Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-27
GOSSIP OF THE ORANGES.

St Adams Grange recently conferred
tho first and second degrees on two can
didates.
Sagadahoc Grange, Bowdoin Center,
now has membership of 100. This
grange recently made a payment of 800
on its new hall.
AS the views Of members of the grange
become enlarged through association and
education the possibilities of co operative
effort become more and moro apparent to
them.
The members of MerrymeetiDg Grange,
Bowdoinham, recently enjoyed bonnet
trimming contest among the brothers
The contest was an exciting one and furn-
ished considerable amusement.
Seaside Grange of Belfast has bought o
lot of land OH Field street and will build
a hall on it G5x30 feet and two stories
high. The upper story will DO devoted
to the hail and the lower to dining hall,
cookroom and anti-rooms.
Morning Light Grange, Monroe, claims
to be tho banner grange of Waldo county
It has over 200 members and is in flour
isbing condition. 1t has some members
from the surrounding towns but rs n
whole is moro concentrated than some
others.
Regular attendance at grange meetings
by few determined and resolutc mem
bers has saved many a grange from be!
coming dormant A dormant grange in
a community naturally reflects upon the
intelligence and enterprise of farmers In
that vicinity. ..
The subordinate grange is school ip
which, If properly conducted. knowledge
Of inestimablc value may be obtained.
Here Is where lessons can be taught of q
practicable value OF the farm of the home
and instruction In business methods gen.
orally of which the farmer Is Numerically
deficient. w. r Williams, Master North
Carolina State Grange.
The members of West Bath Grange have
voted to each earn dollar to help pay for
the new grange stable recently built. The
money will be handed in Mt the regular
meeting, the last Monday in June, and
each member will entertain the grange
by telling how his or her dollar was
earned. This grange will hold public
strawberry festival about the 9Th Of June
Among the many interesting topics re-
Gently considered by the members of
Starks Grange are the following: Tho
Best Methods of Raising Corn" 1.-THE
Best Methods of Sheep RAISING" what
Kind of Legislation will Benefit the
Farmer" and Will it Benefit the Farm
ers to Raise Sweet Corn at the Present
Prices" Such discussions cannot fail to
be of great value to all who may have the
good fortune to participate in them.
Many farmers who are not members OF
the order make mistake In thinking
that the educational features of the
grange consist mainly in preparing and
reading essays and the discussion of such
topics as wholly relate to the home and
farm life This is only small part Of
the education which is impaired in the
grange This feature not only embraces
the farm and the home but all that relates
thereto. including financial, economic
and even political questions when Of
non-partisan nature.
At the last regular meeting of Skowhe-
gan Grange two applications for member
ship We're received and class of four was
instructed In the third and fourth de-
grees. The intellectual exercises consist
ed Of an original paper on "The Noted
Women OF This Country and What They
Have Done" by Mrs. May Lawrence;
" Women as Inventors" was the subject
OF paper by Mrs Helen Robinson. Mrs.
Eva Williams favored the grange with q
beautiful song. Mrs T.. C. Dunton pre-
sided at the organ and music was rem
dered at intervals during tho ,necfinO