Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-07-19
GRANGE ITEMS.

GRANGE 1IEMo.
Tho Oregon State Grange has lately met
without anything TRANSPORTING OF very espec-
iaI importance, and matters seem to be pro-
crossing very favorable. The Grange III
clueles a great many of the most intelligent
and successful among the farmers OF Oregon.
It results in much good, as advancing the
sociability and culture of the people. Asso-
citation and frequent interchange of frequent
offices produces the best effects. There Is
wide room tor improvement i'll the social
life OF farmers, and as the Grange results IN
intellectual as we'll rs social good, and es-
cheWs all sectarian and political Wrangles,
it is calculated to promote good feellng ana
increase information. The people need to be
educated as they canno be if they lack So
cial privileges.
Referring to the many paragraphs in the
daily press regarding the ownta OF the
Grange, the Fu1aea's Friend says: This
great and uncalled for cry j" that the Grange
is fast falling and dying out' is not a new
one. The prophecies of other years havea all
sunk into oblivion, We know all this to be
nothing but the sour grapes OF the monopo-
lists vine, which shall shortly yield them
but a broken reed. 1t has panied us to
hear this SANDER, when we know (although
the order is not increasing very rapidly in
membership that 1t is tirmer and laying Its
foundation more sure than expectation
could have wished. The Grange was never
'scaptured by the politicians" Sure enough,
schemes have been !" set up' by these po-
litical tricksters, to entrap the t~lnmindfll,
but they have always been well posted by q
good and free Grange press We do not de-
sire to go into statistics in regard to the
matter. but we find, on examination OF the
official records of this state, that more
Oranges have made reports for the past
quarter up to the present time than under
the same circumstances last year.
The Executive Committee of the Texas
State Grange in their report say: Your com
n,ittec having met, according to previous an
nouncement, for the transaction of business,
has the pleasure of statiug to you that after
a thorough examination OF the reports OF
the several officers of the State Grange, TO-
~O
before us, we find that they are working
faithfully in the discharge of the duties de-
yolving upon them in their several offices
That harmony and peace seems to prevail
in the Order throughout the state, and that
many of the subordinate Oranges, that
seem to be unknown, and indifferent, are
arousing from their lethargy, renewing theil
allegiance to the State Grange by paying uI
their arrears in dues, and have gone to work
with new yigor, and show i determination
to build up, strengthen and cement the Or.
der more closely than ever before. Anl
further, that we tind the Grange financially
to be in a healthy and prosperous condition;
and allow us here to exhort you to continue
this prosperity by bestowing all the energy
zeal and means the cause so richly deserves
and we pledge to you our best efforts tt
guard and husband the funds, and thereby
enable our noble organization soon to es
tablish Il home and a temple in II grea
State, of which we may all feel proud, ane
one that may prove to be both an honor ant
Il profit of the Order.
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GRANGE DIRECTORY.