Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-02-27
NEWS AND NOTES FOB PATRONS.

| Inc yearly saving 10 the oranges,
through combination in buying and
selling, is estimate at over twelve mil
lions of dollars.
1t is estimated that the Oranges have
already four millions of dollars invested
in industrial enterprises, outside oftheir
regular business.
The Wisconsin Patrons have already
forty-one cooperative associations for
selling goods and manufacturing, and
twenty-line insurance companies.
A hotel expressly for members of the
Order of Patrons of Husbandry will
probably be erected in Philadelphia be-
fore the opening of the grand Centen-
NAL. ...
Elect your most efficient and we'll
posted man to be Master of the Grange.
Efficiency is what is most needed. The
next person in Importance is the. Secre-
tary, who should be active, energetic
and affable. ....
Lake Grange, 1929, ST. Louis county,
Mo-, has handsome and neatly fur
nished hall, reading-room where all
the leading Agricultural and Grange
papers are kept on file, and the nucleus
of q fine library.
The Hoosier Patron says that regu-
lar old-fashioned grange revival has
been in progress throughout the State
of Indiana, and that the Winter months
will have added twenty-five thousand
members to the Order.
In recent speech OF Dalton, Ohio,
an officer of Grange stated that he
had attended public gatherings of Pa
irons in twenty different counties Of
that State without seeing drunken
man and hearing but one profane word.
A large meeting of Patrons from the
Oranges of Virginia and North Caro-
lima was held at Danville, Va, on the
18th ult. The Southern Oranges are
alive to the interests of the organization
and they will work out of it much good
In many Oranges an effort is being
made to render their organization more
permanent. Some are building or rent
ing halls, furnishing them nicely and
ornamenting them with works of art;
some Of them are establishing libraries
and others providing reading-rooms.
The Patrons in Wisconsin are en-
gagged in o desperate contest with their
railroads. Every member of the Order
in the Union should take lively in
terest in the struggle, and it would
strengthen the hands of our Badger
brethren if every Grange in the States
would pass resolutions expressing their
brotherly sympathy and support.
Much depends on the master of the
Grange. He should be progressive,
reading, thinking, active man. He
should lead as an officer, and have his
suggestions matired and sound, and
then he will have the confidence of the
members. Let the masters wake up
to the Importance of their position, and
be prepared for any emergency.-South-
e,n Ag. o4Gc \ .'t. !
A good Patron is close-mouthed. He
locks up his secrets when he leaves the
Grange room, and no picking of locks
is allowed during The week. What he
saves in dollars, or what he gains in in
formation is his alone. If outsiders
would reap the.profts, they must come
in the regular way and contribute their
share OF the expenses, and do their
share of the work.
Senator Booth of California in late
speech said:-The word of member Of
the Grange should be sterling in ev-
cry transaction, and pass current MS the
coin of the realm. Not only his field
but his life should be made fruitful by
his association. His presence at home
should be an atmosphere of peace, and
his influence among his neighbors as
fragrant as an orchard in bloom"
At q Council meeting in Illinois, it
was resolved that +" the members of this
Council believe that the repeal of the
general banking law, and the issuing of
legal tender currency direct from the
Treasury, interchangeable for govern
ment bonds bearing the lowest rate of
interest possible, in place of the nation
al bank currency would be conducive
to the best interests of the members Of
the Order and the country" ..e,, III.
One of the most responsible officers
in the Grange is the Lecturer. It. is
his business to see that the machinery
is properly oiled and that the stoam
does not get low. If this officer at
tends to his business there will be no
lack of work to do. He should be al
ways ready to present practical subjects
for discussion; to- make suggestions for
the good of the Order, and to post tho
members in the growth and prosperity
Of the Order elsewhere.
Q The committee to whom was referred
the resolutions of the Texas State
Grange and other bodies in different
sections of the United States, asking
the National Grange to extend it's aid
to the Texas Pacific railway, submitted
a report expressing great interest in the
speedy completion Of this road, and as
it is an enterprise too great to depend
alone for success upon private capital,