Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-12-23
The State Grange held business ses-

The State Grange held business ses-
sioua Thursday afternoon and evening.
Invitations were received from o. r.
RudUiph, j. p. Doughten d Co., Granville
Worrell, John W. Diefendorf and other
business men asking the members so visit
their places of business as q nInsser of
courtesy. A committee was appointed 10
return the thanks of the grange for the
invitations, and number Of the members
accepted them.
The following officers were elected
FIR the ensuing tarpi: Master A.,
N. Brown, Wyoming; overseer, john
Heyd, FELTON, Lecturer, ]. O. Higgins,
Delaware City; Steward, A. X. Cole,
Dover; Assistant Steward, w. p. Peach,
Mermaid Chaplain, ]. w Day, Whining
ton Treasurer, f. II. RigRin, Laurel
Secretary, Wesley Webb. Dover Ceres,
Alice r.. Brown, Wyoming; Pomona,
Anna Heyd, FELTON, Flora, Phebe j.
Riggin, Laurel Stewaidess, Hannah Day,
Wilmington. e. II. Bancroft of Camd-n
was reelected member of the executive
committee to serve for two years. These
new officers assumed their duties Friday
afternoon.
The State Grange reassembled Friday
morning at 10 O'Clock. Outside of routine
business and matters not designed for
publication, the following was the only
business of public interest and import
aiice. The resolutions here given were
offered and adopted:
Resolued, That some law should he en-
acted to encourage manufacturers tn come
to our State, either through exemption from
taxation Tor term of years or otherwise.
ReSolD'd, That Il general railroa / law Is
Na3 d, Alus.. af,A
that II would ultimately lead TO leb itlmate
competition in transportation.
RtsOIued, That the p, W. Il b. Railroad
Company Is discriminating In its freight
charges In favor Of localities far southeast
OF us or south Of US, and running our most
profitable industries, aud that it's present
policy merits the euncompromising bidlgna-
ton aud hostility of the producers VI our
State.
The afternoons meeting of tlu SLATE
Grange closed he twelfth annual y aston
of that body. With regard to the re- solu-
utions adopted at the m )rnipg session,
which were introduced by John Ross
of Milford, committee was appointed to
draft bills incorporating those rroposi-
tions and have them introduced at the
coming session of the Legislature.
George A. Jones Of Georgetown was
eitcieu 5ecretarY III place OF wesley WeDo
of Dover, who had declined.
The newly-elected officers ware in
stalled, and the grange adjourned sine
die shortly after o'clock.
The fruit that had been exhibited dur
ing the session was given to the ladies of
Smyth Post, G. A. R., who will show it
and dispose of it at their fair in the
Frank Building on King street.
Nearly all the delegates who could
make connections left for home on Thurs
day evenings train, but number of
them stayed until Friday morning.
The session was one of the most
pleasant and successful that has yet been
had. The members were we'll satisfied
with Wilmington as a place of meeting,
and there was feeling among them as
well as among the people Of the city that
farmers gatherings should be more fire.
quently held in the principal city of the
State. From the papers and reports read
by members of the grange it is apparent
that the cause of constitutional reform
has taken deep root among the grangers
of the State.