The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-02-18
VIM. PHILLIPS GRANGE.
MARIETTA, Feb. II, 1876

DEAR JOURNAL rum my CIl0i-
vescing gusbingness, must tell yon
of one of the most stunning affairs of
the season. To day the officers
elect of the William Phillips Grange
were installed. This meets at Bry~
antville in Cox's District.
A jolly quartette consisting of Dr.
Matthews, Prof. Gober, Col. W. p.
McClatchy and Major J E. Mosely,
attended by your reporter found
themselves about y o'clock in dash
ing equipages and headed for that
section. Col McClatchy went as
orator of the day whilst the others
we're hangers on, or more pointedly
they shifted the SAVIOR of good things
in the air aud were lured on by the
promise of good time.
The first episode upon their perig>
rination, happened by your reporter
being asked by some young ladies' to
work for wagee upon flower gar
den, but as they were rather slow to
assent to do the overseeing, and as
The sun bad long since in the lap
OfThetis, taken out his nap,
And like lobster boiled, the morn
From black to red began to turn,
he knew that this was one day in
which he could eat bread without the
sweat of his brow, and remembering
that it was impossible to serve both
the Grange and Mammon, he hur~
ried on.
Mud, mud, mud What a time
for brick makero. At this iuncture
took lesson in mental philosophy
by observing the peculiar bent of
the minds and propensities of our
coterie. The Col and Dr. preached
that old subject which has occupied
SO much Of their time and wits
"Ihe Women" whilst the Prof
and Major showed weakness for
more abstruse speculations.
At ll:l5 we arrived at the termi-
nus of distance which is said to be
, miles, but by the shortest route it
can not be less than eighteen. -
There were big men and little men,
long men and short men, pretty la
dies and some more. like the
Grange for the reason that they ad
init the ladies and my opinion is
that masonry excepted an institu>
ton without the ladies is not worth a
"tinker's dam
This is a section of Cobb county
which we up>county folks know but
little about, but yet it is a part
which goes far towards making Cobb
county what she is and there is no
more prosperous section in the coun
ty. The farmers are thoroughly
alive to the Grange movement and
if they pursue this as they do their
farming interest, they can but be
successful. 1t has never been my
let to NEE. with more whole souled,
rollickiug, clover set. AS represen>
tative of this section, would in
stance Hamp Howell and w. II.
Winters, both Of whom are to be
ranked with the ne Plus HltraS.
First came the installation, Col
McCIatchy officiating. The Col.
prefaced the exercises by short
pointed impromtu He spoke of the
success of the Direct Trade moves
ment and its satisfactory results he
dwelt upon the manner in which the
farm II had suffered themselves to be
imposed upon and the great need OF
corporation as 10 other industries
aside from this he thought that the
Grange could have n strong forte III
the dissemination Of information and
the free intercourse of opinion and
last but not least, he thought it
might play an important part in the
social organism. He was a success.
DIR. W. ii. Winters was Installed as
Master, and Hamp Howell as Over
seer.
Then came the good time, and |
presume, Msssrs. Editors, that you
know how it is yourself, especially
on such visit when a fellow isl
hungry. There was plenty to eat
and We did it full justice. Dinner
/ finished, | have a vague remem-
brance lof some more mud, then
something about some flowers, lit
tie more about some ladies and then
all is chaos, until now at midnight /
find myself ready to go to wooing
the hayward goddess, sleep
! LEAP YEAR.