The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-19
Grange Items.

The next session of the National
Grange will be held next November, in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Two of the amendments of the Consti-
tuition, submitted by the National to the
State Oranges for their ratification or re.
lection, have been ratified by enough of
the State Oranges to make the law. The
first amends Article /, Section 2, so as to
make any Fourth Degree member eligi-
BILE to Office, in either Pomona, State or
National Oranges, or to receive all the
degrees, but does not allow him to vote
in the higher degrees. If this isn't suffi-
ciently Democratic to satisfy the hum
blest sans cuIoHe Patron we cannot see
why. Who now will be the lucky Fourth
Degree member who will be the first to
be elevated to the position of "Master OF
the National Granger"
The second amendment reduces the
Executive Committee to three members,
whose term of Office shall be two years,
and makes the Master of the National
Grange an er o6icio member of the Ex-
ecutive Committee, but not entitled to
vote except in case of tie. The old
Committee of five will, Of course, hold
over till the next Session of the National
Grange, as no legislation was had desig-
mating what two Of the five should vacate
before that time. The Executive Com
mittee, however, have voted that, as it
was practical to carry into effect por-
ton of this amendment, the Master
should at once take his seat at their
meetings as a member of the Executive
Committee, which he accordingly did.
The Executive Committee Of the Ma
tional Grange will, during the month Of
April, issue "Digest of our Order, con-
tanning our Article of Incorporation,
Declaration Of Purposes, Constitution
and Bylaws, Rules for Cooperative
Stores, Parliamentary Guide, Rulings Of
the Master, Decisions of the National
Grange, Decision of the Courts Of Ap-
peals," together with much other matter
that will make it the most complete and
the only official handbook that has ever
been issued by the National Grange.
With a copy of this in his pocket, no
intelligent Patron need be at loss to
know how to construe the laws of the
Grange satisfactorily. Every Patron
ought to have ono, and can get one by
sending twenty-five cents (the cost of
publishing and mailing it) to Secretary
o. H. Kelley, 92 Main street, Louisville,
KY.
The Executive. Committee of the Ma
tional Grange, will this week, issue "The
Grange, Record" a quarterly circular,
bulletin, or paper, in compliance with
the authority granted them by the Ma
tional Grange at its last session, held in
Chicago, in November, 1876. This pa
per will be issued the first week in each
quarter, and copy will be sent, gratui-
tously, to every living Grange in the IN
ion, and to every Patron, Individually,
who will send twenty-five cents to Secre-
tary Kelley, as above, 1t will contain a
complete Grange Directory, and just
such official information as every Patron
in the land wishes to procure. We,
therefore, unhesitatingly advise every
Patron in South Carolina and elsewhere
to subscribe to this Record" Every
copy will give him information worth ten
times the cost of subscription, and will
enable him to think and act for himself
upon all questions pertaining to the
Grange.-News and Courier.