Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-03-26
Grange Items.

A German Grange newspaper Is 10
he started at Lincoln, Ill.
The Patrons of Oregon have ap
pointed a resident agent at Portland,
to attend to their shipping and other
business.
The West Virginia Changers have
sent word to the Congressional dele
CATION of that State that they object
to an appropriation for the Centen-
NAL when Congress is talking of in
creasing the taxes. They do not be-
lieve the Centennial will he of much
or any advantage to farmers, mechan-
les or laboring men, or other pro-
ducers.
The Changers arc about to start q
beet sugar mill at Dayton, Washing
ton Territory. T. NJ. Wait is author
lied to purchase the Machinery in
San Francisco.
The Patrons and middlemen at
Plymouth, Ind, are at war. The
Patrons refuse to buy dry goods and
groceries, and the middlemen refuse
to buy wood and produce.
The editor Of the Freeborn Mimi.
Standard claims to be n of the
oldest Changers in the State. being
initiated in 1869.
The Laporte City Iowa) Grange
elevator has, during the last six
weeks, taken IN about $4,000 bushels
of wheat.
The Changers of Pottowatamie
county. Iowa, pronounce the Anti
Monopoly State platform very poor
political carpentering. They say in
the Nonparea that cottonwood
stringers. with spring-growth willow
flooring" is not the material they
want used in a platform for them to
stand on.
The number of Oranges in Wis
consin has increased from 346 to
398 since the January meeting of the
State Grange at GAINESVILLE.
The Changers of Howard county.
Ind, are preparing to build a grain
warehouse at Kokomo, with a capaci-
ty of 60, 600 bushels
Mississippi numbers five hundred
Oranges, the members of which pro-
duced last year 269, 329 bales of coil
ton, 1862, 496 bushels of corn, 539.-l
203 bushels of oats, and 188,83l|
bushels Of sweet potatoes.
The Patrons of Fort Scott, Kan /
have been plundered of some S2,S00I
by their agent, Mr.. John Butler.
The usual defaulter's plea of a ''bur-I
glary," or ''highway robbery" is putt
in by him.
A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune,
says that George w. Hersev, al
prominent farmer of Empire, Fond
du Lac county. Wis, and Master of
a Grange of Patrons Of Husbandry,
and Nelson r Parmalee, a real
estate dealer, have been arrested, andI
are in Jail at LIE Sueur, MINI, for
swindling farmers. 1t is charged
that they secured descriptions of
land and induced ignorant farmers
to sign the same; that the descrip
tons were then cut off, leaving a
blank note signed; and that these
notes were filled out and sold. The
affair causes much excitement at
Fond du Lac, where both parties
have long resided, and been regarded
as good citizens.
The Oranges of Fond du Lac and
Winnebago counties, Wis have gone
extensively into co operative pur-
chasing for the last year. both in the
line of implements and of dry goods
and groceries. The operations have
proved eminentlv satisfactory both
to buyers and sellers.
The Executive Committee of the
National Grange of the Patrons of
Rusbandry are maturing a plan for
the formation Of a Statistical Bureau
in connection with the National
Grange, for the collection and dis
semination of information in regard
to the condition of crops throughout
the country. The e bureau will
be located at Washington. d. c., and
in charge of d. w. Aiken, Secretary
Of the State Grange of South Caro-
Inns. Subordinate Oranges will re
port directly to the State Grange all
information of interest relating TO
the crops, and the different State
Oranges will report by telegraph TO
the Statistical Bureau of the Order