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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1895-12-06
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Duffv's Cider at Rice's.
Read over our Clubbing Rate:
Sleighins is proaouncad good,
The Holidays will soon be hero.
Kerosene oil at Rlce's 1Oc pr. e..
Oyster Slows 25 cts at Morgans.
Wisconsin Buck Wheat Flour at Rices.
Wall paper at Wambcrg & Jacobson's.
It is wonderful, that Clubbing list of
ours.
Stewart & Drew are almost giving ap-
pies away.
w-I If you want the news you must
read tho PIONEER
Our Supplements are o. K. this week,
printed On both sides.
Try Jake's R!,rn,atic Linemcnt, put
up by Wamberg & jacobson.
F +. Maycs has fine lot of Blankets
and Robes, at 40 cent wheat prices,
1t won't be many mppns unit! the
Hope Ice Rink vii! be running in full
blast.
A number CT our people attended the
Ladies Aid Fair at Aherbrooko Wednes.
day eveGing
The PIONEER has the order for the
printing Of the Programs for the 0. E.
S. Grand Ball Dec. 27.
P.S. Hoton & Co., Of Galesburg, n. D.
made a1 assignment of S2S,OOO last Sat.
urday. This is the largest store in the
burg.
Quite number of our subscribers are
taking advantage of our Clubbing otfors.
Read them over ana 500 1t wo can make
3 aaal ~
The 0. Z. S. Grand Eall will surpass
I, anything OF its kind SD far this season.
So don't forget the date, Friday evening
Dec. 9th.
Hon. E. u, Wallace has moved his
family to the city for the winter months
and they now occupy their residence on
ingalls, Avenue: =
We understand the ladies Aid society
Of SherhrooIe took IN something over
10000 at their Fair, which was held
Wednesday evening,
w. l. Warroy has build Livery and
Feed Barn in Sherbrooke to lie run in
connection with his Hotel. When in
Sherbrookc give him call.
We were little mixed in our local in
regard to the Thanksgiving sermon last
week. The Rev z. James preached ths
sermon, Rev. Jones wns /, aanbofn.
r. =. Mayes is selling Robes and Blank
cts at greatly reduced price. Il off on
all Robes s. Blan.sc.s. Hero is chance
TO get a good Robe or Blanket cheap,
In tho Manhattan ttfo insurance Adj
we ommitted one cipher, which mado it
read sG2OO0C0 Insurance in force, when
! it should have read, s62,OOOOOO. Which
males quite difference. See.
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Dates at the OPERA HOUSE:
Friday, December 18th.
Friday, December 9Th.
Wednesday, December 25th.
New YEAN's Night.

Sweet Potatos at Rices.
Apples at Stewart g. Drew's
Fresh Oysters 40 cts. at Morgan's.
Bran for sale at the MILL at S7OO a
ton.
Bring your job work to the PIoHEER
t,fficc.
Books. novels, albums and toilet cases
at Nambcrg g. Jacobson's.
Turn over new leaf New Years and
attend the Band Boys: f!!an~~
Rice Sells! ttanned goo<ls, Kerosene Oil,
,rnttlaacos. Cigars, Matches and all kinds
Of Candies.
Dent forget Friday Dec. 27tA, Is the
night Of the O. E. s.. Qwnd Ball at the
Opera HOUSE.
ltouse paint, white lead, pure Linsood
oil, varnishes. brushes. glass and putty
at The Drug Store first door west Of the
Hope House,
Go to Stewart g. Drew for School
Furniture End Apparatus for Cash OF on
time. They meet all Competition.
To close out the apples we have on
hand, wo will sell very cheap, call for
some at once.
Stewart & Drew.
sfhm DR.. Featherston's next Wait to
Hope will be all day Saturday, Dec.
7, to Tuesday morning. Dec. 10.
Office at Hops House.
Nothing will please girl so much as
tho information thata rival. who is try
ing to rob her Of her best fellow. has a
pimplo coming on her nose.-Ex,
The next regular meeting ofthe Wood
mon comes on Dec. l5til. A full atten-
dance ii earnestly requested, as the el &C.
ton Of new officers takes place or. tkat
night.
