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To the present drainage commissioner of Montcalm county has fallen the honor of supervising the final construction of one of the largest drainage projects in the history of the county. This is the Butternut Creek drain for which the original petition was filed in 1905. This drain, which has now been practically completed at a cost of $33.268.50. drains an enormous acre- age of land in Bloomer, Bushnell, Evergreen and Crystal townships. Alto- gether, the project covers about twenty-two miles of Butternut creek and its tributaries. The original petitioners for the drain were O. W. Wilson. E. J. Brown. C. E. Chandler, C. H. Ralph, R. Squires. A. Conklin, Orin Ranger, James .A. Stringham, John 11. Carey, J. J. Springsteen, Edward Ralph, Charles Davis, Jacob Boyer. John . A. Lee, Orin Baxter, Lilliam Isham. M. D. Health, T. B. Moss and H. W. Reasoner. of Bloomer township: George R. Lowe, T. B. Lovett, Bun Smith and Garner Smith. of Bushnell township: Hannah E. Long. Daniel Kidder. A. J. Holcomb and Amina M. Kidder, of Crystal township, and Jay Long, of Evergreen township.
Although the Butternut drain was halted by litigation for a number of years. the litigation actually was one of the by-products of the fight to have a new court house built at Stanton. Certain citizens who opposed the drain were friendly to Stanton's campaign for a new court house and the action of the board of supervisors was made to tally with Stanton's interests in the court house campaign. The opponents of the drain, moreover, urged
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as an argument against it that a previous agreement with the petitioners relieved them from any moral obligation to be taxed in building it.
Another large drainage project completed some years ago in Montcalm county was the Prairie Creek drain. the original petition for which was filed January 31. 1903. The main channel of this drain covered a distance of nearly six miles but there were numerons extensions and branches, one of which was known as branch No. 5. one mile and sixty-eight rods long. The petitioners for the Prairie Creek drain were C. L. Heisler. Sylvester Arntz. F. H. White, William A. Rickner. F. M. Fitmear. H. IT. Powell, Sherman Arntz and W. J. Dunn. of Evergreen township; Eli Squires, L. L. Jenks, Jacob Boyer. Eli Mack, W. H. Chambers, J. II. Jones, Mrs. E. S. Conklin, D. A. Newcomb. William A. Miller and Stoughton Mitchell. of Bushnell township. The work of construction on this drain began in 1904 and was finished in 1905.
USHERING IN GOOD ROADS.
The people of Montcahn county are thoroughly awake to the need of adequate drainage and nothing has had more to do with their thorough- going conversion in this particular than the realization that good roads are impossible until proper drains are laid. The attention of the people has repeatedly been called to this fact and liberal support of any meritorious project can now be depended upon. The antagonism to spending money for this purpose which was so marked in former years has largely disappeared.
The county drain commissioner either has just completed or has in process the following projects: Fisk and Johnson drain, Kneer and Robin- son drain. Mud Lake drain, No. 5 drain, Maloney drain, Manzer drain, Gibson-Culver drain, Huckleberry Lake drain, Baker Lake drain, Stillwater drain, the outlet to the Wiedbrank drain, Brine drain, Gage drain, Siple drain, Fairplain drain, Dean Creek drain, and the Barkham and Summers drain.
The largest river of Montcalm county is Flat river, which has its source in the north central part of the county and, passing through Entrican, Langs- ton, Gowen and Greenville leaves the county through section 35, in Eureka township. In the days when the timber resources of Montcalm county were being exploited this river was used largely to float logs down stream to market. Flat river is not navigable, however, and in fact there is no navi- gable stream in the county.
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MONTCALM COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
While they throw no great light upon the status of agriculture in Mont- calm county at the present time, the incorporation of various associations for promoting agriculture and stock raising are interesting in this connection.
