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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1891
Page
6
Letters from members in Michigan North Carolina and other areas show Alliance growth, new officers elected, and support for direct elections. Reports praise meetings snakebite remedy offered and a push to have The Progressive Farmer sent weekly to homes.
A Fort Worth dispatch reports the anti Sub Treasury and anti-third party Farmers Alliance meeting adjourned after a harmonious session. Resolutions denounce the Sub Treasury and railroad schemes as threats to government under the Alliance and call for reform, with an executive committee named for St. Louis. About two hundred farmers attended.
The Farmers' Alliance expands across thirty six states with county chapters in Florida and Georgia. A Florida Jacksonville meeting discusses Evergreen Alliance admission of ex-Senator Wilkinson Call, while Georgia hosts cooperative stores and a large cooperative warehouse. The Gold Hill Alliance seeks relief aid for member J. M. Foy after farm losses. Messages urge subscribing to Progressive Farmer, and Alliance organizers announce lecture tours and local meetings, plus finance notes on alliance business and agent policies.
A note from H. Worrn, 8. B. A., offers several hundred yards of cotton bagging. The material is 44 inches wide and 12 ounces to the yard. Brethren can acquire it at seven cents per yard.
Jute bagging offered for delivery at North Carolina railways stations and boat landings with prices for 1 yard 6.18 cents 2 pounds 6.68 cents 21 pounds 8. Rushed August September October cash terms. Notices urge county agents to secure blanks and bonds and warn ties pricing by request only. Annual Farmers Alliance Warehouse stockholders meeting set August 7 in Durham. Wake County Board of Education to meet first Monday of September January and July.
The Executive Committee at the nest secretary's office Raleigh N C August 4th 10 o clock communications to that office should be addressed to my ca W.35 Bars Secy N. CLF Our State Alliance will run on the 11th and counts must be paid on or before July 1st Statements of account were sent to all parties with this office It is important that all accounts be settled promptly W H Worth To the members Wake Alliance The next quarterly meeting of Wake County Alliance will be a Forestville Alliance at Wake on Friday and Saturday the 11th On Saturday July 10 o'clock the Alliance and district generally will be addressed Everybody invited to come These addresses J Scarborough Prof J Bos and other leading members of Everybody invited to coin these addresses J J Dunn Wake County There has been no money printed to defray the expense meeting of the District Lecturers expenses of each County of these meetings should be borrowed County Alliance All appointments made for any District Lecturer must be approved by the counties composing as laid off by the last legislature Fraternally yours W S B Secretary N
The State Executive recommends that each alliance seeking direct trade with the State Business Agent pay a sum to the business agent, to be drawn by the alliance, enabling business without incurring costs. Each alliance will trade to the full amount posted by the alliance with the business agent.
A march in prose extols Captain Snow and the Modern Tobacco Barn. Jonathan’s lean years end after adopting Snow cure, boosting crops and eliminating debt. The piece extols Oxford as a market hub and urges farmers to send Snow cured tobacco to the Oxford plant amid competition from plug dealers and pinhookers.
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