STATE ASSOCIATION OF FARMERS' CLUBS. 



The opening session of the fifth annual meeting of the Michigan State 

 Association of Farmers' Clubs was held in the Senate Chamber of the 

 Capitol. Tuesday evening, December 14, 1897. One hundred and fifty 

 delegates representing one hundred clubs were in attendance. 



The address of welcome was delivered by Judge Joseph B. Moore of 

 the supreme court, who said in part: 



"It gives me great pleasure to greet the representatives of 100 farmers" 

 clubs, with a membership of 5,000 people who have met in the interest of 

 the 150.000 farmers of the state, who with their families comprise three- 

 quarters of a million of people, and to extend to you a most cordial 

 and hearty welcome to the capital of this great state. I have the more 

 pleasure in doing this because my father and three brothers are farmers, 

 N and in my boyhood days I lived upon a farm, and know about the troubles 

 as well as the compensations of farm life. Though so recent arrival 

 at Lansing, I can say to you with confidence that with its broad avenues, 

 lined with trees, its fine churches and its public buildings and its many 

 homes, it is a beautiful city. The citizens, too, are an intelligent and hos- 

 pitable people." 



The judge pointed out the various places of interest and urged the visi- 

 tors to inspect them all and make themselves known and at home. He 

 then gave an interesting account of the work of the supreme court and 

 expressed the hope that the meeting would be both interesting and 

 profitable. 



OO'l. I. H. Ives of the Ingham County Club responded and congrat- 

 ulated his associates upon the improvement in the times from one year 

 ago, saying that the faces of the farmers are certainly rounder and their 

 spirits are better. 



Pres. Daniells appointed standing committees as follows: General 

 Resolutions, Hon. A. N. Kiinniis, D. H. Speer, John Price, J. W. Hilton 

 and W. C. Fluinmerfelt. National Affairs, F. W. Munson, Brad L. Hu- 

 bert, Josiah Emery, Jay Sessions and L. D. Bromley. Club Extension, 

 Hon. A. L. Beemis, T. B. Halladay, M. W. West and M. K. Preston. 

 Constitution and By-Laws, H. P. Keys, Edwin Ball and P. J. Jennings. 

 Credentials, E. L. Lockwood, J. T. Chambers, E. Foster and W. L .Her 

 man. Auditing, J. W. Swigart and A. B. Cook. 



