Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1875 — Demits. [ARTICLE]

Demits.

Graiid Master Ilenly James, of the Indiana State Grange, lias ren*dered the following important decision concerning the status of demitted members: Inasmuch as the laws of the Indiana State Grange do not provide a rule lot receiving members on demits, it becomes my duty to give directions iu the matter. p Any member in good standing, aud clear on the books, is entitled to a demit. No member can object without preferring charges against the applicant. A demitted member wishing to join another Grange, or to resume his membership in the Giange from which he was demitted, must deposit his demit with bis application, to-, gether with monthly dues for the time the demit has been held, which application must be* referred to a Committee, and acted upon the same as a petition for the degrees, excepting that a majority of the ballots shall j decide the fate of the applicant. j Demits are good for three months only. Demitted members are not permitted to visit a Grange while holding a demit.

But “materialization” by spirits would be an excellent thing—-if it would work in a satisfactory manner. Td poor people it might .be equal to a reduction in wood and coal, victuaV. house rent, clothes, <tc. We heard the other clay of a case in point. A Spiritual brother informed us that while at supper he wanted oysters. Being a medium,_ be^ordered the gas turned down, and in about five minutes after, when it was turned on, lie found on the table two quarts ot prime oysters which had been materialized or manufactured by unseen spirits during the darkness, and tippy tasted as well as the best oysters from Providence River or New York. He was sure it was a great success, but when we expressed a wish to taste a few spiritual oysters, he thought we were not on a mental “plane” high enough to make the “conditions favorable,” though as we became “unfolded” we would doubtless see “thfe phenomenon.”— Boston Investigator.