The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-08-29
GRANGE PICNIC
State Master cady viii Be Principal
Speaker

Speaker
Residents of Bennington County
through the kindness of Brothers
Bennett and Howe editors of our two
newspapers, have heard OF the County
and Grange picnic which is to be held
lat Arlington on Sept. 9th, and to
which everyone in the County and adj
joining towns are invited.
The Bennington County Vermont
Improvement Association has done so
much good already, though their pre-
llminary work is hardly completed
and though they are hardly settled
down to the real work of the Associ-
alton, that the most careless observer
can not fail to realize what loss,
both financial and socially it would
be to the County. should we lose
their services. They, as stated here
tofore in these columns, have taken
hold of the proposed picnic and have
made it a certainty. The Assoeia-
ton expenses are paid almost wholly
" NOhli lDullOlp vi a lew VI llit
Weather men of the County. It will
be necessary, if the work is to con
tinue, for these same men. or others
20 continue to so pay the expenses TO
large extent for some time to come
before the Association is sellsup.
porting. Those who have ever tried
to raise funds for any public work
and have gone to the well-to-do ask
ing for 4 large contribution realize
that the first question they ask is
VIVA. interest are the local people
showing? They do not necessarily
mean how much money are they CIV
ing. but more particularly they want
to know will and are the local people
turning out to the meeting, are they
talking the matter over among their
friends, do they really want some
thing done along the lines suggested,
in other words they want to know If
there is a Popular Demand We be-
lieve the Bennington County Yer
mont Improvement. Association met
popular demand, that they came as
an answer to a pressing need of Ben
nington County and as a result Of
their efforts Bennington County VIII
be recognized throughout New Eng
land as one OF the best, il not the
best. County to live in anywhere
around The Association would APP
preciate an expression of APP
probation of their work and of the de
mand for that kind of work and those
who have put up the money, that
has made the mare CO. will consider
large tournout as an expression of
appreciation OF their work and we all
know ii is disheartening to give time
and money to any object and have it
accepted as a matter OF course. II is
therefore,, up to those natives of the
County who have taken lead in de-
yelopment work to do their best to
get out large turnout to the picnic,
especially as those financing the
Bennington County Improvement
Association have indicated that they
would like to make such a picnic an
annual County affair, and that they
would consider the size of the at
tendance as indicating the inter esl
taken by the people of the County in
the work OF the Association.
To members of the oranges and
the Masters OF the order. Ii is parti-
cularly up 20 us to get out large
delegation, not only to show our
State Master Bro. Cady, who Will be
there that We are alive, but to show
the Association that we appreciate
what it is doing for the farmer and
that we are ready to do our share in
lettering our conditions.
James B. Wilbur a member Of Bat
tenkill Valley Grange. has offered
% donate a Silver Loving Cup, o. its
equivalent as the winning Grange
may choose. TO the Grange bringing
the largest delegation proportionate
to its membership.
It is further proposed that every
Grange provide themselves with a
banner or flag showing the name OF
the Grange and that those flags be
given space at the Grange Headquar-
tiers. This matter should be brought
up in every Grange at once, and | be
lieve it would warrant the calling of
a special meeting for that purpose,
not only because every Grange would
like to win the Loving Cup, but be
cause those who have financed the
Association wish to know whether or
not the people are really interested
in the work, and there is no way in
which we can show our appreciation
of their work as easily and with as
much personal pleasure, as by getting
out a large attendance of not only
Changers but every one else, and let
ting nothing interfere with our being
there in person.
Fraternally,