The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-15

Chaplain-w. s. Mercer, Moyock,
N. @.
Door keeper-Geo. T. Lane, Green's
boro, N. G.
Sergeant at Arms-D. W. Watson,
haywood, N. Q.
Trustee Business Agency Fdnd-W.
A. Graham, Machpelah, N. @.
Steward-D. D. Balm.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
J. W. Denmark, Chairman, Raleigh,
N. @.
W. A. Graham, (Ex-offcio), Mach
pelah, N. Q.
W. B. Fleming, R~idgeway, N. @.
Q. Q. Mcclellan, Goodwin, N. Q.
DR.. J. E. Person, Pikeville, N. Q.
Thomas j. Oldham, Teer, N. o.
STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
J. 7. B. Hoover, Hillsboro, N. @.
@. @. Mcclellan, Goodwin, N. @.
II. 7. Jones, Goldsboro, N. Q.
The offices of Secretary Treasurer
and State Business Agent were consoli
dated.
The salary of the Lecturer was ma.
terially increased and hereafter he will
keep the field most of the time. This
is as it should be-especially with such
a man as DR.. V. N. Seawell to fill the
position.
NOTES.
Chatham, the banner county, with
% Sube., was represented by Bro. J. j..
Jenkins. Chatham still has three ALI
ance stores. One Of them-at Siler
City-is said to do more business than
any other store in the county. Not.
w~ithstanding the extra cost of some
building this year. adividend of Is per
cent. has been declared and this divi
dend paid in cash to the stockholders.
Bro. T. B. Parker, in accepting the
Office of Secretary Treasurer and State
Business Agent, said: Il am an ALI
anceman because l believe in its priE-
ciples. I've had temptations. I've
been counselled by those who were my
friends but not friends to the Alliance
to withdraw. But in spite Of threats
and entI eaties, I have stood firm be
cause l have believed and do believe in
the principles that were set forth by
Col. Polk and Capt. 8. B. Alexander,
and as long as the necessity for organi
cation continues, 1 will stick to the
Alliance"
The retiring officers have faithfully
discharged their duties. Every one
deeply regretted that President John
Graham, owing to sickness in his
family, could not attend the meeting.
Bro J. T. B. Hoover, the retiring Sec
rotary, and one of the beet speakers in
the Alliance, was urged for Lecturer,
but could not accept.
The Progressive Farmer found true
friends on every hand. Bro. E. 81
Wilson, of Orange, announces that he
will be a subscriber as long as he lives,
and expects to make it a condition of
his will that the paper be permanently
continued to his heirs! But Wake
county was represented by our best
subscriber-Bro. W. B. Upchurch.
More than a year ago he paid up to
January 1, 1912 H. is not bothered
with dUns. Says if he we're to die he
would have received full value any
way.
Brethren Click, Of the Hickory Mer-
curry, and Sossaman, of the Charlotte
Peoples Paper, were with the excep
ton of the writer, the only qIill driv
ers present. Bro. Click visited Raleigh
before returning to Hickory and paid
US a pleasant call while in our city.
Bro. Click called attention to Ca-
tawba's plan for increasing interest in
county meetings. Public meetings are
held with topics for discussion mapped
out on programme. This acquaints
those not members with the work of
the Alliance and thus does much good.
Chaplain W. 8. Mercer states that
Currituck county has formally resolved
that each member will remain in the
Alliance as long as he lives. That's
the right spirit. Bro. Mercer thinks
the outlook good for increased mem
bership in Currituek,
IF wherever the State, county or
other Lecturer, re organ z9s a Sub. he
will get each member to subscribe for
The Progressive Farmer, that Sub.
will be sure to live" remarked an OBJ
serving brother who attended. But
if the Lecturer or organizer leaves
them alone with few OF them reading !