The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-01
BY William r. Sanborn

If you are intent on attending the
meeting of the Milton Grange on Sat
! urday evening Feb. 4. don't forget that
you are expected to bring valentine.
| These valentines are not to be put on
sale, or shipped to the missionaries for
| distribution among the heather, but
are to be exchanged freely and joy
| fully in the hall, at the close of the
/ regular program, during the social
! period.
Millions of people who are selling
! shoes, or wearing them out, also other
millions engaged adversely in making
a living or in clipping tax-exempt cou-
pons. are as ignorant as babes of the
| fact that the Grange has yell" But
| it is even so. The yell is the initial
| number on the Saturday night pro-
| gram. Following the yell and some
| music comes a serious talk about the
| agricultural bloc, in congress, by Al
| bert Ferris, an instrumental solo by
| Miss Elizabeth Caldwell. Il review of
| the Oregon convention report by Mrs.
/ John Coyne, after which Lee Craw-
! ford is billed for vocal solo. But
don't forget the valentine" is the ad-
monition of Mrs. Ina Crawford, Grange
| lecturer.
The Farmers Social Season.
The social season in the country
| districts is now at flood tide. Begin
ming early in January and lasting up
! to March l, or a bit later the farm
| folk have a period of relaxation. while
nature sleeps. This is the season OF
| Grange programs, of crowded farm bu-
Of Go
munity sings and various rural enter
! tainments and social activities.
! The first annual farm institute to
! be held in New Garden township will
| be staged at Fountain City on Tuesday
! Feb. 9TH. This indicates that, al
though New Garden township occupied
its present site when Noah vacated the
Ark, the farm institute is modern
| instance of rural progression. Well
! anyway, the Friends church is to be
the scene of a three-session day. anC
the Grange hall is to be the scene O
single session chicken dinner
served by the ladies of the grange
This program makes a happy cOmbi
nation.
Farmers Are Thinking
One of the evidences that farmers
are thinking along progressive lines
this winter, is the fact that real farm
ers are attending the farmers insti
tutes in larger numbers than for 9
long time. In commenting upon this
|, the Orange Judd Farmer says:
Reports from sessions of the
farmers institute in various parts OF
= Illinois show that these meetings are
better attended this year than fol
several seasons. The reason is
stated by one leader to be that folks
d7e hungry for real information thai
will help out their farming methods
This is significant indication. Il
points to REIMBURSEMENT of farming
operations to fit conditions, which
cannot fail to bring improvement
= Maintenance of soil fertility, lower
production cost, more production pei
man, these are subjects of basic i'm
portance which some men are study
ing today as they have not studied fol
number of years"
Freight Rates and Labor
The farmer who is hopeful of freight
rates being lowered during his owl
lifetime is warned by the president o.
the National Industrial Traffic league
that:"Unless railroad wage rates are
cut there will be no freight rate
E cuts" This was his declaration ant
notice served on the interstate com
merce commission, on Monday. II
| criticizing the railroad labor board
President Chandler asserted it to BIZ
the duty of the interstate commerc,
q commission to advise the labor boart
that cut in labor rates paid by rail
roads is advisable"
Illinois Corn Selling at 4oc
Central Illinois is selling more corr
this week than at any date since thu
last crop came on the market, is thu
report. The reason given is that bid
, have been sent out offering the farme
40 cents net at his station.
May wheat is now selling at the tol
figure in more than so days. Expor
demand is fair and the drought in tn
southwest continues. Central ant
western Kansas wheat was caught b.
zero temperatures, without snow pre-
lection. Rye is firm and higher
largely on account of buying for Rus
sian relief operations. When the ger
eral average price of hogs moved u
to 50 on Monday it struck the highes
, average price in the past fiv
months. The top on light bacol
WelSntS ana on pigs at chicago wa
$40, against 1855 at Indianapolis an,
$40 at Pittsburg, on Monday, in tn
face of rather heavy receipts. ShiI
pers bought 10000 of the $4,000 hog
at Chicago, on Monday Hogs addet
: 10 cents to Is cents to the tops" o.
q Tuesday, compared with Monday
y advances.
: More Horses Than Ever
= If we had supposed that the aut
and tractor have eliminated thousand
of horses in the last 20 years, W
have been mistaken The census RI