The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-11-07
GRANGE NEWS.
Granger hats are the latest.

AVVh OuO iOl the OFegre UTuIlgef
Gen. Judson Fitzpatrick is a member
of Grange.
The Raleigh, N. O., Grange has over
100 members.
Col. Nesmith is the first Granger
elected to Congress.
Walla Walla Valley has 8 Oranges,
and Umatilla county 8.
Matrons OF Husbandry-Mothers
with manageable daughters.
The Scythe is the title of Grange
paper just started in New York.
That horny-handed farmer, Schuy-
Ter Colfax, wants to be a Granger.
A pondero1s steam plow is now in
use on a California farm and is great
success.
There are at present more Oranges
in Linn county than in the balance of
the State.
Oranges composed wholly of color
ed persons are to be formed in Arkan.
sas and Mississippi.
A mass convention of farmers and
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Grangers was held in Jefferson City,
Mo-, on the 1st ult.
The Patrons of Husbandry have or
ganized a Woolen Factory Associa-
tion at Dacota, Iowa, with $4,000
capital.
A grand mass State Convention of
the Patrons of Husbandry will meet
at National Park, Kalamazoo, Mich,
to-day.
The Southwestern Central Associa-
tion of Patrons of Husbandry will
meet at Farmers Point, Kansas, on
the 18th inst
Over 200 Oranges were represented
at the Georgia State Convention of
Patrons, at Macon, Oct. 29th. The
State membership aggregates over3O,
900.
Why don't the farmers in the imme-
date vicinity of this city organize
Grange? There ought, by all means,
to be Grange here, at the county
seat.
And now Grange papers are spring
ing up like mushrooms all over the
land-some Of them being edited by
men who don't know a plow from a
dairy maid or hay-cock from a muley
COW.
The farmers Of the vicinity OF Mar
shalltown, Iowa, had grand harvest
festival and barbecue on the 1st ult.
There were ten thousand persons pres
ent, and the procession was seven
miles long.
On Oct. 25th there were in the Uni
ted States seven thousand and eight
subordinate Oranges. There were or
ganized since Jan. LIST, 5,487. 1t is ex-
pected that the number of Oranges
organized this month will exceed 900.
There are Oranges in every State sx-
cept Maine and Delaware.
The Historian says the contract for
tbs construction of a warehouse on
the armers' wharf that will hold co..
900 bushels of grain, was let to Capt.
Nudge Thursday. The building will
bo l32 feet front, 45 feet deep, with 16
feet walls. The contract calls for the
completion of the work within thirty
days. 10000 bushels will be equiva-
lent to about four ship loads, such as
are taken above the hogs back.
Hon. VIM, Cyrus, one of the De-
puties for Linn county, on Oct. 25th
organized Jordan Valley Grange, ten
miles east of Scio, with the following
officers Jno. Bryant, Master; d. L.
Curl, Overseer; Thos Goodman, Lee
turoT VIM. Montgomery, Steward;
Jno. Trask, Asst Steward; Jas. Will
liams, Chaplain; j. b. Fryrear, Treas;
Mac McCully, Sec'y; Willis Potter,
GatekeepeT Susan Goodman, Ceres;
Lucinda Bryant, Pomona; Drucilla
Phillips, Flora; Nancy McCully, Lady
Asst Steward, Also, last Saturday
MI. Cyrus organized Beaver Grange,
at Crabtree School House, six miles
south of Lebanon. Officers: James
Crabtree, Master; D, f. Crabtree, O.;
f. M. Smith, L.; Jno, Watkins, s.;
VIM, Crabpee, A. s.; Jno, Beard, c.;
T, r. Curl, Treas; S. w. Gaines,
Sec'y; Marion Crabtree, G,K,; Phoebe
Crabtree, c.; Josephine Curl, p;
Rachel Crabtree, FL Eliza Crabtree,
l., A, S.
THE Iowa Monops swear like
troopers since the Changers and Dem.
ocrats scooped up the Legislature in
the recent election, Their papers
say "the devil is in the people this
yearl" Well, it that sort of devil
will just stay in the people for few
years longer there is yet hope for the
country,
A wealthy lady of Richmond, Va,