The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-02-13
AGRICULTURAL MEETINGS.
The State Granse-Increased Receipts
the State Fair.
From the News and Courier.

From the News and Courier.]
COLUMBIA, February 5.-The first
annual meeting of the State Grange
was held in the hall Of the department
of agriculture this morning. The fol-
lowing officers were present:
Worthy master, ". X. Thompson;
overseer, B. B. McWhite; assistant
steward, J. II. Stone, secretary, Thomas
W. Holloway; gate-keeper, W. Is.
Allen, and Messrs R. \. Love and W.
F. Russell, of the executive committee.
The annual address Of Worthy Master
Thompson was an able and Instructive
paper, which will be published in The
News and Courier later. Among the
recommendations of the worthy master
is one urging the State to offer pre-
MUM for the encouragement Of growth
and manufacture Of the okra and other
fibres, and the establishment Of
manufactory of bagging, etc., in the
State penitentiary.
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The February meeting of the South
Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical
Society was held in the hail of the
department of agriculture this even
ing.
The following new life members were
elected: J. S. Werner, Frazier Harden,
John Horlbeck, H. +. Ferrell, J. B.
Guess, l.. \. Ransom, J. O. Walling,
\. +. Gonzales, J. d. Brown, Sandiforr
Bee. Mr.. Il. J. Drake, of Marlboro, was
elected an honorary member Of the So
ciety.
Mr.. Duncan, chairman of the COM
mittee on bylaws, submitted a set Of
bylaws, which were unanimously
adopted.
Col. J. P. Thomas, chairman of the
finance committee, submitted an eX-
haustive report, which, as briefly
synopsiZed below, shows the affairs of
the Society to be in highly satisfac-
tory condition.
The total receipts from all sources for
the fiscal yearending February Is, 1890,
were $l5,903 as against S21, ,109 for the
year previous The disbursements for
! 1889 were $l2,l7O as against S1O,9S1.
The total gate receipts for 1899 were
$9,376 as against S5,362 for 1855. The
| operating expenses for 1889 were IS per
cent of the receipts; the operating eX
penses for 1888 were So per cent of the
receipts.
Mr.. Roche, who had given notice at
the November meeting of the Society
that he would at this meeting move to
amend the constitution SO as to make
the admission fee for life membership
S25 instead of $40, as at present, re-
newed his motion saying he made it to
exclude the entrance of members at a
small fee just before election in order
to vote in such elections.
Judge Haskell offered the following
substitute, which was accepted by Mr..
Roche and adopted by the Society:
''Resolved, That no member shall
have the right to vote till at least three
months after his election.n
Col. Thomas w. Holloway, who has
for many years held the position Of
secretary and treasurer, finding the
duties Of the two offices too onerous
resigned the latter position, and Mr.. L.
\. Ransom was nominated by Judge
Haskell and unanimously elected trea-
surer.
Petitions were presented to the So
ciety from Rock Hill and Ridge Spring
urging the Society to hold its summer
meeting at those places. The selection
was left to the executive committee.
At II p. NJ. the Society adjourned to
meet on the lst Wednesday in August
next, at place to be hereafter desig-
mated by the executive committee.
ANAGRICULTURAL TROPHY.
~The check for $500 issued to Mr.. Il.
J. Drake, of Marlboro, by the depart
ment of agriculture, as prize for the
largest yield of fcorn in the world, was
presented at the State treasury to-day
and paid. Photographer Reckling has
made handsome photograph Of the
| warrant as an agricultural trophy.