Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-12
GRANGE po1Hrs,
AT HOME.

AT HOME.
Buffalo County Changers con-
template a Fourth of July jOllifica-
ton.
j. H. Painter, the original
Granger of Nebraska, now resides
i'm Lincoln.
The Grange organization in
Washington county is reported in a
very fiourishing condition.
Deputy Force declares that no
more Oranges can be organized in
Burt county under the established
rules.
The Grange store at Pawnee
City has caused a general decline
in retail prices of dry goods, grocer
les and hardware.
The State Purchasing Agent
has more orders for homemade
agricultural machinery than the
factories are able to fill on short
notice.
-Nemaha county Changers have
given up the idea of an official
organ, and propose to patronize any
paper that suits their individual
tastes.
The proposed celebration of the
anniversary of National INDIE
pendence by the Changers of Doug
las and Sarpy counties meets with
general approval among the fra
ternity.
A new Granger declares that
the only law that was of any benefit
to farmers in Nebraska, was the
one giving a bounty for gopher
scalps, and they had to go and
repeal that.
The Changers of Nemaha
county are going to celebrate the
Fourth of July in magnificent style,
the coming Fourth. 1t is supposed
that it will be at the old grounds
near HOmewood's mill.
There will be an open session of
the Madison County Grange at
Norfolk Oh the 10Th of June next.
Hon. Duane Wilson, of Des Moines,
grand lecturer for the Changers of
Iowa, will address the meeting.
Other gentlemen are also expected
to speak.
The deputy of Jefferson county,
7. F. Warden, has recently organ
lied four Oranges in that county,
one mile west OF Gage county line;
one half way between Fairbury and
Bowerville; one at Steele City, and
one on Dry Creek, south of Rose
Creek, all of which have q large
membership.
ABROAD.
Ohio has about 900 Oranges.
There are some 1900 Changers
in the State of Indiana.
"A veteran Granger is the King
of Terrors, who bears the scythe.
There are nearly 10000 Pat
rons in Georgia.
There are said to be over 90, 900
Changers connected with the va
rious lodges in Kentucky.
North Carolina has 14,SOO men
who are proud of having hay-seed
in their hair.
The total Grange membership
in the United States is now esti-
mated at 1,25O,OOO.
The organization of a Grange
of the Patrons of Husbandry has
been effected on the Stinkingwater,
Montana.
After a Grange has been formed
the initiation fee for members is So
for men and 50 for women.
Paradoxical-The new engine on
the Des MOines, Iowa, narrow-guage
railway is named the "Granger."
The Mason county, KY,
Changers have adopted for their
motto: "Hog and hominy; corn
and ECONOMY"
Mr.. Tom Taylor, the new editor
of Punce is a granger. AT least he
was a student at the Grange School
in Sunderland.
AT Battle Creek, Mich, the
Changers have erected a warehouse
at the Chicago and Lake Huron
depot, In which to store their COM
modities as fast as they arrive.
The Indiana State Grange has
decided that no II may be pro-
perly admitted, who does not de-
pend more upon the products of his
farm for his income, than upon any
other occupation.
Under the head of "new busi-
ness" at a recent session of Wald-
wick Grange, i'm Lafayette County,
Wis, a couple stepped forward, and
an official Granger made them man
and wife.
The Changers must guard
against demagogues. They must
guard against excuses. They must
guard against f~iddle-faddle; and,
above all, they should abandon Sc
crecy as unworthy the true Ameri-
can farmer, who is not afraid to do
his work by daylight.-New York
World.
At a meeting of the Tippecanoe
county, Michigan, Patrons recently,
a resolution a adopted allowing
any subordinate Grange to attach
its seal and the names of its officers
to the backs of the business cards
of such dealers as we're favorable to
the farmers movement, so that Pa
irons may know with whom to
trade,
The Bloomington (Ind.) Pro-
gress says: "Agents for q Chicago
Granger store are selling coffee by
sample, thirty pounds for two dol
lars, when clubs of sixty are made
up, One-half the money paid down,
balance when goods are delivered.
The goods, however, have not been