Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-02-13
NEWS AND NOTES FOB PATRONS.

NEWS AND NOTES FOB PATRONS.
The Kentucky Oranges are talking
up Grange Banks.
A Patrons Life Insurance Society has
been incorporated in Kansas. The en-
trance fee for full membership is 50,
and the assessment on the death of a
member 81 10.
The National Agricultural Laborer's
Union of England, contemplates ship
ping SOC, 900 emigrant laborers to the
valley of the Mississippi.
It is estimated that the Grange organ
ization has saved to the farmers of Ohio
during the last twelve months, the
handsome sam Of 81 100000.
A California Grange thinks the State
Grange Executive Committee should
make arrangements by which female
help may be imported from the Allan
tic States by the carload.
The next annual convention of the
North Carolina State Grange will be
opened with an address by John 8.
Long, Esq, the State lecturer, on the
progress and achievements OF the Pa
irons of Husbandry.
Manufacturers who three months ago
would not listen to propositions for re-
duction of prices, or who would not
sell direct to Patrons or to the agency,
are now seeking opportunities to deal
direct with the bloody Changers.
The Wisconsin Oranges already have
established forty-one cooperative asso-
Citations for selling goods and manu-
featuring, and twenty-nine insurance
companies, all fourishing and repre-
senting capital to the amount of four
millions of dollars.
The Southern Oranges, notably those
of Mississippi and Arkansas, are &C.
lively bestirring themselves in endeav-
oring to attract immigration to their
States. The English Laborer's Union
is in active correspondence with the Ar
kansas State Grange on the subject.
A report from Clarke county is to the
effect that much of the snow in the
wheat fields has disappeared leaving
the grain exposed to the frosts by night
and sun by day. The continual freez-
ing and thawing is injuring the grain,
and should this weather continue much
longer much of the ground will have to
be resown.
Cherokee County Council, Texas,
urges Patrons everywhere in the cotton
growing States to ascertain, as soon as
the ginning season is over, how much
cotton has been put up at each gin, and
report the statistics to the National
Grange, in order to put it out of the
power Of spectators to control the price
of cotton to suit themselves.
There is lady member of Farm and
Home Grange, Falls county, Texas,
who is IS years old. She is still vigor-
Gus and a regular attendant at Grange
meetings. She has both children and
grandchildren members of the same
Grange. Three generations represented
in one Grange does pretty well for q
new institution. Long life to the brave
old matron.
The Grange elevator ct Indianapolis,
Iowa, is the largest building of the kind
in the country. The size of the main
building is 38x80 feet, with wheel
house 2Ox22 feet, and the hight to the
top of the ELEVATOR is SO feet. 1t is di-
vided into eight bins, each having Ca
pacity of 1000 bushels, giving total
of $4,000 bushels. The plan is differ
emit from that of any other elevator in
the State.
The Patrons of Clarke county, rep
resenting the chief element of enterprise
there, are not only in prosperous con-
dition, but, we learn, are making ar
| engagements for extensive improvements
, in the spring. It is fortunate that a
way has been provided for harmonic
ing portion of our business men so
that they can work together and aid in
improving their long neglected town,
Vancouver.
The Patrons of Sangamon county, ILL.,,
have adopted the practice of holding
monthly sales OF stock and produce.
Already two fairs have been held, OF
each of which more than $50, 900 worth
of cattle, horses, swine, mules, sheep
and poultry were disposed of. Some
cattle were sent expressly from Iowa.
Kansas and Missouri for sale, and q
Cincinnati firm even sent carload of
buggies, and reaped handsome profit
from the experiment.