REPORT OF MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE FOR THE YEAR END- 

 ING JUNE 30, 1905. 



OFFICERS OF MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE FOR 1904-1905. 



Master — G. B. Horton, Fruit Ridge. 



Overseer — N. P. Hull, Dimondale. 



Lecturer — Mrs. F. D. Saunders, Rockford. 



Steward — T. E. Niles, Mancelona. 



Assistant Steward — Oscar Inman, Averill. 



Chaplain — Mrs. O. J. C. Woodman, Paw Paw. 



Treasurer — E A. Strong, Vicksburg. 



Secretary — Miss Jennie Buell, Ann Arbor. 



Gatekeeper — G. A. Whitbeck, Montague. 



Ceres — Mrs. Emma J. Gehlbach, Fremont. 



Flora — Mrs. Virginia Halladay, Clinton. 



Pomona — Mrs. Ida Haybarker, Leroy. 



Lady Assistant Steward — Mrs. Sarah Inman, Averill. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



F. W. Redfern, Maple Rapids December, 1905 



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E. A. Holden, Lansing 



Emory E. Owen, Lapeer 



C. S. Bartlett, Pontiac , 



A. E. Palmer, Kalkaska 



B. E. Kies, Hillsdale -. 



T. H. McNaughton, Ada , 



G. B. Horton, Fruit Ridge; Jennie Buell, Ann Arbor, ex-Officio. 



The progress of the year is thus set forth by State Master G. B. Hor- 

 ton in his address before the Thirty-second Annual Session of State 

 Grange, held in Lansing, December 13-16, 1904: 



"Since last we met there has been general activity all along the line. 

 Each separate feature of work has received careful attention and results 

 should in a general way be gratifying to our entire membershii). Eighty 

 Granges have been added to our list and our membership has been in- 

 creased to the point where if all who are retained on the books of local 

 Granges are counted, a full 50,000 aggregate may be reported. Our 

 treasur}' is in a substantial condition with invested funds intact, and 

 with current receipts and expenditures, leaving a safe balance on the 

 credit side." 



The year ending June 30, 1905, finds 750 subordinate Granges in the 

 State, 53 of which have been organized within the year. In addition, five 

 county and eight juvenile Granges have been established. The continued 

 accession of new and untrained membership has placed upon State 

 Grange a duty both important and difficult to fulfill. Thousands of 

 men and women, for the most part unused to working together, are here 



