The Grange advance., 1874-04-01
II STRENGTH-IN KNOWLEDGE POWET
RED WING, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL |. 1874.
z,9OO pounds Of -four to the frontier
sufferers last week.

$500 pounds Of -four to the frontier
sufferers last week.
Roehester.-The County Union of
Patrons of Husbandry held q special
meeting Wednesday afternoon in Good
lemplars' Hall, for the purpose Of per-
fecting the organization of a Joint
stock company for the purchase and
sale of agricultural implements. No
tlnal arrangements were concluded,
and the meeting adjourned until next
wednesday afternoon at o'clock, at
the same place. FROM developments
since the meeting, it is believed the
company will be formed and work
to the satisfaction of all concerned
Record d Union.
On Wednesday last, the feed mill of J.
Alexander was entirely destroyed by
fire, supposed to be the work of some
malicious 6end in human shape loss
5000, no insurance.
HaverhiU-Deputy NJ. c. Fuller
organized new Grange in this town,
March 21st. Nineteen charter men,
bers. R. W. Palmer is Master; H. B.
Swartwood, Jr., Secretary. Haverhill
Grange is the name chosen.
MEEKER COUNTY.
The county commissioners have de-
cided to purchase poor farm.-Three
Oranges were organized in this county
last week, one at Greenleaf, one at Kings
ton, and the other at Forest City. Let
the good work go on until all are gath
cred into the noble brotherhood.
WAsECA COUNTY.
Resolutions Of the Bloomtmy G,'oye
Gronge.-Whereas incompetency to un-
derstand and transact their own business
renders any people easy victims of the
sharper and the demagogue, and whereas
the order of P. of H. affords us an appro-
pirate agency for cultivating the requi-
site ability, and whereas union is strength,
or in the language of the wise man =" two
is better than one and three fold cord
is not easily broken Therefore,
Resozued, That the wisest and best meth
cd to defeat the united power and schemes
of the sharper, the demagogues and the
corruptionist is q we'll devised system of
cooperation.
| Resolved, That we recommend the election
by the county council of committee of
ways and means to draft plan of cooper
alton by which P. Of H. may assume their
equitable share in the legislation, commerce
and educational interests Of the country,
and that said committee submit plan Tby
having it published] for the further con-
sideration Of P. Of H. in council assembled.
IRA D. BEEMAN, Master.
| D. NEUHART, Sec.
The Waseca Neus gives an account Of
the drowning, in LIE Sueur river, of a
wife and child Of Rev. L. D. Hocanzon,
pastor Of the Swedish Church in Otisco.
The sad and fatal accident happened on
Friday evening Of last week. Mr.. Nose
johnson and wife, his brother and broth.
er's wife and two children, and Rev. l.
D. Hocanson, wife and child, had been
to attend funeral, in New Rachland
In returning home, they had to crost
the LIE Sueur at Mike Anderson
bridge. The water was 50 high as t<
run over the banks at the south end o.
the bridge, and when the team reached
the bridge, one Of the horses got fright
ened and threw itself off the bridge
drawing the other horse and the sleigh
With it into the stream. All except Mr.
Nose johnson and wife and Mrs. HOGAN
.on and child, the last two years old
got out without difficulty. MI. johnson
} and wife clung to the wagon box unit
tney were rescued by man living nea
by. Mrs. Hocanzon and child :wer,,
! drowned. Mr:: Hocan1on's body Va. "a,
found on Saturday, about thirty rods be
low the bridge. The body of the chill,
had not been found It last accounts
One Of the horses vas also drowned.
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