| Show GRANGE andi CO coo cooperation OPERATION peba PERA T I 1 0 N k jowa correspondent oft the new york tribune makes bome some 36 m rather remarkable statements doncer concerning the results of farmers I 1 grange cooperation operation co jm in ti thau thai at fit jit estate ate tto the granges purchase linse man mad many Y bilings at wholesale strictly strict ir for cash and distribute the goods to the th 3 members at the wholesale price 0 oras ras mear near it aa as possible thus doing way away with the non producing middlemen bringing 10 the producer prodie e r and the consumer practically nean rear together and giving to tile the latter th flug which the middlemen atil imilie in the tho common way of doing lil business at first there was some in doing 10 this in ILI re gard gird fd t 0 machinery and implements tt the manufacturers depending for sti sil siles silis ts almost wholly Y upon loca lo 10 eal cal agents and therm therefore are n not ot be inin angina C a position tion tiou to offend them by selling ellingto to others within the limits oft of their heil hell agencies till this 91 difficulty 7 however Iw wever was overcome in towa iowa b borange bg j g range uge combination or cooper co oper atio atlo atiqi 1 on an extensive scale so a as q to tomake ke it to thoAn thenn the interest terest of tha manufacturers facture rs to sell ell eil eli d directly rectie t to 0 combined granges instead of through tigh an agent oil or agent agents having agreed td buy bu y nothing edth I 1 ug on credit bu bud but to pa pay cash for all ail thel their r purchases purchase 4 the managers manage m received assurances of support from a sufficient num berof granges and then applied to three plow manufacturers at des I 1 moines for wholesale rates rats two refused but the third agreed to make twenty per er cent reduction on the retail price of plows and twenty nive uve per cent in cultivator the result was he could not manufacture faust fast enough and another of the three firms then agreed to trae trao trae with the tiie granges plows were also bought boughs 0 tiler manufacturers and the he third of the tile three des Al bines blues firms ala became ready to trade with the tho granges iti it it ls computed that wat tiie tile farmers of iowa have thus saved sa ve d thein themselves serves selves within a year in th the e I 1 pure purchase h aw of or plows and cultivators only li in im the pu purchase i ichaso of sewing t machines ehin chin 1 es the sav say saving 1 ing lias has been greater a anu n it the p purchases ure pre hases li have vve ie teen en large arach alach tiles re at 30 50 to 95 9 are i sold to tb the gm granges ages aa a 6 forty per cpr cent disi discount count or 30 to 57 each for the coming year sear 1500 machines have been ordered on which if they are are arc the lowest priced ones a sina saving sink of if will wili be effected on parlor organs the granges have 20 to 23 95 per cent uis Ais discount count on scales front bronx 25 to 33 1 13 3 per percent cent cont on corn sheller 15 per er cent on wagons 20 10 1 per cent on hay forks 33 13 1 3 percent per pen cent on miscellaneous implements 25 per centon mowers 25 per cent thus bringing a mower down to 90 A large stock of re apers was bought of a h retiring manufacturer for 75 each which were estimated cheap cheape at retail A circular concerning this bargain was sent to the granges and the mach machines liles were disposed once onee and aud have given glyen universal toi tori r tIt av ia estimated iliac has his beets beers been saved to tiie tile g granges 0 of if iowa iown in this way wiy the way the business ais is conducted I 1 A M rt JD D whitman the state agent office at das des and hand Is lathe the principal lie he gives gits givs ft a and 6 of f faithe for sor the honet honest and faithful per of his bis duties and receives a smail salary in each county of the state there Is a connly county adent agent who ruay aiso also iq be placed iander bonds bondi if it the grances grancea of the county think it necessary the state stith A agent ent places himself in communication with with and whole wholesale salo balo mer men ment meny chants learns the terms on bich they chiy will sell bell thir goods to tha tho G granges ranges maves couf corfi tracts with them when it ii li desirable and und informs the granges by circular oft he lie ces ac orde orders ramay may then be given through suite sta ed or county agents all ordes orders must be accod accompanied by the cash casul to pay for the articles de dej elred and ii a certificate froin the master of the Is am a member m of or the order orden the tile state agent on re rr credits the remitter with the amount on his books sp the articie article to h te purchased and him film a receipt bleat onca for forwards wards warda the cah io to the or merchant int and tind lind then detata abd tbd purchaser with the amount remitted the goods arc are shipped chipped directly froin ithe manufacturer to tim purchaser but th bill is sent to lad state agent anent who nies hies it away as is hia hla if the goods ara imperfect oi not ai g good rood sod iod as haye hare been contracted fop for and the tha e seller refuses to gire give the purchaser satisfaction then the grange transfers its entire trade to borne other nim him A miu man mau man why ilits leni lend wi irai furnishings furnishing 1 the grange orange with plows last list spring sent a few that were much inferior to the ample ampie le A eine elre circular alar was waa sent to all trie