Connecticut western news., 1910-09-08


 with college education to enable him to couch hls language Ill words as elo- quent as those to which you have just listened.
 Although Ihav served you as over seer for six years up to last year and have travelled as such considerably over the territory, 1 have never spoken in public yet without being addicted to stage fright. But, I wish to convey to you in behalf of Bristol grange and the the other granges here represented our hearty thanks for your kind words of welcome. We are glad to be here. This is my first appearance among you since the meeting of the state grange when came as an officer. In welcoming me among you to-day, I flatter myself that the welcome is for myself as an indi- vidual this time as I am no longer in official capacity.
 At first I was afraid that rain might spoil our festivities and felt much in the position of the Italian fruit dealer who was called upon for an explanation by good lady down in Northampton She kept boarding house and boarded number of the girls from Smith col lege, One day she bought from an Italian fruit dealer a lot of bananas, which on examination proved anything but desirable as table fruit. She thought at first she would go to his store and see him about it but finally concluded to send for an explanation. The fruit lvender came to her house and the fol- lowing colloquy ensued:
 Tony, that fruit you sent me was not good; it was not nice fruit
 Madam remarked the suave fruit merchant, it wassa the gooda buncha of ze banan ze best bpnch of ze banan, Madam, l hava in ze store.'
 Don't you madam me, sir ? exclaimed the irate boarding mistress. I'll have you to understand that l am Madam oselle ?
 I'm mad as hell, too, Madam, replied the Italian, 'and I'll see that this does not happen again Prolonged laughter) "At s o'clock this morning l called up Brother Stevens on the telephone and in- quired if this meeting would be held to- day and was told that it surely would, and four minutes later I was on my way here. l am glad to be here and to meet here the sons and daughters of the grange. It needs only look into your smiling, cheerful faces to know that you, too, are glad to be here and that you respond heartily to the kindly words of WCAIOAhG blAehh llhN6 b6Ch NOl1Cd pg blG reverend gentleman to whom we have just listened"
 State Chaplain Heard From
 The Rev G. F. Goodenough, state chaplain of the grange, was called upon and among other things said:
 "Pm glad to see you. 1 don't often have such a pleasure as this, the seeing of so many new faces. The manufact- xl. the preacher likes raw faces that are not cooked by his frequent utterances.
 What good is the grange, anyhow? It takes so much of time, and sociability and so many calls upon the pocket book is it worth the price? Does it pay to have that sort of thing in community Who has been benefited anyway by the grange? Why join an organization of that kind that wastes your energy and doesn't strengthen it
 The Grange's Place
 "I have had these questions asked of me, and no doubt you have had some of them asked of you. The grange has distinct place of it's own that nothing else seems to i'll. It strengthens a com- munity and has definite message for it's members. Country communities get AhbO ubo dho cO O4kGh NO bllC A man comes into possession of a farm that was his fathers and that farm was worked by his father and his work to-day is in many cases along the same lines as those learned from his father. He has not advanced nor improved along mod ern lines.
 Its Practical Help .t
 "His ability is is in consequence dim finished. Now comes the grange, and such farmer becoming a member of the grange, gets into touch with other farmers and from them hears new ideas {; things are discussed in public at grange meetings along certain lines and the farmers by an interchange of ideas, de- rive benefit and the farmer who has been jogging along in the ruts find that there is an improved way of doing things and he learns it and is helped and his farm is benefited accordingly"
 The speaker continued along these practical lines of thought and his ad- dress was listened to with marked atten- tion, and had i'll it a rich vein of humor out of the usual routine.
 Other Speakers
 Past State Steward H. O. Dunham spoke on Mutual Life insurance among BranB6rSy outlining plans ana DeneHUs or a company in " hich he is interested.
 Hezekiah Goodwin said that he had seen in his observations about the Stevens farm to-day what his father had unsuccessfully tried to instill into his mind, namely "a place for every thing and everything in it's place" H. noticed that MT Stevens has that rule carried out in daily practice, and as for himself, he certainly should try to profit by what he had seen and heard to-day. | Rev E. o. Gillette of Canaan spoke of a recent visit he had made to the state agricultural college and hoped that farmers would encourage their boys to take an agricultural college course and instill into them the principals of scien- tific farming so that the future might for them have much good in store.
 School Superintsndents Greeting
 George J. Vogel, the new superinten- dent of schools was present and being called upon, expressed the pleasure he felt at meeting so many of those with whom he was now to be associated in l,D1o al, F..l