The Butler weekly times., 1916-10-12
HUDSON TOWNSHIP FAIR
Assistant Secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture Writes
of His Visit to Hudson.

an address at the sixth annu
meeting of the Hudson Farm an
- Home Improvement Club, and O
his return to Columbia, wrote a
interesting letter to the Missoul
Farmer, describing his trip. Th
following part of the letter is tax
en- from the Appleton City Joul
nal:
"Thc resourcefulncss of the pee
pie and the diversity of the crop
had been proven at the splendit
meeting we had that day attend
ed. This was the sixth annua
meeting of the Hudson Farm an(
Home Improvement Club. 1t wa.
really a community fair, farm
ers' institute and neighborhood
picnic combined, and seldom have
we attended a meeting fuller OF
inspiration or that gave greater
proof of the power of the people
when combined and rightly direct
ed.
"Some thought that we ought
not try to have our little fair this
year, said one man as the season
had been unfavorable, but we Just
didn't want to disappoint the boys
and girls, many of whom had
worked all summer in the hope of
having something to enter. There
land he pointed to a big water
melon, for instance. is a melon
grown by a little girl who week
after week carried water to keep
the vine alive. Do you think we
would want to disappoint her?
And there are others who worked
hard, too. No sir, we can afford
to give our boys and girls-our
best crop-a set back. This was
the spirit of the OCCASION; this
speaker was but the spokesman
for many. Il
IN the school h0usc-a good
school house, too-was a magnifi-
cent display of kitchen and pan
try stores and of other work ga
lore. But the real display was
on long tables in the beautiful
grove where fine dinner was
served with the best of sauce
hospitality. After dinner there
was good music by the Club or
chestra, made up of farmers and
trained and directed by young
farmer who only few years ago
came to make America his home.
Speaking followed the music
Then there were games and con-
tests for young and old. All, but
it was good to see all tile people at
play and plcasure--none too dig
nified, too busy, or too old to enter
into the spirit of the occasion.
" Among the many prizes award
cd was one for the oldest couple.
1t CHANGED that in our four mile
auto trip from the train we had
ridden with this splendid man and
woman, whose combined ages to-
tai l54 years. But they are not
old, not in thoughts. The wrink-
les with which time has wreathed
their faces are but the smiles Of
age. For more than half cen
tury has this community been ,
their home. AS we journcyed out
from town and as the car rounded ,
a curve in the road below, which
spread a valley full of farms and ;
beyond which were hills, the only
ones in view, the car was stopped. ,
Pointing to the hills, the good wo- s
better half" of that :
more than century and a half =,
who helped win this region from
The primitive prairie, said | call =,
those my mountains and many t
have been the times when | have II
come up here and looked away to-
ward them for help and rest and g
INSPIRATION AS this nature lover
spoke and opened her heart, even d
% stranger, we thought of the h
rope once expressed by the late |,
John Muir, the seer of the Sierras, 7
to young friend, he t
aid he hoped that she would find f
hat going up the mountains is 60
ng home and that Christ s SER G
non on the Mount is on every j
Mount. V
"Eo as our train carried us to- b
ward home at that day end and 81
week end we felt that it had been L
privilege to know more intimate
y such land and such a people. a,
md the thought came to us that al
THAT Missouri needs is more such al
rganizations-as the Hudson Farm W
nd Home Improvement Club and W
he neighboring clubs that have Ii
rown out from it, not as compet- N
;ors, but as cO-operators. Thus 81