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. Earline, Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society http://community.oregonlive.com/cc/genealogy 78th Annual Wasco County Pioneer Association Reunion May 5 & 6, 2000 The Dalles, Oregon http://w3.gorge.net/dzopf/wcpa.htm