Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-22
CLOSING HOURS.
Session Of the State Grange Closes
Thursday Evening.
memorial Resolutions OF Thanks
Good Bye Till 1900.

- 'hSN - over. ana TINS morning
trains Will witness the departure of the
uelesates even to greater degree thar
dld the trains of Thursday afternoon
When many went to their homes. Thai
II mas been large and prosperous
session no one can deny. The attend
ance has been extremely large. anC
the interest manifested has been in.
tense.
one should have been present at the
closing scenes of the session. Thursday
evening. at the so-called love feast, .
mad he desired to know what the senti-
ment OF the members is toward the
order. After all the business is trans
acted and out of the way. it is always
customary to have informal speeches
from the members, and often the most
eloquent part of the entire week is con-
tanned in this last evening. Men and
women loyal to the order are reused
with enthusiasm when called upon t.
make few remarks for the good of
The order, and for the time being as
We'll as at any other time for that mat
ter, they will declare that nothing can
approach the good old order of Patrons
Of Husbandry. 1t il indeed love
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evenings session proved to be.
After three days of long sessions
filled to the brim with business, they
We're ready to adjourn, and there was
Il genuin" regret This is the brightest
part of the year to many of the dele
gates. ana they are always sorry when
the" know they must part with their
N Jhyr ana sister members ana return
huIir. They have all been pleased with
Augusta and her people. this year. and
though other cities will make Il bid
for the next session, it is doubtful if
they can wrest it away from Augusta
We seem to be the best situated, ANA
the best prepared to receive and enter
tain. and they like to come here.
The weather has not been of the
worst. Monday afternoon and Tues
day We're not first-class, and yet they
We're not decidedly bad. The other two
days have been ideal ones for this time
of the year and they have been i'm
proved. Excursions We're run. Wednes-
day and Thursday. to Togus the State
House has been visited from top to
bottom, and the publishing houses, TO
say nothing Of our postottice, have been
duly inspected. making three days fill
ed with Il steady round of pleasures.
II is doubtful if any of the delegates
will feel like work on the day of their
arrival home, and one can easily i'm
agne the good stories they can tell in
their lodge rooms of the interesting
sessions and the pleasant excursions
while here in this city. all under the
guidance of members of Capital and
North Augusta Oranges.
one feature that they can tell about
is that of the memorial exercises in
honor of the late +. F. Briggs of Au-
burn, who was not only a prominent
member but Il member of the eXecu-
tive committee. These exercises We're
impressively carried out, Thursday
afternoon. before the deputies and Po-
mona Grange delegates had given in
their reports. 1t was a high mark of
esteem deserved by the late member
and his relatives and friends are deep
~ touched at the devotion shown him
by the order.
More shopping was done by the dele
gates. Friday. than on any other day
thus far. and many will 60 home laden
down with packages containing Christ
mas presents. 1t was to many a chance
they We're glad to get, to be able to
look over the large stocks of the Au-
gusta merchants and select their pres
ents as We'll as necessities.
They will be missed. today, as the
addition of 600 people to Augusta $
business streets and from the hotels is
something that cannot help being no
ticed 10 a great extent.
AS they go the merchants and all the
oitizanS most earnestly bid them come
again. and hope in the meantime the
success Of the order will be such as it
deserves for the coming year.