Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-04-13
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Inc southern Ayr2cnGUW1a cllltlO4lS lS
readers against confouiding stock stores with
cooperative stores.
Tn order OF Patrons of Husbandry of Ma
son county. Ky, bought last week of Mr.. H.
Ii. Long his brick warehouse on the corner
of Second and Wall. street, in Louisville.
for 81, 1850. 1t is the intention of the Patrons
to open in this building a cooperative
store.
Speaking of capital, >tle executive COM
mittee of the Ohio State Grange placed IN the
hand, of the State agent $50O0-$5OO more
than. he needed. With that amount-that
is, s., 500-he transacted a business last year
of nearly 81, 900, 900. turning over the orig
inal. capital two hundred times, or nearly
four times a week, at Il cost Of not more than
one-half per cent. to. the members Of the Or
der in that State.
The Patrons are about to erect a grain
elevator OH the joint stock plan at Canton,
in Lewis county, Missouri. The next meet
ing for the purpose will be held!on the sec
ond Saturday Of this month.
A. Patrons cooperative store has been
establishedat La Grange, Lewis county, No.,
Hirams Yates is president, and A.. Bogarth,
manager. The shares are $40 each. No stock
holder shall cast over five votes.
The Patrons around Danyille, Virginia.
have boughta lot and are preparing to build.a
tobacco warehouse Of their own.
The master Of the Missouri State Grange
rules that masters and past-nasters and their
wives, who are matrons, are full members
ofcounty oranges, whether elected by the
subordinate Grange or not.
Eureka Grange, No. 1,6l9, of Dallas coun-
ty, Missouri, in order to increase its treas
ury, rented tw enty acres of land, which will
be.sown in flax. The male members will
meet to SOW it then, when i ripens will join
in and harvest it.
Let every Grange this year have at least
one open, public discu ssion o rthc benefit OF
the neighbors, on some good subject, and
get the best speakers you can to talk for
them; also one picnic fer the benefit of the
young people, that they may extend their
acqustnt..avOrsrn anu reel thu Joy exists within
the camp.
"The Grange University" the branches Of
which are now about twenty-five hundred,
being represented in about every county in
the United States, has "turned out" more
good speakers and fine readers within the
last three years than all the colleges in the
nation combined, and the weight OF. their uni
ted voices is yet destined to sway the des--
TIMES of this great country.
Asgeneral Esprit of progress is manifest.
edamong the lay members of subordinate
Changers everywhere. Subjects for discus
sion or debate are chosen and member ap-
pointed beforehand to elucidate them, who
accomplish their task with an ability that
shows Il most rapid advance ofintelligence
among,the brethren of our Order. Never
has there been SO much learned within three
years.
In starting cooperative stores one
thousand to fifteen hundred dollars in cash
is enough to begin with, and if that is pro-
perry managed by 1t prudent storekeeper
on the Rochdale plan, beginning first on gro
ceries and staple goods and buying the small
err farm products, such as butter, eggs, chick
ems, ETC., there is no telling the advantages
the members will receive over their pres
ents system Of trade, But ~recollect this nev-
er-to-be-forgottcn rule-.sWe buy tor CASH
and sell for CASH"
Whatsevery neighborhood in the country
needs is agood library from which the peo-
pie, particularly the,"young folks,'' can get