The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-25
Err NOTES.

Err NOTES.
shio state fair the Gran
furnished q room on the
or the transaction of order
AssY CREEK grange, Missouri, has
.tioned the Pike county court to
rant no more dram shop licenses with
In her borders.
TEE oranges of Williamson county,
Tennessee, at q recent meeting al
Franklin, resolved to subscribe goo
each to purchase and hold the county
fair grounds in perpetuity.
WE are askeS to state what the
oranges are doing. If we were author.
lied to answer for them, we should say
in brief-the oranges are quietly at
tending to their own business, and they
wish that others might find as much
pleasure and benefit from like occupa-
lion as they do.-EIchange.
T. r. ALLEN, master of the Missouri
state grange, having been chosen by a
paper of the state as its candidate for
governor. recently wrote to the editor,
firmly declining to be put In nomination
for any Office whatever, adding that he
did not regard the position OF governor
of state as more honorable than the
one he now holds.
A PATRON says of the result of the or
ganization in his neighborhood "The
discussion of questions of practical in
tert st to Patrons, which form feature
of our grange, is having tendency to
develop not only a better manner of
expressing ourselves, but greater will
lingness to make the effort. Great i'm
prOvement has already been observed
in even the little practice we have thus
far had"
THE state council of county purchas-
ing agents, of the Indiana oranges, will
hold its next session in Indianapolis,
September 49, Its officers are as fol-
lows President, w. w. Barnes, of
Howard county; vice president, NJ. A.
Logan, of White county; secretary,
AlDheus. Tyner..zs.f Hancock c-sInty
tfe5s1ref, Robert Mitchell, O. Gibson
county; gate-keeper, M. B. Waugh, of
Montgomery county.
THE Changers are doing more to pro-
tect and establish substantial enter
prises in connection with their orgapiza-
lions than all the efforts of legislation
and capital have done heretofore. At
Red Oak, Iowa, they propose the Or
ganization of stock company for estab-
fishing linseed oil mill, to consume
the large amount of flax seed raised IN
that vicinity. We hear many instances
of this kind every day, and hope that
the good work may go on with re-
doubled energo.-Omaha Union.
THE narrow-gauge railroad from Sal
mas to Monterey, in California, is about
completed. This is literally grangers'
railroad. The project was first preached,
discussed and organized in the grange.
The stockholders are nearly all grang-
ers, the directors all grangers but one,
and it is nearly all grangers' money that
has built it, and the grangers are going
to patronize it and send their wheat to
Monterey, and load it on board a vessel
chartered by grangers, and get the re-
turns through the Changers bank, of
San Francisco.
The patrons of California claim that
the grange movement has saved in the
one item of wheat the sum of So, O0O,-
900. 1t has been done by making war
upon the grain rings of San Francisco.
Before the grange year 1873, the differ
ence between the price per bushel be-
tween San Francisco and Liverpool was
about 80 cents. In 1873 it was only
sixty-six cents per bushel, thus giving
the farmers twenty-three cents more.
The saving on the 445, 900 tons shipped
at San Francisco would be nearly 49,
500, 900, besides that shipped from Val
lejo. All this is owing to the concert
and cooperation of the farmers. Then
us the cheapening of sacks, ware
expenses, transportation, price of
~, ETC., bringing the saving up
grange Touring mill, at Fari-
dinn., is one of the most COM
yet undertaken by the order. It
2ding ninety-four by ffty-one
Ssive of the space for the en-
bne, with timbers of Norway
h-erelve- The basement
feet in the clear, and the sew
flor stories fifteen feet, with a
twelve feet square and sixteen
3gh. The basement contains the
ions for the burrs, built up of
tsonry, with an engine room
n feet by sixteen, accommodate
engine of one hundred horse
The first story contains six run
Och burr stones, four feet in di-
ameter the second the gamers. puri-
fiers, &c. the third the boiling chests.
occupying a space of sixty by twenty
SIX feet, the cupola, the elevator. The
capacity of the mill will be 100 bushels
n day. and it will be ready by January
i, 1875. The capital stock Is $50. 900.
divided into shares of $50 each.-M. Y.
World.
THERE are very many things in which
Patrons can cooperate beside supplying
the family with groceries or shipping
their grain Matters suggest themselves
now which at first Thought seem chimer-
ical, but which can, by proper thought
and agitation, and by the proper persons
taking hold of them, become practical.
a community perfectly united and or
gained, may perform with cheapness
and ease what an individual would find
impossible. The day may come when
united oranges on the cooperative prin-
clpie may run large manufactory in
every county IN the state where water
power is sufficient. Potatoes would not
go begging at twenty cents per busheI,
ms they have in this state for several
years, If good starch factory was at
band, to use the surplus. Grange
fhort-horDs, grange Hambletonians,
grange knitting machines, and grange
biai os- for our children to take music
essons on, may be matters of no Won
Her IN the near future.--Cor. Western
Farm Journal.
Ii the western Changers are not be-
Eoming potent in a political way, they
certainly exhibit a wonderful activity
collectively, in pushing the individual |
interests of the farmers. This is espe-
Tally true in Iowa, where the hay-seed |
Elements have carried the grange sys-
EN- into more branches of every day |
eeds than in any other state. The or |
er has attained immense strength la |
pc state. A recent meeting ~ bu- |
(nv1sr s1se,wvd that councils are In oper-
4ion in each county, the total mem
srship being something like 200, 000 |
nder these, forty-one county councils |
ave been organized to attend to the |
1rcharing of the supplies for the diff
rent oranges and to assume the man.
cement of the cooperative stores.
ills, manufactures, ETC., already be- |
1n- A law was passed at the late ses-
on OF the legislature enabling the
puncils to organize local fire insurance
bmpanies, and twenty-nine are already
ping business. They usually include
bout four civil townships in each as
gDed territory, giving the offices of
resident and secretary to some local
embers, and charge only from one to
70 mills on the dollar, and as yet there