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March 13 , 1967
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'The_February meeting of the, Znf ield Valley Grange, wcs held-at
the home .of Mitch Gray with 12 persons in .o.ttendance. Four more
name's were presented`-for membership. Announc=anent of the cookie
contest to be held .i-n Harch was made MI 3d Sta_111. The names
of those eligible for 50 year pins .7as read: aarenca_ Ramsey .was ,
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"'elected 'as Secretary to replace Nel,.ie. Hubbell who recently resigned.
The March meeting will be held on tie 14th at ;-he home of War_en. aa__„
where she will be installed as secretary.
`.:'hen it comes to mistakes , the editor of this newsletter rams
high on the list. -If possible, I L•-Duld blepc my tlrocviriter; but
all my typewriter is guilty of is m_ 7spelling -words in l st n- '
the the names of those eligible for 50 year pins , I
over the top of Lawrence Stevenson's name. lie will have completed.
50 years on the 27th` of March. 7,1y''sih6erest apologies to you P �
Stevenson and' all- I can say to make up for it is that you have the`
honor of being the only one mentioned in this paragraph. In the
last newsletter, four people had to share it. . Sorry about th_!CS9 .',
- 'Ieil, the .t [te has come to talk of things , -of 'h;d its 'and, f1 o
wers,' of queens and kings , and card parties. Ed and- Helen Marshall
played host to 43 people . (10 tables) on the 18th of February.-,, Over
$27.00 was collected. The refreshir.snts were delicious , all had, _fun,
and Helen washed a lot 'of dishes :iefore she went to bed_ that 'nigliz.:
And as usual; things were grand
Next camp; the whL.pper of a card .party at '+goody-and .Doriq
Specht's. - _Earlier in the ,week, 06ris had ,confided to George that „
there probably wouldn't be over ,8 .tables: And then they started.
coming. And coming, and coming. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .
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le all panicked for for=a few minutes when a station wagon
with a light on top of it drove in. "!ho ever heard of a raid on a
respectable card party. But all was clamed when it was discovered
that firemen carry lights on their cars too. Isn't- that right Gene??
Ralph Lovelace went home to pic"t up a cake his wife had --for-
gotton. Mitch and Bob collected tables and chairs from two different
houses. Doris called her sister Margaret and had her bring up some
more forks and spoons. [le sent up to Scofield's for another coffee
pot and last but most important, we had to round up sons more cups.
Never let it be said that when the unexpected occurs, that the Enf-
ield Grangers don't have a firm grip on things.
And calm and cool through it-'All faas our wonderful hostess ,
Doris . - h`�le the rest 'of c?at t .'. c:ol girt-as -the rooms filled
un, with 13 tabl^s of card players (eYc i.+ould have had 14 but we
didn't have anoth= tabic) !she moved from room to room seeing that
all was in order. To our treasury we added $40.,00 that night. All
that can be said further _on.,the subject- is that.you certainly don 't
know what you're missing when you miss one of our card parties . Just
ask anyone of the 56 people who wore at t1le Specht's last Saturday
night.
Card parties coming up are March 18th at the Grays , April 1st.
at Susie Hansen's , April 15th at Bob Carpenter's and, April 29th at
Ralph Lovelace' s. lake a pencil and mark them on "your calar_dar now;
Oh yes , Ralph and Blanch Lovelace and Chuck Guyett-"will host the
card party at the Gray's because their driveway is muddy right now.
The 1st and 2nd Degrees wh ,ch were to be hbldr carrier;.were
postponed until the`17th of March due to' illness •1h tire. faMilyr-.of *Ur
State Deputy,-'Russell Luce. This is "a Friday.:aright and<s,t wi l bei-_mr.
held" at=-the Enfield- School as originally planned. Agar rrwe::nsic:.that,
you try'to attend to represent our upcoming Grangers. _
Here we go again on the junior Grange plans:. And:unless^,we
can find someone to get things' started, we wi11 have. rtoi prit :them off-
a while longer. But we have some very legitimate excuses. Our
first is the fact that Mrs.-Luce couldn'tmeet with us)-slue` to,;illness.
She ended up' having her 'gallblv_dder removed February, -1<7th:_ But =
complications) set in-and she':undcrwent soother opbrat:ioi °early in ' .-
P4arch.
