The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-02-28
VOL. xxx
FARMERS CLUBS.
County Associations Semi-Annual
Meeting Well Attended and
Profitable.

Meeting Well Attended and
Profitable. .
The Methodist church in Corunna
was well filled last Saturday morning
when the president called for order at
the semi annual meeting of the Shia-
wassee County Association of Farmers
Clubs Rev. R. Woodlands offered
prayer and the forenoon subjects were
taken up.
Leo c. Reynolds told of "Flocks
Have Seen" discussing the question of
sheep raising in an able manner. M.
M. Byington told Of THE prospect for
Profitable Lamb Feeding" urging the
members of the club to study the ques-
ton and then go into the business care
fully. "How to Make Poultry Raising
on the Farm Profitable, was explained
y by Charles Greenwalt.
''The Work of an nUp-todate Farmers
Club" was discussed by E. J. Cook, r.
Weidman and others and an adjourn
ment taken for dinner, an excellent one
prepared and served by the ladies of
the NJ E. church in the room adjoining
the church.
At 1 o'clock the program took diff
ferent turn. Miss Peterson recited on
the evils of tobacco splitting and chew
ing and in the abcence of Mrs. F.
Owens, Mrs. F. d. Clarke was asked to
take up the subject of How TO Train
Husband She said she found one
already trained and believed that the
training of husband should be done
by mothers, not by wives. Respect for
mothers and sisters was the best ele-
ment. She urged the wives to go with
their husbands whenever and wherever
they were asked.
Rev. Woodlands shifted the subject
to the training of boys-urging that
they be interested in the work Of
the club, churches and literary socie-
ties, kept off the streets and that every
one take some special interest in one or
more boys. Howard Slocum said if
boys could be taught to read good books
and papers and no bad ones it would be
the saving of most of those who would
go wrong. He urged the closing of
places where boys congregate and learn
bad habits and see bad things.
The audience sang America" with a
will and Miss Hazel Lowe rendered
piano music that was much enjoyed.
Mrs Clayton Cook read an excellent
paper on Social Sanitation" She
thought none should indulge in bad
things to even a small extent. The
monumental evils are: First-The
whisky traffic. Why small minority
should be allowed to fill the almshouses
and charity homes she did not under
stand, unless it was because each Of the
other nine-tenths wanted his neighbor
to do the work of sbolishing the traffic.
Second-Tobacco Men must train the
boys against it for the user becomes
unable to resist it after acquiring the
habit. Third-Card, billiard and pool
playing. These so-called harmless
amusements lead TO gambling, slum
associations and criminal institutions
-Fourth-The divorce evil-the destroy
ing of the family life-with that comes
the destroying of the nation. The di-
vorce conditions at present make us be.
iieve we are getting near the danger
line. One cause is that women are get
ting too independent-having learned
that they can make living they are
becoming unwilling to endure the trials
of home life and as they come into daily
competition with men there seems to
be less respect for them. Man should
respect woman more if she is able to
take care of herself, but it should not
result in their being allowed to break
the matrimonial bond because each can
60 their way and get along without the
ether financially. Applicants for di-
vorce should be made to wait five years
before its being granted. Few divorce
cases would stand the strain of such a
wait
s. e. Parkill was called on to discuss
"The Moral Financial Obligation.
He thought the matter had been thor
oughly discussed and no new phases
had appeared. Judge Wisner's refer
ence to the county as soulless corpora