The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-07-08
GRANGE NEWS.

1leIe are HOW wv OlduSOo ~
ginia.
Wisconsin has %, 900 Patrons of Hus-
bandry.
Over one million dollars were added
to the capital stock Of the California
Grange Bank in March last.
The aggregate number Of Subordinate
Oranges has increased during the last
three months about 900.
The Patrons of Winona county, Mimi,
have opened a Grange store, which IS DO
ing good business,
The business transacted in one year
by the Keokuk, Iowa, County Agency,
amounted.to s6O,055.
The Patrons in the State Of New Jer-
sey sayed from $4,000 to $4,000 dur
ing the past year.
The Patrons of Cumberland county,
Penn, are now buying pillow for 9I.oo
that one year ago they had to pay $40 to
S17 for.
The Changers of Pelican Rapids are
| to have Basket Picnic on Saturday the
third of July. They will be sure to have
a good time.
$4,000 worth OF farm implements have
been sold by the Grange furnishing
store at Muncie, Indiana, since its open
ing, some two months since.
wholesale boot and shoe firm in Ell
mira, n Y, has increased its yearly
trade $4,000 by dealing directly with
Patrons for cash. Husbandman.
The Patrons at Ashfield, Mass, are
preparing to do business on an extensive
scale. They propose buying corn, bran,
middlings, etc., in lots OF 100 tons.
The Cheese Factory erected short
time ago by the Patrons OF Jefferson
county, Iowa, at cost OF $4,000, is al
ready yielding considerable profits on
the outlay.
School reforms are demanded by the
Patrons of Venango county, Pennsylva-
MIA. One school district IN Bradford
county has only three voters who are moi
Patrons.
f The Master of the State Grange OF Ar
kansas. Brother John T. Jones, is short
, " TO make tour of inspection among
the cotton-mills and workshops OF New
England.
; Oranges are being instituted in New
+ Brunswick. and the Colonial Farnaei
: saws that within short time ever,
county will have its organizations scat
r tered here and there throughout them.
h The Legislature of Oregon is com
posed of thirty Senators and sixty Rep
resentatives; seventeen OF the iorme
and fifty-four of the latter are member
J of our Order.
: Worthy Master Maxwell, Stat
d Grange. Tennessee, has secured loa
e of $40. 900 from the banks of Madiso
= county to purchase supplies for the mem
l. bers of the Order at wholesale prices.
t. The bankers OF Lawrence, Kansas, ar
prepared to advance money to Granger
It Tor the purpose of buying seed and tic
st ing over the present hard time. The
e only ask for good bankable paper an
1t the legal rate OF interest.
= The Patrons of Susquehanna county
5; Penn, are organizing a Mutual tll
IL and Life Insurance Company. A cAees
y factory is being started by the Patrons
re Social Grange and a Grange store WI
/ shortly be opened at New Richmond.
&c farm house near Topeka, kansa
- was struck by lightning. The los
= which was fortunately small, was-co
=. cred by an insurance in the Patrons Nj
o. ,ual Insurance Association OF kansa
~ This is. we believe, the first loss the A
- ISOLATION has sustained.
: The Patrons in Drew county, Arkansa
n have published 10000 OF descrlpiu'
,o circular, to induce immigration to the
ne county. The Patrons OF Prairie, Ton
is Ike and White counties, of that Stat
20 have determined to unite and build CT
H. ton factory.
IS The Patrons of Hennepin county a
ne making arrangements for the purcna
in of school books from some OF the leadil
es. publishing firms. They have also pu
Ia lished q protest against the Councils
hit ing almost invariably held in the sou
to mart of the county, instead of alternate
ny north and south.
ers The Patrons of the Northern a
as Northwestern States are cordially invit
.lri to The meeting Of the Cotton Sta
1t Congress- at Raleigh, n. c. The d;
ald of meeting will shortly be announce
lie The Order is fiourishing in the Sta
I'M nearly three hundred Oranges havi
been added within year.
u aeo An unfortunate division has arl!
~. .he among the Changers of Michigan. !
'i' Ne,c Era, recently the organ OF the st
Grange, has been ostracised, and ret
The ases by charging that the higher oiiici
red have formed ring or monopoly
Inc their own benefit: Opinion is divit
the among the farming classes, and
inc quarrel may lead to disastrous results
gre We could name individual member
rlor the Grange who, on farms OF l6D &C
have saved this year in implements, Il
3 M - and home supplies, thus far in the
8. $50 son one hundred and twenty to
:: se ~ hundred and sixty dollars each. m
). si than neighbors right BY the side OF Il
- have. whose expenses ought to De al
s'oei the same. There are no doubt hundr
yer Of instances of this kind all over
the country. That is one good thing
Grange is doing Farmer
,.rx W. learn with Measure that the m