The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-12-07
GRANGE HAS GOOD TIME
Forty-fifth Anniversary Celebrated
in a Happy Way.

Monday was a great day for the
Oranges of Mahaska County. The oc,
casion was the celebration of the 45th
Anniversary of the organization Oh
the the movement, and the exercises
| held in Oskaloosa !. o. 0. +. hall,
were greatly enjoyed. Preparation
was made for about two hundred, ana
1.-THE attendance exceeded the limit.
The hall was filed when the morning
program opened shortly after ten O.
clock, and It was crowded before the
noon hour. The forenoon exercises
were open to the public, and many
not identified with the movement at
tended and enjoyed the program. The
committee in charge comprised ]. N.
TAYLOR. Willis Holt and w. j. Will
holt, and they are to be thanked tor
memorable occasion.
Willis Holt who is Master of the
County Grange presided over the ex'
ercises of the day and looked after
the comfort and pleasure OF all in a
splendid way. Mrs. |. n. Taylor was
responsible for the excellent program,
every number of which was well rem
dered and enjoyed. The exercises
opened with music by Buckeye
Grange, those taking part being:
Mesrames NJ. w. Beach and Sig Broer-
man, Miss Cynith Anderson and
Messrs. Will Rice and Raymond Rice;
with Miss Bernice Beach at the piano.
Then followed this excellent paper
by Willis Holt on
The Birthday Of the Granger.
Mr. Holt said
The Order of the Patrons of Hus.
bandry originated in the mind of o.
II. Kelley. A man of New England
birth who went to Minnesota in his
early manhood and became farl>
err in that section of the country.
In 1854 he was appointed clerk in
the Department of Agriculture at
Washington, d. c. Two years later,
in January 1866, Mr.. Kelley was COM
missioned by Hon. Isaac Newton,
Commissioner of Agriculture, to visit
the Southern states, lately in hostil-
ity to the government, for the pur'
pose of obtaining statistical and 9th,
err information in regard to the condl-
ton of the South. and report the
same to the department at Washing
ton. 1t was while travelling in the
south. in obedience to these instruc'
tons that the thought of secret So
ciety of agriculturists, for the pro-
! lection and advancement of thier
interests, and as an element to re-
store kindly feeling among the peo-
pie, first occurred to Mr.. Kelley.
The idea of giving women full men,
bership in the proposed order origin
ated with Miss Carrie Hall, of Boston,
Mass, niece of Mr.. Kelley, to whom
he had impaired his views of the new
association after his return from the
south
| In the full formation of the Order,
six other men were directly asso-
ciated with Mr.. Kelley, namely: Will
liam Saunders, of the Department OF
Agriculture, who, next to Mr.. Kelley,
did most in originating the order and
! A. B. Grosch, of the same department.
Rev. John Trimble and J. r. Thomp'
son of the Treasury Department and
f. NJ. Mcdowell, pOmologist, OF
! Wayne. n. Y, all OF whom, with one
exception, were born upon the farm.
| These seven men were the found
ers of the Order, and for nearly two
years they labored with great energy
and with faith and zeal amounting
almost to until, with the
assistance of friends who became in
terested in the plan, they completed
a well devised scheme of Organiza'
ton, based upon ritual of four de-
grees for men and four degrees for
women, which is unsurpassed in the
English language for originality OF
thought, purity C sentiment and
beauty of diction.
Having found a constitution to gov
ern the Order TO which this ritual
1 was adapted, these men met on the
fourth day of December, 1867, and
constituted themselves the National
Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry
with William Saunders as Master, J,
r. Thompson, Lecturer, William M
Ireland, Treasurer and o. H. Kelley
Secretary. The remaining officers fol-
obvious reasons were left vacant.
The little brown building in which
the organization was effected was al
that time the Office of Mr.. Saunders
and stood empowered with the trees
in the gardens of the agricultural
department on the corner OF Fourth
and half street and Missouri avenue
Mrs. Temperance Baldwin Kelley
wife of Oliver Hudson Kelley, foun
der of the order of Patrons OF Hus
bandry, died at her home in Wash
ington, ID. c., May "a ,19l1. Hell
death followed many years OF inval
idism and was fastened by an acct
dent which she sustained last autumn
and by the unreasonable hot weather
of last Nav.
Mrs. Kelly was the daughter Of
Samuel Lane, native of New Hamp
shire, and was born in Boston, Mass.
Jan. 9, 1924. She received her educa
ton in one of the private schools Of
that city and, in 1861 went to Mime
sofa for the purpose Of becoming 9