The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-07-07
HEAT DIDN'T MAR CELEBRATION
Second Annual Picnic of Wilamsve Grange Success
full in Spite of Torrid Wave.

Again the oranges scored big success
in their second annual Fourth of July eel.
ebration despite the fact that it was the
hottest day known here for many years.
the thermometer registering 104 in the
shade. This was almost more than human
nature could stand but there was a good
attendance on hand for the parade which
started from the blacksmith shop at $50
O'Clock, A. Il. Halliday and +. L. Willard
acted as. marshals of the day and led the
parade followed by Uncle Sam and Column
bia. Floyd Washer and Lottie Pierce in
gaily decorated cart Behind them came
Ranald Fisher with his trick dog, Jack
hitched to his little cart which was trim
med with white bunting. The East Dover
band was next in the procession followed
by the marching staff of the grange The
Cleaners float decorated with blue and
white bunting, with Wayne Ingram hold
ing the reins over his handsome fourth
hand; the grange float, with the officers.
trimmed with red and white and the EN-
blems of the order: the float of the horri.
bles, the occupants dancing quadrille
(H. A. Williams was the star in this per.
Torrance, being dressed as ballet
dancerl: Sunny farm teams, Gypsy team,
the Williamsvile barber shop. the vii.
Evansville fire department the wagon was
drawn by a pair of steers driven BY Mer.
ton and Harold Pierce.
The marching staff gave fine drill in
Grange hall at 10 o'clock which was wit
messed by about go people. 1t was led
by George Temple and Miss Lena Randall
followed by Clarence Lewis, Ruby Sparks.
Lester Ingram, Helen Lewis, James Good
rich, Annie Pierce; Frank Stratton, Ruth
Sparks, Ernest Morse, Jennie Hescock.
John Ingram, Alice Temple. Arthur In.
gram and Olive Thayer
Following this came the athletic events
with these results: Sack race LIST. !
Morse, I'd, H. Howe, Sd, d. Perry; three
legged race: 1st H. Howe, D. Perry: I'd,
A. White j. Morse: Sd Osgood ,1efts
Broad jump: LIST. II. Howe, 1874 it,. Thay-
er, II. Sparks, tied. 100-yd. dash: Isl.
White, ID II. Sparks. Sd, H. Howe This
was closely contested Tug of War:
Dover Bolster j, Brown, S. Moulton, H
Brown, r. johnson, Lawrence Snow Leigh
ton Snow, G. Lazele, A. Allen, Cooper
weight 1,565, Williamsville-A. Ingram,
NJ. Ingram, Pierce, w. Ingram, H. Wood,
A. Brown. Hescock, E. Morse, Heydrick.
H. Howe, weight $50. This was won by
the home team and was evenly matched
and closely contested
Standing broad jump: LIST, Benson. 9.116
I'd, II. Howe. 81; 3D., Smith, S.91a. Pole
vault: 1st, Thayer, feet; I'd, w Howe;
Sd. Hall.
W. NJ. Sparks of Townshend acted as
Judge of these events
AT noon dinner was served in grange
dining hall to about 200 people. At 81
O'Clock Mason S. Stone, state superintend.
ent of education, gave an address in
Grange hall He said in part:
1t gives me great pleasure to speak to
you under the auspices of the grange. for
that is the greatest organization in Yer.
mont for the promotion of high ideals and
steadiness and solidity of character. Yer
mont is pre-eminently the best agricul |
tural state of New England, because of the
rich glacial deposits which cover it. and
because of the Green Mountains. which |
precipitate the moisture of the trade winds, |
but in spite of these favorable things our
farmers get only from onethird to one.
half of the products which they could GET
from the same land with the same expen.
diture of time, labor and money under
management. Nothing had been
done to stimulate agriculture until the last
legislature. when free state school was
established at Randolph where any boy