The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-12-29
ECHOES FROM STATE
MEETING OF GRANGE
County Installations Next
In Order Crisp Items
Of Grange Doings
lBy Deputy Cunningham.

(By Deputy Cunningham
The new year is almost here and
with it comes the installation of the
leaders for Grange work for the next
twelve months. Each and every Off
Ger should. resolve to do his best to
make 1917 outdo the banner year OF
1916. OF course, the patrons in the
ranks must give them loyal support
There never has been time when
closer unity and wider cooperation
were more oppoTtune. Every other
line of industry is organized. The
farmer needs be organized for offense
as we'll as for defense.
For instance, the farmer needs a
recognized spokesman to present his
side of the case against the wild talk
consumer must be informed as to the
farmers side of the case and be made
to realize that conditions over which
the farmer has no control are the
real causes of his discomfort; and
further that any move on the con
sumer's part that will hamper the
farmer will, in the end, come home
to roost.
The farmer must be organized to
protect and promote his rights as a
citizen as well as for the support Of
better business facilities,
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The Grange is doing much to bring
about better conditions for the rural
people of the state and nation.
The $500 representative Grangers,
recently gathered at Newark in the
state meeting, were as fine lot OF
citizens as any organization in the
state can muster. So said the COVER
nor and we agree with him.
The work that the delegates accom-
plished stands as monument to the
interest that the farmers are taking
in the civic affairs of the state.
The stand that the grange takes on
important questions OF the day is
ably set forth in the resolutions
adopted by the body.
The degree work, exempiified at
the state meeting, met with words of
praise from every quarter Those that
took the sixth degree were very
strong in their praise.
Knox county had the third largest
class for this degree, 30 taking the
work.
Knox county, although one of the
largest Grange counties in the state,
was honored for the first time in
more than twenty years and the sec
end time in her history, with the Sc
lection of one OF the patrons as mem
Der of the state official family, in the
person of Mrs, John Cunningham, of
Pleasant grange, as Pomona of the
Ohio state grange,
Many Knox county patrons have
expressed themselves as we'll pleased
with the recognition the county re-
ceiyed
Among those who attended the ses-
sions at Newark were the following:
Mr. and Mrs, D. B. Kerr. Frank Hard.
esty and sister, Mr. and Mrs. ]. II.
Jenkins, Mr.. and Mrs. C. b. Jackson.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mitchell, Mr.. and
Mrs. Aaron Lepley, Mr., and Mrs. Lee
Bottenfield, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Clark, Harry Irvine, Ethel Irvine,
Clyde Irvine, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Leedy, Ross Wolfe, Ralph Bone,
Ralph Lloyd, Fred Vincent, Mr., and
Mrs Heron, Mr.. and Mrs. Winter
mute, Mr., and Mrs. George Tulloss,
Miss C. Tulloss, Mrs. w Braddock,
Mrs, Calvin Beckley, Walter Grubb,
Miss 10y lowering, Mr. and Mrs.
Barnard, Mr.. and Mrs. C. d. Coe, Mr.,
ana Mrs. j, II. Kennard, Manvile
Pickering, Arthur Oldaker and wife,
Otis Ulery and wife. Charles Bebout
and wife, Lee Dudgeon and wife OF
California
Here's hoping that Knox county |
viii some day have the honor OF
visit from the o. S. G.
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Clinton grange installed officers
last week The work wa. followed |