People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — Alliance—Official. [ARTICLE]

Alliance —Official.

To County Secretaries—Fend notice of your next county meeting at once, so that the brethren may have ample time to prepare for it. Under this head the dates of county Alliances will be published, and all county Secretaries are earnestly requested to send in the date and place the county Alliance will be held, and do not delay but send as soon as you see this. The following counties are specially requested to call their quarterly meetings at the following dates: Steuben county, April 2. DeKalb county, April 3. Howard county, April 4. Tipton county, April 5. Hamilton county, April 6. Hendricks county, April 7, 10 a. m.

Boone county, April 9. 10 a. m. Clay county, April 10. If these county secretaries will promptly call the quarterly Alliances as above, the state organizer will arrange to be present and the county Alliances wiil be expected to provide for his expences. The secretary of the local Alliance in Boone county, at Pike’s Crossing, W. 11. Roby, set an example in last week’s Non Con. that others might follow with profit. It is a matter of general interest to all Alliances to know that others are active, and the encouraging report of Secretary Roby was welcomed by a thousand homes in the state. Clay county is getting in shape again and Greene is preparing to come once more into the number of active workers. DeKalb county has secured the commissioning of Bro. John D. Smith as county orgaizer. It is hoped that in every county the Alliances will meet and pay up the dues begining January 1, and report the same promptly, Under the new constitution as revised at Topeka in February, the password is sent out only on receipt of the dues July Ist and January Ist. The national duos are now ten cents per year or live cents semi-annually. The county secretaries must have their reports filed with Lite state secretary promptly after the April meeting, and the state secretary before July 1 in order to have the new password for use when the July reports are made.

The organizer has completed plans fox- co-operative fire and storm insurance within the order and will present these for the consideration of the members at the April meetings. The plan selected is modeled aftei- that used with such surprisingly satisfactory results by the Patrons of Husbandry in New York, Pennsylvania and Kansas, and by the Alliance of South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, and which has just been introduced by the Alliance of Kentucky. It is hoped that all who have ever been connected with the order will attend these meetings and see the advantage to be gained by a thorough reorganization. Do not wait to hear from some one else but come yourself and bring your neighbor. The annual meeting of the National Alliance Aid (or aid degree) was held at Topeka, Feb. 8,9, 10. The new members of the Board of Directors are W. F. Wright, Bethany, Neb., C. Vincent, 374 W. Market street, Indianapolis, Ind., andN. L. Upson. Orchard Park, N. Y. D. H. Yeoman, C. Vincent, Pres. Organizer.