• bur second participant ' Lbsi Carpentdi, underVbrvt surgery:-fmr.
removal of tier gallbladder "on the 22nd of 'February. As of.< this-vri-t-
ing, she is doing an excellent job`o£' getting herself- recbvered ,(
Our final Junior Granger," who is incidently, Acting Junior
Matron, undergoes surgery an the I0re-i 'of April.,, : Nothing serious.
She expects to' be 'in -the hospital a- little over a week.: , So as. you
can "see;`wIi ri 'ir comes -to excuses,--you can".t heat. those-r ;But; ser r,:.
ioiisly, "we 'aren't "going to"give up,' "aerie just gains aof get tartea
a little later than we had plantfed.' -If` someone�(of :you would _Like tt
give us a much needed hand, we have ,all the .aecessar}y: forms and-inf-
ormation to assist you. Give us a c-11.
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'Ie'd like at this time to send-,out .a- than: ,'ou an a- God Bless
to one of our metnbcra,o .;Ic_ts aL'rndir. . LVa Griffin,;who is also
in this month's Members to Mention, nailed a check to help out with.
the Grange. ;This check has bce:•►-_c`isrr_Lute3 to useful places. Instead
of a personal'Aote .of thanks, we -fee:. that a thank you that will be
seen by each one of over a hundred people on our mai;lin�_list is more
appropriate. Do you notice how these older members are still doing
all they can for their Grange, A",?n a most aprreciat;ve thank
you Mrs . Griffin from all of us .
lie extend o7-- l I '_1c' 3 St i:k for the loss
of her only +-c- 1 i.nC been it for quite some
time, a loss i r-.^ -
Another V�em on;the Grange Agenda that will have to _be set
ahead a little is the sale we had planned for April. Tle really haven1t
collected very much 'toward this in the -first place and .the weather
won't be q u o„warm enough to r_.exn:t -use of the Grar-re. "Is are also
Short, handzi p` present. , But° we still hope to have,ou; sale in May
and rno_-,-,-ampoe.tant, wa hopo to hesr froreupu with to don8te.
°-Ie war4t anythi i�. (_rxcept unwanted.'husbaods) . .
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A jlittia.'tidbit to add to the Specht card' party is the different
places from whence came our guests. (how's about- that for a Ooetic -
sentence. ) . To name the ones we are sure of: `Iatki4j} Glen, R-eading
Center, Newfield; Tttmaansburg, Danby, Montour Falli Ithaca`4nd. Lan-
singville. Sure woFUld like a report on any that might have been missed.
Seems as thoffgh ou&*Kkd plays^r, get,crpuiA a little tool.. Susie
Hansen jaunted-off to Florida in January. The Leon Rothermic$'s went
to Florida the 17th of February for a couple of wee'.ts, id and-,Helen_
Marshall plan to spend"some tL•me .with their daughter Ann,: who :i.s.
stationed at the Air Force Base in Texas . .They're leaving .the -22nd
of March. And the Hitch Gray's are ta'_cing their'very first vacation
ever. They leave fori Fort Myers FlorLdan -the 17.th ofkarch. to-visit
her mother. • Someone''tol�l me. as . fatkzt--'r- and mother .were going with:
them. " .Pid you ever :meet his father? They'll be back by April 1st.
our Gra��g h � bpc:t,von' p�e �tl6d with- �h0 rt4m5c=�, pc'"Ee we'd
hdvo &- i Lrom t,- Bu^ e ass "re` _ s card pa :5.er ;.-so on Seta-din:
ai$ht, the .f • cv, x rL}Ca '-^i+elect ode there;.
they. 'are, ar_d Lfo^{s-, �.en' xr1 i s3 e� 7.0_.^ G, , S;sc a e,
Z. =aad 7Nc_te L. We vndetsStan.d t�ant -i_hey were very wa_*� y -received ,`.
and ,h$ye picked .up a few morel rl�.!ers for our March -18th- _catd par.,ty.
