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300 Uneatuut street, mil artel pma.The Connecticut state grange met in Hartford this week. Many prominent agriculturists were present. J. H. Hale of Glastonbury, master of grange, delivered the annual %0dresa. During the year 21 new granges have been organized in the state. The patrons' mutual fire insurance company, insuring farm-houses, without charge for salaries or commissions, has begun business, having taken $500,000 of risks. The address indorses the interstate commerce bill and favors the repeal of power to suspend the short haul section. It says on the tariff, while farmers will not object to the general revision of the tariff, they will object to snch revision as will nnder the guise of “raw materials”Slace the products of the farm, such as emp, sugar, flax, hides and wool, op the free list, while at the same time no reduction is made in the dnties on manufactured products of these articles. The grange unanimously voted to indorse this attitude.The Grange elected these officers : Master, J. H. Hale of South Glastonbury; overseer, J. M. Hubbard of Middletown ; lecturer, G. A. Bowen of Woodstock ; secretary, L. J. Wella of South Woodstock ; steward, H. F. Potter of Montowese ; assistant steward,E. Cooley of Berlin ; chaplain, Rev. D. B. Hubbard of Little River ; treasurer, T. S. Gold of West Cornwall ; gate keeper, A. Kenyon of New London ; Cej-es, Mrs.. Sherman Kimberly of West Torrington ; Pomona, Mra. Linda Kimball of Ellingt-on ; Flora, Mra. H. C. Dunham of Middletown ; lady assistant steward, Mrs. Fred Hawley of New Britain. E. S. Hongh of Poquonock was chosen a member of the executive committee to hold office for three years.Hartford Times : The First Methodist church in Chicago seems to be the sceneLI
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Stafford Springs Press
Stafford Springs, Connecticut, US
Thu, Dec 15, 1887
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