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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEnfield Valley Grange history 2 082000 (1)Sectary John Jf. TheaCC gatekeeper IViCCiam Tucker Ceres Susan Humsey Tomona Sarah TheaCC fCora Luanna HoCfe Lady JAsst.Steward Jennie %oCfe The next meeting, January 16,1875, and the meetings thereafter until January 1925 were heCdin ^Wortmans 3-CaCC{over the present New hart's Store in InfieCdj. The (grange couCdnot continue there due to Cack of fire exits, from January 13,1925* (grange meetings were heCdin the Basement of the TnfieCd Methodist Church untiCthe present (grange JiaCCwas ready for occupancy in JAugust of1926. The foCCowing is a quotation from the in-staCCation code: "The Order of the Tatrons of 3-Cusbandry is the onCy association whose teachings accompany it's members in their daiCy pursuits. They form part of the farmers' Cives. They do not caCC 7 him from his work, hut furnish recreation and education in his daiCy duties. J or exampCe, we found the foCCowing discissions that tookpCace at various (grange meetings throughout the years: the price of grass seed, cow testing, prices of ^American 1/Vire fencing, raising pigs, purchasing harvesters, buying cement by the carCoads Cots for 72 cents per sack with a 10 cent rebate; styCes and prices of chairs, grafting andpCanting trees, the outCookfor rented farms, driCCing buckwheat and sowing winter wheat. for recreation there were box suppers, dances, hodday parties and addressed by weCC-known speakers on subjects of particuCar interest to the precepts of it's order by community service and CegisCative suggestions. 8