The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-03-13

been and are now being sreinstated. b,
! paying their dues fsss---s, 1. : shf1s
h 1desire to call your. very, particular aat.
tention to the Importance OF promptness
on the part of Secretaries of Subordiu ate
and County Oranges in regard to MAKING
their quarterly and other reports and
that of making the annual return OF the
election of officers each year to:the Sec
rotary of the State Grange. Without this
promptness 1T is utterly impossible for
your Secretary to communicate with the
/ proper officers of the different Grams es
throughout the State / have in many
instances received letters of complaint
from .not,oniy Masters but from private
members5 stating that they received no
Communications from the officers of the
! State Grange, and thought injustice was
i done them : but in almost every instance
/ of this kind l hayei found that the Secre-
i tary had notlreported the namesi of his
officers. Hence no names appeared ON
cur books by which communications or
other documents could be addressed.
find in several other cases where I have
had occasion to visit that the officers had
received these documents both. from Ma
tional and State Oranges, and had prob
! ably never read them, to their. coDstitu-
ency. have found on my mail books
that out of sc County Oranges 48 have
not reported thcir officers for the current
year, and in many of these cases know
them to be in good working order. Now,
Worthy Master, L desire to; recommend
1 that resolution be PISSED at this session
urging upon the Masters of County
Oranges and other delegates to make it a
point when they return to their homes to
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prompt and .edncate them to the impor-
/ tance OF these facts. This being effected
I would tighten the burdens and yexations
of my Office. .aE4ro Gaa.t}o IL Is 3a5
i I also suggest to the Secretaries and
1 Treasurers in each county to hold meet>
1ings when convenient and. consult to-
gether and bring about a system of bust
ness by which the work may be uniform
throughout Another Gerry important
4 matter is that when you write to this Of
fee alocdys give name and number of your
Grange and your post office and county.
In my last report at OkoloDa L stated
that /. did not think our strength rested
in mum bers alone, but rather in organiza-
ton and manner of our working. l am
stronger in this opinion to-day than at
any former time, and i believe to-day
that the Order occupies commanding
position, and the members are regarded
1 with increasing respect wherever they
carry out in a good degree the principles,
OF the Order wish more of the men
and women of our State were heartily
| engaged in this work. l know it is said,
with truth, that others Chat we term out
siders) arc gamers because of the exis-
ltenee Of our Order and / am glad that it
r. II hn- 40 of
our influence enlarged so that every town
and city in our State might feel its benep
cial influence | believe that our Order
throughout the nation, has done very
much toward healing the wounds of war
and cementing the hearts Of the people,
and in years which are to come | see no
way in which the people of this State, in
which we take so much pride, can work
with better results, with greater facility
/ for the welfare of others throughout all
this broad land, than through this Order
to which we all belong. l wish to say
again, to all Masters, Secretaries and
Treasurers, that promptness on your
part will greatly facilitate the business of
my office. l have no particular CON-
plants to make, yet / know there is room
for i'm provement in some quarters. Even
| now with the reduced numb Der of subordi~
I nate Oranges there is an immense amount
fof correspondence, and am called upon
/ to answer letters from all parts of the
l country This kind of correspondence is
1 now increasing. Ii / can feel assured
that fellow Patrons everywhere, and es-
| pecially in our State, are interested and
/ enth usiastic, looking after the interests OF
the Order in their several localities, it will
1 help me in the labors Of my office. l#' g
4 We still have coed working force OF
| members IN this State, although many
4 have fallen off. 1 am we'll satisfied that a
i reaction in our favor is to come. Let us
Il prove to the world that the principles OF
4 our Order, applied to daily life, are not
only practicable but beneficial and enno-
, bling and then when another year
comes and we meet again in our State
Grange we shall find that our numbers
, have Increased, and our interest and at
/ tachm to the Order in like proportion
And now, Worthy Master, allow me
in closing my report, to return to you and
q all of our brothers and sisters my sincere
} thanks for all the courtesies and kind
ness extended to me during my term O.
office. -
Respectfully submitted, -" l.-@
+ -, w. L. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Treasurer presented his annual report
which was read, received and referred to
r Committee on Finance and Accounts.
II Committee on Cooperation presented
/ the following report, which was received
: and adopted, to-wit: f.io1sH7 Eas F.8a
l q Your Committee to whom was. referred
that portion Of the Worthy Marter's ad
! dress on Cooperation, beg leave tore
port that they have carefully considered
o the same and heartily concur in the rec
!, concentrations therein. - 1851 3lo Il
: Your Committee would further repor
8 that they have fully considered the repor
9 of the Committee on Cooperation of til,
National Grange referred to it and fully