Nod comes the most interesting and most wonderful port �t (q�f.. this
newsletter. One of our owl Grangers hasa personal check"Ko cove`
the entire cost of the 50 nL+�_ p� s t' 1t cFa;aee�l for_ our g oup,, They
have ,7sl' cd not -CO be -In^- F`.'r';i o- q -7e '_'es,P^_: t'ni3 __V "I. Bat'.--VNV mo-'H
rhportant thing •is not'_w no, but why. The reason -f
or or 'the
Grai?ge and tihe t o_'_: ' t is Going ' o bu':ld iise_i' back up:: [rie doa�,t
need a name to say thank you. Thank ,* ou means only one thing and' thiisi
doroa already knows that. Iie' also ha,-.-a enough to purchase pins next
year as five- more_ .of: our- members comp-_ete _ 50 years . And;,wb think that
this fund, will., keep right. on going f:""m now on,
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earlier
Also thanks to i d t onat'
than originally sched, I this nevsjettcr
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Lida Griffen of 442 North Geneva Street in Ithaca, .haerh�en -a; '
rianber of. .aur -Grange since August 25, 1908. Born December 28_,.,;1$84
in the Town af :Enfield, she =s the sister of Louella G4vanaugh,4nd -
Emmett Tucker. She. is the mother of Alice Bakeri-•Alfred, Griffen and
Richard Griffen. She has eight grandchildren and seven great-grand
children. Her parents were Fred and Josephine,-Dickens Tucker, .,
After moving to Ithaca in 194.6 she bought'in apartment house.
She resides in one side and rents out the other side. She was em-
ployed at Rothschild's for 15 years, retiring at the tender young
age of 77. She is a member of the St. Paul's Methodist Church. and 7
a Charter member of The Znf4sld MOVt =' s Club, Along with her
generous check; she enclosed a note giving a word of praise• tpkc ur
Riewsletter. :-This editor hopes_ to have the opportunity.-to r�h> h(We,,c
in person for all this.
.,Leon and Bernice Tucle_ are from R.D. #2, in Newfield. In order
of importance;; (wives alvays come first. in this neugletter -because
the editor is one) , Bernice was born August 3, 1897, in the-Town of
Ulysses. The daughter of Elihu and Anna Durling Conover, she has one
brother, iclifford Conover -and two sisters , Florence f4tszuray and Gladys
- ,Zho occupy her itsne with he_ng a housewife and painting , ._ .
pictures, In the summer she enjoys gardening as. does.- Leon. Sbe r
has a gaad sized correspondence list from many states and spends �a -,-
great deal' of time on this'.
Leon was born 'April 7th, 1895 --rn the Tow:i-of Enf ield. He was
the son vf.-Burt and Ida Lanning Tucker., Although retired, he.stil1,- _; .
works pelt time at the Tompkins Courty Trust Co. His summer pastime
includes taking;trips and gardening,;, V.i.liting old friends and those
sick:& shift i i ;-is quite- important 'to-_ these people. _ .He joined -the
Grange d5ecember-114 i 1909 and she jo .-ted -September 24, .1940.
_.
They:hav,q Z,.vhildren. and if- we counted correctly there are 0
grandchildtent Mie Tucker's are meebers of the Enfield i<i,sptist
Church. Their recent years have been spent travelling to many places .
As mentioned". im,a.-previous newsletter, they,. celebrated their- 5.0,th
Jeddin&.*ipivgrsar)- December 1Sth ir. the Church at Trtmbu]js Confers., ,;,
An added note of appreciation from the editor- tq_�hes;c people
who have„sent M a -very wonderful .letter..of gr4titude'pe tainir-g :to
thin news Lot er,.t,, I wish that sometime T .might love. 6 8? ty
V Fly-.
to express my than'_:s to all the k_ne 'people who Have i en e.
,Hazel Updike,who resides at 4310 Tunes Rd. Iaivield beca�
a pnemper, of the Grange on July 119 1911. . She was.'%prn A ;ust.zT�;.]g
in Infield, to Fred D. and Cora Belle Rumsey. . She ha"s,;.a son Hato
and a Grandson Fred. In addition to the .Graii .e, .she a# a member o.f
the Eastern Star, Taking care of leer hojrfte,7,1 travel,ing seems, to
fill her time.;
On the ba*•of her lettr, she caroe. T useful and worth-
while suggestions to be used for the goon. of r; i44ding our Grange.
Je- `t
have used some of these sug csticns and 'Plan to more. She
is respons ble,ffor the "Grange rocevi,ng notTo-w4m the two-Grange
papers. 'Je want you to know, Hazel , 4ae'Vie:.tsi i'h yb{xs sJ ]�'ths:sue: