The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-10-10


the Fair Grounds Of the Agricultural So
ciety. This institution in now on firm
basis, and the exhibition of progress and
products, made evident on the 2sth and
goth Of Sept, 1860, is proof Of the in
terest it has awakened among all the de.
partments of industry in which our peo-
pie are engaged. AS of all like projects
in new country, it has had its day of
struggle. That time has passed, and
vigorous, earnest life will add to its sup
port and countenance those who may
have heretofore withheld their contribu-
tons and countenances from this plan to
encourage industry and improvement.
"Tall oaks from little acorns grow"
when the acorn is left to the fostering care
of dame nature. But this grand maternity
is prolific in thorns weeds and thistles
when man attempts to rule, ane guide,
and subjugate. She brings, without par
TALLY, the suns rays Of light and
heat, the dew, "the early and latter rain"
and they fall alike on field and wood, on
hill and plain, on the toll grown grain and
the idle wild. The "curse" that doomed
man to live by the sweat Of his brow, is
not made more evident in the greedy alb
sortion of natures nourishment by rank
luxurious growth Of proftless nothings,
whenever labor strives for the mastery,
than has been given by the listless indiffer-
ence and croaking forebodings of do-noth-
ings who have grown large in crying down
the efforts made 10 place our County Fair
upon firm footing, and giving it the inn
petus necessary to makeit growingpros-
perity. All thanks we say to those ear
nest workers who first started the project
and have bolstered it up in its infancy,
against Encouragement and opposition,
against listless Indifference and positive
invective, until it now commands the at
tention, the attendance and the interests
of the whole county. Let us not forget
the efforts of the good and faithful men
who have from year to year given time
and entreaty without stint, to the devel-
opment of this project, when we assem-
bic TO enjoy the evidence of their perse-
verance.
Some earnest ones must organize and
continue from year TO year such projects
until the people are aroused to the bene-
fits that must and will accrue to them,
and when we attend these Fairs because
it is our interest now to do it, remember
to thank the projectors. We have TAX
en- occasion 10 refer rs above without indi-
vidualizing our benefactors, because we
feel the obligation that the people of the
County of Ottawa are under to the eff
cient officers and members of the several
committees, who have struggled in years
gone by, and now present their organiza-
ton as q prosperous, growing, onward in
stitution. Don't lose sight of like rehec-
tions as year after year we shall assemble
to celebrate new eras in the growth and
development Of Ottawa County.
We cannot give full account of The
proceedings, but will give brief outline
as we recall them from the multitudes of
incidents and digressions that are togcth-
or associated in our mind as the result of
two days spent at the Fair Grounds.
The first day was principally used by
contributors in making the entries for COM
petition and the premiums. From almost
every part of the county the list shows a
contribution. According to appointment
the