A 125 years ago, an active community called Smith’s Creek existed at the corner of Bard and Sullivan Roads in Sage Township, a mile north of today’s M-61. Besides the school that still stands on that corner, now a private home, there was a church that stood kitty-corner from that school. It’s impending construction was first noted in the Gladwin County Record of March 25, 1904. By that time the lo…