The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-03-24
AN ALLIANCE TOUR IN CASTOR.
Plenty of True Blues in That Great
County.
correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
CHARLOTTE, N G.

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AS we have just come In from q mis-
aionary tour through the county of
CASTOR, is occurred TO US hat we could
interest at least some Of your many
readers for a few moments with a short
history Of the trip.
Ga Monday the Sd, we armed our
self with one extra handkerchief, g
nickeis worth of tobacco and a double
sided non explosive fifty-wOrd Uo-the-
minute Alliance speech, and boarded a
4:3O mixed G. @. train that goes out
of Charlotte at five o'clock in the di
rection of MfFHolly.
We arrived at Mt. Holly just before
milling time, aud stopped at the house
Of our old friend, G.. w. Bowman. We
were not long with him Def re we
were invited into the dining room to
partake of o nice, hot, substantial sup
per. 1t vas there that we showed Mr..
Bowman t0at we were friendly to
wards him.
We found the town built in two eec-
tiers We we're billed FOR a talk az
Z o'clock. We took supper in the first
eccticn, and after supper repaired 60
the second section, IS there was no
hall IN the first. We found quite a
numb r Of hayseeders end millmen
assembled at the hall door, but they
were informed that foreigners could
not talk in that hall without putting
up some "eOund money" That the
boys declined to do, by advice.
We thought the hall could rest. We
compromised by going into the rear
end of Capt. Hollands drug store,
where we found q good fire, and put III
two hours talking to each other, like
enc CID farmer talks to another through
the crack of the fence.
We stopped for the night at the
hospitabIe home OF Capt. Jenkins.
Toe boys informed u5 hat they were
not taking any stock III money good
IN Yurrip" movement, and would be
found, so far as that section was con
CSt LGOy 1CGI1uS II " h4O"A III hAA
dar-liKe tones next November.
Tuesday morning, Bro. Bowman
allowed us to ride behind one the finest
horses in that township, while he
pulled the strings" to River Bend
School House. There we only had a
small crowd, the meeting not having
been well advertised, but we found
what was there to be in the middle of
The road Wit both feet on Alliance
demands.
After talk, we were tekenin tow
by that old Al iancCmaD, John E Fife,
and seated socn thereafter at his table.
It is useless to say more; I have told
you where I ate.
When dinner was over, we returned
70 the sitting room and were informed
that Mr. L L Smith, liver ystableman
| from SCanly Creek was at the gate,
seated III a light buggy, behind two
spanking black horses, ready to carry
us to Stanly Creek. AS soon as we
could say good bye tc our kind host,
we were on our way. We were driven
to Mr.. W. A Howell's, at Stanly Creek,
and CHARTERED for the hight. At Z
o'clock we went to the academy, where
we found a large crowd assembled
with SJanIy Greek Sub. Alliance.
After looking into their faces for one
and a half hours, we were satisfied that
there was lot a man in all that crowd
who wanted to go to "Yurrip" to spend
MS money, and did not care whether
it was good there or not. They were
Americans and will so act. To make a
long story short, we found the Ali
anc in good shape and in the middle
of the road.
Wednesday morning we boarded the
11:2) train on the @. @. R R., that ar.
rIves about II o'clock on its way to
Rutherfordton. We pulled out With
our p~asteboard marked CHERRY vile, y
where we were billed for a ~ O'Clock
talk. We found on our arrival quite q
crowd of the brethren on the ground.
We were met at the depot by County
Alliance President Bro. J. T. R
Cameron, of Bessemer City, who took
charge of us and steeTed US to the
hospitab'e home of DR.. A. w. Howell,
who had prepared dinner for US. After
dinner we gathered at the hall, where
we had the pleasure Of talking to a
large crowd of the men who created
the wealth of this county. After the
public services we're over, we reorgan-
lied Cherryville Alliance, that las
been out of business for some time