The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-01-01
GRANGE MOVEMENT.

Inc secret WORK OF the OrQor emanGGe
from the members of the seventh degre,
only, and not from the national grange
as is generally supposed.
The Patrons of Oaklandon, Ind, have
purchased square in that thriving vii
lage, on which they have built fine
business house, 28x52, with hall above
The four leading states in the grangt
movement are Iowa, Indiana, Missouri
and Illinois, having 1899, 1868, l, 1926
and /, 489 organizations respectively.
The Nebraska state grange holds its
next annual meeting at Lincoln, com
mencing Tuesday, Dec. Is. Crane
Master Adams will be present at its
sessions.
At Red Oak, Iowa, the Patrons pro-
pose the organization Of stock com
pany for establishing linseed-cil mill
to consume the large amount of haxseed
raised in that vicinity.
The Patrons Life Assurance Society
has been incorporated in Kansas. The
entrance fee for full membership is So,
and the assessment on the Geath OF q
meml er 81 10.
The Eaton county, Michigan, grangers
have received q Car load of salt direct
from the producer, and propose to buy
kerosene oil by the barrel in the same
way, giving the merchants the go-by.
The Wisconsin oranges have estab-
lished forty-one cooperative associa-
tions for selling goods and manufactur.
ing, and twenty-nine insurance compa-
MES, representing capital to the amount
of $4,000,00O.
The southern oranges, notably those
Of Mississippi and Arkansas, are active
~ bestirring themselves in endeavoring
to attract immigration to their states.
The English laborers' union is in active
correspondence with the Arkansas state
grange on the subject.
The proposed amendment to the con-
stitution of the national grange making
the founders of the order life members
OF its supreme council, has been re-
jected by the state grange of California,
which followed the example of Illinois
and other states.
Birds Creek grange, 104, Texas, re-
fused to tolerate members who loan
money at from three to six per cent. a
month, and instructs it's representatives
in the state legislature to use their in
fuence to pass law making all interest
over ten per cent. per annum illegal.
The patrons of Lowndes county, Miss.
are doing some good work. They have
secured a line of steamboats, between
Columbus and Mobile, which will bring
down the rates of freight so low that
there will be saving this winter to the
farmers of the county alone of from
$4,000 to 100000.
Y The Arkansas grange warns the ne
groes against an imposter who is driv-
ing thriving trade in the way Of or
ganizing new oranges among the colored
people. He makes no restrictions as to
the number of charter members, and, in
consideration of the hard times, has le-
duced the fee to fifty cents head.
In many oranges an effort is being
made to render their organization more
complete and permanent. Some are
building or renting halls, furnishing
them nicely, and ornamenting them
with works of art; some Pre establish
ing libraries, and some r oviding read
ing-rooms. All this i as it should be.
Rural World.
There may be liv5 oranges with dead
members in them. but there can be no
dead oranges -sith live members in
them. A hall dozen live, vigorous,
energetic, pc rseveripg Patrons will keep
any grange in the country in healthy
condition, and are worth hole regi-
ment of cold, luke-warm, half-and- half
nembers.--Oh6o Farmer.
G. r. Quisenberry having registered
as treasurer of the Missouri state grange,
the executive committee have selected
the Central national bank, of Bonneville,
Missouri, as the depository for the
money belonging to the state grange.
The president of the bank, Capt. J. l..
Stephens, has given bond of $50, 900
and will act as their financial agent
under the directions of the executive
committee.
One of the grand features Of the
order of Patrons OF Husbandry is that
of temperance. Unless man is tenn.
perate in his habits, he can have no
abiding place in the grange. Let him
be temperate in all things-eating,
drinking, language and recreation. In
his dealings, he must be honest and
just. So the arrange inculcates temper
ance, sobriety, charity and mercy
Rural World.
In June, 1872, DR.. Wyatt Aiken, of
South Carolina, speaking of the order
of the Patrons of Husbandry, said &: ''It
proposes to impress upon the farmer
the mournful but potent truth that he
has been the pack horse for all other
parties that he has rights, which from
ignorance he has never dared maintain,
and that if he has the energy and pa
thence to labor from seed time to har-
vest, he should know what he has never
known-the true marketable value of
his hard earned products.
A committee of Columbia (Tennessee)
grange, appointed to make suggestions
relative to the wintering of stock, etc.,
in view of the short crop caused by the
drought, recommended all to prepare at
once for the sowing of wheat, oats, rye
and barley on every acre that can be
spared from their other crops. They
also emphatically advise every patron to
practice what he breaches, by making an
earnest effort, il in debt, to get out of
debt, and in no event to go in debt for
anything, but practice the theory, pay
as you 60"
The grange movement in Texas has
made rapid progress during the last
twelve months. There are now over six
hundred organized oranges in the state,
and number of deputies in the field
organizing more. It is estimated that
the present cotton crop of that state be-
longing to the patrons will be handled
for one-third less than last year, and
that the business men who propose to