People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — Next National Alliance. [ARTICLE]

Next National Alliance.

The next Supreme Council of the National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union will be held in the city of Raliegh, N. C., on the first Tuesday in Feb ruary, 1895. This will be the first time the annual meeting of this great organization has been held on the Atlantic slope. The late Col. L. L. Polk, who was president of the national Alliance at the time of his death, is buried in the cemetery at Raleigh. A movement is on foot led by the Caucasian, which is edited by Marion Butler, present president of the national Alliance, to erect a monument over the remains of Col. Polk. The corner stone of this monument will be laid during the next session of the national Alliance with fitting ceremonies. Reduced rates will be given over the railroads. It will be a notable gathering.

At the box supper held in the Slaughter school house southwest part of Marion township, 11.05 was the highest bid for a box, and it was well worth it, not counting the privilege of sharing it with its charming owner. Miss Pearl Armstrong. The prize voting was a failure, no candidates being offered to contest for the handsome plush handkerchief and glove box. The attendance was good and receipts amounted to >15.3U, which the thoroughly progressive teacher, Will Tharp, will use for reading circle books. John Tharp met with an accident Monday morning, about two miles west of Remington, while taking the teachers, Misses Mertie Tharp and Lulie Hawn, to their schools. His horses became frightened at the sudden burst of wind and ram and turned the carriage over, completely demolishing it and depositing the frail pedagogues in the mud and weather, though without injury. The balance of the journey to the school was courageously accomplished on foot. A. Leopold of Remington has rented the Hughes stand opposite the court house and will occupy both rooms with a stock of dry goods and clothing. The floors will be lowered, a new front put in and the place modernized as far as possible.—Monticello Herald,