North Carolina State Grange Meeting, 1936

Picture page from the State Grange meeting published in the January 1937 issue of Carolina Co-operator

Josiah W. Bailey, North Carolina’s senior senator, who came down from Washington to address the assembled delegates.

L.J. Taber, National Grange Master, in a characteristic pose as he drives home a point.

CHAMPION DEBATERS—Mrs. Helen Linney Cashion and T.E. Story, of the Wilkesboro Grange.

High point of the program was the Grange Banquet when some 300 Grange delegates and a number of honored guests broke bread together and listened to a number of illuminating speeches.

GOVERNOR CLYDE R. HOEY who brought an eloquent message to the Grange delegates, urging them to continue to take an active interest in affairs of government.

HARRY B. CALDWELL, State Grange Lecturer, who kept things moving at a lively pace, and (insert) Mrs. Caldwell, Juvenile Superintendent, who was pianist and general assistant.

SELCTED through countywide contests, these “Most Representative Grange Girls” competed in Raleigh at the State Convention for the State title. Reading, left to right, the girls and the counties they represent are: Clara Faye Hedrick, Davidson County; Ruth Davis, Robeson County; Katherine Jones, Wake County; Virginia Williams, Lee County; Marjorie Crews, Granville County; Rebecca Causey, Guilford County, Ada Braswell, Anson County; Ruby Myers, Rowan County; Mary Kerr Scott, Alamance County.

THE WINNER: Ada Braswell, Anson County, chosen “The Most Representative Grange Girl in the State.”