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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEnfield Valley Grange 071997 2The next meeting, February 16, 1875, ar ' the meetings thereafter until January 1925 weiv, held in Wortman's Hall (over the present Newhart's Store in Enfield). The Grange could not continue there due to lack of fire exits. From January 13, 1925, Grange meetings were held in the basement of the Enfield Methodist church until the present Grange Hall was ready for occupancy in August of 1926. The following is a quotation from the installation code: "The Order of the Patrons of Husbandry is the only association whose teachings accompany its members in their daily pursuits. They form part of the farmer's life. They do not call him from his work, but furnish recreation and education in his daily duties." For example, we found the following discussions that took place at various Granc~ meetings throughout the years: the price of grab~ seed, cow testing , prices of American Wire Fencing, raising pigs, purchasing harvesters, buying cement by the carload lots for 72 cents per sack with a 10 cent rebate, styles and prices of chairs, grafting and planting trees, the outlook for rented farms, drilling buckwheat and sowing winter wheat. Among these are the much needed repairs and : -provements to the property. The kitchen was • ^modeled with running hot and cold water, new cupboards and an efficient work table. Two bathrooms were installed. Over the past one hundred years, Enfield Valley Grange has led the way for better community spirit and service to humanity. Thus exemplifying the principle, "in essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity." [A^hove was written for the 100th anniversary ef the grange. &eah Carpenter has taken excerpts from the 'range's histerp and presented them here.] Enfield Valley Grange No. 295 has enjoyed many celebrations/programs over the years. In I "*50 we celebrated the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary with a Southern Fried Chicken Dinner and Program. Roy Linton was Master at that time. In 1968 we honored the fifteen living past masters. Pat Gray and Fred Swartwood co-chaired a Variety Show in 1969. Subordinate and Junior Grange members took part in the show. The show was presented at Enfield, Burdett,