MELROSE GRANGE
MARSHALL MESSENGER
17-FEB-1876
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.