The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-09-05
GRANGE DEPARTMENT.
Conducted by w. r. Alexander r F
D. No. q, 0awosso.,
To whom Correspondence for the departmer
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 | 80 p. m; Richardson's hall
Owosso.
New Lothrop: Second and fourth Tuesday
afternoon In each month.
Remington: 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.
Unions Each Alternate Friday evening;
hloll.
Owosso Township Grange No. 1876
elected F. W. Love, A. Robertson, Mr..
and Mrs. E. o. Place, delegates to the
county convention to be held in Owes
so the first Tuesday in October; also APP
pointed as a committee to arrange a
program for an open Grange to be held
the third Tuesday in October, Mrs. E.
O. Place, A. Robertson, w. S. Carson,
Mrs. Geo. T. Mason, A. B. Cook.
Union Grange No. S20 located in the.
extreme northern limit of Fairfield
township, just over the fence from Sagi-
nav county, and drawing its member
ship about equally from the two coun-
ties is the big thing to that section. AL
though having been organized but a
little over two years they have paid
up membership of about 10, own their
hall and operate Grange store. In a
social way the dav of the year with
them was Wednesday, Aug. 81, when
they picniced in McCarty's grove. We
had the pleasure of meeting with them
and having the inner man refreshed
by those bounties which the good
Patron knows so well how to prepare.
The day was perfect. The speaker
stand was tastefully decorated with the
national colors, fruits and grains. The
program consisted of music by the Ban
mister Cornet Band, remarks by County
Deputy L. S. Goodale, singing, read
ings, and recitations by local talent, and
fine address by Miss Jennie NJ. Buel,
lecturer of the State Grange. She
spoke of the high motives that prompted
the foundation of the Patrons of Hus'
bandry, the grand work accomplished,
and its high aspirations for the future,
placing great emphasis upon the work
| of the Grange as our educator and re-
fning factor in rural society.
No Grange when assembled in regu
lar session should think of adjourning
without preparing and reporting a full
program of exercises for the next meet
meeting This thing of coming to
gether at specified time without know
ing what you are going to do il
one of the best ways to cure dry ano
uninteresting meetings. To call the
Grange together without a previously
prepared program is like asking YOU
visitor to sit up to table that has on i
not a single morsel to eat Get III
good programs weeks in advance anC
you will have good meetings. Mrs. F
D. Saunders
THE GRANGE AND LEGISLATION.
part of paper read at Ingham Co. Grange b.
| ID. Il. McClure.)
The Grange has pardonable prid
in the record of legislation accomplish
ed, but the ''past at least is secure, ant
the good which means goo
citizen-always faces the future. See
| l,
bors in securing just and necessary law
whereby selfgoverning people may b
governed, but in this field of human Ell
deavor, as we'll as in others, the victor
comes to those who put their hands
the plow and turn not back, and who
due season shall reap the rewards {
labor if they faint not.
The Grange has become a grea
school, a mental field in which must b
sown the seed that shall quicken into
harvest of human rights. In this feel
there is little room for the narrow, til
self-centered, the utterly selfish.
such worker is here today let hin
shed his faults as a snake its usele!
worn-out skin, and stand forth in til
front ranks of progress, sympathetic an
helpful regard the present time as
most crucial one in the history of IL
Grange. The organization is no longt
the organization of quarter of Gel
fury ago. New times with new pro-
lens are upon us. The veal or woe
this republic, the future of agricultur
: are wrapped up in the solution OF Il
problems that now present themselve
The future of the Grange will deper
upon the aid it brings to the solution
the vexed and vexing questions we a
now studying
The farmer should demand the Au
tralian system in nominating the m'
who make and administer laws. If
get good men in Office good laws will
made and administered. Platforms a
party promises to do; history is VIII
parties have done. Parliamentary l
form came in England only when it W
almost impossible for a dishonest ma
| to purchase his way into parliamer