The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-05-18
North Newburg Farmers' Club.

North Newburg Farmers Club.
The North Newburg Farmers Clul
turned out in full force on Thursday Of
last week to make the May meeting Of
the club one of the most successful in
its history. The day itself seemed to
be all that could be desired until the
noon hour when breeze sprang up
which later on interfered somewhat
with the preparations made by the host
for the entertainment of his guests. In
fact before the last ofsthe guests had ar
rived the breeze was strong enough to
blow any of the visitors from the west
into the spacious farm yard of Mr.. j. j.
Whelan, their host, without any effort
whatever on the part of their horses,
and the writer suspects that the horses
of the visitors, If not the visitors them
selves, made use of this circumstance.
Perhaps the assurance with which the
writer speaks Of the power of the wind
does not seem to be justified, but he can
assure all that if they had made the
trip as he did, on bicycle from Vernon
station two miles over the hills against
that wind, they would be ready to con-
cede even more to its power than he
has done.
The host and hostess had invited not
only the entire membership of their
own, the North Newburg Club. but the
entire membership of the Maple River
Club as well. To make provision for
the reception of the extra number. a
large tent had been erected at the front
of the house with an open side toward
the front veranda, all being so arranged
that those seated in the tent could hear
equally well with those in the house,
the arrangement providing that those
taking part should stand on the veranda
Immediately in front of the doors to
two of the rooms of the house where
the guests were seated, and directly in
line with a third room. The scheme
was a splendid one with one exception
the wind had not been taken into. &C.
count. The result was that while the
tent did not blow down it was too un-
comfortable to accommodate visitors.
There was no complaint from this
source, however, as all found them
selves able to get room in the house it.
self or else in the shelter of the tent,
close to the open door where they
could hear as we'll as tho they were in
the house itself. AS matter of fact,
too, the few guests who were late and
had to make use of this place, took
more than little satisfaction out of the
matter by slyly trying to tease their
host for not taking the weather into
consideration when he made his plans.
The meeting was begun about two
o'clock by the reading of the scriptures
and the offering of prayer by the Rev.
G. Z. Benson, of Vernon, who was called
on by the president of the club, Mr..
John McCollum. An exceptionally we'll
rendered piano solo followed the prayer
Civ NV III IuOotioh VI TIC udyo plO-
gram, The Michigan Legislature; the
Last and the Next, was called up. The
subject was assigned TO Mr. A. d. Top
ping, who began by stating that the way
in which the state Legislature had con-
Quoted itself was matter of regret to
every public spirited citizen of the state
as was also the exhibition of fraud
which had been made in high places.
The cause of it, he thot, was the low
standard of morality which generally
prevailed in politics. A candidate was
he said, asked first how much strength
he could put into the campaign and this
in too many instances simply meant how
much money he could command for the
use of the committees. Asa result many |
men of ability and character were con-
tinually being passed by and men of a |
lower standard of morality were chosen |
until they had a grade so low that the |
legislators sent to Lansing would even |
fitch the furniture from the capitol. |
Any man who had so little respect for |
his constituency as to act as many of |
the members of the last legislature did |