granges mf Info miln them of this fact and ana d in less than a week orders for that plow stopped and the man has not sod bold onetis one to grange r mn e in the st kte tio the state agent always gives preference to home manufacturers Where wherever teran veran nn iowa flaw maker marer or manufacturer of any kind can furnish famish first claes goods good sas as chea cheaply aa they can he be purchased at chicago st louii louis or new yew york the grange orange gives min him its trade but hut ii its motto is to buy jn in the cheapest market which ready reidy re reldy idy cash wll 11 command this is genuine enuine co cooperation operation the cooperators operators co receiving the fullest possible benefit for the money they expel expend ll and gland all non pr producers cens cers so tar lar ur as rus possible being cut oil off from eat oatt ig the bread of the producer I 1 0 GOOD ADVICE the descendants of nathaniel pak rage of bedford mass had a reunion at that town 1 last lat mon month tb two hundred members of the family faintly ingIn be being in attendance mrs ruhamah lane of bedford in year and the only one surviving O of the arthe fourth gene gone generation ratio ratia n made the foll foil following owin ogin address to the family containing very goo goodard good dand daud and timely advice to the thol ay pages aoe age 0 ori ri any body else I 1 I 1 I 1 wish to sp ak a word to my young yolan friends as we arc are assembled to commemorate ott oil r ancestry let ut us practice their virtu virtuous otis lives they were men who despised fraud and ol oppression As we look at their lives ilves we flud tind them honest willing to earn carn their bread by uy the sweat of thein their brow brom they were no not t default defaulters ers they did not covet what did not belong to them this my young friends Is a serious thing in the nin nineteenth ii century many have ha 10 loa lost their integrity teg rity what Is to become of our family our relations our country if we have no truth no no upright uprightness ness nesa in our lives ilves it is truth and that live the rl righteous piteous will be held iu in ever lasting remembrance but the memory of will wui rot oun our rathers fathers were believers and supporters grgur of gur holy religion well weli do I 1 remember my fathers parting counsel to hu bis youngest son pon to believe in n the lord lora jesuit christ as a there wab was me no other a ima ime given whereby he could I 1 a 0 saved 0 0 I 1 I 1 CHECKED red KED it appears that lle tle the lie verdict of acquittal of thos cur tiri titi of sn san Frau fran francico francisco cico for shoo shooting thib wm johnson johnsen for seducing g ulie uhe dau daughter in of the former had not an exhilarating ting effect upon the tile young yating hoodlums of that elt eit city the alta california saya the verdict in this case I 1 Is regarded aaa aka kra arn ara blow biow to the tho hoo boo hoodlum dinin dandles dandle siAd who spend so much limo time at street comers corners talc ing lug ing notes of at and petting introduced to roule young and innocent girls with the tho un nail wail V P I 1 1 ig object of mining ruining them this clas class clab r represented ep resented in force every day a tha the trial triai iha rhe courtroom court room wa t crammed wah p wy ry youths noted for the uniformity of t their ai el dress drem bieh bleh heeled boots pec peg trip nante pante long tailed coals occasionally a vest yest hair hlin puffed and face clean shaved they were very much depressed wll wil n the result was wab cd ed and still st lil ill more BO so when the court sid bid s dd 1 I do not regret the verdict we are glad of it axer aver a xer ver dict should be rendered in all such eases cases and then some of tile the hoodlums at IC least ast would learn beirn that hoodlum iam lam is not nou a paying bus business saija FOR GOOSE AN AND ann D GANDER contrasting the lie lle two dlf dif merent different codes of morals which vilich society Y 1 practically provides for men an and d women mary mal mai clemmer mer ames very lsen feen sibly observes 1 the ifie bister sister I Is s tau taught glit whatever wh atcy er her liar temptations may be he that thai she must cc be c c abod the brother Is left to believe that thai however he tries he bb cannot help being had bad it Is expected of him binl that he w will 9 row grow to be a respect respectable able abla man some da day at but before that event through the lav liw of his nature lie he must necessarily bo be very wicked the ister lster is taught faught she lust aust preserve reserve herself blameless for the future ausband husband to tor whoso choso life she ia Is to be t lid ild i crawn cairn the brother Is i left to spend the I 1 aae ame Alme time in sowing 7 his wild cats cuts 11 to his bis wife he Is to bring bling no virginity of heart no purity of person no record of a stian stainless leas past many liany a ined the ars of wbk trusts him as she docs duds her god into the flees faces of 0 his daughters rho who believe hl him m to be scarcely lower than the tile angels mth ith a secret remorse which cannot be meas measured dired tired as memory f it his hla thought aliat he be has beell perhaps what he ie Vs with what I 1 shame bhame he P la is conscious that if ther knew ilis liis secret hist history ry lie ho would stand trani trana foiled before befar their cies eyes chesl I 1 ne the Loti aOn in in i its U classified dd book list places work works son aon on freemasonry dud under erthe tile heading of charlatanism |
