The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-03-13
WITH BURTON FARMERS.
"The Times" Spends a pleasan. Ds

"The Times" Spends a Pleasant Day.
One of the oldest and best of the farmers
clubs in Michigan is the organization known
as the Burton Farmers Club, and II Is COM
posed of prosperous and contented families
progressive and far-sighted-men and So-
men who grumble not at the farmers lot In
life but with their children and neighbors
enjoy the days as they go, making the best
of the surrounding conditions.
Last Thursdays meeting was held at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. Monkey. Mr..
Monkey Is now nearly so years of age and
has always been hard working farmer,
yet his mind is active and his opinions,
which he Is able to express most concisely
and forcibly, are generally on the right side
Of the question and he emphasizes them
with illustrations that show to all the ground
on which he stands.
The club consists of fifteen families,
twelve of whom were present. Supervisor
Geo. Stanlake, of Middlebury, as president,
called the club to order at 11:30 and Chap
lain Randall read the first chapter of Mark
and offered fervent prayer.
A number of questions prepared at the
last meeting by the committee were read by
Miss Bertha Shepard, acting secretary, and
answered. "What proof have we that the
men of Wyoming appreciate woman suf-
frage?" Mrs. Devendorf answered very full
| ly. She said that the fact that the men had
allowed the women suffrage for 25 years was
sufficient proof of their appreciation. When
congress, or committee of congress, sent
word that Wyoming could come into the
Union If woman's suffrage was done away
with, they sent back word that they would
stay out of the Union 100 years before they
would give it up. The women were needed
in all the struggles of life. The last contest
of the good against the bad Of this county
was proof that the women we're needed.
| penny wise and pound foolish" Mrs.
Guilford stated was best explained by eX-
amples. Buying worthless article be-
cause it costs less; going thinly clad to save
expense at sacrifice of health; neglecting
education, lectures and amusements that the
cost may be saved; the continued bowling
about taxes; the voting down Of local op-
ton while admitting that it was desirable
and necessary and that the poverty, insani-
| ty, imbecility, quarrels, fights, murders and
suicides were directly due in large part to
the liquor traffic; voting down local option
because of penny wise feeling that taxes
would be raised; poorhouses will continue
TO be filled. prisons oyercrowded and asy-
lums have no empty rooms because of the
pound foolish ideas. Never until the last
election had she realized the necessity Of
woman suffrage; ''the roads are good
enough" cry was of the same origin; the
idea of doing away with the Office of school
commissioner was the most simple; would
men go back to the old method where the
township school directors who did not know
whether the word ''verb" was disease or a
house plant, put in their daughters as teach
ers. The question asked at farmers meet
ing SIS our country worth what it costs?" 1t
would seem would make any honest mans
blood boil. would you live in India where
they burn the widows of dead men to make