26 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



PAPERS, ADDRESSES AND DISCUSSIONS OFFERED 

 AT VARIOUS MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



f ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



By Alphonso Moulton of Harrison, Master of Lakeside 

 Grange. 



In a larger and more pretentious town than Harrison the 

 chances are that a Board of Trade would be the organization 

 that would take the lead in extending a welcome to you, and 

 the one selected for the task would doubtless be a man of note 

 instead of a humble farmer like myself, whose proudest position 

 is that of Master of our local Grange. In Lakeside Grange we 

 have an organization which we think is even better than a 

 Board of Trade. To be sure it represents those whom some 

 have been pleased to designate as the "lower and laboring 

 classes," but we well know that these classes are the ones who 

 make the foundation for the whole structure, and that you are 

 proud to number yourselves among them. 



In this Grange we have an organization whose principal 

 object is the elevation of the whole community, and especially 

 of the agricultural portion of it. It is ever on the alert for 

 what will benefit this part of our inhabitants, and through them, 

 all of the residents in this vicinity. It was largely through the 

 efforts of this Grange that this meeting was secured for Har- 

 rison, and it was wholly by its work that this elegant and com- 

 modious place of meeting was erected, an enterprise which 

 few believed that we were capable of carrying to successful 

 completion, and which has provided this village with a building 

 which supplies a long- felt want, and of which it is justly proud. 



It is meet and proper that this organization, the leading one 

 in point of numbers and influence, and representing, as it does, 

 the agricultural portion of the community, should be the one 

 to welcome you to the hospitalities of the good town of Har- 

 rison, and I am not unmindful of the honor that was conferred 

 upon me when I was selected as the one to give voice to that 

 welcome. 



Harrison, though it cannot claim to be a large town, is by 

 no means the backwoods, out-of-the-way, and insignificant place 



