The patrons of such lines learn to distinguish, with comparatively few errors, between the calls intended for them and those intended for others, but frequently they do not observe the distinction, as has already been pointed out.
The most common type of cooperative store was that in which the capital was provided by a stock company of Grange members and which sold goods to Patrons at very low prices.
The general purpose of the Patrons was "to labor for the good of our Order, our Country, and Mankind.
Before the advent of the Patrons of Husbandry the farmers were so isolated from each other that cooperation was impossible.
Sometimes the Patrons even embarked upon the more ambitious enterprise of cooperative stores.
Hence during these years of activity on the part of the Grange many other agricultural societies were formed, differing from the Patrons of Husbandry in specific program rather than in general purpose.
Angered at what was felt to be the tyranny of monopoly, the officers of the National Grange decided to use this capital in manufacturing agricultural implements which were to be sold to Patrons at very low prices.
Carr's "The Patronsof Husbandry on the Pacific Coast" (1875).
As to business, the Patrons declared themselves enemies not of capital but of the tyranny of monopolies, not of railroads but of their high freight tariffs and monopoly of transportation.
Sometimes the state Grange, instead of setting up in the business of selling produce, chose certain firms as Grange agents and advised Patrons to sell through these firms.
For many years I have been making earnest efforts to induce teachers, pupils and patrons to improve and beautify the school buildings and school surroundings of our State.
I should surely plant it about the main building and the outbuildings and fences, if the patrons of the school did not object.
At the last school meeting, did the patrons instruct the trustees not to pay more than six dollars per week for your services?
I am acquainted with another instance, where the patrons are largely Polish Jews.
At this stage of your improvements, I scarcely expect that any of the patrons of your school would do so either.
With better school buildings, more ample grounds, and a small number of patrons favorable to improvement, the foregoing ideas need not be followed closely.
Besides his gigantic labours at Versailles and the Louvre, the number of his works for religious corporations and private patrons is enormous.
As he grew more disreputable, his patronsneglected him, and in 1684 his mind was completely unhinged.
Great men under the later Republic sometimes became the Patrons of particular states or cities, and looked after their interests at Rome.
It has long been believed by certain patrons of the game that a change in the management and captaincy of the team was advisable, and that a younger man might make the nine more successful.
This sentiment is entertained by so many patrons of the game that it may be fair to concede them something.
But whether they are of this opinion or not, the patrons of the game this year will miss the presence of the big first baseman who has come to be typical of the Chicago team.
The Brush rule is valid nevertheless, and the patrons of base-ball will watch with interest to see whether it will be enforced against the umpire baiters and vulgarians lately led by Mr. "Scrappy" Joyce.
The theory of Swift and Swift's patrons was simple.
Swift at last brought his two patrons together in Lady Masham's lodgings, and entreated them to be reconciled.
So long as dependence upon patrons was a regular incident of the career of a poor scholar, the corresponding regulations would be taken as a matter of course.
The time of full moon was chosen both in Mexico and Peru to celebrate the festival of the deities of water, the patrons of agriculture,[131-2] and very generally the ceremonies connected with the crops were regulated by her phases.
In the restaurants the waiters generally receive nothing in the form of wages; they rely entirely on the donations of patronsfor their compensation, and the system is well understood by the public.
The courts generally take the side of the companies by throwing the burden of proof on the loser; a similar juggle is not unknown in America, as the patrons of freight, express, and transportation lines in general can testify.
In whatever light the case was presented, he responded that the opposition was not "recognized," and he would not allow hispatrons to travel by it if possible to prevent their doing so.
The lower portion belonged originally to Cockersand Abbey, the monks of that house being patrons of Mitton; and it was removed to its present position when the fraternity was dissolved.
I have many personal patrons now," Gaspard said with some pride; "all day they send me messages, and very good tips.
Well, here we have a restaurant opening at the most crucial period in the history of such enterprises, offering its patrons the delicacies of the season most exquisitely cooked, at what is practically the minimum price for a respectable meal.
