Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-17

Three applications for membership
were received two committees, Gre
dentials and financial, were appointed
and other important business was
transacted at the regular business
meeting of New London County Po-
mona, No. 6, Patrons of Husbandry, in
Pythian hall on Thursday. Morning
and afternoon sessions were held,
Worthy Master I. E. Crouch presiding.
The morning session convened at
1915 O'Clock when the fifth degree was
worked. The applications received
were from Albert Thompson and Mrs.
Albert Thompson Of Groton grange,
and Huntington Lathrop of Franklin
grange. Miss Alice A. Bishop, the sec
rotary, read an invitation from the
Preston City Extension School COM
mittee to visit the school which is to
be held from January 4th to the 7th,
and the invitation was accepted.
Mrs H. H. Leland of Konomoc
grange was appointed assistant lecturer
to the lecturer, Maud E. Bliss. who is
unable to attend to the duties requir-
ed by that position owing to i'll health,
Two committees were appointed as
follows:
Credentials; Mrs. E. E. Louis, Ko-
nomoc grange, 3. T. Avery, Ledyard
grange and Charles Adams of Gro
ton grange.
Norwich grange, Mrs. Otto Pultz of
Lebanon grange and Mrs. I. E. Crouch
of Groton grange. Charles Adams of
Groton grange was appointed a mem
Der of the executive committee for
three years.
Afternoon Session.
The afternoon session was called to
order at 1.30 o'clock and consisted of
an attractively arranged programme.
rio
| feats, Miss Nellie HOWE was heard in
several we'll rendered piano solos and
Frank Naples gave recitations.
A highly interesting address on
Dairy Farm Management was deliv-
cred by H. o. Daniels of Middlebrook
Farm, Middletown.
Miss Bishops Travel Talk.
AS the final number on the program
! Miss Alice A. Bishop, the Pomona sec
| rotary, read an unusually well prepar-
| ed paper on her trip across the CONT
nent to California last summer. The
paper follows:
| 1 have given my paper this head
| ing: larry Home Travels. OF
course that means they are tarry a:
| home travels for you. l think it is
quite a task assigned me, that of max
| ing you see some of the sights l saw
| this summer, while on my journey from
| ocean to ocean. I only wish l might
| have had your eyes to use some of the
| time, for the reason that I've no doubt
| l should have been able to see more
| than with my own, for yours may be
| better trained, and for another rea-
| son, one pair of eyes is hardly suffi-
! cient to use for nine weeks in such
| strenuous, sightseeing as ! partici-
| pated in. 1t is true the blue-coated
| boys who came through the trains with
| their amber colored glasses assured
| us that a purchase would relieve US
] of all discomfort of the head and eyes.
| but I doubt whether just glasses would
| do much to relieve the strain on Our
| eyes. I don't know that 1 can go into
| detail in my descriptions fer many
| times it seemed as though there was
so much to see that if we got a gen.
eral idea of what a certain thing was
| like, the finer point would have to be
| skipped. Or if we did get the minor
| detail our minds couldn't retain them
| all. OF course we weren't quite like
| the tourist who asked where he was
and upon being told he was near Paris
replied, "Oh, all I wanted to know was
| what continent it was" l think we
| weren't even aware of what state we
| were travelling in most of the time
| There were twonty-three different
states during the nine thousand mile
| trip and two countries were crossed
| When we were in some states where
we could look for miles and miles and
miles and see nothing and then look
, for miles farther and see more of it
| There came to my mind these words
| of Charles r. Gardner, former master
| of -MaSSac huSettS State Grange, when
| he was crossing these western prairies
and deserts. He said to himself, IF
| ever l get back to New England-and
| here's praying morning, noon and night
| that l do" 1t is true when you got
there you saw something and that
something spelled with capital letters
but sometimes it seemed that we look
| ed at the desert for a long, long time
| before we came to anything. And this
great, American desert cannot be es-
| capped whichever route one takes.
| Our party went by the Santa Fe
route and our first great sight, per-
haps it may be called the greatest
wonder of the world" was the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona.
Charles F. Lummis says, Possibly il
is no more wonderful than the fact
that so tiny a fraction of the people
| who confess themselves to be the
smartest in the world have ever seen
it. As people we dodded abroad to
| see scenery incomparably inferior.
have seen people who rave over it;
better people struck dumb with it:
| even strong men who cried over it
but 1 have never yet seen the man or
woman who expected it" Now to
give you an idea of its immensely II
| such thing were possible, it is said
| if the falls of Niagara were installed
in the Grand Canyon between your
visits, and you knew it by the news
paper. next. time you looked over the
place you would need field glasses and
much patience before you could locate
it, and we think Niagara Falls look
pretty big when we go where. they
are. If Mt. Washington were pluck
| ed up by the roots-not from where we
| stood to look at it, but from sea level
and set down carefully in the Grand
/ Canyon, 1t would hardly be noticed
| This great trough is 5000 to 1000 feet
deep, 10 to 20 miles wide, hundreds
of miles long, and filled with peaks
hundreds Of them-taller than any
mountains east of the Rockies which
don't come up to your feet as You
stand on the rim-and all of this a
| mass of color which We fasteners
can't conceive of. 1t is painted as only
the masters of old could paint. And
yet it isn't within my power to de-
j scribe it; even those who could do ii
say it is almost impossible. Together
| with this wonder of nature is tbs
work of man-the Ell Trovar, the most
unique hotel in the southwest. Bull:
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