The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-10-03
GRANGE DEPARTMENT.
Conducted by w. F. Alexander. r r.
D. No a, Owosso.

D. No. a. Owosso.
To whom Correspondence for the department
should be addressed
COUNTY GRANGE CALENDAR.
Owosso Township: First and third Tuesday
In each month at 1880 p. M; Richardson's hall
Owosso.
New Lothrop: Second and fourth Tuesday
afternoon In each month.
Bennington: First and third Saturday after
noon In each month.
Hazel Green; First and third Friday Of each
month; Henderson.
Burns: Every Tuesday evening Knaggs'
Bridge.
Union: Each Alternate Friday evening /;
b toln.
Grange Insurance In Sanllac County.
The Patrons Mutual Fire Insurance
Co., of Sanilac Co., started to issue
policies June IS, 1900, with little over
$111, 500 of pledged risks in the shape of
applications. At the end of that year
january 1, 1901 it had issued 17s
policies and carried 1854, 9O1. On Janu-
airy 1, 1909, it had issued 40 policies
and carried S469, 9O3 in risks. On
February 26, 1902, it made its first as
sessment of IS cents per 800 risk with
over $500, 900 of risks, all of which were
promptly paid except two assessments
amounting to 1888.
IL has now been doing business two
years and two and one-half months,
has issued 1853 policies and carries over
1925, 900 of risks. 1t has cost those who
held policies before February 26, 1902,
nine cents per hundred per annum for
their insurance. The lowest of the old
line companies doing business here cost
81 per 800 for three years, or 33 1-3 per
hundred per annum, saving of $2.43
per thousand per annum. With our
present risks, at the rate it is costing,
and the rate of most old line companies
at 81. so, our Patrons in Sanilac Co. are
saving over "a, 900 per year.
AS near as l know we have "a Oranges
in the county now. A number of them
were slow for time about taking hold
of the insurance, but now the insurance
is considered just the thing. We ex-
pect to have over million of risks by
the coming new year.
Our losses have been three houses
burned, number of chimneys ratified
by lightning about ~ head of cattle
and 10 sheep killed by lightning, al of
which are being promptly paid inside of
time limit. Some of the old line agents
are saying all they can to discourage
farmers from joining us, but are not as
successful as they would like to be-
JOHN MITCHELL, Sec.
The farmers in every state will have
the standing which belongs to them
when they deserve it, when they are
willing to know more, when they are
willing to take knowledge from what
ever source it comes, when they stand
by the things which belong to them,
when they stand by their agricultural
colleges, their agricultural societies,
their dairymen's associations, when
they never forget their own interest in
little quarrels among themselves. We
hear farmers in many places, among
many classes, spoken of with contempt.
Why? Because they do not stand to-
gether The farmers of the United
States constitute the foundation stone
upon which this nation will stand il
the years to come; they are the rock OF
safety in the coming trouble, which
will be a menace to our national life
the fight between capital and labor, the
farmer will save us because he is a
capitalist and he is laborer; he viii
never permit the capital of this country
to crush the life out of labor because he
is laborer himself. Hon. H. c.
Adams, of Wisconsin.