264 THE GROUKBSWELL. 



Secretary; J. W. Wilkinson, Lecturer; William Duane 

 Wilson, Chaplain; D. W. Prindle, Steward; Jonathan 

 Thacher, Assistant Steward; M. L. Devon, Treasurer; 

 Executive Committee J. W. Whitman, E. K Shankland, 



and Clark. 



From a more perfect report of the annual meeting of the 

 Iowa State Grange, held on the twenty-eighth of January, 

 1873, 1 quote the following points, not only as embodying im 

 portant information concerning the workings of the Order in 

 its greatest stronghold, but also as showing the tendencies 

 of the Farmers Movement. This meeting was attended by 



State Seal of Iowa. 



over one thousand delegates from the various Granges of 

 the State, representing forty thousand of the farmers of 

 Iowa. But for the railroad blockade, caused by the unprec 

 edented snow-storms that had visited the West, it is estim 

 ated that over two thousand delegates would have assembled, 

 As it was, however, the large hall used for the occasion 

 barely accommodated the number present. 



RAILROADS, LAND GRANTS, SALARIES, AND ORANGE 

 AGENTS. 



One of the memorials presented, asked Congress to build 

 a double track freight railroad to the seaboard, and another 



