Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-10-08
PLANS ALL COMING WELL
A Lot of Facts About the Boston SEES
sion of National Grange Next
November

As plans for the big National Grange
session in Boston, November 1919 as
sumo definite shape, it is clear that
the two outstanding features will be
the comforting of the seventh degree,
and the splendid exhibit of New Eng
land agricultural products that is to
occupy the entire exhibition hall of
Mechanics Building and be open en-
tirely free to everybody for four days.
Besides all the other attractive fea-
lures of the big national gathering
these two are sufficient to draw a big
crowd, and the estimate of 10000
Grange members brought to Boston
for the event seems fully warranted,
besides all those not members of the
Order who will come to see tie apri.
cultural show.
Definite announcement is made that
the seventh degree will be conferred
at o'clock in the afternoon and at Z
o'clock in the evening on Friday, No
vember y, with a total of 10000 can
didates in the two classes confidently
expected In addition to the great
New England crowd for the degree,
1000 candidates are promised from
New York, several Pullman car loads
are coming from Michigan and not
less than so states will probably be
represented among those who take the
degree. Thus it will not only lie the
largest initiation i'll numbers ever car
ried out by any fraternal organization
in the United States, but the most
representative as we'll. A great amount
of work and liberal outlay will be put
into the stage settings for the degree,
the electric lighting effects and the mu-
sic as the Mechanics Building stage
is the largest on which the degree has
ever been presentd A very attractive
scheme of decoration for the hall it
self is also being worked out.
Present indications point to a bigger
agricultural show even than has been
planned and it will include such dis
play of the agricultural products Of
New England as was never made be-
fore All the states in this group will
show their leading farm products, while
the general arrangement OF the whole
will be made most effective in group
ing. There are to be no prizes and no
admission charge simply an exhibit,
all wholly free to everybody for four
days, opening at 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning, November 10, and closing at
10 o'clock Saturday evening, Novem-
Der 10. Hundreds of feet of sno.
space will be divided into suitable
booths and all products will he high
grade, while various features of New
England agriculture will be denlonstra-
ted in novel ways. that will be reve-
lItion to city dwellers, to the visitors
from the Far West and perhaps
even to some New England farmers
alsol
The supreme purpose of the exhibit
ton is to boom New England agricul-
ture, and to emphasize the important
part the Grange occupies in is de-
velopment. Viewed in all its aspects,
this coming show will be different than
any ever before held in the country,
and it will be worth going a long
distance to see.
An added big feature" of the ses-
sion, Just arranged for, is securing
Rev. Russell H. Conwell of Philadel-
phia to give his famous lecture, acres
of Diamonds" at the Friday morning
session. November II. at l0:30. No
regular business meeting of the Ma
tional Grange can be held that fore
noon because the rehearsal for the
seventh degree that afternoon will oc-
cupy Mechanics Building; in order to
make every moment count with some
thing worth while, DR.. Conwell has
been secured.
He is recognized as the leader Of
American platform orators and Acres