STATE GRANGE OF ILLINOIS. 19 



tion, and through the reports of your executive officers to obtain 

 a true understanding of the present condition of the Order in 

 this State, that you will apply your wisdom with faith, energy 

 and patience, to devising such means as will inspire with new 

 faith, zeal and hope the great mass of our brotherhood, that our 

 beloved organization may crystalize to a solid, active, permanent 

 organization and take its place in the front rank among the 

 benevolent, educational and elevating fraternities of the age, 

 this report is fraternally submitted. 



A. J. Alexander, 



D. N. Foster, 



R. M. Guy, 

 D. Dunham. 

 L. W. Lawrence, 

 0. E. Fanning, 

 Chas. Musson, 



A. GOLDER, 



Executive Committee State 

 Grange of Illinois. 



Motion made to adopt. 



Amended, that the report be divided and referred to the 

 proper committees. 



Motion carried as amended. 



Motion made and carried that a Special Committee be ap- 

 pointed on Executive Committee's report. 



Bro. Hutchings made the following motion, which wa8 

 adopted: That a committee of five Sisters be appointed on 

 Temperance; and that all resolutions on Temperance be referred 

 to said committee. 



The Master appointed as such committee: 



Sister Pauley, Champaign; Sister Van Court, St. Clair; Sister Ed- 

 wards, Rock Island; Sister Trott, McLean; Sister Wing, Fayette. 



Bro. Bloom of Kankakee, offered the following, which was re- 

 ferred to Committee on Credentials: 



Wheueas, Each county is entitled to two delegates, and as Kankakee 

 has only one, 



Resolved, That this State Grange admit A. L. Miner, Master of Grange, 

 No. 486, as such delegate. 



Moved and carried, that the Committee on Good of the Order 

 be raised to five members. On invitation. Sister S. M. Smith 

 read a poem, for which a vote of thanks was returned, and a 

 copy requested for publication in the leading Grange journals. 



On motion, a vote of thanks was extended to the Executive 



