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

The Territorial Grange Of Colorado,
at recent session, adopted resolutions
strongly condemnlng intemperance, and
declaring that Incorporate habits should
disqualify a Patron from holding 0ffice
in the order.
The members of the Bloomington
Grange. Arkansas, gathered last Wed
nesday and broke the corn ground for
the widow of the late Bro. Robertson.
The good work will do more to unite
the brethren Of the order in kind and
fraternal relations than anything else
that could be attempted.
The Secretary of the National Grange
assures us that the order, though pass
ing through some trials in the way OF
criticism from without, and fainthearted
ness from within, never was really moreg
promising. On an average eleven
oranges per day are being organized
throughout the country -Fd7mer's Un-
iOn
The Pennsylvania State Purchasing
Agent will be called upon to transact
business Tor Patrons to the extent Of
not less than $3.50, 900 per annum. and
the amount saved each year will reach
at least 1000, while the cost of main
tanning the agency will not be over
$4,000.
The Patrons have purchased large
building at Medford, New Jersey, which
they are fitting up deliberately. On the
first floor will be grange store, wheel
rights shop and butchers shop. The
second story will be devoted to the of
ficers of the grange; in the third win
be large grange hall.
The Patrons of Hennepin county are
making arrangements for the purchase
of school books from some of the lead
ing publishing firms. They have also
published a protest against the Councils
| being almost invariably held in the south
part of this county, instead OF alternatc-
ly north and south.
Two car loads of mowers and reapers
have been received by the Kentucky
State Grange agent, at Louisville, and
two more are expected soon. Nineteen
of these machines have been shipped to
the farms already, and there is every in
dication that the demand for them, at
the reduced rate at which they are Offer
ed, Will be very great.
The executive committee of Texas
submits the following resolution for the
app roval or disappr0vsal of the subordi-
nate oranges:
| Rcsolued, That the representation in the
Texas State Grange, at its next animal session,
| shall be one member from each Senatorial dis
trict, one additional member from every thirty
oranges, and one member from each fraction
equal to twenty, to be chosen by the Masters
and their wives who have taken the degree Of
Matron, who shall on the first Saturday in July
meet for that purpose.
Some people seem to think the grange
is an old folks organization. They
have sons and daughters old enough to
join, but they stay out in the cold SIM
ply because they are unlimited, or per-
haps the Old folks are too stiDgv to paw
the entrance tee. The Grange needs
the young and warm blood, and ii
parents wish to keep their boys and
girls on the farm, there is nothing that
will SO quickly and so cheaply interest
them in agriculture as union with their
neighbors in the Grange.-New Jersey
Granger.
The Iowa Farm journal publishes q
view of the business done by the Patrons
through their agencies during the past
year. The purchases OF farm imple-
ments aggregate $225,OO0. on which
there has been saving OF $6O, 500, and
prices are Il per cent. less than they
were two years ago; $445,612 worth Of
family supplies have been bought at =
saving OF $500, 21O; and $lO7 900 worth
of lumber, at saving Of $l6,O5O. The
sales of farm produce through grange
agents amounted to 1924, 900, and Of
stock to 81 ,O2l 900, the saving on which
! is S478, 2S4.