The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-03-07
GRANGE DEPARTMENT.
Conducted by w. E. Alexander. r r
D. No. a, Owosso.
To whom Correspondence for the department
should be addressed

To whom Correspondence for the department
should be addressed
COUNTY GRANGE CALENDAR.
owosso Township: First and third Tuesday
in each month at l 80 p. m; Richardson's haii
Owosso
New Lothrop: Second and fourth Tuesday
afternoon In each month.
Bennington: First and third Saturday AFTER
noon In each month.
Hazel Green: First and third Friday OF each
month; Henderson.
Burns: Every Tuesday evening, Knaggs
Bridge
Union: Each Alternate Friday evening
Chapin, next meeting March IA.
Every patron within driving distance
should plan to attend the grange con-
ference held under the direction of the
State Grange. There are to be three in
our county. AT Hazel Green, March IA;
Bennington, March 10; and one was
held at Burns Grange, March 8. The
conference begins at ten o'clock a. M.
sun time Picnic dinner for all mem
bers of the order The State Grange is
bearing the expense of these conferences
that the rank and file of the order may
be educated in grange work. Let lis
improve the opportunity.
Our Grange Homes, of Boston, Mass,
says, lone of the best ways to increase
the membership of 1.-THE Grange is to hold
open meetings" And they ought to
know in Boston for the Grange Is APP
preciated in New England. One town
ship in New Hampshire having larger
membership in its Oranges than the
population of the township.
Representative Loud, of California,
in proposing to put the rural free deliv-
cry carriers under the contract system
manifests either a consumate ignorance
of the needs of the service or total dis
regard for the interests and wishes of
those served. All patrons of rural
routes should write their member of the
House and their senator protesting Wig
orously against the proposed change.
The meeting of Colorado State Grange
at Denver called forth the following
editorial comment from the Rocky
Mountain News of that city, paper of
large influence in the west.
The organization, as state and
national body, has become a recognized
power in forming and directing the
thought of the farmers While it's
councils have always been conservative,
they have not wanted in progressive
tendencies, and many needed reforms in
the political and economic policy Of the
country have been inaugurated. No
men in the nation are more interested in
sound government methods, local. state
or national, from the condition of the
roads to the tariff laws, than the farmers,
and when they are prosperous, the whole
country is prosperous. Agriculture is
the basis of civilization, aud in the
growth of the industry during the last
quarter of a century there has been no
factor more influential than the oranges
which constitute the Patrons Of Hus ban
dry"
PASSED MARCH 4, 1902.
Resolved, That Owosso Township
Grange No. 1876 protest vigorously
against that clause of the Loud bill
which would place the carriers of the R.
F. d. service under the contract system,
and that the author of the measure
thereby manifests ignorance of the needs
of the service, or total disregard for
the interests and wishes of those served.
Also that copies of this resolution be
transmitted to Representative Loud, to
our Representative, the Hon. j. w.
Fordney and to our Senators, Mcmillan
and Burrows.
TALKS WITH LECTURERS.
From the American Grange Bulletin.
You are not the best of lecturers
not an ideal lecturer unless you are a
lover of books. 1t is understood that
you must be lover of men; that you
are interested in your own kind and
that you are more than willing to work
for the good of others. The greatest of
all is to be servant of all-is servant of
ALL Greatness involves service. Ser
vice is the measure of greatness. The
most useful lecturer is the one who ac-
complishes most; not necessarily the one
who writes most and talks most for the
greatest good does not come through
the talking and writing of one man, but
though the work which he inspires
others to do. The best lecturer is an in
SEPARATION; he compels others to think and
to grow and to work-not by compulsion
Of the whirlwind which frightens and
destroys, but by a silent. pervasive in
fuence like that which the sun compels
the grass to spring up, the flowers to
open their petals and yield their perfume,
and the full-grown apple to blush with
ripeness.
Already we have told you that you
are more than the schoolmaster of the
grange You are to be a source of pow
er, not because you have more knowl-
edge than others you know that
knowledge is power-but because yon
have access to sources of power other
than dictionaries and cyclopedias. 1t is