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1886

Horticultural Exhibition.—

As heretofore the annual exhibition
held on Thursday of last week of the
Sandy Spring Horticultural Society was
a most interesting and successful affair.
Notwithstanding the threatening weather
of the morning, the display of the
products of the intelligent and thriving
Sandy Spring community in the way of
fruits, flowers, vegetables, needlework,
etc., etc., was exceedingly fine and elicited
warm expressions of admiration
from the visitors from other parts of
the State and from the District of Columbia.
Brief felicitous speeches, appropriate
to the occasion, were made by
Mr. H. C. Hallowell, president of the
society, Francis Miller, John M. Smith,
Admiral Jouett and Charles R. Hartshorne,
after which the premiums were
announced, and the proceedings of a
very enjoyable day were concluded.

Grange Dedication.—

At a meeting of Brighton Grange,
No. 60, held December 18th, 1885, the
question of building a new Hall was
first mentioned, and on Wednesday,
September 15th, it was ready to be dedicated.
Thus in less than nine months
the whole preparatory work of agreeing
upon plans, securing money and making
contracts, as well as the actual labor
of the mason, the carpenter and the
painter, was done. This shows a most
commendable zeal and enterprise on the
part of a grange, which at that time
numbered just thirty members, though
now there are fifty names on the roll;
and that the right men were in the right
place when brother Isaac Hartshorne
was made chairman of the building committee,
and brother Charles R. Hartshorn
chairman of the finance committee.

The hall is two stories, 22x48 feet, the
grange room above, with an anteroom
and dressing room for the sisters, has
an arched ceiling and is finished in hard
wood, and is oiled and is very pretty and
convenient. The lower floor will be
used as a public hall. The lot adjoins St.
Luke's Episcopal church and is nearly
opposite the public school, and is well
located in the corner where the roads
from Unity and Brookeville intersect.

In spite of the continual dripping of a
very rainy day two hundred visitors
from the neighboring Granges of Olney,
Liberty Grove and Glenwood assembled
to assist Worthy Master Murray, of Md.,
State Grange, in the ceremony of dedication;
which is very impressive, especially
when all rise to their feet as the altar,
with its open Bible, is brought in,
and Flora, Pomona and Ceres lay on it
offerings of flowers, fruits and grain as
emblems of that Faith, Hope and Charity
which the Worthy Chaplain, in the
words of St. Paul, enjoined upon us.
An interesting feature was the spirited
singing of several grange songs, and a
brass band enlivened the occasion while
a lunch was being spread by the members
of Brighton Grange.

In the afternoon brother J. Thomas
Clarke, the Master of Ceremonies, made
some very complimentary remarks
about Brighton Grange before he introduced
the speakers to the public meeting.
He was followed by brother H. C.
Hallowell, Worthy Master of Olney
Grange; Rev. Dr. Hutton, Dr. Thomas
Welch, the Worthy Lecturer of Md.
State Grange; Worthy State Master
Thomas F. Lansdale and C. R. Hartshorne.

An appropriate closing was given to
the occasion by the reading of an historical
sketch of the location of the
Grange and the immediate neighborhood
by the Hon. A. B. Davis. Part of
the foundation of the building rests on
the site of a "Chapel of Ease" erected
by permission of the British Government,
and with a tax raised by the Government
in 1758, and which was afterwards
destroyed by a storm.

The house warming of Brighton
Grange will long be remembered as a
most pleasant and interesting event—
even the rain which was so sadly needed
to soften the clods for seed time was
taken as an augury of the harvest which
is sure to follow.

At Olney Hall, October 5th, a public
meeting was addressed by G. H. Duncan,
G. W. C. T., and C. J. Karsner, G.
W. S., after which an Independent Order
Good Templars was organized by
the speakers, with over fifty chartered
members. This will be called Olney
Lodge, No. 249.

Mr. Robert Magruder and Miss M. L.
Higgins, daughter of Mr. Charles A. C.
Higgins, were married at the residence
of the bride's father, near Brookeville,
on Wednesday of last week, the 13th

One day this week a son of Mr. Michael
Peter, residing near Colesville, was
severely wounded about the face and
head by the accidental discharge of a
gun, which he was handling. The entire
charge entered his forehead and
left eye, and it is thought its sight will
be totally lost. He is supposed to have
been examining and looking into the
barrel when the gun went off. He is
about sixteen years of age. His condition
is still critical.

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