1t was necessary for. tho parties tLat
were digging. the we'll at the Ice Fink to
Ase, diinimite to blast q rock, Tuesday,
1t shook the whole town, Rev. james
touched the fuse>
On Dec Tth. DR.. Foathorston Willbring
with him fine selection of the vory
best teeth made. including the famous
makes of S. S. White, Justi and the
Wellington Co. Go and see them.
We arc in receipt Of the Governor Pre-
cla.nation under date of December 1st.,
1895, in regard to the Distribution ogtho
New Codes. which have just becn finish
cd. 1t isa Vary nice piece of work.
rhc question now comes to the Hope
people how nice it would be if We were
connected with the cut side world by \
phoac limo. If We had Hne running
from Sherhroaka to Portland we could
connect. See!
Wanted: II more Secret Socitics
right here III Hope. We have only eight
and tie Workman are soon to organize
and Lodge OF &c cd Z ,rp.ors, W, un-
derstand, is to be crgani. cd soon. L.. the
good work 70 on?
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We Keep Full Assortment all Other Lines Our Goods Best quality PRICES
Rodenberg, BeckeIje& Company, Hope North Dakota
DR.. Foatherson Doc. Z. 8 and 9.
Extra Selects Oysters at Morg ans.
Old Scttlers' Dance Nevt Friflav oy

DR.. Foatherson Doc Z. and 9.
Extra Selects Oysters at Morg ans.
Old Settlers Dance Next Friday eve
ming.
o. E. S. Grand Ball Oil the evening of
December 9th.
Are you going? Well I guess, yes:
Do you know where? To the New Years
Ball.
There is a grand program being ar
ranged for the Christmas exercises at
the Opera House, Christmas Eve.
The largest assortment OF ink and
pencil tablets, fancy box paper, pens.
penoila and INKS at Wamborg e. Jacob
sons.
Our band provided with now instru-
ments could easily become ono of the
hest IN the state. Holp them to obtain
some by coming to the New Year dance.
We understand there is move on foo.
to secure The Rev Eugene May Of Fargo
to deliver course Of lectures in Hope
in the near future. If he is secured our
pre- dictions are crowded house every
night.
Rev. Gillespie, for three years pastor AZ
Hope, is now pleasantly located at Ar.
doch in Walsh County. Ms> Gillespie
has been successful pastor Of the Con
gregational faith. and mas many friends
glad OF it.-.aor.e more than Tie Forum.
Landlord Nelson has purchased the
Mcmahon property just west Of the trac)s,
consideration $500. Wo did not hearn
whether Dan intends to quit tho hotel
business and 60 to farming or not. Any
way VIC must say be- has a nice piece OF
property.
Tho funeral sermon u A. S. Klovstad
was held, at the home of his son in this
city, Monday afternoon at o'clock. the
RcY. .ia:nes preached the sermon. A
part OF the relatives with the remains
left Tuesday morning for Milan MINI.
Where tho remains will be laid to rest.
L.os King received sad news, last
Saturday calling him to Oshkosh, Wis,
saying that his son was sics but before
Mr.. King could got ready to go, word
was received announcing hisdeath. Mr..
King did not go. The sympathy Of the
many friends Of the King household 90
out to them in this hous Of sad bercayc-
mont.
1T SHOWS and 1t blows and it stings
yonr ncsa makes all creation shiver; it
hites your toes, increases your woes. and
freezes up the river. The frost nips all.
both great and small, the dismal. lseaSy
winter; it freezes tyne, IL bursts the
pipes, and vexes sore the printer. So let
her Tall-we mean the coal-it takes the
cash in winter; 80 please be kind and
make up your mind to settle, at once.
with the printer. .'-Ex.
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photographs! = photodrAphs!!
Our Photo Car vii be open at Hope
until Dec. 10Th. Call and get your
picture taken.
A. & &. A, PARKINSON.
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WAR AGAINST MONOPOLY.

In 1870 new element was first intro
duced into grange work by letter to Mr..
Kelly from W. w. Corbett, editor of the
Prairie Farmer. Mr.. Corbett writes:
ait seems to me that we ASIAN order have
a work to perform in the war that is to be
waged in this country at no distant day
by the people against the monstrous mo-
nopolies that are overshadowing us. Rail-
roads, insurance companies, warehouse
and telegraph companies are crushing the
life oat o1Ithe producing classes"
Three pages Of type follow this opening
with brilliant arraignment of the CAPT
talistic combinations then proceeding to
the injury of the farmers, and a stirring
appeal to the leaders of the Patrons Of
Husbandry to take up the fight and meet
organization against them by organization
in their own interest.
