Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-12-05
CHANGERS MEET IN RUT-
LAND.
official Program Announced For
Annual Sessions.

Changers throughout the state will
be interested in the official program
of the 44th annual session of the Yer
mont State Grange to be held at the
Shrine theatre, Rutland, December g.,
10 and IL. 1t is expected that between
1900 and 1400 people will be present
during the convention. At the annual
sessions held here last year 1900 were
registered, but because the convention
hall is now completed it is probable
more will be in attendance this year.
One of the most interesting features
of the meeting this year will be the
working of the sixth degree, when it is
expected class of about 200 will take
the degree. Arrangements will be
made to give the obligation of the fifth
degree during the days previous to en-
able those who wish to take the sixth
degree to do so.
The official program gives the rates
at the local hotels and it also announces
that the Central Vermont and Rutland
railroads will grant convention rates.
The following is the program
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, IL O'CLOCK.
Opening Grange in fifth degree; ap-
pointment of standing committee; re-
port of the executive committee; re-
port of committee on home economics.
AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:30 O'CLOCK.
Annual address of worthy master;
reports of officers; introduction of res
olutions without debate; reports of
deputies, reports not to exceed two
minutes in length.
EVENING SESSION, s O'CLOCK.
disqualification of the third and
fourth degrees by Middlebury Grange,
No. 315.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, $50
O'CLOCK.
Report of committee on credentials;
report of committee on division of labor
and masters address; introduction of
resolutions; election of two members of
the executive committee; unfinished
business; suggestions for the good of
the order
10 o'clock the lecturers conference
will take place in the room up staira.
All lecturers who have made COM
plete reports of their work las pre-
scribed by the state lecturer) including
last quarter ending September 80, and
who are in annual attendance through
the session, are entitled to mileage.
AFTERNOON SESSION, 80 O'CLOCK.
E. H. Hallett, lecturer in charge;
the speakers are Richard Pattee, mas
ter of New Hampshire State Grange,
Thomas Bradlee, director of the ex-
tension service and Gov. Allan M.
Fletcher.
EVENING SESSION, So'CLOCK
Grange opened in the sixth degree
and comforting of the same; Grange
opened in the fourth degree; reports of
committees or mileage, finance and
education.
THIRD DAY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER H..
Records of committees on resolu-
tons, good of the order, coop ration,
transportation, publication, agricul-
ture, amendments and bylaws. claims
and grievances, dormant Oranges,
trials and appeals, unfinished business,
transaction of all other necessary bust
ness.
The voting members of the state
Grange are the masters of Pomona and
subordinate Oranges, and if the master
has wife or husband who is a fourth
degree member in good standing, he or
she becomes the second representative
from said Grange. In case neither
master nor wife nor husband are able
to attend the state Grange from sick
ness or other sufficient cause, the
Grange may elect delegate, who be-
comes the representative of said
Grange, and if said delegate has wife
or husband who is a fourth degree
member in good standing, he or she be-
comes the second representative of
said Grange, as in the case of the
master.
Delegates other than master, OF
wives or husbands of masters, must
present certificate from the secre-
tary of their Grange that they have
been elected as such. A Grange can
have but one legal representative when
the master or delegate is unmarried, or
attends alone. or when the wife or
husband of the master or delegate at
tends alone.
SOlITA STARkCRORO