The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-12-20
NEWS OF THE ORANGES

| Hillside Grange East Ihorndike, will
elect their officers next Saturday evening.
Harvest Moon Grange, Thorndike, will
entertain the Waldo County Pomona
grange Friday, Dec. 2Sth. The regular date
would have been Christmas day, so it was
postponed to the 2Sth.
Equity Grange, Belfast, has elected Off
GERS for the ensuing year as follows; w,
| Nj, Charles H. Waterman; O., Clarence
Whit; L., Maude Ilerrick; S., George l..
McCorrison; A. S., Harold Herrick Chap,
| Sadie Edgecomb; IT., Percy S. Edgecomb;
Sec, Mabel Miller G. K, George Hart; Co.
Tillie Toothaker p, Ada Elms f.. G ladys
| Coombs l.. A. s., Carrie Elms.
| That the membership OF the graz rato
the United States is increasing a, ,rsnobas
| of ten per cent year in Its 10000. mada h,r
was the substance of the remaa aacbalder ax.
| National Master Nahum j. 4 .ha soaond
governor of New Hampshire mootina of tho
| days session of the annuaa in prnvidanoe
| Rhode Island State grang
F.! last week.
n Searsport, has
uianite "ianse, Nogffieers for the ensu-
eiee'eu 'ii7 UNIV" ,ns II. Nickerson; O., F.
ing e"i "" ~, =. Mathews S., Charles
~ iunoS i1'' W, olr Nickerson; Chap, 0.
heli0i a. o' ~ Wy Stinson; Lee, +. Win
q. lass, iie"''' 'C., Mrs. F. NJ. Nickerson;
M Gu "".'Ne y" @son; F., Mrs. ". j. Mat
p, Mrs. A. stirt Ilattia NJ Nfctarson
thews; Organiis very nrosneron.
| Granite Grange
re, Searsmont, elected the
'o'oi ptrs at its annual meeting:
iuHo",ns Master Milbury Hunt Over
| w" w. "ooo,,e V. Wood, Lecturer; Fred
seei HnaDPard; Maynard Cushman, As
| nu''ei' ard; Mrs. Lizzie Wood, chap
s'e'"n' o.o Holmes, Treasurer; Ethel Luce,
IAN IL ~ Ernest Campbell, Gate Keeper;
9eele.aiS ,'man, Ceres; Olive NJ. Wood,
I''eA Frances Belts, Flora; Bertha NJ
Pomona; " Asst steward
Paine, Lad
| range, North SearSpUrt has
| "iaiil'e st,nowing resolutions OF respect
auopteu 'iie IN pleased Divine Providence
| whereas IL ma our midst our D.uther,
| to remove frOnerefore be it
| Joshua Lane, tns Granite grange, No. 1872,
Resolved, Ihatreaved family its heartfelt
extends to the De- atfiiction and commends
sympathy in thel doeth all things Will
them to Him what our charter be araped
Resolved, 1hfor thirty days ., copy
in mourning ions be sent to the family
of these resolui our records, and also one
and one put ,al papers.
sent TO the FRANK TRuNDy, Committee
CARRIE STINSoN, on
40. STEVENS. Resolutions.
| 4he annual meeting of the Maine State
irange opened in Augusta last Monday
Vening with large attendance The re-
| eeption was held in City Hall, which was
orOfusely decorated for the occasion 1t is
Rtimated that nearly $500 grangers were
zen in the city and Tuesdays trains added
+ 'n'yely to the number. The business meet
iiaiebegan Tuesday morning and continues
lns Thursday night. A feature of the
un'n ltion will be the report of the COM
oonseisn resolutions. Some lively discus
mlttee g expected on the general policy of
SONS are le, the question of resubmitting
the grangitOry liquor law to the people,
tne proniD.,r wild lands and the eXtermi-
the taxatlon OF >wn tail and gypsy moths.
nation OF the bro 'ddress of State Master
Ihe ninth annual a., Tuesday, treated at
Gardner, presented L legislation. discuss.
length on taxation and 7fpendnm. and con-
ed the initiative and refeI Grange to the
sidered the relation of the laced himself
subject of prohibition. He pST.d unre.
on record as "being entirely an If the
servedly in favor of the enforcement =
prohibitory law of Maine."