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

1leTe are now OVS OIduScS IL =
ginia. I
Wisconsin has $4,000 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 40
ing good business,
The business transacted in one year
by the Keokuk, Iowa, County Agency,
amounted.to $60,O55.
The Patrons in the State of New Jer-
sey saved from $4,000 to $4,000 dur
ing the past year.
The Patrons of Cumberland county,
Penn, are now buying pillow for ~ 90
that one year ago they had to pay $50 to
$17 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.
i $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.
A wholesale boot and shoe firm in FL
mira, n Y, has increased its yearly
trade $4,000 by dealing directly with
Patrons for cash. Husbandman
!, The Patrons at Ashfeld, 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 900, is al
ready yielding considerable profits on
the outlay.
School reforms are demanded by the
) Patti ons Of Venango county, Pennsylva-
MIA. One school district IN Bradford
county has only three voters who are not
Patrons.
f The Master of the State Grange of Ar
t kansas. Brother John T. Jones, is short
G " to make tour Of inspection among
: the cotton-mills and workshops OF New
England.
= Oranges are being instituted in New
i Brunswick, and the Colonial Farmer
: saws that within short time every
i 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 former
and fiftv-four of the latter are members
y of our Order.
J. Worthy Master Maxwell, State
ID Grange. Tennessee, has secured a loan
1e of Sc. 900 from the banks of Madison
@ comfy to purchase supplies for the mem
IT, hers Of the Order at wholesale prices.
t. The bankers Of Lawrence, Kansas, are
nrepared to advance money to Changers
1T for the purpose Of buying seed and It'd
st ING over the present hard time. They
ne only ask for good bankable paper ano
at the legal rate OF interest.
e. The Patrons of Susquehanna county
s: Penn, are organizing Mutual Fire
I'll and Life Insurance Company. AcAeest
y factory is being started by the Patrons Q
ne Social Grange and Grange store viii
n shortly be opened at New Richmond
ne A farm house near Topeka, Kansas
b ba was struck by lightning. The loss
- which was fortunately small, was'cov
-, cred by an insurance in the Patrons Mu
- tual Insurance Association OF Kansas
hr This is, we believe, the first loss the AS
-, ISOLATION has sustained.
= The Patrons in Drew county, Arkansas
m. have published 10000 of a descripitiv
no circular. to induce immigration TO thei
ne county. The Patrons OF Prairie, Ione
his Ike and White counties. OF that State
We have determined to unite and build co
il ton factory.
vs. The Patrons of Hennepin county ar
me making arrangements for the purchas
in ot school books from some OF the leadin
es. publishing firms. They have also put
ma iished q protest against the Councils b.
yht ing almost invariably held in the soul
to part Of the county, instead of alternate
my north and south.
ers The Patrons Of the Northern ar
as Northwestern States are cordially invite
girl to The meeting Of the Cotton Stat
$ 1t Congress" at Raleigh, n. c. The da
uld of meeting will shortly be announce
lie The Order is fourishing in the Stat
Vim nearly three hundred Oranges havil
mar been added within year. !.
'.eu An unfortunate division has arts
lose among the Changers Of Michigan. ~
Tue New Era, recently the organ Of the Sta
Grange, has been ostracised. and ret'
The ates by charging that the higher officls
ared have formed q ring or monopoly !
the their own benefit: Opinion is divid
the among the farming classes, and
nine Quarrel may lead to disastrous results
gre We could name individual members
'rlor the Grange who, on farms OF l6O &C
have saved this year in implements. ia
!" sa and home supplies, thus far in the =
0ess son. one hundred and twenty to 9
Is Oh hundred and sixty dollars each, nj
: ss,s than neighbors right by the side Of III
= have. whose expenses ought to be abb
SOL tho same. There are no doubt hundr
aver Of instances Of this kind all over
the country. That is one good thing
- Grange is doing.-Indiana Farmer.
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