The Grange advance., 1874-04-08
STATE NEWS.
DODGE COUNTY.

DODGE COUNTY.
!NontoyrtUe.- Mr.. A. R. Cochran has
4 colt eleven months old that weighs 764
pounds The Mantroville Grange meets
the 1st and Sd Saturdays evenings of each
month. 217 deeds fld in Registers $
Office between Jan. 1st and March 3ls..
Gen. A. J. Edgerton formerly Of Reg
ister in bankruptcy and now Railroad
Commissioner who now lives at Man
torville is said to be "happy all over i"
1t is about boy, 10 pounder, you
know how it is yourself:
Kasson.-Licence, or no liccnce was
the question at the polls in this village
on Monday. The women were around
the week previous obtaining signers to
petition against licence: and succeeded.
The following resolutions were adopt
by the Dodge County Council T. of II.
WHEREAS, The State Grange at Faribault,
BY q very decided majority. voted not TO
send lobby delegation to the Legislature,
and
WHEREAS, The Executive Committee, in
defiance of the clearly expressed wish Of
the Patrons of Husbandry, did appoint
themselves lobbyists, therefore
Resolved That the Executive Committee,
by this act, have forfeited the confidence
reposed in them and have proved them-
selves unworthy Of the high trust confded
10 their care, and thereby have brought
dishonor upon our noble Order.
Resolved, That we as Patrons of Hus-
bandry, denounce the idea assumed by the
eelf-constituted committee that investigated
the Farmers Mutual Insurance Company
of this State, as having been authorized by
this order to make said investigation.
Also,
Resolved That this Council recommend
local Oranges to enter into arrangements
to build or rent warehouses through which
they can handle and ship their own grain.
Resolved That we recommend that the
Oranges of this State establish a manufac-
turing machine shop. where the machinery
can be made for the farmers Of the State.
Resolved, That we will not buy from
Louth, Howe g. Lahore, or their agents, at
any price, the seeders known as the Owa-
tonna Seeder.
Re.olved, That we recommend raising
less wheat and more grass and coarse grain,
and feeding the same on our farms to the
best blooded stock.
Resolved, That it is the interest of farm
ere to combine wheat and stock raising.
Also,
Eesolved, That we recognize in the action
of our Legislature, last winter, in regard
to railroads, step in the right direction.
and
That we heartily endorse the action of
Gov. Davis in his appointment Of Railroad
Commissions under said legislation, and
That while we do not expect that their
action will cure all the evils we complain
Of,
That we do expect that such radical
wrongs as discrimination against persons
and places and its kindred evils will be pro-
hibited.
Also,
WHEREAS, We understand that the power
Of the Commissioner Of the patents to ex-
tend patents will cease on the 4th of March,
1876, and
That there is an effort already being
to renew made this power, therefore
Resolved, That we ask our Representatives
and Senators in Congress from this State,
to use their influence to prohibit the renew
el Of this one man power, and also to use
al honorable means in their power to not
have patents renewed on inventions on
such implements as enter into general
use in tiling the soil, after inventors have
reaped reasonable reward for such in
vention.
Resolved, That this resolution be pub
ished in the Mantroville Express, the
Dodge County Republican and the Farmers
Un'on, and that copy be sent to each
Member of Congress from this State.
Z. B. PACE.
Sec of Council.
RENVlLLE COUNTY.
An unusual thing has occurred, a
county officer has resigned. Quite a
number Of farmers had sown wheat pre-.
vious to April I'd, at least so says the
\ Times. The county has paid between
Nhree and four hundred dollars for Grim
~ prosecutions during the year.
'2ed Wood FaNs.-Last Saturday
"e hveliest day We have had for a