The Montcalm County Agricultural Society, perhaps the first organ- ization of its kind in Montcalm county, was formed at a meeting held on September 5. 1878. Before this, however, on October 15, 1861, the Mont- calm county board of supervisors voted to raise one-tenth of a mill tax on the dollar for the benefit of an agricultural society. At the first meeting of the Montcahn County Agricultural Society the following officers were elected : President, E. D. Finch, Stanton : vice-president, Charles W. Blum- berg, Douglass; secretary, F. H. French, Stanton ; treasurer, Israel J. Lucas, Stanton : directors, Marcellus Palmer, Day; E. D. Hawley, Stanton; Will- iam F. Turner, Stanton.
According to the constitution adopted at the first session, the first annual meeting was held in Stanton on February 11, 1879. The society was then incorporated according to the laws of the state and before adjournment the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: President, Henry H. Hinds. of Day: secretary, F. H. Finch. of Sidney: treasurer, Israel J. Lucas, of Day; vice-presidents, Henry Kent. of Fairplain ; Charles Blum- berg, of Douglass; David Eschliman, of Ferris: R. W. Hoy, of Bushnell ; HI. G. Coburn, of Howard City; J. M. Dickerson, of Winfield; directors. Orville F. Mason, of Ferris; Marcellus Palmer, of Day; E. K. Wood. of Day; William F. Turner, of Sidney; E. D. Hawley, of Day ; II. N. Evans, of Fairplain; A. S. French, of Cato.
A special meeting of the board of directors was held on May 1, 1879, when measures were perfected for fencing and improving the grounds of the society, the committee appointed to attend to such matters being E. D. Hawley, H. J. Bailey and M. A. Reynolds. Such committee were also empowered to control and rent the grounds.
On June 2, 1879, A. I .. Slaght. F. K. Winsor, Giles Gilbert, M. A. Reynolds, John W. S. Pierson, R. T. Dyer. Wood & Thayer, Hawley & Pratt. Richards & Son, Oscar Fenn, Webber & Chapin, J. M. Weatherwax, R. S. Townsend, I. H. Hinds, E. D. Finch, A. De F. Gardner, William F. Turner and C. D. Allen loaned the society money to the amount of three hundred and ninety-eight dollars until the society was able to pay back the same.
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The first fair was held on September 23 and 24, 1879, at Stanton, dur- ing which the receipts for tickets amounted to $413.65 and at that time, from other sources, such as life-membership tickets, entrance fees, etc., there was also received $505.52.
At the second annual meeting, held in Stanton on January 13, 1880. the following officers were elected to serve for one year : President, Il. H. Hinds, of Stanton; secretary, M. H. Bachman, of Stanton; treasurer, J. R. Englebeck, of Stanton; vice-presidents. George W. Stanton, of Sheridan ; John W. S. Pierson, of Stanton; David Eschliman, of Ferris; D. C. Carp- enter, of Vickeryville: Charles Stinchfield, of Edmore: W. D. Bellows, of Langston ; directors (one year ), Alfred Stone, of Greenville; A. L. Smith, of Crystal: (two years ) Mortimer Gilleo, of Sheridan; Israel J. Lucas, of Stanton; ( three years ) Marcellus Palmer. of McBride; C. W. Blumberg, of Stanton; Henry Courter, of Sidney. Center.
The second annual fair was held on the society's grounds at Stanton on September 22, 23 and 24. 1880, and proved a success. One hundred and thirty-three season tickets were sold, and two hundred and seven premiums. ranging from twenty-five cents to three dollars, were awarded.
Among those who, by the payment of ten dollars each, became life members of the society were C. D. Allen. (). T. Atwell, HI. L. Bailey, C. W. Blumberg, O. O. Buckalew. C. W. Chapin. George W. Childs, L. Corey. George F. Case. R. T. Dyer, David Eschlimman. John R. Engleback, F. F. French, M. E. Fanning. Oscar Fenn. E. D. Finch, William Fuller, D. M. Gardner. Giles Gilbert. A. De F. Gardner, Alonzo Gilbert, E. D. Hawley. F. W. Higgins, H. H. Hinds. A. M. Hunt, Luther Handy, Fred Kalten- beck, James W. Lowing. A. Levitt, Charles A. Loughlin. Israel J. Lucas. Nelson Lunn, E. B. Moore. Alvin Morse, James McGarry, J. H. Mathews, C. B. Nye, John W. S. Pierson, T. F. Pratt, William Pratt, E. R. Powell, J. W. Richards, M. A. Reynolds, Robert Smith, Norman Shepard, A. L .. Smith, Stansell & Hurlbert, Willis Stansell, C. A. Thayer, William F. Turner, R. S. Townsend, Thomas S. Tew. George E. Wallace, E. K. Wood. J. Weatherwax, J. M. Weatherwax. F. K. Winsor. W. P. White, J. W. Willett and S. Perry Youngs.
