Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1912-12-11
GRANGE DAY.
ANIMAL Meeting of Green Mountain
Pomona.


Pomona.
tast Thursday was grange day In Els
9Th when over 800 grangers assern hied at
hancock half for the annual meeting OF
creen Mountain Pomona grange. The
hangers came here at the invitation OF the
Si,sworth Merchants association, whose
ruests hey were at dinner at Odd Fellows
hall at noon.
rhe forenoon snd afternoon sessions
were for .grangers only, but the evening
meeting al Hancock hail was an open ses-
s,on. when the attendance of grangers
was swelIed by the people OF Ellsworth
until tho hall was we'll filled.
AL the forenoon session, Roy G. Haines,
secretary OF the Ellsworth Merchants as
ISOLATION, and lecturer of Green Mountain
Pomona, extended a cordial welcome to
Ellsworth, and Worthy Master A. /. Foss,
Of Hancock, responded. The remainder
Of the lorenoon was taken up by annual
reporis OF officers and committees.
In the afternoon officers were elected as
follows:
Master, Julien Emery, Salisbury Cove.
Ogef seer, ~. ". tpu4tks ataEiANtttt-
Lect Irer, Roy q. Haines, Ellsworth.
Stew ard, 8. S. Estey, Bsyside.
Assistant steward, Earl Smith, Bayside.
Chaplain, Julia Noyes, sullivan.
Treasurer, Fred NoyeS, sullivan.
Secretary, Clara F. johnson, Hancock.
Gatekeepcr, Martin GAR and, Lakewood.
Ceres, Mrs. George f. Davis, Ellsworth
Falls.
Pomona, Nellie Foss, Hancock.
Flora, Shirley Holt, Iamoine.
Lady assistant steward, Mrs. Arthur
Moore, Otis.
Executive committee, o.. NJ. Remick.
Bayside; +. L. Hodgkins, Lamoine;
Hervey Scammon, Lamoine.
The officers were installed by State
lecturer B. Walker McKeen, of Fryeburg,
In the evening, though many OF the
CHANGERS attending during the day were
compelled 20 return home in the afternoon
Hancock hall was well filed The Il. NJ.
c. orchestra OF Ellsworth furnished music,
and Miss Bertha Giles, of Ellsworth, sang
several selections.
The speakers of the evening were State
Lecturer Mckeen and President Robert j.
Alley, OF the University OF Maine.
Mr.. McKeen, the first speaker, discussed
at length aud ably some of the problems
OF rural schools, enlsrging on the adj
vantagcs OF the early introduction OF
agricultural branches in the studies Of
tered at these schools.
President Alley delivered one OF the
most mastery addresses ever heard in
Ellsworth. He discussed the objects OF
the higher institutions OF learning first
the broadening OF the boundary OF human
knowledge; second it's duty to the boys
and girls, inparting to them the know
ledge gained, imbuing them with the
realization that there is law governing
all things, and training them to
hsbituate themselves to that law and
assist II in its workings, and third, the
dissemination OF knowledge to the people
at large.
DIR. Alley drew many of his forceful COM
PARSONS and illustrations from agricui-
tural subjects, which appealed strongly
to the grangers in his audience. and in
his remarks on the dissemination OF
knowledge, suggested rather than de-
scribed in detail, the Importance and value
of the agricultural extension work OF the
University OF Maine.
IL was a finished address, aptly and
forcefully illustrated, vivifying subject
that in the hands OF less skiliful master
would have been tiresome to those not
directly concerned in agricultural and
educational lines.