Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-03-13

on the deposits of national banks, such
tax to be ample to secure all depos-
itors; favorlng the payment by the
state of the tuition of nonresident stu
dents in schools of Junior and middle
grading as well as of senior and high
school grading
Race Track Gambling.
No resolution caused more animated
discussion during the session than that
relative to race track gambling. The
final outcome of the debate is stated in
the following resolution:
Whereas. The worthy master in his ad-
dress before the thirty-fifth annual ses-
sion of the New York state grange held
at Hornell N. Y, wisely recommends in
the interest of morality. the repeal of the
race track gambling law the proceeds or
part of which is now divided among the
agricultural societies of the state; and
Whereas, The agricultural fairs of the
state need and must have aid from some
source therefore, be 1t
Resolved That we. the New York state
grange. now in session. do hereby request
that the legislature make annual ap-
preparation from some fixed source to
be used for the benefit of the fair asso-
Citations of the state. We believe the
fairs of the state are a direct help in
stimulating the better breeding of stock
and should be sustained by state aid.
Election of Officers.
The biennial election of officers re-
suited as follows:
Master. +. n. Godfrey, Clean; over
seer. w. Ii. Vary. Watertown; lecturer,
S. J. Lowell, Fredonia; steward, ]. NJ.
Powell. Hornell; assistant steward, r.
w EnOinctOn Wadbo rr,'S .b,v
lain, S. j. Robbins, Fairport; treasurer,
w. L. Bean. McGraw; secretary w.
n. Giles. Skaneateles; gate keeper, John
Krause, Monroe; Flora, Mrs i. s. AL
drich, Palmyra; Ceres, Miss Eva Fin
gar Germantown; Pomona, Mrs. Rice
McCauley, Stanley l.. A. s., Mrs. Mer-
vim II. Lent, Peekskill executive com
mittee for three years, w. w. Ware.
Batavia.
A Meeting Of the Lecturers.
The lecturers who were in attend
ance at the New York state grange
held lecturers meeting one day dur
ing the session. State Lecturer Shep-
/ ard spoke OH the system of lectur-
ers' reports. which he considered sue
cessfu on the first years trial, and
these reports of the subordinate lee
turers will be continued another year.
s. j. Lowell of Chautauqua has been
elected state lecturer for the ensuing
term. Resolutions expressing the ap-
probation of the lecturers for the work
of Past Lecturer Shepard were adopt
ed. Later lie was presented with an
agate and gold watch charm by the
lecturers present.
State Grange Footnotes.
An effort will be made to organize
more juvenile oranges this year. A
resolution recommended that a special
deputy he appointed to organize such
oranges within the state
Past Treasurer yelling was present
ed with beautiful gold watch by
some Of his friends in the state
grange.
The sixth degree was conferred on
a class of 400 candidates in the opera
house The fifth degree was conferred
by the Genesee county Pomona degree
team one evening in the opera house.
The grange didn't seem to favor any
change in the supervisory system for
the common schools. The resolution to
| that effect was tabled
Candidates for the cOmmissionership
of agriculture were quite in evidence
at the state grange One of them re
marked that you could shoot off gun
at random in the hotel lobby head
quarters and hit several candidates for
the Office.
Invitations were received to hold the
next meeting of the state grange at
Rochester, Buffalo, Albany, Little
Falls, Saratoga and Oswego. The
nearer to the main line of the New
York Central that the executive com
mittee can keep these February meet
ings the better it will please the ma
jority of the delegates
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