The grounds for the Montcalm County Agricultural Society had been purchased originally by twelve citizens who each paid one hundred dollars into a fund for the purchase of real estate. After four or five fairs had been held the fair grounds were abandoned and the real estate reverted to the gentleman who had raised the fund of one thousand two hundred dollars. Later the property was sold and finally came into possession of E. D. Haw-
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ley who owned the land originally. For some years the fairs had been especially successful on account of the local interest in stock raising. Then the interest waned and the fair was abandoned.
About the time the fairs were abandoned or a little later, the Stanton Driving Park Company was organized by Elvas D. Hawley, Clarence W. Chapin, Oscar Fenn, H. H. Hinds, Norman Shepard, Israel J. Lucas, Mont- gomery A. Reynolds, John W. S. Pierson, Michael E. Fanning and Will- iam B. Pratt. This company was incorporated on January 31, 1888, with a capital of one thousand six hundred dollars.
The attempt to hold agricultural fairs had, in a way, preceded the agricultural developments of the county and it was natural that the fair was not long-lived. The Stanton Driving Park Company, which held three or four annual race meetings in August, on the fair grounds track, repre- sented an effort to hold the interest in these things until the county was more nearly ready for agricultural fairs. While they were being held the race meetings were popular and successful altogether.
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS.
The Northern Michigan Agricultural Society was organized in 1877, its first officers being Richard C. Miller, president; James Satterlee, secre- tary, and W. Backus, treasurer. The fairs of this society were held at Greenville for a number of years and were very successful, the receipts averaging $2,500 yearly.
The Greenville Fair Association, Ltd., was incorporated on November 29, 1905, by Theodore I. Phelps, David Jacobson, William W. Slawson, William D. Johnson, Meno S. Dadles, Frank S. Gibson, Junius E. Osmon, Ernest A. Kemp, Frank Nelson, Eli S. Clark, Charles M. Miller, Mikkel Skroder, Walter Feldt, William H. Browne, Gerrit J. Kastenberg, John H. Temmink, Willard J. Kingsbury, Thomas B. B. Winter, William H. Brad- ley. Delmer H. Moore, Eugene Rutan, Duncan K. Black, Willard J. Bennett, Rufus F. Sprague, James T. Ridley, Lawrence C. Lincoln, James W. Bel- knap, Cass T. Wright, Charles L. Rarden, Fred E. Ranney, Chris Hanson. Charles W. Johnson, J. Edward Van Wormer, Horace L. Bower, C. Jesse Church, James Callaghan, Charles T. Ranney, Marvin S. Wood, Carlyle R. Kirkbride, N. O. Griswold, William H. George, John Rensman and James Ahern. The purposes of this association were to conduct annually a gen- eral fair and exhibition of farm products, implements and machinery, ani- mals and fowls and all products of the house and field; all kinds of manu-
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factured goods, wares, merchandise, machinery and implements; to pro- vide for a track suitable for the speeding of horses, and to provide for and pay premiums for superior excellence in all exhibits.
On May 1, 1911, the Greenville Fair Association was incorporated with a capital of ten thousand dollars for the purpose of "conducting from time to time competitive exhibitions of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry and grain, fruit and agricultural products, and of farm and other machinery. tools, implements, utensils and vehicles, as well as of works of art and of skill." The incorporators included a long list of Greenville citizens.
