The club also has a practical side. Not only do they work for better schools and good roads but they cooperate in the buying and selling of farm products and together purchase their coal, twine, lumber, seeds and blooded stock. Constantly flying over the club is a fine new American flag, for the members, every one, are Americans, although they have gathered together from Germany and France, Norway and Sweden, Poland, Bohemia, and Ireland. Last year the club members planted five hundred trees about their country club and in the years to come this building which is now located on the barren prairie will be surrounded by a beautiful grove. When we recall that this country club has been planned and erected by farmers miles away from any village, the graveness of its lesson seems all the more apparent. Our state is so tremendously large, the farms so far apart, and the cities so few that we can never really have a rural society life until some such effort is made to break down the barriers of the past, and establish country clubs in the country for country people.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 353