The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-12-03
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October-''The Education of Farmers
Daughters" opened by a lady.
November" Moral and Charitable
Features of the Grange" opened by the
Chaplain.
December Summary of Grange
Transactions for the year." opened by
Secretary and closed by Lecturer.
THE following subjects are suggested
by a Grange in Illinois for discussion in
the Oranges for the months named;
THROUGH practice in the Changers,
farmers are getting to be good speakers
and well posted in all parliamentary
usages.
By the amended constitution of the
National Grange, males as well as females
are eligible to membership at the age of
sixteen.
THE desire for a simple ritual and a
shortening of the degree-work of the
Grange seems to be quite generally ex-
pressed.
The Farmers Friend (Pennsylvaiiia)
promises in Q few weeks full particulars
concerning the proposed centennial en-
campment for the order in Philadelphia.
IN West Virginia nearly every subor-
dinate Grange has its own store, there
being no state agent. AS the Patrons
there most generally concentrate their
orders, they often buy lower than even
the merchants can.-FGrmer's Friend.
ORANGES in Wisconsin have on hand
S25O,000 toward State Agricultural I'M
plement Society. They have already
established forty-one cooperative associ-
ations for selling goods and manhfactur-
ing, and t~wenty-nine Insurance. com
p%anies, all iourishing and representing
capital to the amount of 81, 600.
THERE is not only considerable COM
plant among the members of the order
about inviting prominent politicians to
address Grange picnics, but the order is
suffering therefrom, and not very COM
plimentary remarks were made by out
siders about the order BEING compelled,
as they say, to resort to such material.
We are capable of driving our own team:
then let us do il.
As the National Grange meets at
Louisville sOOn-next month"; would
be well for Changers that have the good
of the order at heart to pass resolutions
demanding a reduction Of fees and dues
to at least three-f6urths of what they are
now. There is no. doubt that, every
Grange in the land desires a reduction
Of this Kind, but if we all neglect to at
tend to it nothing will be done. See to
it ut once.
IN April iast,sW. H. viii, Ohio state
business agent, sold three Sibley corn
county. w. p. Allen, tf Nj. Vernon, is
IN oufoOt Eta fbaeo .ooaIsNo. 81 l. -
Gently notified w. III. Hill that he
claimed from him $68. 80, the amount Of
commission allowed on the three ma.
chimes, as they were sold in his (AlIen's,
territory. This would make $22.S5 com
mission On a mlachine-an amour Ger.
tainly worth fighting for,
MASTER ADAMS AND RAILROADS.
Dudley w, Adams, Muster If the Ma.
tiOnai Grange, is being assailed on al
sides because he has accepted the Pres
idency of a railroad. From the best in
formation that we can obtain he has not
done anything hat will injure either the
cause or his W reputation when the
facts in the case are fully known The
road appears to be owned by and run il
the interest of farmers. 1t is not rail
roads that the order opposes, but the
corrupt rings and ~monopolies that con.
troll them. Railroads are as necessary tC
the farmer as to any other class, and we
know of no good reason why brother
Adams should not be Master of the Ma
tiOnal Grange and the President of {
Railroad Company at the same time, Sc
long as he fills both offices satisfactorily
and devotes his energies to the welfare
of the order.