Until 1910, the Greenville Fair Association was a limited partnership. but the re-organization in 19to made it a stock company with a capital of ten thousand dollars, as above indicated. New buildings were added from time to time until at the present time the association has one of the most complete fair equipments in the state, considering the size of Greenville. It has prospered for ten years and each year has received good support. The 1915 fair was one of the best ever held, both from the standpoint of patronage and financial showing. The grounds consist of about twenty acres valued at one thousand six hundred dollars. while the buildings are valned at ten thousand dollars. The annual meeting of the fair association is on November 24, of each year. The present officers are A. M. Berridge, president ; I. M. Nielsen, vice-president, and D. L. Beardslee, secretary- treasurer.
On November 17. 1897. the Citizens' Agricultural Society of Lakeview- was organized "for the encouragement and advancement of agriculture. manufacture, and the mechanic arts." with John W. Kirtland as president : Allen Macomber, vice-president: Salem F. Kennedy, secretary, and Charles F. French, treasurer. The trustees included M. B. Divine, William Rae. M. W. Staples. Peter Peterson and Charles W. Northern. This society held several fairs at Lakeview and then disbanded. The fairs, however. were very successful for a number of years.
THE FAIR AND RACES AT HOWARD CITY.
The Howard City Driving Park and Agricultural Association was formed on October 24. 1891. and the first fair was held on September 27. 28. 20 and 30, 1892. It was very successful. During the year previous thirty acres lying on the south line of the village were purchased and cleared up for the fairground and a very fast half-mile race track built. Success- ful fairs were held annually each fall. After the fair of 1896 financial
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difficulties were encountered following the hard times of the early nineties. and it was decided to offer the grounds for sale to clean up the debts. In April, 1897, the grounds were offered for sale but no one bid them in and finally twelve men guaranteed the payment of the encumbrance, paid the amounts due, and became the owners of the property. The association's. first officers were: President. John C. Collins: secretary. B. J. Lowrey; treasurer, N. W. Mather.
Finally eighteen business men formed an association in 1902 and again brought the fair to life, leasing the grounds from the owners for several years. The fair prospered and in June, 1907, twenty-six business men organized, purchased the grounds and buildings, and incorporated under the name of the Howard City Fair Association, holding annual expositions. that steadily grew in interest and importance until 1913, when the stock- holders voted to discontinue the fairs. The fair's surplus had been used up in taking care of the increasing expenses of maintenance of a plant that was steadily depreciating, and being able to pay off every dollar of indebted- ness and stopping square was considered better than risking debt in the future. In the spring of 1914 the property was sold and the old fair- ground is now a memory, and the land a fine farm.
The Howard City track had a history such as few towns could boast. State records were frequently smashed and horsemen from several states always looked forward to the Howard City races. They were always hard- fought contests and the towns possessed many ardent fans who enjoyed the sport. Prominent among the stockholders and officers of the fair besides those named. were : S. C. Scott, J. A. Collins, W. H. Collins, W. H. Lovely, J. W. Lovely, J. H. Haskins. H. M. Gibbs, L. L. Church, J. H. Arbogast, Warren Lisk, C. G. Larry, Richard Perry. S. V. Bullock, Blaine Henkel. A. M. Cook, J. B. Haskins, W. J. Smith, Fred Ashley, J. B. King. John Wat- son and others.
The presidents of the fair were J. C. Collins. J. A. Collins, J. W. Lovely, J. B. King. Fred Ashley. W. H. Collins. B. J. Lowrey was the. secretary continuously until 1908, when he was succeeded by J. B. Haskins. Treasurers were N. W. Mather, S. C. Scott. H. M. Gibbs, Fred Ashley and D. W. Clapp.
ORGANIZATIONS OF STOCK BREEDERS.
The Crystal Horse Breeders' and Turfmen's Association, of Crystal, was incorporated on August 31, 1907, with a capital of $10,000 for the pur- pose of conducting trotting and running races. by Marcus Pollasky, C. W.
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LaDu, E. E. Fuller, C. DeYoung, R. B. Smith, F. T. Kimball, S. N. King, H. S. Phillips, C. 11. Morgan and George A. Fink.
