Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-18
GOSSIP OF THE GRANGE.
The Grange organization is spreading
rapidly in Virginia.

= Tennessee reports an increase OF
eighteen Oranges on the 23d ultimo.
A Grange of Patrons of Husbandry
has been organized in Boston.
Seventeen new Oranges have been or
ganized in Ohio since our last report.
Georgia has now Ill Oranges. show
ing an increase of twenty-five in two
weeks.
There were los Oranges organized In
Missouri between the 9th and % of Au.
gust.
The Oranges propose to bury old po-
litical differences, with the farmers a
principal mowerners.
"A meeting of the representatives of
the Wisconsin Oranges was held st Wet-
ertown on August 26th.'
Official returns state the number Of
Oranges to be 5 ,229 and increasing at the
rate of twenty-five per day.
= The Patrons CT Husbandry have Or
ganized Wooden Factory Association at
Dakota, Iowa, ysith $4,000 capital.
"A special effort is being made to es-
tablish Oranges in all the grain ports Of
the Atlantic Coast where they do not
now exists.
There was rotsing gathering Of
farmers at Hickman's Mills, Me-, on tho
23d of August, to participate in q basket
picnic.
= The Grangers of Granville, Ca, went
to the residence of Captain Shtttter, a
sick member, and did his threshing for
him.
- The Pella Blade tells of man who
says that lone can't become q Granger
unless he has at least done one fair days
work in his life.'
- The Franklin County (vt }Grangers
have purchased corn Sy tie carload, at q
discount of twelve cents bushel from
prevailing prices.
- The women of Wetzel county. West
Va, have formed Grange to prevent their
husbands from visiting the grass.widowS
in that section.
"A meeting for the purpose oforganizt
ing a County Association was held as
Syracuse, Neb on August 10th and 17th.
Nineteen Oranges Were represented.
= Three new Oranges atec' reported In
Tennessee, with the following Mssters:
Union Hill, w. F. Summers; Stanton
Camp, 1. n. Guthrie; Bethel, NJ. j. Has:
SELL
= The Napa (Cal) Grange evinced
their enthusiasm and liberality by voting
from their treasury 81 400 to deffay the
expenses of the recent State Grange held
in that place.
An old lady tromthe country, with
six unmarried daughters. went into Au.'
gusta, Ga, the other day, hunting the Pat
rohs of Husbandry. She meant bust.
ness.
The Pstrons of Hrsbandry are said to
have borrowed much of their ritual from
the Masonic and OTHER secret orders. They
missed it there. Borrowing dulis' the
edge of Husbshdry.
- VIM. Saunders, Superintendent of the
Government Propogating Gardens, and
founder of the order of Patrons Of Hus.
bar,dry is dangerously i'll at WashinktoiY
with bilious fever.
"A. II. Stephens says he is looking
forward to the new movement Of thu Pas
irons of Husbandry with much Interest
and anxiety, and expects incalculable good
will result to the people from the move.
ment.
"A grand mass State Convection Of
the Patrons of Husbandry is to be heldst
National Park, Kalamazoo, Mich. Friday.
October 8, 1873 under the direction Of the
officers of the Michigan State Grange.
An immense meeting Of Grsngers
and veterans of the Mexican war was held
at Sweet Springs, near Brownsville. No.
on the 9th ultimo. Nearly 10. 200 peo.
pie were present, many Of whbra' cams
from great distance.
The gathering of the Changers ct
Davenporte, Iowa, two or three days ago.
was very large. Without doubt" says
the Gazette, it was the grandest gathering
of farmers, farmers wives, daughters and
sons ever known In Iowa"
- Mr.. d. w. Adams, the Master Of the
National Grange of Patrons OF Husband
ry, is reported as having said recently TO-
Iowa farmers: THE Patrons propose to-
educate and discipline their members until
they can dispense with leaders aud led
themselves.
The Grand Jury at Terre Haute, ienor-'
ed the 8 o'clock feature of the Baxter
Temperance Law, on the ground that. il
was altogether too arbitrary.
Miss Mollie Clem. of Terru Haute, hss
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