The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-07-01
GRANGE ITEMS IN BRIEF.

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A grange store will soon be opened at
Steelville, Mo.
The grange store at Fond du Lac,
Wis, will shortly be opened.
A grange store has been opened at
Clinton, Mo-, and is doing prosperously.
A large grange hall will shortly be
erected oy the Patrons of Grove City,
Ohio.
The New York World don't like official
organs. We suppose that is because it
cannot be one.
Point lace is the name they gave the
fancy brand OF flour made at the North
field Grange Mills, Ohio.
Cory Grange. Pa, SO, reports 253
members, which the largest number yet
reported by a subordinate grange.
O. H. Kelley says Stanley Cussell, OF
Sank Rapids, Mimi, was the first per-
son regularly initiated into the order.
Mt Moriah Grange, Owen county,
will discuss at its next meeting the
question, ..HoW to have the best roads. =
Susquehanna county, Penn, will soon
have Patrons Mutual Fire and Life In
surance Company.
The grange store at Fleming, Ohio, is
spoken OF as great success, both to the
shareholders and customers.
The oranges in and around jefferson,
Oregon, contemplate erecting u ware
house convenient TO the river and rail-
road.
The Patrons Of johnson County Ind,
have organized ioint-stock association
and have begun to buy and sell agricul.
tural implements and tarm products.
The largest order from one grange
yet received at the agency in Louisville
was from Flat Lick Grange, Knox
county amounting to over $500.
The Patrons of Venango county, Pa.
are exercised about the common school
question, and have been demanding
reforms.
Franklin Grange TAT, Marion county,
proposes to build a two-story hall, the
lower part to be used as church or
lecture hall, at cost of u 300.
Ten cents per l00pounds is the lowest
rate on sugars. molasses, coffee, &C.,
shipped by the Louisiana Grange Ag-
ency, from New Orleans to st. Louis,
for the Patrons Of the Northwest.
A. q. Smell, who was convicted Of
murder at Muncie last week, was
Granger. as was also Harrison, his VIC
tim. Smell still asserts that he was in
nocent
Hope Grange has made it obligatory
upon each Of its members to plant, cul-
tivate and harvest fifty hills Of corn, the
proceeds to be invested in a grange hall
next autumn.
Thanks to the grange company at
Mapeion, MIMI, the farmers are receiv-
ing 50 cents for their wheat. The COM
pany's stock has advanced from rs to 100.
Last year it divided $1,000 among its
stockholders.
Grange No. TAT, near indianapolis,
will debate the proposition that the
high premiums offered to try the speed
OF fast horses at our State and county
fairs are injurious to society, and tend
to corrupt morals"
The New England SovereIgns Of In
dustry are purchasing at least 10000
barrels Of -four per month, directly from
mills owned by grangers- The average
saving is about 81 80 per barrel, or 49,
900 per month. building Asso. Journal.
One result Of the Grange in Arkansas
has been the introduction OF tobacco cul-
ture. In the territory Of Columbia
Grange 4S5, in Randolph county alone,
twenty tobacco barns have been built
within the year.
A good hall, well furnished and
adorned, il bond Of union to . Grange.
Il Is as home To family Have :
ware-room in connection with your ha1l,
with samples Of goods and implemsnfs.
also have IbEaxy il your hail.