The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-05-18
POMONA GRANGE
HAS ACTIVE MEETING


The fact that Hood River county is
the home Of several of the leading
Grange organizations of Oregon was
vividly brought to light at the regular
lquarterly meeting of Pomona Grange.
at Odell. on Wednesday of week before
last. There are only four oranges in
the county. aud of these, Park Grange,
embracing the Barrett, Frankton and
Oak Grove districts, has the largest
membership in the state, the number
being 275, with quite large member
ship applications under consideration.
Pine Grove Grange with approximate
ly 200 members, leads the state in the
volume of fire insurance that its mem
bers have in force with the insurance
department of the Oregon State
Grange, the amount of insurance in
force being nearly 100000. Odell
Grange has in excess of 200 members
and is crowding Pine Grove for the
honor of having its members carry the
largest amount of grange insurance.
Parkdale grange, the youngest and
smallest grange in the conuty, is a
vigorous, fast-growing organization,
which bids fair to forge to the front
rank ere long.
For one of the smallest counties of
the state to have within its borders
several of its leading oranges is
matter of much satisfaction and a bit
of pardonable pride to all Hood River
county grangers. These facts formed
the basis of some discussion at the
meeting of week before last of the
local Pomnoa Grange relative to the
matter of inviting the grangers of the
state to hold their annual state con-
vention at Hood River in 1923. These
annual gatherings are growing in size
to upwards of 200 delegates, and the
principal stumbling block in the plan
to bring this convention to Hood River
is the lack of a meeting place of suit
able size and conveniences for such a
gathering. For the want of a hall,
the proposition was held in allegiance.
This years convention will be held at
McMinnville, on June 60, inclusive.
Robert Frey, of Park Grange, was
elected to represent Hood River
County Pomona Grange at that gath
ering.
The forenoon session of the recent |
meeting was devoted to various b1si- |
ports from the four local oranges of |
the county. The feature of the after |
noon session was an hours address by |
State Senator /. L. Patterson, one of
Oregon's many candidates for gov
ernor. He discussed various state /
issues and outlined his program of pro-
posed activities and remedies for the |
political and economic ills of the COM
monwealth.
of even greater interest to most of
the assembled grangers was an address
by Mr.. Golf. of Seattle, manager of
the wholesale house that is maintained
and operated by the SO grange stores
in the state of Washington. He dwelt
at length on the need of cooperative
efforts by all tillers of the soil, in all
of their business affairs. and he re-
hearsed the many benefits that will
accrue to the producers of food prod
ucts through cooperative activities.
Mr.. Golf was preceded by N. H. Mac
MILAN, manager of the recently
launched Hood River Grange Cooper
ative store, who told of the excellent
support that this new store has had in
the few weeks of its existence. 1t
was with pride and much satisfaction
that the assembled grangers heard
that this store did business from its
first day of opening equaling in volume
the business of any of the long estab-
ished stores. Reference was made to
The prospect that it will soon take its [
place alongside of the Apple Growers
Association and the Hood River
Jreamery as one of the county's big, [
successful cooperative business ven- &
.ures. j
The formation and launching of the {
grange store was the reason for the
and adoption by the
Meeting of a resolution, reciting that {
The grocers of Hood River have sig
lifed their intention to refuse further &
business dealings with Lang & Co., !
Wholesale grocers, of Portland" be- c
.ause of the business dealings that this 7
irm has had and is having with the l
range store. The resolution expressed Q
o Lang & Co., the hearty appreciation q
md support of Hood River county O
1t was adopted by a unani-
nous vote and with some show of en- s
husiasm. U
Three other resolutions were consid- e
red and adopted. BY a unanimous
ote, the gathering opposed the levy a
ng of sales tax as a means of financ-
ng the proposed national Soldiers g
Act. All but one Of the
present voted to oppose the
rOposed repeal of the higher educa- n
ional millage tax of the state. Con- e
iderable discussion centered around q
mother resolution recommending an
Increase of the tuition fee that is paid
y all nonresident students attending
ur state educational institutions. 1t
J stated that at present Oregon is n
harging nonresident students only
bout one-half the sum that neigboring a
nd other states are charging their q
on-resident students, with the result =
hat our state schools are overtaxed by -
he influx of students from other y
tates. An increase of the tuition =.
ees, equitable with other states. was =,
and urged, only three votes q
eing recorded against such an in n
rease. !,
Mr.. Axtelle, principal of the Pine I,
rove school, outlined plan providing .,
y IL teachers of the county at each of q,
DC four grange halls next fall and N
inter, the series Of six debates to be :.
iven at each hall in orderly rotation. =,
he plan was approved and he was III
sked to arrange for these debates ,,
ext season. IN
The meeting was attended by over e
DO grangers. The ladies of the Odell I,
range served a substantial dinner to ii
lis number in the dining room Of the II
dell Methodist church at the noon 4,
our. Parkdale Grange will be host at r.
le next Pomona Grange meeting \,
hich will be held the first Wednesday n