The Republican journal., 1903-10-29
NEWS OF THE ORANGES.
Comet Grange of Swanville had very
interesting meeting last Monday night, with
a fine program and good attendance.

Comet Grange of Swanville had a very
interesting meeting last Monday night, with
a fine program and good attendance.
Northern Light Grange of Winterport
has been invited to visit Morning Light
Grange of Monroe Saturday evening, Octo-
Der 31st. If stormy, it will be the next fair
evening, except Sunday.
Rockland, Knox county and in fact all of
Maine who are interested in the Grange,
endorses the candidacy for National Mas
ter of Obadiah Gardner, master Of the State
Grange. The election will be in Rochester
in the coming convention, which is Nov. 1lth
to 19th.-Rockland Star.
Several from this city attended the dance
at Lincolnville Center Wednesday night
when the new Grange hall there was opened
for the first time. There was an exhibition
of vegetables in the afternoon. This hall
is a very convenient and we'll arranged
building with a banquet hall on one floor
and an assembly hall on the other, where
dances, dramas and other public meetings
will be held.-Rockland Star
The 37th annual session of the National
Grange will be held in Rochester, New
York, Nov. 18th to 10Th, inclusive. Election
of officers for the biennial term will occur
at this session and one member of the ex-
ecutive committee will be elected for the
term of three years. Arrangements have
been made by which those attending the
session can secure passage to Rochester
and return for one and one-third fare for
tle round trip.
The second annual cattle show and fair
given by Pleasant Valley grange of Rock
land closed last Friday night. 1t was very
successful. The exhibit of cattle, swine,
sheep and poultry was specially large,
while the bench show was the best ever
seen in Rockland. The departments in the
main hail were under the charge of the fol-
lowing: Apron booth, Mrs. Frank Vaughn,
Mrs Charles Benner and Mrs. Warren
Gardner; candy booth, Mrs. Austin j.
Moody and Miss May Woods; fancy table,
Mrs, Charles S. Gardner and Mrs. r. S.
Thorndike; curiosity booth, Mrs. Roland
V. Follett, Mrs. Benz. Bartlett and Miss
Emma Crockett; fish pond, Miss Alice
Blackington and Miss Cora Blackington; !;
ice cream and cake booth, Mrs. F. E. Post,
Mrs. Martha Kalloch and Miss Myra Clark.
Recently we had an occasion to visit the
farm of young Brother of Granite Grange.
We found him gathering apples, but he
readily left his work to show what he was
doing and to have friendly talk. He has
good home, with no fear of the wolf knocking
at his door the coming cold winter. He does
his work himself and has raised over 200
bushels of potatoes, 800 bushels of turnirs
in fact has cellar full of all kinds of vege-
tables and apples-some 80 tons of hay, $50
bushels of grain, and stock enough on his
farm to eat it, He believes in farming, and
in the grange. What cares he for the storms
or cold weather? He can spare day any
time to go to the grange or to visit his broth
er farmer. Such young men are a benefit to
the grange, and the grange is a benefit to
them. 1t is pleasant to meet and talk with
such men. You can always learn something
from them, and they are always ready to
learn from otherS.-A. S.