Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1874 — Meetings of Farmers and Their Families. [ARTICLE]

Meetings of Farmers and Their Families.

The most successful of the Farmers’ Clubs and local horticultural organizations wijth which we are acquainted are those in which the social -feature -is not ignored—those where the club or society meets at the house of some one of its members and is entertained with a dinner and social reunion, as well as instructed by the discussion of some farm, orchard or garden topic. This seems the best mode devised f»r securing and perpetuating attendance and cohesion. Besides, the informality of such meetings •secures an expression of opinion and the giving of experiences from those -who might be too timid to speak formally in a public meeting. We call, attention to these facts now that the length of the evenings and the closing up of the autumn work will enable farmers and their families to meet each other in such profitable social intercourse. When Granges are organized this feature is secured to the neighborhood and such a suggestion is unnecessary ; but where there is no Grange, or where there may be objections to organizing one, a neighborhood club of the character above indicated, in which all the adult members of every family may participate, will be found to be a wholesome means of instruction and entertainment during the winter months. —Rural New Yorker. —There was a man on Main street, the other day, inquiring for Mr. Circumstances.- He wanted some changes made in a "bookcase, and he had heard that circumstances alter cases.— Norristown, Herald. —A Western man has hit upon a happy expedient for getting rid of the rheumatism. He crowded it down to his two fingers and then had them amputated. Rev. E. H. Hopkins, of Jackson Center, Shelby Co., 0., says: “My wife had the consumption for ten years, and had been confined to h<r bed for some time. I heard of Dr. L. Q. C. Wishart’s Tine '1 ree Tar Cordial, and after using four bottles she was able to do the work for her family.” There is nothing like leather Shoes with a SILVER TIP for children. Try them. They never wear through at the toes. For sale by all dealers.