The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-01-13
WILL GIT MONEY.


From Congress to aid Roads-D oings at
Willamette Grange.
The annual installe ton ofofhcers
tnok place at Willamette Grange
lat Saturf ay with Deputy Ma stsr
DeDman, Installing Officer ]. B.
Homer. MARSHALL w. E. Yates and
VS.; ting brother, Joseph E Yates.
Willamette ia one OF thoss oranges
/ whose fortunes have varied with
The vicissitndes and triumphs of the
stale: and its present prosperity is
a beautiful testimonial to the 10y
atty of the men and women who
braved storms, high watsr and all
manner Of roads to perpetuate an
ore aniza,ion whose principles we're
FIRST taught in the garden of Eden.
The new two $ try hall with con-
templated kitchen alta ,hment, the
new organ with song books aud
abundant paraphern4lia; the large
storm shed with comm odious apart
mepts for horses and vehicles; the
rapid growing ait -ndance Of Young
and old; the splendid enthusiasm
for social and literary culture
these are .unmistakble evidences of
the prosperity of Villa nette
Grange.
! Deputy De1man and Marshal
Yates made enthusiastic addresses S
upon the Importance of receiving
the state Grange at Corvallis next
May in manner becoming the
husbandmen, the mstrons and the
citizens at iarge of the bet section.
of Oregon. It was emphasized that
the intelligent progressive farmer
is rapidly coming to b. the salt
of the earth; and with the Agri.
cultural College in our midst, no
other country is situated so as TO
receive so many benefits from the
representative association of ia In
ers as is Benton. And hearty
welcome was extended 10 William
It Grange to cooperate in max
ing this reception triumphantly
successful in every particular.
After a brief but interes ting ad-
dress by Joseph Yates, who is one
OF those july, e joyable and ever
welcome pioneer Grangers of "a
former gene, alton The newly in
y stalled master, Hon. John Wnita.
ker, talked with the force of con.
gresham upon the Importance ol
improving the county roads. He
said that it is no uncommon mat.
: t,r for people with wagons heavily
loaded to leave the main Travelled
road and go around by his farm two
miles out of their way in order tt
get to town; and all this when
times are prosperous. The speak
er made the sta 'emeat that the
general government is willing to
appropriate millions of dollars in a
systematic way for the improve.
ment Of wagon reads throughout
: the United States, upon certain
cond, tions-one of which is that
the various counties shall also con-
tribute for this purpose a dollar
for every dollar received.
''WhiIe the citizens of Benton
county, he continued, "are prob
ably neither ready nor able to ex-
pend ten thousand dollars at ths
present time for the purpose of
highway Improvement, yet betee.
reals are needed; and the people
are always willing to do what
seemsfair and reasonable. Uncle
Sam who once used the principal
highways for military purposes
now needs all the roads for the fail
and prompt distribution of mail
under the system of rural delivery
aud the money put into extra horse
hire might we'll be- put into bette,
roads, thus improving the effcien-
cy of the mail service and giving
additional aid, comfort and salts.
faction to everybody"
1 ne SPEAKER gave nOuce that
this matter will be thoroughly dis
cussed by Willamette Grange at the
next regular session, and that il
will be taken up by the State
Grange at Corvallis in May: then
by the National Grange at Port.
land in November. Mr.. Whitaker
is confident that the National
Grange will ask the general gov
erument to contribpts freely ask
ing the local population to donate
probably twenty-five per cent of the
came amount for good roads; and
that the National Grange which
was behind the first request for free
l rural delivery OF mails to the farm
nv mill a1,o onoaooI ~ ohf % N : n 6