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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEnfield Valley Grange history 071997 4Rothermich, was appointed with full power to build a hall. The next step was financial backing which consisted of donations of labor and money plus loans from members and finally a bank mortgage of three thousand five hundred dollars. [$3,500.] The Grange incorporated on March 4, 1926. After the completion of the building, it was dedicated August 24, 1926, when Robert Hubbell was Master. Dinner was served to approximately five hundred guests and six hundred people attended the dedication program where the principal speaker was Silas L. Strivings, Master of New York State Grange. A Juvenile Grange was organized on June 14, 1927, by Mrs. Emma Jerome, State Juvenile Deputy. There were eighteen charter members. The first Juvenile Grange officers were: Master Ruth Rothermich Overseer Lawrence Thall Steward Harold Laue Assistant Steward Robert Stevenson Chaplain Helen Wilson Secretary Donald Riker Treasurer Doris Hansen Lecturer Elizabeth Stevenson Gatekeeper Ceres jmona Flora Lady Assistant Steward Juvenile Matron Harold Lokken Charlotte Tucker Alice Riker Evelyn Ervay Dorothea Updike Mrs. Martha Bock Later, Mrs. Neva Laue was Matron for fifteen years. About one hundred and fifty people attended the sixtieth anniversary celebration of Enfield Valley Grange held in the Grange Hall on May 28, 1935. Worthy Master, Leon Rothermich, presided. Fred D. Rumsey read an essay written by the first Master of the Enfield Grange, James M. Lanning, as he left the chair after having served for two years. Fred Freestone gave the main speech of the evening. On February 27, 1940, Enfield Valley range No. 295 celebrated their sixty-fifth anniversary with Past State Master, Raymond Cooper as speaker of the evening. Seventy-five members were present, including four descendants of the first officers of the Grange. At last the time came when the final debt was paid. It was celebrated by the burning of the mortgage in the presence of one hundred members and guests on April 22, 1946. The