Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-19
GRANGE POINTS.
AT HOME.

-Nemaha county Changers are
urged to organize a stock company
for the manufacture Of soap.
The Changers in Richardson
county, Nebraska. are about to or.
ganize an INSURANCE company.
The Fremont Grange made lib
eral subscriptions to the Mississippi
and Louisiana sufferers.
Hope Lodge, johnson county,
voted several premiums to the COM
ing county fair at Tecumseh.
Washington county Oranges
are discussing a proposition to es-
tablish a Grange grist mill.
The Grange at Loup City, is i'm
a 1ourishing condition. Several new
members were initiated at the last
meeting.
Quite a large amount of money
was sent last week by the Changers
of Nemaha county, for the relief OF
the Louisiana sufferers.
School Creek Grange, No. 406,
York county, has been organized
about two months, and has over
thirty members, with a rapid in
GREASE of membership.
-Bratton Grange, in Nemaha
county, is in a prosperous condition.
1t has thirty-four members, and
does almost all its trading at st. Jo-
seph, Mo.
Excelsior Grange, Adams
county, debated the following
theme at its last meeting: "What
is the best mode of planting, cult
waiting, and harvesting corn and po-
Dodge county Oranges are in
vited to send two delegates each to
meet at Centreville, on the last Sat-
i'm May, to form a programme
for the coming Fourth of July cele-
bration.
ABROAD.
The Changers of Audrain coun-
ty, Missouri, n preparing to estab-
lish a bank at Mexico.
The only counties of Missouri
that have no Oranges are Butler,
Dunklin, Pemiscot, Rev
nolds, Ripley and Wayne.
A Grange of the Patrons of
dusbandry was organized at Twin
Bridges, NJ. T., on Friday, April IL,
.S74, by r. n. Sutherlin, Deputy
Granger for Montana.
The agent of the Changers at
It. Ansger, in Mitchell county.
owa, took the grain of the farmers
n that locality to Chicago last week
nd sold.it, and, after gambling all
he money away, left for parts un-
.nown.
The total number of Oranges i'm
he United States is 10, 1862, and the
otal membership $50, 900. The
My States i'm which there are no
ranges are Connecticut, Delaware,
nd Rhode Island.
The Changers State Conven-
on of California, resolved that a
eneral system of banks and ware
.uses, with a central bank i'm San
rancisco, is an absolute necessity
the future success of the Order.
"A Granger writing from Bea-
m, Iowa, says: 1--WE are the BAN
ar county of the State, as far as
atrons of Husbandry are con-
'rned, having fifty working I:
ranges i'm this county, averaging )
xty members to each Grange.
'iikinson Grange has ninety-eight
embers. We organized about if I
en- months ago. :
The Executive Committee of the I
ational Grange of the Patrons of
usbaadry has been in session for .
verai days past at Washington. q
lie OF the measures just passed pro- a
des for the forwarding of 100 bar
Is Of flour and 10000 pounds of
con to the suffering members of Z
e Order i'm Louisiana and Arkan. b
5 Members of the Order through J;
{ the country have been extreme n
liberal in their donations to the I
fferers in the southwest. Thou
Ids of dollars in money, and sun n
es Of both food and clothing have q,
IN sent by individual Changers :,
above donation of the National ?;
.nge Is In addition to the contri- 9,
ion Of $1,000 recently forwarded q,
he Louisiana sufferers, -,