The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-06-07
Grange Items.

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Grange Items.
| Every town in Walworth county,
Wis, has Grange.
| Fifteen Thousand Oranges have
been organized in the United States.
The headquarters of Ohio Grangers
have been established in Xenia.
| Neosho county, Kansas, Grangers
plead their own cases in the courts.
| A Grange paper is soon to be es-
| tablishod in Mel Pherson county, Kan.
sas.
Clement county, Ohio, Changers
have been holding social festivals
lately.
| Kansas Grangers are beginning to
protest against horse.racing at coun>
Ity fairs.
| A plowing bee at the farm of q
lady Granger, near Yuba City, CAL,
brought out seventeen gang-plows,
and sixteen acres of land were turned
over. .
The Grangsrs of Calhoun, Kalamazoo,
and Barry counties, Michigan, have or
ganized IN association called the Battle
Creek Union Council, for the purchasing
of their commodities. A similar associa-
tion has headquarters at Marshall.
| The Grangors of the First Congress
sional District, Kentucky, will meet at
Paducah on the fourth Thursday in July
next. All farmers, whether they arc
Changers or not, will be invited to at
tend A barbecue and picnic will be
held at the fair grounds.
| The State Grange of Nebraska is put.
ting in machinery at Plattsmouth, Tor
the manufacture Of plows, cultivators,
headers, harvesters and other agricultL-
raj implements. The building is a two>
story brick, 40 by 140 feet. Thirty
heads of families arc employed to com,
mence with. Steam and blast power OF
the necessary quantity will be furnished.
| 1t is generally understood through
out Kentucky that the Grangers con-
template tie establishment Of large
manuiactory OF agricultural i'm.
plements at some central point
favorable for obtaining cheap
coal, iron, and tlmb,r, and q
favorable Tor distributing the manu-
factured products. Frankfort il
moving for the location Of this estab.
lishment, and the Yeoman urges the
project warmly. One OF the Frank
lin county, Oranges has already, dis
cussed the subject and appointed q
committee TO bring it before the
council, which is to be organized al
the Capital Hotel on the first day Of
l The old saw, that all work and nc
| play makes Jack dull boy" should
be borne in mind. Don't say tS
| yourself when Saturday afternoon
comes for Grange meeting: Well, ]
am so behind with my work; l an
tired, and there will be enough there
without me; ! will not 20 this time
If allishould happen to come to the
same conclusion, what would be tho
result ? Why, of course, your Grange
would forfeit its charter, be broker
up, and ysu would loso'all the benefit
OF membership in good standing
But suppose all do net follow your
example, but enough 60 every time tc
keep the Grange alive and in good
working order; keep themselves
posted up in what is going on in the
Order IN all parts OF tie State and
whole county, .,,o;',..s oy nearing e'.anG
that are constantly finding theil
way to the secretary, many OF which
lrequlre immediate action on some
subject or other--see where you lose
| And what does the Grange lose fol
want of your sound advice? A miss
take is made, an error committed
that leads to unhappy results, that
might have been prevented had yon
been there. But now you ought not
to complain. The good brothers and
sisters that were there, thought they
were doing for the best, and are there.
fore no more to blame for doing what
| is. .wrong-but they may have thought
right-than you for staying away.
And that is not all, nor the worst; we
are such creatures OF habit, that il we
stay away once, the tendency is, that
we are apt to do it again and again
until we lose all interest in the cause
and thus commence a process OF diss
integration in our Order that may
lead to. ruinous consequences. Let
us remember that continued vigilance
is Just as much the price of success in
Grange duties, as anywhere else. 1t
has not been trifling matter, my
friends, to get up this organization.
1t has been attended with much
thought, labor, energy, perseverance,,
expense, fear, hope, faith and charity,
and now it must be saved to bless us
and the world by fidelltY.-T Il.
allen, Master Missouri State Gtan0e,
in Rural World.