IE
DELEGATES WERE
The Government Asked to Lend
Postal Savings Money to
Farmers on Real Estate.
PRESENT COUNTY SCHOOL
PLAN RECEIVES A JOLT
Resolution Asked for Abolish
ment of Supervisors; To Do
Away with Senate.
Continued from Wednesday, May 14
Yesterday afternoon's session of
the Oregon State Grange convention
was consumed in the receiving of Un
reports of officers and the introduc
tion of important resolutions that will
he agitated and passed upon during the
present session.
Resolutions proposing to abolish the
present system of county school su
pervisors, recommending thai the gov
erumeut lend its postal savings fund
to the farmers at 4 per cent interest
secured by real estate, the amount of
the loan not to exceed one-half of the
value of the land, the abolition of the
state senate and a not her proposing
that a bill should go through the in
itiative, providing that the salaries
that have been increased by the state
legislature should not be received by
the office holders at the time of the
passage of the bill, were introduced.
In favor of (his latter resolution,
1 Ion. I'.. I!. Itlancbard, a representa
tive of the last legislature from Jo
sephine count v, spoke in its favor,
by staling that he would endeavor to
amend it so thai the power of raising
the salaries of county officers away
from the legislature and place it with
the county courts, with power to re
fer it to the people.
Several other resolutions were in
troduced but many were referred to
commit I ees. The majority proposed
changes in the by-laws of the grange,
one of special note ashing for the: ap
pointment of a committee of the
grange for the Stale university and
another for the normal school, to op-
uaum
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cralc similarly lo the committee for
the Agricultural CoHckc.
This is the first session in its 40
years of existence that the State
Grange has been honored witli a visit
of the master of the national order,
who is here in the person of Master
Oliver Wilson, lie will he here dur
ing the rest of the convention. II. G.
I'arsons and T. A. I.ogsdon. of Port
land and Corvallis respectively, were
oilier speakers of the afternoon ses
sion. Mr. I'arsons is a fraternal del-i-Kiilc
from the Federation of Labor
and Mr. I.offsdotl represents the Farm
ers' Co-Operative Union.
Accordinif lo the report of the cre
dentials committee there are 10.1 ac
credited delegates present. Added to
this number the members of Hie order
who are here attending the sessions
to enjoy the discussions and the wives
of the delegates including the officers,
the attendance will probably be in
excess of 250.
According to the secretary's report,
Mrs. Mary S. Howard, of Mullino.
1 1 new irranues were organized last
year and ahc total receipts on hand
were $69(50.01.
Miss Helen Solomon, who has been
attending high school the past year,
residing with her cousin, Mrs. Adolph
Senders, left for her home al North
Cove. Wash., this morning. She ex-
peels lo return next fall and enter
Albany College.
Uncle Charles Adams, of Jefferson,
was in the city this afternoon.
"Latch Key Hangson Out Side"
Says Mayor Gilbert to
Grangers.
OVER 350 ATTEND BIG
RECEPTION AT ARMORY
Oliver Wilson Makes Splendid
Address; Visitors Will Be
Tendered BanquetTonight.
'Thc latch key hangs on the outside
and you are as welcome as the air
you breathe," is about the way Mayor
Gilbert extended a welcome in a brief
anil apropriatc address to about 250
delegates, oVficers and -,-isitors to the
Graii;?-' Convention and to nearly
200 citizens of Albany last night at
the Armory.
Prior to the assemblage, the big
high school band rendered several
selections at the corner of Lyon and
Second streets, as a serenade concert
U the delegates and then it proceeded
to the corner of Fourth and Lyon
streets, where it again played as the
guests and local people assembled
in the building.
Members of the Albany Commercial
club were the host of the occasion
and President J. S. Van Winkle pre
sided over the meeting. After a few
remarks he introduced Mayor Gil
bert who ma tie the address of wel
come. The response was briefly
made by State Master C. E. Spencc,
of Oregon City.
Mr. Spence was followed on the
program by Master Oliver Wilson,
of the National Grange, who delivered
a splendid address, which wits intense
ly interesting and entertaining. Mr.
Wilson spoke along the lines of what
the Grange had accomplished since
its organization, lie frequently re
ferred to things of a national charact
er to bear out his statements and
rendered a general history of the
Grange. Interesting features of the
address were the history of the per
netualion of the parcels post system
and the postal savings hank's, and Mr.
Wilson graphically recited the great
irnod ;ind the many substantial re-
R & G
Corsets
in the New
Models
Medium and High
Busts are still in
evidence but the
long, snug fitting
skirts still prevail.
$1.00 to $3.00
Pair.
Agents for
Standard
FLOOD'S
Patterns I JM we" rirsc acreec
i
Agents for
Kabo Reducing
Corsets
suits which have attended the inaug
uration of these systems. He often
referred to one tiling with its relation
to the f;;rmcr, bringing in facts to
substantiate i.;?t .'merits.
'At the c.ucl"sijn ;..f Mr. Wilson's
address, a general reception was held,
when strangers .-tV hosts intermingl
ed among a V: f.'.!:: r rubbed elbows,
met and V' -d r irir.nl ly.
Tonight t' rs'- ck at the First
Presbyterian i-!LU the Commercial
club will ten';1- r. bam met to the
visiting delei:. ; - their wives. The
committee in charge of this event has
provided 250 plates.
Ilarisbur Again
County Clerk Mar'.s this afternoon
issued a r.iari'iage license to another
1 1 arrisbur:? coupfc, this making the
14th license to be iss:ted to 1 1 arris
burg people. Thomas J. George and
Ada F. Coo'f were the recipients of
the license.
Mrs. Knott, Mrs. D. D. Hackleman
and Mrs. Wairous, of this city, and
Mrs. Edna Knott Butterfield, of Ash
land. who is visiting here, went out
to Fry this morning to spend the
day with the fellow members of the
Ladies Aid Society of the Grace Pres
byterian church, Mrs. Merritt and
family.
Bert Palkington, of Corvallis, a
member of the O. A. C. faculty, was in
the city this noon on his way home
from Portland.
B. T. Sudtle, the stock auctioneer,
of Halscy. pased through the city this
morning for Hillsboro, to conduct a
big Jersey sale.
M. V. Weathcrford went to Salem
this morning on legal business.
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Albany, will be taken at half the
regular tuition price. Write or call
Bell phone 591 R and Prof. But
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