Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-13
Orange Meeting in ROxburY.

Summit Grange, of Roxbury, held its regular
meeting Friday evening, March Sth. BY vote OF
the grange the meeting was public, and d. f.
Boyden, Of Mortified, was invited 10 give lee
ture to be followed by speeches, toasts and an
oyster supper. The programme of the evening
was follows: Singing by the choir; prayer, by
Rev. A. Ladd, OF Roxbury; singing by the choir;
lecture, about one hour in length, by d. L. Boy
den, upon the Grange, its Objects and Success.
lie dwelt largely upon the moral social and edu
cational features of the order and condemned
those oranges which omit those features and try
to make the society purely financial institution.
lie predicted the early death Of all such oranges
lie gave very encouraging report Of the work in
different parts of the state and assured his hearers
that the order was stronger at the present time,
in the material which constituted real strength,
than at any previous time. Singing followed the
lecture Judge j. r. cleveland, of Brookfield,
was then called upon, and spoke at some length
Mrs. j. Williams read an essay upon the subject
Education of the Farmer" The essay was re-
markably well written and well read. Mrs Wiley
read the toasts and called upon ID. J.. Boyden to
respond to the following, Adam and Eve the
first Patrons of Husbandry." Brother Ellis re-
sponded to toast we did not write down, and
have forgotten. THE Serpent in the Garden Of
Eden the first middleman," was responded to by
Judge Ceaveand "While our first parents were
in innocence they were ters Of the soil, when
they fell cities were built was responded to by
Rev. \. 1add After number of other toasts
were read and responded to, speeches were made
by Judge J. K. Cleaveland and Joseph Gold Sup
per was then announced which consisted of
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was a most enjoyable and pleasant one to all
present The next grange meeting will he held
Friday evening, March I'D. Every member of
the grange and members Of neighboring oranges
are invited to be present.
Although the membership of Roxbury Grange
is not large, the meetings are very pleasant and
pretty well attended The sitting process has rid
the order Of the doubling members and the drones,
and the working members are striving to make
the Grange a success. We say success to them.
The amendment to the constitution of the
National Grange proposed at the last session, re-
ducing the fees for membership in subordinate
grange, has been ratified by three-fourths of the
state oranges, and henceforth the membership
| fee will be three dollars for men and one dollar
| for women. Let oranges take due notice and
govern themselves accordingly Many citizens
and some patrons have complained of the in
creased fee after organization, and predicted a
large increase in membership when the fees were
reduced. Those who advocated the reduction OF
the fees should now go to work and make their
predictions true by joining the grange or inducing
their friends to do so, else the opponents of the
measure will declare that the change was uncalled
for and throw discredit upon the advocates of the
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bers at the next grange meeting. d. b.