Show the representative had bad the good 0 fortune to attend what appeared to be an adjourned session ol oi the committee appointed to draft bylaws by laws for the farmers alliance or as their preamble names it A 1 the farmers mutual benefit equitable association of county held in an upper room of J R workman Work mans residence fesi denee the reporter m made ade known his business and was made it heartily welcome mr Work workman nian in a short speech giving the little Bapp in his blunt way is as fine a recommendation as it has probably ever received advising all to patronise patronize patr onise it as it deserves well 1 I the meeting ine eting succeeded ded in formulating formu labing a great number of by laws etc by the way in rather a hoath condition mft TS is i s collier and anu wo alon beloch I 1 I 1 1 i 11 coni 1111 1 1 1 tt 1 f i I 1 tricht J tr i t gillea out tho chut ic c atter so to saja I 1 it I 1 11 I 1 a i septable cep table form forin to be pro led at a gran grand d ratification to be held in jakes Ji kes hall next saturday april 17 the meeting af after ter a full ful I 1 three hours session adjourned notes the reporter kept his bis eye peeled I 1 you may be sure to try and discover that lt sand but no sir far from froin it they even discard the old terms sections and articles from their by laws or platform as it in iii termed substituting 0 eipl anka and aej thoy thay seem to be not oula of oak but also tl 0 o iron bound shares are placed ed at it a par value I 1 of 20 dollars and there is a plank that I 1 acts as a bar and prevents any person from froin holding more than one share in liis his own name even though it should be dennis operation cooperation co as it exists throughout tho the county was most emphatically denounced by chairman holdaway as co operative 1 rob robbery bury the association intends to send for its first load of f merchandise july 1st ast there seems but one if if ewo things left for the thirty thousand dollars due him merchant of ashley join the movement or fold his tent like tile the arab and as aa silently steal away we understand from mr W S hullinger of merrills Merr ilYs ward that a very commendable move in connection with the F M B E A has taken place in that ward having been donated as a benefit fund to put in the ropa of those who may be indio indigent 6 ent or unable to plow and plant their own land several have been aided thereby resolutions of the association asso bation ia tion resolved Ee solved that we as farmers and producers of ashley valley do hereby m st BI solemnly de denounce nonnce the 11 credit system that has so handicapped olirs ourselves alves aud and the merchants merel lants of our county comity and we do hereby pledge ourselves oura elves to use our every endeavor to utterly annihilate the same resolved Ee solved that we curtail air tail our expenses to our necessities and usef aad every endeavor to keep heep from froin debt resolved furt further aier that we ive demand eash for our produce use every means to to so se ure tire the same that we may pay our bonesi debts and support our families famili cs 00 |