Farmers Alliance Official Guano"
on the 10th and 18th insts. All or
ders for immediate shipment will be
filed promptly.
3 The first Alliance gun was fired
in the great State of New York last
week. The first Alliance was organ
lied in Allegheny county by Bro. D.
F. Allen, who has just been commits
stoned as State organizer.
Without doubt we have a vari,
ETY. of literary talent in North Caro-
lima. "Memory Gems" on the 5th
page of this issue, by Mrs. W. U.
Jones, of Hillsboro, N. O., is a cluster
of gems that shines with more than
ordinary brilliancy.
< Much of the reading matter in
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER is neces
sarily dry. Facts and figures are al
ways so. But where is the paper that
gives more general news, more i'm
portant matter, more pithy selections
or more spicy selections of all kinds ?
* Bros. Long, Darden, Vance,
Parker, Wilson,, Hunter and other
Alliance lecturers have been doing
grand work. The people of our State
owe those named above and many
other Alliance workers a debt Of
gratitude that they should ever be
ready to pay.
- Bro. M. E. Ramsey, Secretary
of Iredell County Alliance, writes US
that "OId Iredell is humping herself
now in Alliance matters; that they
had an enthusiastic meeting on the
4th inst. and our county is on a more
solid footing than she ever has been.
We are getting rid of the dross and
getting down to the pure metal"
Charles County, Maryland, AL
lance has elected Bro. Winfield Hal,
ley their business agent. He is now
located at 9O3, Louisiana Avenue,
Washington, D. G. He will buy
goods or articles of any kind for the
brethren Of any State and also dispose
of anv sur lus produce they may wish
to sell through him, in either New
York, Boston, Philadelphia or Balti,
more. Write him for circular.
~. Our National President and
Bro. G. W. Macune, Chairman of our
National Legislative Commi5Eee, will
appear before the Senate Committee
at an early day to present the
claims of the farmers of the country
as outlined in the sub, treasury bill.
The Progressive FARMER will present
the speeches of these gentlemen to it's
readers as soon as copies can be ob-
tanned, and it hazards nothing in the
prediction that they will contain mat
ter that will interest people.
= The great State of Pennsylvania
has thrown out her advanced guard.
Mr.. II. G.. Demming, n of the
founders of the Grange in that State,
and who has for the past quarter of
a century been one of the most &C.
tive, prominent and efficient workers
for the advancement of agriculture,
organized the frstssAlliance at Harris,
burg on the It'll inst. 1t is composed
of members of old Patriarch Grange,
one of the leading Oranges of the
| United States. Arrangements are
being made for a large mass meeting
of the farmers of Central PennsyI.
vania at an early day for the purpose
of having the great reform movement
discussed by Col. Polk, National
President. Pennsylvania will marshal
her forces and add greatly to the