The Richland Guernsey Breeders' Association was incorporated on June 2, 1908, with a capital of one thousand dollars, by Edgar S. Wagar, Harry E. Wagar, James Purdon, Frank 1 .. Holmes, Archie Foster, Thomas W. Musson, William A. Wood, Angus H. McDonald, Frank Eitelbus, H. Peter Hansen, Hosmer P. Beebe, Herbert J. Wilson, John C. Sack, Michael Krohn, John F. Granzo, Minnie B. Thomas and Leo Ehrlich.
The Edmore Driving Park and Agricultural Association was incor- porated on November 10. 1885, with a capital stock of two thousand dol- lars, and with William R. Jones, William 11. Gardner, Harry W. Robson, James K. Train and William Brown as directors for the first year. The original stockholders included, besides the directors, James M. Corry, A. J. Briggs, F. G. Wagar, R M. Wilson. S. Landon, Robert M. Orser, A. Emer- son, A. P. Curtis, Charles E. Taylor, John Stone, Charles E. Brown, A. H. Farman, 1). B. Morhead and N. L. Naragan.
The Montcalm County Horse Breeders' Association was incorporated on June 26, 1875, for the purpose of improving the "stock of horses" in Montcalm county. Its original capital was six thousand dollars and its incorporators were Myron Rider, Henry Hart, L. Judd Macomber, L. H. Colwell, L. B. Lester, N. F. Derby. J. H. Edsall, J. M. Bennett and H. A. Smith.
STORY OF OSCAR FENN.
While not typical of individual progress an article appearing in the Stanton Weekly Clipper of December 3, 1880. under the caption "Five Years Progress" may be regarded as somewhat typical and, in any event. descriptive of one Montcalm county resident's success, both in an industrial and agricultural way, during the late seventies.
"In the winter of 1875." says the Clipper, "O. Fenn, then register of deeds of Montcalm county. located his shingle mill about two miles north- east of Stanton in the midst of a five-hundred-and-twenty-acre tract of unbroken pine forest. There is yet about three months work and then the entire tract will have been manufactured into shingles, in round numbers, 50,000,000, exclusive of culls. The average price paid for shingles during the last five years has been two dollars per thousand as near as can be ascer- tained. This would make the gross value of the first crop from this 520 acres $100,000.
"Mr. Fenn commenced clearing in April, 1877, and that fall harvested
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his first crop, about 8 acres, and obtained about 10 tons of millet. That fall and the next spring he cleared 22 acres more land and harvested from it. and that cleared the previous spring, 16 acres of oats with a yield of 36 bushels per acre, from 5 acres. 8 tons of millet and from 10 acres about 15 tons of hay. In the fall of 1878 and spring of 1879 he added 53 acres to his clearing, and that fall harvested 18 acres of wheat, which yielded 24 bushels per acre: 35 acres of oats with a total yield of 1.050 bushels and 30 acres of meadow which made 35 tons of hay. In the fall of 1879 and spring of 1880, 69 acres more were cleared and in 1880 he harvested 60 acres of wheat. partly "stubbed in," and obtained 1. 160 bushels of the finest quality of wheat, from 37 acres, 1.040 bushels of oats. from 55 acres, 65 tons of hay.
"This fall sufficient clearing was done to make the total number of acres under cultivation 200. He has 40 acres of wheat now in the ground and looking well, 75 acres seeded down for meadow. He has 120 acres of clearing now under way, which he proposes to have ready for wheat next fall. In 1878. Mr. Fenn erected a substantial frame barn on the premises 36x46 and the carpenters who built it laughed at him and wanted to know what he would use it for. presuming he could never raise enough produce on the place to make such a barn necessary. Notwithstanding this predic- tion, this barn was only a circumstance. In the summer of 1880, Mr. Fenn was forced to call in the aid of the carpenters again and build another barn. this time larger and better than the first. The new barn is 48x50 feet, with elevator roof. The outside posts are 20 feet and inside posts 32 feet. Under the whole structure is an 8 foot basement formed by the stone founda- tion upon which the barn rests. There is not a handsomer bit of masonry under any dwelling in the country. The barn is well built, handsomely painted and well lighted with windows and transoms over the doors.
