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Melrose
Grange met in counsel last Saturday. Once again to the
breach, they cry! “We will fight it out on this line or die.”
After exchanging feelings of friendship and sociability, they
proceeded to reorganize; first by paying delinquent dues, which had
accumulated on them, by not attending regular meetings. They had
become indifferent to the cause they so anxiously espoused. But
the covenant is renewed and they came to the lodge with a resolution
that says, we mean business. We understand they elected Mr.
Silas Criggler, (ex-worthy master) for the ensuing year. If
every Grange was presided over by an officer, who is as faithful and
prompt, on the meetings of the lodge as the worthy master elect, of
the Melrose and
County Grange; we need have no doubts as to the permanency of this
institution. Those who prophesied its fate would be that of a
mushroom, would silently say, I am not a prophet. There are men
who prophesy in times of great crisis, and time only convinces them
that they are not of the inspired.
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