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

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Or the transaction of order
AssY CREEK grange. Missouri, has
.tioned the Pike county court to
cant no more dram shop Licenses with
In her borders
TEE oranges of Williamson county,
Tennessee, at q recent meeting at
Franklin, resolved to subscribe 5000
each to purchase and hold the county
fair grounds in perpetuity.
WE are aske5 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-
tion as they do.-Erchange.
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 a 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 q feature
of orr 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 20. It's officers are as fol-
lows President, W. w. Barnes, of
Howard county; vice president, NJ. A.
Logan, of White county secretary,
Alpheus.~ Iy2sE..scf Hancoek cesaf1ty
u ! ~ Mftcheff, q Gibson
county; gate-keeper, Nj. b. Waugh, of
Montgomery county.
THE Changers are doing more to pro-
tect and establish substantial enter
prises in connection with their orgaDiza-
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 a 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 emerge. Union.
THE 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 1t is nearly all grangers' money that
has built 1t, and the grangers are going
to patronize 1t and send their wheat to
Monterey, and load it on board 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 50, 0O0,-
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 AS 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
ais the cheapeniDg of sacks, ware
expenses, transportation, price of
,er;r1Sy, ETC., bringing the saving up
en satisIrange Touring mill, at Fari-
aso,,dinn., is one of the most COM
l., 49, IL .fol-, l.
siding ninety-four by fifty-one
-rslye of the space for the en-
bne, with timbers of Norway
sn.-ewe1ve- The basement
eet in the clear, and the sew
elor stories fifteen feet, with
Twelve feet square and sixteen
gh. The basement contains the
ions for the burrs, built up of
3sonry, with an engine room !
I'm r feet by sixteen, accommodate |
engine of one hundred horse
Nhe first story contains six run
p3ch burr stones, four feet in di-
aM.5ster the second the gamers. puri-
fers, &c. I; 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
day. and it will be ready by January
j, 1875. The capital stock IL $50. 600.
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-
lcal, 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
ganized, may perform with cheapness
and ease what an individual would find
impossible. The day may come when
united oranges on the cooperative Drin-
cipie may run large mandatory in
every county in the state where water
power is sufficient. Potatoes would not
go begging at twenty cents per bushel,
as they have in this state for several
years, If good starch factory was at
hand, to use the surplus. Grange
short-horns, grange Hambletonians,
grange knitting machines, and grange
plat os- for our children to take music
lessons on, may be matters of no wcn-
der in the near future.-Cor. Western
Farm Journal.
If the western Changers are not be-
coming potent in a political way. thew
collectively, in pushing the individual
interests of the farmers. This is espe-
cially true in Iowa, where the hay-seed |
elements have carried the grange sys-
tenn into more branches of every day |
needs than in any other state. The or |
der has attained immense streneth la |
the state. A recent meeting hds bu-
.fss-se-s1osFc7 that councils are in oper-
alton In each county, the total mem
bership being something like 200, 0OO |
Under these, forty-one county councils |
have been organized to attend to the |
purchaEing of the supplies for the diff |
ferent oranges, and to assume the man.
agement of the cooperative stores,
mills, manufactures, etc, already be- |
6 un. A law was passed at the late ses-
sion OF the legislature enabling the
councils to organize local fire insurance
companies, and twenty-nine are already
doing business. They usually include
about four civil townships in each as
signed territory, giving the offices Of
president and secretary to some local
members, and charge only from one to
two mills on the dollar, and as vet there
has not been failure to meet a liabil-
ity. Several of them are carrying