The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-28
COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, JANUARY 28, 1882.

meet, and at one of their meetings
| they passed resolution to keep our
| charter and old Rehoboth Grange
alive though the State Grange and
every other Subordinate Grange in
the State should die. And by their
zeal for the cause and punctuality in
attending our meetings we succeed
ed in keeping our organization alive,
and have never failed to hold meet
| ing where the weather permitted)
for want Off quorum but three times
since we were organized. And last
year these faithful ones were made
to rejoice. for behold! a Grange re
vival broke out in that part of the
| State through the instrumentality of
some public meetings held by the
Broad River Grange Association
and by some of. the Subordinate
Oranges, together with the influence
of our State organ, THE PATRON
OF HUsBANDRY," which was circu-
lated among US, and by their infiu-
! cnces our dormant members began
to flock back with renewed energy
and were reinstated, and many new
ones have been initiated, while still
others are knocking at the door for
entrance. And today Our little
faithful band has been increased in
numbers from IS to I35 members,
and we now feel that we have new
lease of life and our future is bright.
We have purchased for the use of
our Grange a splendid hall with a
good store room beneath, which
room we expect to fill next fall with
such things as the members will
need, to be sold on the co operative
plan. Rehoboth, Doves Creek and
Oak Hill Oranges have now a CO
operative store on the Rochdale
plan in full blast at our county town
| (Elberton), which, in spite of the
combined mercantile force sthat is
brought against it, is a complete
success. All that is wanted to make
a cooperative store success is for
a few faithful members to be thor
oughly united. purchase their goods,
get some honest agent to manage it
and then give it their support and
! influence and it is bound to succeed.
And so would be the success of the
| Grange cause if we could get all the
farmers united with us, and this
could be readily done were they ed
ucated in the principles and objects
| of our Order.
For the final success of the Grange
| cause and the accomplishing of our
purposes, Rehoboth Grange has
hoisted our banner, and we expect,
by the will of Him who rules earth
and heaven, to keep it waving until
the last vestage of the tyranny and
oppression now heaped upon their
shoulders by other combinations
shall be removed and they be made
to bear an equal share of the bur
dens which are now borne almost
entirely by the tillers of the soil.
Should every State and Subordinate
Grange die and the National Grange
cease to exist, it is the purpose of
Rehoboth Grange to have enough
living members to place the tomb
stone at the head of the grave of the
last one that dies.
Rutland Grange, No. las.
Rutland Grange was organized
September 9Th, 1873, ] w. Stubbs,
Master, with the required number
of charter members. Our Grange
rapidly increased in numbers. and
for a time seemed likely to embrace
in its folds nearly the whole of our
farming community, and untortu-
natelv for us too many who were
not sufficiently identified with the
farming interest. These were the
first to drop off, by failing to pay
their dues, and drew with them
others who had expected too much
from the organization, and conse-
quently were easily Influenced to
withdraw from the Order. Still
our Grange held up, the best mate
rial being left, and others equally
as good were occasionally added to
our numbers. Thus we continued to
move on from year to year, some
times encouraged with hope for the
success of our organization, and the
realization of great benefits to the
farming interest, and again hope
nearly gone, and we greatly de-
pressed in spirit at the indifference
shown by the very class for whose
benefit the organization was main
festly instituted To this volun
tary depletions of our members
MANY of our best and most infiu
entail members have been removed
from our frsternal band by tn
hand of death. These have beel
, greatly missed in our Grange meet