The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-12-12
News Of the Oranges.

NEWS OF Cne oranges.
Equity Grange has elected the following
officers for the ensuing year w. NJ, Orrin l.
Wentworth; O., James H. Elms S., Charles
T. Littlefeld; A. S., Leslie Elms; Chap,
Mrs. J. II. Elms; Lect., Mrs. James P.
Wight Treas, Freeman T. Wentworth ;Secre.
tary, Mrs. Adella Packard; L. A. S., Miss
Carrie Elms c., Lula Lord P, Mrs. Leslie
Miller; F., Mrs. Fred L. Toothaker; G. K,
Fred j. Clark.
The following have been elected officers
of Union Harvest Grange, Centre Mont
vile, for the ensuing year: M, S.
Poland o., Mark L. Howard; L., Mrs. R.
M. Carter; S., z. II. Foster; A. S., C. B.
Cushman c., J. F. Ramsay; T., c. B. Ring
Sec'y, Edna Ring; G. K, G. E. Terry P,
Rebecca Poland; F., Orilla Ramsay; c.,
Lucy Wentworth; L. A. S., May Foster !;
Chorister, May Howard.
Seaside Grange elected the following Of
ficers last Saturday evening: Mast IT.
Henry j. Chaples; Overseer, Elijah How
ard; Lecturer, Mrs. Myra McKeen; Stew
ard, George Miller; Asst. Steward, Ralph
Gould; Chaplain, Mrs. E. P. Alexander ::
Treas, Harvey S. Cunningham; Sec'y,
Florence Ellis Gate Keeper, James Braley :;
Ceres, Mrs Ezora V. Miller; Pomona,
Mrs. Lillian Twombly; Flora, Miss Hattie
klmball; l.. A. s., Miss Kate Brier. The
representatives to the State Grange will be
elected next Saturday evening. The grange
is now out of debt and has money in the
treasury sufficient to buy and put in new
heating apparatus. New members are COM
ing in. Five names were proposed at the last
meeting.
Waldo County Pomona Grange met Nov
rs, 1901, with Dirigo Grange, Freedom. The
weather and travelling was bad and the at
tendance light in the forenoon. The follow
ing oranges responded to the roll call ::
Union Harvest, Seaside, Dirigo, Frederick
Ritchie, Rising Sun, South Montville, Sun
light and Harvest Moon. On motion of the
Worthy Overseer it was voted to raise the
fees of the fifth degree to ten cents. The
the program for next meeting: Brothers
Vose, Evans, and Elliot, and Sisters Vose,
Moulton and Ring. The afternoon session
was opened with music by the choir. The
committee reported as follows: Time, Dec.
31st; place, Morning Light Grange, Mon
roe; program-opening exercises; confer
ing fifth degree; report of Oranges address
of welcome by Tolford Durham; response
by Joseph Ellis; appointment of commit
tee; noon recess topic, Do we get better
results from feeding neat stock twice than
three times daily? to be opened by c. A.
Levanseller; ladies' topic, What can we do
to keep our sons and daughters on the
farm? to be opened by Mrs. Durham; re-
mainder of the program to be furnished by
Morning Light Grange. The address of
welcome was given by Mrs Frank Glenn
ents, and the response by the Overseer.
The topic, what is the cause of church
decadence and the disregard of Sunday
observance was discussed by brothers
Libby, Evans, Vose, Ring, Ellis, Hall, and
Dolloff and Sisters Vose, Brown, Murch
and others. The Worthy Overseer report
ed the National Grange Drigo Grange
furnished the following program: Music
by choir; rec, Mae Hall; song, Will
Sprague; dec, Everett Choate song, Mark
-. Grange closed in form.
Harvest Moon Grange, Thorndike, held
special meeting last Saturday for the OBJ
servance of its 9th anniversary. A fine din
ner Was served. State Lecturer THOMPSON
was expected, but was unable to be present
n Interesting
music, the annual address was read by the
Lecturer, Mrs. Belle Crosby, and was as
follows:
Worthy Master, Brother and Sister Co.
workers and Friends Another year has
passed and new century has been ushered
in since we last met to observe our natal
day. Here again we are assembled to cele-
brate in fitUing manner the 9th year of
our existence. In the absence of our sister
and co-worker, NJ A. p. Sayward, whom
we have listened to with pleasure in wears
gone by, your worthy lecturer has been
chosen to prepare an address for this oc-
casion. [ feel | Shall be poor substitute,
but doing the best | can trust you will
overlook my failures, which may be MANY.
am glad that SO many of us are permitted to
be present to-day and trust that we may 90
from here feeling that the time has been
well and protitably spent. Taking the year
90 q WhoiO L bAAllh VIC lidVo Dldu6 some dU-
vancement ] should be sorry were it not
so. We have certainly gained in number,
which means increased strength and activi-
ty as body. Let us hope that we have
also added something of value to our store
house of wisdom and knowledge during the
past year, and let us go forward hand in
hand with those we love and are associated
with to do our very best, standing by our new
members and encouraging them to help
the good cause along. The grange is, or
should be, a school and we should come with
our lessons well learned. l see no reason
why those of us to-day who may not have
had the privileges or opportunity that the
young now have of acquiring an education
should not come here and learn much, even
If we bring our text books and all be teachers
and pupils together. know there are some
here who would be glad to do this, if not all !;
and after the regular business session. is over
then take up our studies and see what can
be done. 1t would be much better than to
close and go home. l have been thinking
of this for some time and it would make
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