Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-04

In spite of the snow storm, the morn
ing meeting of the Grange lecturers
was attended very we'll, and the first
speaker was w. T. Guptill. the State
commissioner of agriculture, who in
opening said that he was from the
smallest county in the State, andre
scoggin. but that Androscoggin and
Sagadahoc were in point of Grange
officers, able to run the State Grange
as whole.
He said that he believes the home
is fully as important as the farm and
that in his capacity as an officer of the
Grange he tried to get an even and
equal number of men and women as
speakers. He says that each year a
certain sum is allowed him by the State
to eXpend for Grange speakers, and
that he cannot very we'll exceed this
sum. that as many .of the Oranges get
speakers as the money will supply. He
said that the Grange should strive to
train rather than to educate its mem
bers. and that cooperation is the
keynote to success in farming. He says
that the Grange should do all in its
power to keep the boys and girls on
the farm, that one way to do this is
to make the farms more profitable. He
mentioned the fact that in one year
we sent 100000 out of the State for
the purchase of horses, and $8,000,000
more for the purchase of grain, and
added that we could at least raise the
horses right here, and also produce
large part of the grain, thus saving
this money to the State. In closing, he
told of the difficulties he had with the
railroad interests, and added that he
was still on the job, and ready to do
his best for the Changers.
A one minute talk was then given by
c. S. Stetson, who spoke Of the fact
that the National Grange has procured
picture Of the founders Of the
Grange, and suggested that all the
Oranges get one to use in the cele-
bration of the Grange birthday next
December.
Following this, State Librarian Dun
mack gave very able address on the
relation of the library to the Grange
he said that there were four funda-
mental things in life, first, health, the
foundation of all true happiness; sec
ond. honesty, without which we cannot
have the trust and great assistance of
our fellow men; third, industry, with
out which nothing can be accomplished,
and fourth, ability, the element of true
success. He added that there was a
fifth. thorough knowledge Of ones
own business, and that this could best
be obtained through reading. He stat
ed that in the State library there are
over II 600 volumes on all sorts of top
les and that the state will send to any
grange a library Of so books. for the
cost of the expressing. and they can
keep them for six months. He gave a
list Of the works which might be use
full to the Oranges, and explained fully
the system of providing books for the
people all over the State. At the end
of his address. the delegates voted him
rising vote of thanks. which was
very unanimously accorded. The next
speaker. Mrs. Kate B. Ellis, deputy of
Maine State Grange. gave very in
teresting talk on the ideal lecturer, and
at the end of her discourse she read
an original poem. which was greatly
appreciated by all the delegates.
This poem, written by Mrs. Ellis,
showed a great deal of study Of Grange
conditions. and deep insight into af-
fairs Of the Grange and it's title might
we'll have been the title of her address,
THE Ideal Lecturer" Among other
things, she said, in her address, For
a long time I have felt that some
Oranges are getting too far away from