The Grange advance., 1874-03-11

US we're there last night ana gOt c0m-
pletely filled with oysters if you don't
believe it Mr.. Editor, just come down
and we will send you back feeling hap.
py aud full Of oysters.
NoRrawEsr's BROTHER.
LAMBERToN, Redwood Co., MIMI,
March End, 1874.
Editors Grange Advonce:
Since writing you last I have travelled
through Redwood and Lyon counties
and find them we'll settled by good
class Of people. The soil is very rich
and there is fair amount of timber on
the rivers, creeks, and about some of the
lakes. The Winona & St. Peter rail-
road runs through both counties to Lake
Kampeska in Dakota territory This is
a good grain and stock raising country,
badly devastated by the grasshoppers
last season, and the recent settlers are
suffering from the loss of their crops last
year, which, in the majority of cases,
Was their first. The town proprietors
and some other citizens of Marshall. in
Lyon county; have, and do yet, assert
that there are, comparatively: no cases
Of destitution in that county, but [
heard and saw that they we're no better
off than the other counties around them.
and it would be very strange if that par
ticular locality should have escaped the
visitation of those insects when the whole
country around it was literally devoured
by them 1t appeared to be the opinion
of those interested in the sale Of proper
ty in the village Of Marshall, who pro-
mulgated the report Of their exemption
from the calamity, that immi grants
would flock to that favored spot. and
give the grasshopper region the go-by.
I learned Of another little game Of
some sharpers who have been practicing
on the farmers in LIE Sueur county, but
were fortunately gobbled up before real
izing any profits from their efforts.
They were taking contracts to sell farms
to colony, and at the end Of the arti-
Gle, stipulation was made in the form
Of a promissory note for the pay Of COM
missions for the sale, underneath which
our con6ding farmer signs his name.
To cut that note off and sell it is so
much easier than working for living,
that so great temptation was taken
from those three sharp gentlemen by az
resting and shutting them up. No
fraud can be proved on them, but the
intention is SO patent that it's exposure
will place the people on their guard
have frequently heard landlords and
clerks eulogized for knowing how to
"keep hotel but can testify to the
fact that your former townsman, E. F.
Hopkins, Of the Nicollet House, St. Pc.
ter, is one of the most efficient, attentive
and courteous clerks that I ever encoun.
tered in my travels. He possesses those
genial qualities that render him
unsurpassable. The Nicollet House, ST.
Peter, is new, we'll arranged and ofhcered
and just about complete in all it's ap.
pointments. Geo. J. Virtue is proprie
tor and uses every endeavor to please
his guests. He is doing good business
and we'll deserves the patronage Of the
public.
l found Oranges sprinkled through
these two counties and more organizing
It was matter of surprise to find almos
every homestead taken and the prairie
thickly dotted with the homes of set
tiers. 1t is only a few years ago whe1
this was one of the finest buffalo ranges
east of the Missouri river. G.. J. O
WINDOW, Mimi, March I'd, 1874.
Editor Grange Advonce:
The following preamble and resolu
tions were adopted unanimously by th
executive committee of the State Grang
Dec. 22d, 1873, and copies forwarded t
the various Oranges of the State viz.