The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-11-29
sI.oo A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
Friday. Nov. 20, 1850.
The Cecil County Agricultural
Society.

that the Agricultural Society would
be reorganized" last Monday at tie
Stockholders annual meeting. A
comparatively large meeting assem-
blcd in the Secretary's Office at Elk
ton on that day, and considerable
interest was manifested. The meet
ing got together and organized for
business about IL. o'clock. The
Treasurer read the report, which told
the members that there was debt
against the Society of about $4,000
with a default of interest for two
years, that SIS, 600 OF that debt was car.
ried by the Building and Loan Asso.
citation, whose dues, interest and
fines for non payment amounted to
$1,000 year, tina the horse racing last
year cost the Fair $1,000 more than
it brought in; that premiums were
unpaid and other bills which would
more that absorb the surplus earn
ings of the last Fair, which left the
debt still running with interest uu-
paid. Mr.. Jno. S. Writ made a
strong speech, declaring the Society
hopelessly bankrupt and advocating
winding it up and organizing new
society. This heroic treatment ad-
vised by Mr.. Writ did not meet the
views of other members who request.
ed Mr.. Blake, the treasurer of the So
ciety, to lay before the meeting the
plan for saving its life that had been
thought of. "Retrenchment and re-
FORM were the pith of this plan.
The debt, it was thought, could be
funded at per cent interest, and the
privilege of season tickets be with
drawn from stockholders and exhib
itors, which they have been enjoying
and which has deprived the Society
of thousands of dollars; enough in
fact, in the ten years of the Society's
existence to balance the debt.
After much free discussion and
ventilation, the members were pretty
unanimous that if the original So
ciety wound up as a bankrupt that
there would not be any chance,
whatever, of organizing a new one
so the conclusion was to make an
other effort, and the election of a
new board of managers for the en-.
suing year. There are four of the
cd board included in the new man
agement.
Z. P. Lusby, Geo. S. Worley, DR.
G. NJ. Ellis, Goe. McQuilkin, Robt
G. Thackery, Danl. Bratton, Saml
Arbuckle, Richard L. Thomas, H. c.
Mcdowell, T. Bradun Gillespie, F.
S. Everist and VIM. Armstrong.
A resolution was passed by the
stockholders adjusting the manage
ment not to sell Pool privileges at
the next Fair, and the sense of the
meeting was that the racing purses"
should be very much cut down. The
Association did not appear to be far
enough advanced to comprehend the
possibility of an Agricultural Asso
citation whose Fairs should be placed
on useful educational, rather than on
a vicious amusement, basis, and vot.
ed to adhere to the old method,
which is passing away and will pass
full soon, but not too soon, however.
At the close of the session Mr..
Frank r. Scott offered the following
resolution:
THAT it is the sense of this meet
ing that it is against the interest of
this society to have it run by the
w. c. T. u"
The Chair proposed TO consider the
motion pleasantly but Mr.. Scott iu
sisting on its having been offered as
a serious business motion, member
moved TO lay the motion on the table,
which was very promptly and en-
phatically done.
The horse race has become repug-
Hant to both the moral sense and
common sense of farmers, who while
they indulge in the excitement, in
default of any other feature to en-
ploy their time, condemn this gam
bling device and feel that they and
Their calling are being humiliated by
being made tools of to bolster up a
vicious amusement to crafty the
depraved tastes of professional class.
es, who regard farming and the
farmer, in about the same light as
the peasant does his ass, very pa.
tient, useful beast to bear burthens
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