Milford chronicle., 1927-01-07
fHAS A BIG YEAR
reports OF Increasing Activities
Point To Another Busy One
Ahead

l-oi4NN III 'ttNAHS JOuhS pSOplS TO get
an education beyond the public
schools is indicated by the fact tbat
the last report of the trustees of this
fund shows $50 students aided to-
wards a college, university or tech
nical school education and that prac-
tically every one of them has made
good in more than ordinary ways.
This fund, started 10 years ago in a
small way by the Massachusetts
State Grange, now amounts to S4O.-
600 and by its revolving nature over
$4,000 in all has been loaned to aid
young people. An interest charge of
only 2ao with easy payments when
the young persons education has
been completed makes the project a
veritable godsend to the Grange
young folks who have taken advan-
tage of it's offerings.
That Grange in a far western state
not only had a lively evenings dis
cussiOn but opened up very inter-
esting phase of practical rural. prog
ress when it debated THE relative
merits as a home blessing of bath
tub. dish washer and a piano"
Five subordinate Oranges in Berks
county, Pennsylvania, combined in
staging joint agricultural products
show that brought into competition
some of the choicest farm products
in the county and drew spectators
from every township to witness the
quality exhibit.
A Christmas present" worth while
was made to Louis J. Taber, Master
of the National Grange, in the form
of new Juvenile organization in
stituted in the State of Maine, the
first new Juvenile to be organized in
the country since the beginning of
a new National Grange year Decem-
Der 1st. Present prospects indicate
that a great number of new Juve-
niles will be organized before the
end of 1927 and that they will COM
prise not less than 20 different
states.
In Washington the Grange recent
ly staged a special one days drive in
which hundreds of members gave
their services for the entire day to-
wards some branch of Grange ac-
complishment. AS a result many
Grange halls were renovated and re-
paired, numberless community inn
projects were carried
several new subordinate
Oranges were organized and hun
dreds of applications for member
ship were secur- 4 in the subOrdi-
nate units throughout the state. Wide.
spread enthusiasm was generated
whose effects will be apparent upon
Grange work through
out the coming year.
The vote of the National Grange to
hold it's session of November 1927
within the state of Ohio has aroused
lively competition in the Buckeye
State. as the cities of Cleveland, Col
lmbus and Canton are all making a
lively bid for the Grange get-to-
gether. The latter is of eight days
duration, brings thousands of mem
Ders into the convention city and at
the Ohio gathering is expected to in
tate in the highest degree of the
a a cI;tss- i iii e&zces5 W 5000 carr
lidates.
The fund which the Oranges of
are raising towards the
erection of a girls dormitory at tn
state university at State College, has
nearly reached the $4,000 mark and
coming in rapidly
from Oranges in all parts of the
state indicate the early realization
If this commendable Pennsylvania
Grange project. A considerable sum
mas been realized by the Grange
women OF the state through the
and sale of a Grange
cook book.
Four master of State Oranges who
nave been active leaders in the or
ganization have just been reelected
'or another two years term: Philip
4. Dewey of Pennsylvania, Caldwell
Davis of Kansas, Harry A, Cation Of
Ohio. and Robert P. Robinson OF
Delaware. The latter is also COVER
Tor of his state, serving a four year
erm.
Almost endless cases are coming
o mind of Grange participation in a
rural movement to put through a
line reaching some remote
ownship or hamlet not previously
enjoying telephone service. In many
;uch cases Oranges have not only
stirred up the necessary agitation to
,et the line, but have induced their
MEMBERS to giTe the poles and IN
many instances to even contribute
he labor of setting same, all with
,ut expense to the telephone COM
)any.
In Pennsylvania the Oranges are
posting this slogan over their work
'or 1927. ''WeIl find a path or make
,ne." This is particularly approprl-
tie for the Grange in Pennsylvania
where the organization has always
,een a pioneer in many matters OF
,ural progress and for the advance
nent of the farmers interests.
Since the beginning of 1926 new
Oranges have been organized IN
,very one of the Grange states but
wo; $50 of all the subordinate
7ranges in the United States have
initiated a class of new members;
md a net gain in Grange member
ship made for the country as
only farm or rural or
yanization that has made an in
crease.