The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
THE CIR RANGE
Conducted by J. w. DARROW,
Press Correspondent, New York state
Orange
GRANGE NEWS AND NOTES.
Items of Interest to All Members OF
the Order.

b,O0O members.
The grange believes in arbitration
rather than litigation.
President Roosevelt will visit the
New York state fair on Sept. 7.
Let the grange lead in the matter of
beautifylng rural school grounds.
Tloga county. Pa. Is said to have
about 1000 members of the order
National Master Aaron Jones is also
master of the Indiana state grange.
Don't adjourn the sessions of your
grange during hot weather Keep going!
The New York state grange will hold
Its next annual session in Cortland.
NY.
The resources of the national grange
amount to $G4,02S.5G-quite rcspcc-
table sum.
Uulou grange of jamestown. ~ V.
buys the coal supply for its members
and divides the savings.
Governor n. j. Bachclder, lecturer
national grange, will address Kansas
field meetings July 20 to -. inclusive.
Mount Cutler grange of Hiram, Me.
received at one meeting ifty-one appli-
cations and had fourteen more ready.
The grange is the farmers school
from which no diploma is given. 1t is
one continuous tcrm.-National Stock
man.
The great summer meeting of New
York Patrons of IIusbandry will occur
Aug. lS at the beautiful Thousand Is
lands.
More oranges have been organized In
the United States this year than last.
and five months left yet to swell the
number
Smock grange, Pennsylvania, has
purchased $1,000 worth of goods
through grange trade arrangements
last year.
AS the result of Il four weeks con-
test Scbasticook grange, Newport, Me.
received slXty-thrce applications for
membership.
Grange education Is many sided
four square. 1t may and should be
along the lines of especial interest to
our calling and the home.
National Master Aaron Jones Is book
ed for addresses in Grecnbrer, Monroe,
Cabcll and Putnam counties, w. Va,
July 90 to Aug. /. inclusive.
More new members have been re-
ceived by oranges in Herkimcr county,
\. Y. since Jan. / than ever before
for the same length of time.
State Master Hill has engaged Pro
fessor a. Il. Morse of Maine to devote
the month of August to addressing
grange picnics In Pennsylvania.
New York has twenty-five Patrons
mutual fire insurance companies, car
rying risks aggregatng sos, 1886
Last year the cost averaged $2.20 per
$1,000.
A new grange was recently organized
with eighty charter members in Kin
derhook, y. y, the native township of
President Martin Van Buren. 1t is
called Lindenwald grange.
Pennsylvania patrons won a decided
victory in securing the passage of the
new road law. The law secures a state
appropriation to be distributed to the
counties in proportion to the number of
miles Of road.
Every member of the West Virginia
state board of agriculture, together
with its secretary and superintendent
of Institutes, is Il member of the Order
of Patrons of Husbandry, says the Ma
tional Stockman.
It is plainly evident that the perma-
nency of the order rests in the sub
ordinate oranges, and the permancncy
of these rests in great measure upon
the degree of interest attached to them,
says S. Il. Strobe.
Pennsylvania has eight grange mu-
tual insurance companies, carrying
risks aggregating $15,OoO,0OO. Some of
these have been in operation twenty
Eve years. The cost has been but little
over half that of stock companies.
National Master Aaron Jones has ar
ranged to address meetings In Massa-
chusetts on Aug. 4, ., 6 and I; In New
Hampshire on Aug 10, II and 10; In
New York on Aug. II, 1S, 10 and 20; IN
Indiana on Aug "a, %, 26, 27, %, %
and 81, and In Ohio on Sept. |, . 3 and 4,
Newton Ridge CO.. grange is the
proud possessor of new hall situated
on knoll at the bend of the MuskinS-
um river, the Rhine of America. 1t is
400 feet above the waters edge and
has view for miles both up and down
OF one Of the most beautiful valleys
IN the United States.
The grange allows the largest lati-
tude to its members in regard to re-
ligious and political matters. 1t makes
no effort to rival or supplant either
church or political party. 1t has work
enough of its own without encroaching
on that of other organizations or asso
Citations, says the Grange Bulletin
Ostenburg grange, Bedford county
Pa, recently bought seventy acre
farm TO be used in connection with &
picnic grove, upon which has already
been spent $1,000 for permanent i'm
provements. The dates this year FOL