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The Dalles Daily Chronicle
The Dalles, Oregon
January 28, 1924
CONVENTION PLANS LAID BY GRANGERS
Picnic At Bonneville To Be One Of Features At Gathering, Decided.
When the Oregon State Grange holds its annual convention here in June, a
picnic will be staged at Bonneville as one of the features of the
gathering, at which more than 3000 delegates of both the Washington and
Oregon state grange societies will participate.
Plans toward this end were completed Sunday what a committee
representing the Washington State Grange and the Oregon State Grange met
at Bonneville for a joint conference. The Grangers of the neighboring
state will hold a convention at Vancouver, Wash., at the same time the
Oregon Grangers meet here.
Arrangements were made at the meeting yesterday, word of which reached
The Dalles this morning, for transportation by train and boat up the
river to relieve the traffic congestion on the Columbia River highway.
G. W. Cullender, C. P. Bush, E. O. Hiland and Chopin Mills, extensive
fruit growers of Vancouver, Wash., composed the committee of the
Washington Grangers, while L. R. Elliot of Friend, M. M. Burtner of
Dufur, O. A. Morgan of Eight Mile and Mr. And Mrs. J. G. Snipes
representing the Chenowith and Mill Creek Granges, were on the Oregon
Committee.
The picnic will be participated in by the largest delegation of growers
ever assembled in Oregon, it is believed. Selection of Bonneville was
made only after months of correspondence, during which time the
Washington Grangers offered many alluring inducements to the Oregon
Grangers to select a site on the Washington side of the river.
