The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-12-27
News of the Oranges.

News of the Oranges.
Waldo County Pomona Grange Master
Dolloff of Knox will install the officers-elect
OF Union Harvest Grange, Centre Montville,
on the evening of January 9Th. A baked
bean supper will fill all vacancies occurring
on the happy occasion.
South Montville Grange, Montville, has
elected officers as follows, Master, C. NJ
Mrs. Ada Ring; steward, A. V. Martin :;
assistant steward, Will Adams; treasurer,
z. :. Conner; secretary, Mrs. c. A. Martin :;
chaplain, Rev. E. A. Dinslow; gate keeper,
Preston Freeman; ceres, Mrs. E. F. HOwes !;
pomona, Mrs. Nellie Adams; flora, Mrs
Lois Freeman lady assistant steward,
Mrs. Erva Conner
Sunrise Grange, Winterport, has elected
officers as follows: Master. L. W. Fred
erick; overseer, C. n. Severance; lecturer,
Mrs. Ira NJ. Cole; steward, Leroy f. Little
field; assistant steward, Nora Wilson chap
lain, Thomas Sinnott; treasurer, Charles T.
Sinnott; secretary, Mrs. Isa NJ. Couillard :;
gate keeper, Leroy Cole; pomona, Mrs
Maude E. Severance; flora, Mrs. Rose "
Sinnott; ceres, Mrs. Lizzie NJ. Shaw; lady
| assistant steward, Miss Mabel McGilvery
Lewiston has tried to outdo all other cities
in its hospitalities to the Maine State Grange
With the grand reception attended by s.
800 people, all being presented with a pink
cream and cake before they left it; the free
use OF City Hall for their meetings; free
car rides about the two cities of Lewiston
ana Auburn; a reception rendered them at
the Dewitt House at the close of the Grange
Thursday evening besides numerous atten-
tions and abundance of good will manifest
ed throughout the whole three days session :;
all must have left a pleasant impression
upon the minds of all who attended, and
this will be likely to count much in the con-
slderatiOn of Lewston's claims for the
honor of entertaining the National Grange
which meets in Maine next November for a
session extending through a portion of two
weeks. Bath Enterprise.
Waldo and Penobscot union grange held
regular meeting at North Star grange
hall, Dixmont Centre, Worthy Master Mel
vile Foster of North Star grange in the
chair. The grange opened in due form
followed by very interesting remarks by E.
o. Fogg. A committee on time and place of
the next meeting was appointed, consisting
of E. 0. Fogg, Alonzo Tasker and S. d.
Tasker. They decided to meet with Hill
side grange at East Thorndike, Jan. TO-
The committee also adopted as a topic for
discussion at the next meeting: "Does the
farmers success depend as much on the
woman as on the man." There was then a
recess and a nice dinner served in the grange
dining hall. The grange held an open
session in the afternoon, and the following
program was carried out with marked sue
cess: Recitation, Lillian Tasker; reading,
Alice Gould: song, Elnathan White; recita-
ton, A bbie Mason rec, Dollie Mason story,
I. j. Dill; story, E. o. Fogg; song, Misses
Ray and Miles; reading, Miss Porter reci-
tation, Jessie Kay; remarks by several
| members, followed by singing by the choir
composed of a dozen vtices. The grange
closed without form
The report of the State Grange special
committee on taxation makes some rather
sweeping recommendations, as follows:
First, that the rate of taxation on steam
railroads be raised and the limit abolished.
/ Second. that the basis of taxation on the
| raised.
Third, that Pullman cars betaxed on their
gross receipts.
Fourth that the tax be increased on tele-
graph and telephone companies.
Fifth, that trust companies be taxed on
their nterest-bearing deposits, the same as
savings banks.
Sixth, that an annual tax on certain classes
of corporations be levied.
Seventh, that a tax De placed on certain
private and special acts of the legislature.
Eighth, that the collateral Inheritance tax
be increased and graded.
| Ninth that the wild lands in unincorpo-
rated places shall be classed by themselves
and be taxed at higher rate.
| Tenth, that tax be levied on foreign cor
porations
Several are new, as those relating to Pull
man cars, trust companies and foreign cor
| porations.
| The report of Secretary Libby of the
State Grange shows many interesting facts
about the order. The membership of the
State as shown by counties, September 30,
| 1900 is as follows: