The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-24
GRANGE NEWS.
Missouri has 800 Oranges. X
California has GA Oranges.
Wisconsin has 19l Oranges.

California has Ga Oranges.
Wisconsin has 19l Oranges.
Kansas has now 5O2 Oranges.
Tennessee has gained % Grange,
in three weeks.
During the month of August ther,
were 829 subordinate Oranges organ
ized
The farmers Of Tennessee had .
State Convention at Nashville on til,
10th Of September.
Illinois ranks third in the numbel
Of Oranges, having at the last report
The Mississippi Grangers are very
prosperous in the eastern part of the
State.
Oranges composed wholly of col
ored persons are to be formed In Ar.
kansas and Missouri.
The Oranges Of Wapello, Iowa
have decided to raise 100000 to es,
tablish manufactures.
The last report Of Secretary Kelley
places the number Of subordinate
Oranges in Iowa at 1890.
The Oranges Of Laporte City, Iowa
have organized a Patrons Joint-Stock
Elevator Company.
A Grange Shipping Association has
been organized at. Toledo, o., with a
capital stock of 100000.
Bulloch County, Ga, has organized
one Grange, and will soon be ready
to form two or three others.
General John Mcconnell, living
near Springfield, ILL.,, has been ap.
pointed General Deputy of the Far
mer's State Grange OF Illinois.
The ritual and manual of the Order
of the Patrons of Husbandry is to be
translated into German, and it is said
German Lodges are to be formed in
the West.
The Oranges Of Winneshiek, Fay
cite, Claton and Allamakee Counties,
Iowa, are already making preparations
for mammoth celebration next Fouth
Of July.
The Missippi State Grange met at
jackson on the 9th of Sept. Nearly
all the Oranges were represented IN
the Convention, among the members
being twenty female delegates.
The Farmers Association of Sid.
ney Township, Champaign county,
ILL.,, have had a grand trial of plows,
and have decided that riding plows do
the best work with the least draft.
Missouri claims to rank second in
the farmers Movement, as regards
the number of Oranges and their in
fluence. Fifty agents of the State
Grange are busy organizing new
Oranges at the rate Of fifty week,
and it is believed that when the move.
ment is two years old it will number
no less than 1900 Oranges. Meet
lngs are held almost daily in the
State, with an average attendance
ranging from 5000 to 10000.
The press of the country are giving
deserved notice and commentator to
he Patrons of Henry county, Iowa,
or an experiment in which they have
gained for themselves a new field of
lsefulness. They have kept litiga-
ion out of the courts, and settled BY
arbitration any difficulty that may
rise among themselves. Thus they
ave saved their money, and, what is
more important, kept out feuds, pre-
erved neighborly feeling, and pre-
ented the scandal that lawsuits en-
,ender.
OF the admission of women into the
irange, a recent address says; "Their
rider is proving of incalcuable value {
t is, indeed, doubtful whether the
bjects of the institution, especially in
egard to the refinements of education
nd all that tends to brighten hearths 6
nd enliyen homes, could have been I
ccompplished without their presence
nd aid" In one of the circulars sent ,
ut by the National Grange, it is fur =,
Ter said in defense of the female fea- I
lre "Every husband and and broth c
knows that where he eau be ac-
'mpanied by his wife or sister, no r
ssons will be learned but those of
lrity and truth"