People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1894 — Alliance Moving. [ARTICLE]

Alliance Moving.

In accordance with the program published in these columns last month, several counties arranged their quarterly meetings so that I could meet with and lay before them business of importance to the order. I am pleased to report that in the counties visited the interest has visibly improved, and I find an encouraging disposition to patronize all the co-operative features which the officials have presented for the fin ancial advantages of the membership. The order is no longer regarded by the- members as an expense they can ill-afford but as a source of profit they cannot dispense with. In DeKalb county two organizers are now commissioned, and the Aid Degree has secured a foothold, and this alone insures a rapid advance in Alliance work. In Tipton county, while the meeting was not so well attended as on some former occasions, the members came for business and effected the auditing of the books long neglected, and this result in the finding over $75 ready cash in the treasury. The new county secretary, F. W. Gaiser, set a good example to the order by taking a life insurance policy in the Aid Degree. This is the sixth Aid Degree member in Tipton county. In Hamilton county considerable interest was manifested in the insurance department, but more practical results are here achieved in the purchasing department. Clay county has a crowd of Alliance hustlers. The quarterly session was held on an extremely stormy day, but the Lewis township house was nearly full of farmers who came in the morning bringing their dinners for an all-day’s business session. The most of these were young men of middle age, only a few being past the meridian of life. The keenest interest was taken in the new business features, and the purchasing agency is a source of profit, making the business order a pleasure instead of a burden. An organizer was commissioned for both degrees of the order, and the prospect is good for a strong Degree Lodge in Clay county in the near future. Greene county has called for an organizer, and two have been commissioned to organize in that territory. The Aid Degree has secured a footheld in five counties in this state, and the fire and storm insurance department is everywhere hailed with delight. The details of this feature are not yet ready for publication, but all county officers of the order desiring information will be supplied upon application to this office. C. Vincent, State Organizer. 374 W. Market street, Indian - polis.