HomeMy WebLinkAboutGrange cookbook 2013 Thanks to Alice Linton september Sue Thompson NL ArticleEnfield Historian – Sue Thompson
Thanks to Alice Linton, we have one more cookbook to add to the Historians collection. I am still looking to borrow others to copy if you want to share.
The newest cookbook is the Enfield Valley Grange No. 295, 100th Anniversary Cook book. The Anniversary celebration was held at the Enfield Valley Grange Hall, Sunday, June 8, 1975,
1:00 p.m. Officers of the Grange in 1974 - 75 were: Master – Roger Ballard; Overseer – Doris Specht; Lecturer – Millicent Carpenter; Steward – Roger Brown; Assistant Steward – Dale
Laue; Lady Assistant Steward – Carol Laue; Chaplin – Elizabeth Rumsey; Treasurer – Joyce Laue; Secretary – Warena Ramsey; Gatekeeper – George Sonntag; Ceres – Bridgette Brown; Pomona
– Charlotte Ballard; Flora – Mildred Stark; Executive Committee – George Stark.The cookbook starts out by telling the story of the grange, “On the cold and stormy night of February 4,
1875, fourteen men with their wives and four single met at the resident of John Theall and directed by Jesse Lyon, Deputy of Schuyler county, organized the Enfield Valley Grange No.
295. There were thirty-two charter members and the charter is dated April 30, 1875.” Meetings were held in Wortman’s Hall (201 Enfield Main Road). The Grange could not continue at
the hall as it was condemned for lack of fire exits. From January 1925, they met in the Enfield Methodist church basement (7 Enfield Center Road West) until the present Grange Hall
(178 Enfield Main Road) was ready for occupancy in August of 1926.They reported the following discussions took place at various Grange meetings throughout the years: the price of grass
seed, cow testing by a Farm Bureau manager, prices of American Wire Fencing, raising pigs, purchasing harvest machinery, buying cement by the car load lots for 72 cents per sack with
a 10 cent rebate on the sack, the outlook for rented farms and sowing of winter wheat. There were box suppers, dances, holiday parties and addresses by well-known speakers on subjects
of particular interest to grangers.“Over the past one hundred years (plus), Enfield Valley Grange has led the way for better community spirit and service to humanity. Thus exemplifying
the principal, “in essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”