The idea was evidently new to Mr..
Kelly, who comments on it As follows:
"This was boldly striking out in a direc-
ton that would find US IN able adversary.
l had some misgiyings as to the result of
such war, but looked upon the publica-
ton OF the letter as another way of bring
ing the order more prominently before the
public"
And sure enough it did. From that
time on Business Cooperation and Down
With Monopolies" was the warcry and
watchword of the fighting Changers, and
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authorized the issuance OF circular laying
down the lines for rather crude form of
discount purchases by members of the
order. This was followed by another in
the same strain dated May l, 1872, but no
clear enunciation of the policy of the
grange in regard to cooperation was made
previous to the formal declaration of pur-
poses adopted at the session of the Ma
tlonal Grange at St. Louis in February,
1874. Before that time in practice it had
become the great rallying cry of the pro-
moters of the order and many cooperative
plans had been tried by subordinate
oranges, especially in the West.
But the final impetus which lifted the
grange to an immediate and triumphant
success was a fight with the railroads,
into which the Western membership
rushed pellmell of it's own accord, and
with no instructions and no leadership
from headquarters. THIS fight was mere
episode in the history of the grange, the
permanent character o; which is protee-
tive, social and fraternal, rather than ag-
gressive, but it advertised and established
the order. and will be worthy of attention
in its place. In the meantime we will
assume the grange to be established for
educational. fraternal, social and CO.
operative purposes and follow Brother
Kelly as he fares onward in its prop
aganda.
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THE NEW WoAAN APPEARS.

These men were advanced thinkers on
practical lines. November 80 Mr. Kelly
writes:
~ hope one good thing we can accom-
plish will be to bring the wages OF females
up to their proper scale. l have always
argued that if female does the same work
as a man she is entitled to the same pay
that he receives"
said this nearly thirty years ago, and be-
fore the new woman was thought Of
AT last all was ready, and on December
4, as above stated, the conspirators as
sembled and formally organized the Ma
tional Grange. with William Saunders
master, Arson Bartlett overseer, J. r.
Thorn pson lecturer, William Muir stew
ard. a. s. Moss assistant steward, O. H.
Kelly secretary, and w. NJ Ireland treas
urer. DIR. TrImble refused any office, hav-
ing, as he subsequently said, no faith in
success. He is now secretary of the Ma
tlonai Grange. There were no other Off
GERS or mem bers of the order, and of the
above named, Bartlett. Muir and Moss
were not present. The new order had not
dollar, nor any motive power except the
high-pressure engine arranged TO run with
out fuel inside Mr.. Kelly. But they could
now talk of the Order of Patrons OF Hus-
OoiANly do dh SAlStlHR JHtDS. WIFI mead
quarters at the capital of the Nation, and
it sounded WE'LL
The next step was to organize subor-
dinate grange for practice work, which
they did at Washington mostly
made up of their fellow clerks in the de-
partments and their families. and they
must have had rare fun, although the
grange, OF course, as such never amounted
to anything and does not count in the
legal history of the order. The National
Grange as thus organized continued with
some changes, but with William Saunders
as master and O. II. Kelly secretary until
January S, 1873, when the first real Ma
tlona1 Grange composed of duly qualified
representatives of actual State oranges
met at Georgetown, Va, and took over the
work OF the order, which it has since car
RED on. During nearly all of this
period the National Grange was
mostly myth; about all there
was of it was the secretary who was absent
in the field, with his Office in his hat 1t
met irregularly and informally, oppressed,
toward the last, by the serious responsible
ties piled upon it by the rapid increase OF
the order and correspondence and qlres-
tons coming before it for attention as to
which they knew nothing and could know
nothing. and they were all doubtless happy
men when the prodigious specter which
rose from the bottle which they had I'M
corked settled down to it's own business
and took charge of it.
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ably able to do. When some cheering let
ter was received from Mr.. Kelly they were
encouraged and enjoyed in anticipation
their distinction as the founders of pow
erful order. When things went the other
way-which was usually-and when
specially pressed for small bills they evil
IDENTIFY looked upon it as private specula-
ton of Mr.. Kelly.
II he won he got permanent position at
$1,000 a year or more, and should therefore
take all the risk and not bother them. So
they were of varying minds; but as two
years went on and saw only thirty nine
oranges established, their predominant
feeling evidently came to be that the order
was failure and fear lest Mr.. Kelly should
compromise them with debt and discredit
them before their little public. The order
was founded not by the excellent but half.
hearted coterie at Washington, but by Mr.
Kelly and the energetic and capable men
in various parts of the country who grad
ually became interested in his work The
real work was not tarried on from Wash
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLAN.


It is interesting to note the development
of the plan. September 4, 1867, Mr.. Kelly
writes to Arson Bartlett. whom he had
then never seen: -, -
"Among the objects in view may be
mentioned a cordial and social fraternity
of the farmers all over the country; en-
courage them TO read and think; to plant
fruits and flowers; beautify their homes;
make them progressive. ~ am
confident that if we take hold of the mat
ter in good earnest we can make it popu-
lar and permanent institution III q very
short time, and by having the fee of mem
bership at a low sum-say 81 for each de-
gree-can in twelve months number our
brothers by the Million"
Truly tits faith that moves mountains.
He adds
ITO keep it free from commissions I
would suggest that religious or political
questions be forbidden to be introduced
in the lodges,
Surely sound conclusion. There came
time when it was hard to adhere to it,
for the grange, in the flush of its first
success, almost fell over the political
precipice, whence it would have been
dashed to pieces; but the frmness and
good sense of its leaders prevented it. He
goes on: ~.
LAS our wives and daughters are gener-
ally attractive features of rural life / have
planned the work to make them active
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the National Grange, but apparently not
before personally known to Mr.. Kelly.
This grange, twenty-five years later, on
April 20 and u, 1893 celebrated its silver
Jubilee by a magnificent demonstration
occupying two days, with exercises, filling
to suffocation the large opera-house, and
attended by thousands of grangers from
all parts of the country.
To this cele bration Brother Kelly came
from his distant home as the honored
guest, and we may well imagine that his
emotions, standing before that vast as
semblage of his children in the order, must
have been such as fail to the lot of few men
in this world.
Organization of oranges followed at Co.
lumbus, Ohio; Harrisburg, Pa; Chicago,
Ill. Newton, Iowa, and four oranges in
Minnesota. At the end of the second year
there were thirty-nine subordinate oranges.
Mr. Kelly's methods were to work the
agricultural and local newspapers for all
they were worth; to distribute all the cir
culars which he could beg or borrow money
enough to print and mail, and for the rest
to rely on his personal eXertions. Wher-
ever he could interest one man by letter
there he would go and work up grange
and start a new center of growth.
But all the while he was in the depths of
poverty.
At Washington the pressure of debt
began to be felt. May Mr.. Ireland
writes:
"Mr. Bean is getting very anxious about
his money. He has5 been up to see
Thompson about it, The printers are also
asking for some. What to do / don't
know. The landlady is also stirring us for
hall rent"
Mr.. Kelly had to write out thirteen
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PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY AND Their WORK,

the order in his history of the Patrons of
Husbandry up to the year 1875, and he
tells the story remarkably well. 1t reads
like an epic, and very properly closes with
the blare of trumpets and the red fire
which marked the close of the first period
of grange history, the triumph of the hero
and the confusion of doubters. Mr. Kelly's
history is not only interesting, but exceed
ingly Instructive, and with the records of
the National Grange from the beginning.
to date is the authority for the statements
in this article.
Before beginning an outline of grange
history it will be we'll that we have the
key to its success. 1t was the necessities of
Mr.. Kelly. He was a poor man, his farm
mortgaged, separated from his family
while earning bread for their support. No
one can read his book without understand
ing that, filled as he was with enthusiasm
for the idea, the thing which inspired him
to action and sustained him through trials
innumerable was the hope of founding
great order of which he should be not only
the father but the paid secretary at a good
salary. How he came out the record does
not tell. He got in the end his modest
salary of $4,000 per annum from the time
he began work and until 1873, when it was
reduced to $500, soon after which he re-
signed, evidently with some friction not
fully disclosed by the formal record of the
proceedings. Like most strong wilied en-
thusiasts and organizers he may not have
been methodical office man and possibly
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inson, but from Mr.. Kelly's farm in
Minnesota, four miles from post
office. Here Mr.. Kelly worked on, some
times laboring on his farm, but cor stantly
writing, and travelling and printing when
ever he could get money TO do so. Grad
ually he interested the agricultural press,
whose editors saw in the movement in
creased circulation for their papers.
The National Grange" at Washington
was .pnquestionably a good name to con-
jure with, and Mr.. Kelly exploited it
finely, but it was pure conjuring. And yet
when they put their minds to it these
Washington founders were wonderfully
helpful, not so much in original sug-
gestion as in pruning and modifying. No
more sensible Granger ever lived than
William Saunders. the master OF the
Mythical National Grange for so many
years, and his formal official papers are
models OF good English and strong COM
lion sense. And he had sympathy also,
and as apparently the most thrifty of the
lot would come to the financial rescue on
pinch
To conclude this period of financial dis
tress, may be said that every dollar ever
advanced by any one to the cause was
finallyrepaid in full so far as he would
acceptIt-and they generally accepted.
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new mission might be made to support
him. There we're absolutely no assets and
no income, and the promoters had already
exhausted their means in the preliminary
expenses of printing and postage Febru-
airy and March were devoted to the COM
pletion of the ritual, and with that began
the trouble OF finances; there was no
money for printing. Mr.. Kelly's salary
had stopped with his resignation, and his
co-laborers, all poor men, were not in
clined to actually impoverish themselves
for the good of mankind. AS the difficult
ties multiplied they IAN to have doubts.
February ID Mr.. Kelly writes:
Tonight Ireland says to me, Surprising
it should all fiZZle out within year?' [
don't like to have any one feeling an in
terest say so, but it only makes me the
more resolute. Interest an editor in the
grange to be established in your own
neighborhood, SO as to have his aid. Take
in editors 'deadhead' and let's see if it will
fail; let us get an editor in every grange.
We have got to study up some pecuniary
advantages to be gained bv members of
the order. Set your wits to work"
February %, 1868, MIR. Kelly writes to
Mr.. Bartlett:
"If we carry out our design to send out
lecturers and distribute printed matter in
the form OF tracts, essays, charts. etc., for
the purpose of diffusIng knowledge it is
evident we must have money to do it.
l fancy members will not grumble
much at the manner of using the funds"
Contiding but mistaken man. 81 hope,
however, the officers OF the National
Grange will prove themselves entitled to
salaries sufficient to prompt them to labor
diligently for the benefit of the members.
4 Our only want just now is money
had we friend who would advance liber-
ally for few months until we get oranges
established, we could easily repay with
interest. Perhaps some of those you speak
of who see such big pile coming into the
National Grange will advance few hun
dreds.
April he started out. In order to do
SO he gave his note for $40, for which in
dorsers were required, and he got Ireland,
Grosh, Trimble and Thompson. and a
merry time they had with collectors before
it was paid. Before leaving the National
Grange held session and formally en-
tered the following on the record:
Relative to salary: On motion OF
Brother Trimble it was decided unani-
mously that the secretary, Brother o. II.
Kelly, shall receive salary of $1,000 per
annum and necessary travelling expenses
the same to be collected by him from re-
ceipts from subordinate granges-the sal
ary to date from December 4, 1867. 1t is
explicitly understood that the officers of
the National Grange are not to be held
personally responsible for salary or ex-
penses."
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by those signs if they did not conquer they
at least scored some notable victories.
There were organized in 1868 ten subordi-
nate oranges; in 1869 thirty-nine subordi-
mates and one State Grange; in 1870
thlrty-eight subordinates and one State
Grange, and in 1871 there were 1873 subordi-
mates organized in large number of
States in which State oranges were estab-
lished in short time.
By this time large number of enthusi-
astic men had been educated in the work
and enlisted as deputies in all parts of the
Union, and from this on there was no
trouble for funds, nor doubt of success.
At the annual session of the National
Grange" january 8, 1872, the first master
OF real Sthte Grange presented himself to
take part I'm the deliberations of the little
Washington junto, little to the disgust
OF the resilient members, who disliked to
have stranger see how very little there
was of them. In truth, however, THE
had come to be quite well understood
among the leaders of the West, and tn