The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-01-07
LONG THE S.
,,,s.t the Organization is Doing

outv. FIVE thousand farmers
2o5' the Grange since last May.
Alliance co operative store has
onaned at Forest, Scott county,
Mississippi
MT Alliance at Alapaha, Ca, ALI
has commenced work on a ware
house at that point,
r;uo Northwestern States have
.aonted the secret work and Consti-
soti6n of the Alliance.
rbo Alliance warehouse at New
Ca. has received $500 bales of
notton to date this season.
Tho Cstoosa, Ca, County Alliance
On the 2lst of December and
n nsrsscted some important business.
Tho Alliance Tribune is the name of
nav publication which has appeared
a. Topeka, Kansas, J. K. Estes, editor
and proprietor. .
M H. L. Loucks has resigned as
preaident of the South Dakota ALI
.nce He has been elected President
oftbe Northwestern National Alliance
Hon, Ben. Terrell, of Texas, Lee
+rrer of the Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union of America, is an
nonnced to lecture in Admission, Ala,
on Jan. 9TH.
The executive committee of South
Dakota, Alliance have bought the
Dakota RuraliSb published at Aber-
deem. and it will be conducted as the
State organ.
President E. N. Fry, of Antioch
Alliance, near Hot Springs, raised
with one mule and without any assist
snce, $50 bushels of corn and other
crops in Country Homes.
The Alliance men of Franklin,
Rowan and Habersham counties, of
Georgia, have organized a joint stock
company with a capital Of $4,000 to
sell the produce raised by their mem
bers.
A Minnesota paper jumped the
Alliance and misrepresented it most
bitterly. The object was to keep the
farmers from joining. An Alliance
was organized the next week with 50
members.
ave cannot, says the Washington,
Ga, Chronicle, "speak too highly of
the great good the Alliance is doing
in Wilkes county, and their plans for
another year are engaging their earnest
deliberations.
The appointment of Mr.. A. D..
Chase, the eminent Alliance champion,
as Railroad Commissioner, is a very
appropriate recognition of the farming
element in the State of Dakota, and
gives great satisfaction.
Secretary R. L.. Burkes, of the
Georgia State Alliance, has issued his
prospectus for the Georgia Alliance
Quarterly, the first number of the
magazine to appear January 10th. 1t
will be 32-page monthly.
The Cults county, Ca, Alliance has
set on foot a movement to promote the
interest of the farmers of that section.
1t has organized a Live Stock and
Agricultural Fair Association, with
". NJ. Mallet as President.
A citizens committee of Valdosta
are at work with a committee of the
Lowndes County Alliance arranging
a program for the grand Alliance
jubilee in connection with the opening
of the new warehouse in Valdosta on
the 18th of January.
The Illinois State Grange offered
$40, 900 for a machine to bind grain
with straw. Numerous machines have
been exhibited and all show genius on
on the part of the inventors. One has
been perfected, but the owner declines
to take the amount offered.
The Office of the Alliance Advocate
has been moved from Meridian, Kan,
to No. 831, Kansas Avenue, Topeka,
and will publish official matter for the
Kansas State Alliance. Sometime in
January the Advocate will publish a
special issue containing much interest
ing matter. There will be $1,000
copies of this edition. We are glad
to note the prosperity of our esteemed
contemporary.
One of our exchanges, the Monitor,
published at Jefferson City, Mo-, is
the smallest paper in America. It is
a double sheet 6x8 inches, three
columns to the page. 1t contains a
quantity of excellent reading matter.
1t is the organ of the Alliance. It
says: We r willing to do anything
to get subscribers. Will kiss a widow
for a new subscriber, or an old maid
if allowed to make the selection
ourselves"
The Alabama Alliance d7,ocote If