The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-04
sTATE GRANGE ANNUAL.

Three Days Session at the Auditorium
 Public Meeting Wednesday, Patrons of Husbandry from the sew eral granges of the state will convene in the twenty-flrst annual session of the Connecticut state grange at the Auditorium Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. The opening exercises Tuesday morning at ten o'clock will be under the direction of State Master o. s. Wood of Ellington. The roll call and appointment of com mittees will follow.
 Reports will be made by the Pomona deputies and there will be introduction of business. The afternoon session wili open at two o'clock. State Master Wood will make his annual address and there will be reports by Overseer Burdette A. Peck of Bristol, Lecturer Leonard H. Healey of Woodstock. Treasurer Norman s. Platt of New Haven, Secretary Henry F. Loon1is oi Glastonbury and other state officers. In the evening at halr-past seven re- ports of state officers will be continued and there will be addresses and sug- gestions for the good of the order by prominent visiting patrons and leaders in the granges of this state
 Wednesday morning the session will open at nine o'clock The report of the Patrons Fire Insurance company will be made by c. E. Bacon of Mid dletown, the secretary; and there will be the final opportunity for introduce ton of new business.
 The afternoon session at two o'clock will be open to the public and gen eral invitation extended Lecturer Leonard H. Healey has prepared the following programmes: Song to the Grange. "A Practical Talk on Poultry Culture.n
 Professor c. K. Graham. President Connecticut State Poultry
 Association. Recitation
 Ms. Ida Jenness Moulton,
 Topsfleld Grange Mass Some Fruit Possibilities"
 J. Fl. Hale, Past Master Connecticut State Grange. ocal Solo
 Miss Mabel Young, Danielson Address-"The Grange Training School for Farmers and for Coun- try Iife,"
 o. s. Wood,
 Master Connecticut State Grange. Recitation-
 Manual Training in the Public Schools and How to Bring it About to Benefit the Farmers Boys,''
 Mrs. Emma Erskine Hahn,
 Rippowam Grange, No, 145. Cornet Solo
 F. Q. Clement, Worcester. Mass. Woman, the Grange, the Home.''
 Mrs. Charlotte H. F. Ladd.
 Worthy Ceres National Grange.
 W. + Barron,
 Killingly Grange, No 112. Address
 The Hon. N J. Batchelder Worthy Master of National Grange. Piano Solo, Miss Amy J. Tomrnson. Plymouth Grange. No. 72. The sixth degree will be conferred in
  past seven. The secret work of the first four degrees will be exempHfed, and there will be remarks by promi- nent patrons. The session Thursday morning will open at nine o'clock. Election of off,. cers and a member of the executive committee will be the special business at ten o'clock Committees will report. The closing session will be held at two o'clock, with reports resolutions. com pletion of business and installation of officers.
 It is expected that State Master Wood and associate officers. who were elected two years age for the Biennial term, will again be placed in their re- spective offices. State Master Wood has biven much time and energy to the welfare Of the subordinate granges. and they have prospered under his leadership.