The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-17
GRANGE MEETING

According to announcement Po-
vile, at the Civic League building
Saturday, and quite a large number
of farmers were in attendance. The
meeting was voted happy success
by all present AS the editor on that
date was struggling to keep out OF
the hospital he was unable to attend
the meeting and has Charlie Lewis
to thank for the following notes:
Owing to the long distance the Of
ficers of the Pomona had to come it
was late before the meeting started.
Some of the visitors came in on fiat
tires and bum wheels, which so Of
ten happens to the pleasures of auto
mobiists.
"The ladies of Ellemeham Grange,
in accordance with the usual custom
o. the Pomona, came prepared with
the usual amount of good things to
eat, and when noon arrived 1t looked
as though the local organization
would have to make themselves sick,
or break over the laws of nature, or
the nation. by shamefully and waste
fully eating. However, some of the
members succeeded in persuading Il
few members of the Commercial Club
and others to come to their rescue so
Gus after all. At least the doctors
say so. After the locals and the
town people got through sampling
the feast the visitors commenced to
arrive and kept arriving and the
feast continued. The banquet might
not have been a case of the seven
loaves and two fishes, or vice versa,
but the way the dinner stretched out
lit would have made you think of
something of that sort. Finally the
business session started and there
was something doing every minute
from that time on.
"Grangers who will go so to 20 miles
to Pomona Grange must be made
of the right kind of stuff to make
things move, and l must say these
grangers were, for there was business
up and properly disposed of as rap
idly as any organization could be ex-
pected to act.
During the afternoon We had an
interesting talk on cooperation, by
ia Mr.. Case, Of King county. and at
$3.50 p. M, Miss Case, secretary of our
Joint legislative committee of the
State Federation of Labor, State
Grange and Farmers Union, gave us
lon of hn iv,st sokf
measures now proposed by these or
ganizations to be voted on by the
legal voters this fall The facts set
forth were interesting, and the ex-
planation seemed to meet the approval
of all the farmers present.
After the open meeting was con-
cluded the Grange proceeded with the
further business Of the organization.
Several candidates were initiated. 1t
was along into the small hours before
the meeting adjourned
"The visiting members were very
generous in their praise of our Ellie
meham orchestra, and were particu-
larly pleased with the beautiful Civic
League building and grounds. A reso-
luton was adopted thanking the ladies
of the Civic League and the members
of the Commercial Club for the privil-
ege of the use of building and
grounds.
I'VE trust that we shall be able to
hold at least one Pomona Grange
meeting year at Oroville, and feel
that we should have at least every
progressive farmer adjacent to Oro-
vile within its ranks. The Grange is
for the upbuilding and education of
the farmer socially, morally, yes, and
politically. Why not join it? The
cost is a mere bagatelle."