Some of her regular patrons began to change weight gradually, a heavy man or two became less heavy, and a wraithlike girl now and then took on a new bloom and substantiality.
Her only regret was that she was not able to give to each her personal time and attention, and establish herself on a footing with her patrons where she might learn from their own lips the secrets of their metabolism.
I don't even mind the slight extra expenditure and the deficit that is bound to follow her theory of stuffing all her subnormalpatrons with additional nourishment.
She had prepared with her own hands the meal which her grateful patronswere consuming.
I was never going to give anybody anything they hadn't actually earned in some way, except to bring up the average of normality by feeding my patrons surreptitious calories.
I wanted to cram my patrons with the full value of their money's worth of good nourishing food; to increase the efficiency of hundreds of people who never suspected I was doing it, by scientific methods of feeding.
Among the leading patrons of the Maxim & Gay Company were soon numbered important horse owners on the turf, leading bookmakers and many leaders of both sexes in the smart set.
The gentleman thereupon got a curtain lecture from his better half that astonished and amused the society patrons on the club-house balcony.
The chief players were more or less retainers of the noblemen and other wealthy patrons of cricket.
I think we should be friends, Mr. McKinney, since I hear that you are one of the oldest patrons of the house.
They appear to have painted with an eye to posterity, rather than to satisfy their patrons and the people of the time with an effective generalization of character and bearing.
They designed mostly sacred subjects for the simple reason that the art patrons of the day seldom ordered anything else.
Besides those named by Sandrart, the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz and the Bishops of Wuerzburg and Bamberg are mentioned as patrons of the new art, and large prices were given for fine specimens of engraving.
A Poet's Emperor In the long list of imperial patrons the name of the Emperor Ming Huang of the T`ang dynasty holds the foremost place.
Soon a great national dynasty arrives whose Emperors are oftenpatrons of literature and occasionally poets as well.
There they could find congenial surroundings while discovering wealthy patrons in the numerous villas of the idle rich near by, and thither they withdrew at vacation time if necessity called them to Rome for more arduous tasks.
These patrons regard no souls, neither their own nor other men's.
Cobham, near Gravesend in Kent, was the seat of the Brookes, the ill-starred patrons of Harrison himself.
Not a few also find fault with our threadbare gowns, as if not our patrons but our wives were causes of our woe.
These bonds are negotiable and are sold to the patrons of The Literary Revolution at par.
The above described work is presented to our patrons with an unusual degree of pleasure, and some pride.
So many thousands of our book buying patrons seem to want a cheap Dickens that I concluded to produce this, incomparably the cheapest edition ever printed!
He carefully and wisely selects his stock, is reasonable in his prices, straightforward in his dealings and has ever recognized the fact that satisfied patrons are the best advertisement.
He has never allowed difficulties nor obstacles to bar his path but has overcome these by determined effort and has ever recognized that satisfied patrons are the best advertisement.
It has continuously paid itspatrons a good rate of interest, has built many comfortable homes in and around the city and is today one of the leading institutions of the kind in the state.
He now has charge of the engineering department of the Tum-a-lum Lumber Company, which constructs elevators, furnishes plans for houses and promotes good buildings, the plans and work being given patrons free of charge.
This would be a daily guide, a matter of but little trouble to the carrier, and give his daily visits an additional interest to all the patrons whom he serves.
Patrons can do much towards aiding the Government in this matter and they doubtless do their bit in a willing and accommodating spirit.
Special delivery service is made to all persons within the carrier limits of city delivery and to patrons of rural service who reside more than 1 mile from post offices, but within half a mile of rural routes.
This inequality which affects his pay can be largely corrected if the postmasters in cities would adopt some practical measures towards stimulating orders from city patrons for farm produce which could be shipped by mail.
The first system is where patrons erect boxes at their places of residence for the collection and delivery of mail.
There are now something like 200 dailies taken by patrons on these routes, some farmers subscribing for two or three.
But of all payment, that in kind is least gratifying to a poverty-struck bard, and the courtly patrons of Dryden were in no haste to make him more substantial requital.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patrons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
