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year. The annual meeting of that year was held a; 

 Weatherford in the month of August, when Mr. Daws was 

 re-elected, the number of Alliances being then 187. 



u The Traveling Lecturer had large powers conferred 

 upon him. He visited the various counties in North and 

 Middle Texas, lecturing, appointing local organizers in 

 "each county, and acting as 'the general director and mana- 

 ger of the affairs of the organization, now grown to 

 enthusiastic robustness. His labors day and night in its 

 behalf, his growing solicitude for the cause, and his inces- 

 sant devotion, were amply rewarded with the most 

 satisfactory results, for his annual report at Decatur, in 

 August, 1885, showed the Order to consist of 550 active 

 Alliances working together in constitutional harmony. 

 Six hundred delegates convened at that meeting, who 

 manifested the greatest satisfaction over the success and 

 work of their Order, not yet five years old, under the new 

 regime. Again Mr. Daws was elected Traveling Lec- 

 turer for the ensuing year, and the immense strides and 

 marvelous growth of the Order since January, 1884, in an 

 immeasurable degree are due to the sound advice, the 

 comprehensive addresses and practical directions given by 

 the Traveling Lecturer to the officers and members of the 

 subordinate Alliances in every county through which he 

 has traveled in his official capacity, and in every instance 

 the local Orders are in a healthy condition zealous in 

 their objects." 



Since the above article appeared in the public press, 

 January 15, 1886, S. O. Daws continued in the discharge 

 of his duties as Traveling Lecturer until the meeting of 

 the Grand State Alliance at Cleburne, August 6, 1886. 

 His annual report showed an increase of 2,200 Sub- Alli- 

 ances during that year. The Grand State Alliance this 

 year discontinued the office of Traveling Lecturer, the 

 Order being established on a firm basis in the State, 



