The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-05-04
Maple River Farmers Club.

Maple River Farmers Club.
The members of the Maple River Far
mers' Club certainly never had more
pleasant day for the April meeting of their
club than Thursday OF last week proved to
be-. The weather was almost too fine for
those who were still interested In the sowing
of oats but the majority Of the members
were evidently In the same shape as were
the hosts who had worked little harder
and put In a few more hours In order to
heve the crop In and out OF the way before
the day of the club meeting came around
The warmer spring weather too had brought
the days when the club does not meet until
after dinner, and when the TIMES repre-
sentative drove into the yard at one O'Clock
standard time, he found himself among the
very foremost to arrive.
The work of putting out the horses, and
incidentally of inspecting the big roomy
basement stable, occupied some time among
the men and the greeting of the friends and
neighbors who began to arrive took up
more of the time out of doors until when all
were finally within the house and words of
welcome had been received and greetings ex-
changed, 1t was fully half past two o'clock
when the club was actually called to order.
The opening exercises were then taken up
and solemn hush spread over the rooms as
the chaplain read from the pages of human
ity's greatest book and then breathed fer
vent prayer to its author for forgiveness,
help, and guidance of those assembled there.
The resignation of one Of the members of
the club, Mr.. VIM. Lewis, was read and ac-
cepted. An invitation from Mr.. and Mrs.
j. j. Whelan to the entire Maple River
Farmers Club membership to be present
with them at the meeting Of the North
Newburg club on the day of Its next meet
ing, May 10, was read and was accepted by
the club. Solos were sung by Messrs. Mar
tin and Richardson.
J. Just before the regular program of the
afternoon was taken up, Mr.. K. j. Cook an
nounced that he would like to see certain
resolution offered and adopted by the club
He had he said, received copy of paper
with an article in it which purported to be
q complaint from the farmers regarding the
action Of the state tax commission, the
argument being that it would make their
owA taxes higher by assessing them on per-
sonal property which they had escaped
paying on before. Mr.. Cook resented the
implication that the farmers are beginning
to squeal because their personal property
was to be assessed and wanted the club to
put itself on record once more as approving
the action of the commission and standing
ready to do all that 1t could to further the
work of the supervisors In getting all of the
taxable property on the rolls. M. A. b.
Cook then offered the folio wing resolution
which was adopted and copy of which
was ordered to be sent to the town super
visor to show him that the Maple River
club stood behind him In any effort he
might make to place every dollars worth OF
taxable property on the rolls. The resolu-
ton is as follows: Resolved, that the
Maple River Farmers club approves the
work of the State Tax Commission in un-
earthing hitherto untaxed property, also in
its efforts to establish our system of taxa
ton on q uniform basis.
The regular program was then begun
with paper by Ira Snyder on The Duty of
the People in the Coming Conventions.
Mr.. Snyder thot that the work was princi-
pally done before the conventions were ever
called to order. He summarized the politi-
cal procedure as consisting of caususes at
tended by a very few who proceeded to
nominate some man who had worked up a
sentiment for himself The convention it.
self, he said, was run by the talent or push
of the party and the people themselves had
little or nothing to say In the matter Mr..
Snyder limited himself to statement OF
what he considered the way in which the
methods of today worked and that was that
iu effect they left little to the people except
to vote after the convention had done Its
work.
Mrs. Frank Sheldon was on the program
for paper on the Power of Personal Infu-
ence and read one of the best selections
which was ever presented to any society for