"Besides these barns Mr. Fenn has a neatly-built granary 20x30 feet and two stories high. The produce of the farm this year filled them to their utmost capacity and it became necessary to store several hundred bushels of grain elsewhere. The farm is well cleared and the entire 200 acres of improvements are under good substantial board fences and the lay of the land is as good as any man can ask for. A first-class windmill pump sup- plies the water for the stock and a set of Fairbanks scales adjoins the new barn for the convenience of the farm. The farm is only one of many of like proportions that have sprung up around us within the past four or five years and will serve as an index to the rapid development of our country
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and as index to our future agricultural prospects. There is no farming country in the world that can make a better showing than our pine lands. condemned as they are by the wiseacres of the old, worn-out agricultural districts of the East and South. Mr. Fenn's shingle mill is one of the best and best-managed mills in this section of country, with a capacity of 60 to 65 thousand per day. Thirty men are now employed in operating it. but as this mill in a few short months will have fulfilled its mission and become one of the things of the past. we deem it unnecessary to make any further mention of it in this connection."
This farm is now owned and occupied by Josiah Martin, who procured it from the heirs of Oscar Fenn.
MONTCALM COUNTY FARMERS' INSTITUTE.
Although the farmers of Montcalm county have met together in insti- tutes for many years, the first institute held under the present arrangement. by which the work is done under supervision of a state superintendent of institutes, was held at the Greenwood Grange hall on December 29, 1908.
The state law requires that the Michigan State Agricultural College holds a two-day institute in cach county having an institute organization and authorizes the holding of as many one-day institutes as conditions war- rant. County institutes are now being held in about eighty of Michigan's eighty-three counties and in nearly all of these counties one or more one- day institutes are held in addition to the county institute. Besides the "county round up" institute held at Stanton on January 29 and 30, 1915. one-day institutes were held at Greenville, January 11 : Sidney, January 12; Trufant, January 13; Lakeview, January 16: Edmore. January 18; Vesta- burg, January 19: Crysta. January 20, and Fenwick. January 23. Two- day institutes were held at Howard City, January 14 and 15, and at Carson City. January 21 and 22.
In fifty-two Michigan counties women's congresses were held in con- nection with the county institutes in 1915. The first women's congress held in Montcalm county, according to the minutes of the secretary, was held at Lakeview on Friday afternoon, January 22. 1909. Since that date women's congresses have been held each year in connection with the county insti- tute.
The first secretary of the Monteahn County Farmers' Institute was Thomas Brayman and at the first meeting held at the Greenwood Grange hall. E. K. Smith, of Hart. was the state speaker. At this meeting the fol-
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lowing members were received: Howard City-A. W. Rogers, L. L. Church, William Hand, Austin Barber, Henry Miller, J. H. Haskins, J. C. Gilmore, W. H. Westbrook and Finley Schoonmaker; Morley -- Levi Finch. C. Hess, R. Fry, J. W. Miller, Verne Cole, Thomas Gordin, Corwin Bray- man. C. A. Houghtalin, M. E. Alverson, Matt Johnson, F. E. Cole, Clyde Cole. Frank Winright and Thomas Brayman. The receipts of this meeting were $5.75.
The next meeting of this society was held at the Greenville Grange hall on December 30 and 31, 1908. The attendance was very good and twenty- three new members were received. A meeting was held at Trufant the fol- lowing day, but the attendance was not all that could be desired as it was New Years Day. However. twenty-four new members were taken in. The next meeting was held at Butternut. January 4, 1909. E. K. Smith, the speaker, was very well liked and the attendance was very good. The meet- ings of the association on January 22 and 23 were of great importance and very interesting. They were held at Lakeview. The secretary's report submitted at this meeting showed the balance on hand to be $36.51. the amount of the expenses being $38.28. The report submitted at the close of the meetings in 1909 showed $34.58 to be the amount on hand and the expenses $17.78.
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