The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-29
THE Cecil Farmers Club met
with John P. Wilson, near

Prest., Elwood Balderston; CORES
bonding secretary, M. G. Reeder;
recording secretary, Cecil E. Ewing;
treasurer, j. Fl. Maxwell; A. j.
Kitchener, J. P. Wilson, R. K.
Rawlings, J. T. Grove, J. s. Scar
borough, R. T. Cameron. G. R.
Biles. Visitors present-Rev. J.
P. Otis, Lewis Oldham, Carroll
Oldham.
Minutes of previous meeting read
and approved.
The committee appointed to
secure charter for Cecil Farmers
Telephone company reported that
the bill had been passed by the
Legislature as presented, excepting
the slight change of the words
"Cecil County" instead of clowns
and villages" as in the original
draft.
A letter of inquiry was read from
II. T. Cause, the recent purchaser
of the Horseshoe farm" who
wished to secure phone service
from that place to some central
point.
On motion it was decided to call
a special meeting of the Club, at
the home of Robt. I. Cameron, on
Saturday, 23rd inst, for the pur-
pose of organizing the Cecil Farm
ers' Telephone Company. This
meeting was held at the appointed
time and place and it was decided
that the company should be organ
lied not solely for the benefit and
use of the members of the club but
for any persons in Cecil county who
wished to become patrons.
A committee was appointed to
draft constitution and bylaws,
committee consisting of J. P. Will
son, c. Ross Biles and f. r. Cherry.
Committee on nomination Of officers
and trustees-J. T. Grove, Robt.
T. Cameron, Elwood Ba!derston, J.
p. Wilson, with compensations to
be named by Board of Directors.
A communication was read from
the Maryland Farmers League
stating it was the intention of those
having charge of the Maryland Elk
{ hibit at the St. Louis Exposition to
considerably curtail the original ex
hibit and exclude the horticultural
display, claiming the amount ap-
propriated by the legislature was
not sufficient for the original pur-
poses. After considerable discus
sion on the subject, the following
committee was appointed to draft a
resolution expressing the sentiment
of the club: Jos. S. Scarborough,
M. G. Reeder and John P. Wilson.
The committee submitted the fol-
lowing resolution which was unan-
imously passed:
Resolved: That in view of the infor-
nation received of the contemplated
abandonment by our commission of at
tempting to withdraw our horticultural
exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition,
that the movement has our unqualified
disapproval, and it is rude awakening
: to the fact that our commission is max
ing an egregious blunder, since the appro-
priation of $4,000 asked for has been
provided, and after all specified items in
the count there remains SAG 900 as a con
tingent fund, we have strong suspicion of
graft and we again earnestly protest
against such perversion of the appropria-
ton.
The committee appointed to draft
a resolution on the death of w. w.
Moore submitted the following,
which was unanimously passed:
Resolved. That we. the members of
the Cecil Farmers Club, bow in humble
submission to the will of our Heavenly
Father, in removing our fellow member,
William w. Moore, by death.
Resolved. That we recognize that in
his death this Club loses the wise counsels
o%en eminent and valued honorary men,
Der: that his character is unblemished,
his ability 1n9uestioned, his charity
universal.
RESOLVED, That our Sss is his ever
lasting gain.
RESOLVED. That these resolutions be
spread on the minutes of this Club and
that a copy be sent the family of the
deceased. :,
A. ]. MicHENER,
r. K. RAWLINGS, :.
ELwooD BALDETSToN,
Committee.
Jos. T. Grove stated he had a
piece of pasture on which the so
became messy and tight. He had
tried narrowing and cutting up the
sod thoroughly and would report
result later.
The host was called upon for his
essay and presented the following:
RETROSPECT.
Something over thirty-two years ago. in Feb
ruary, 1871, an assemblage of representative farm
ers Of upper Cecil county met at Kidd's Purchase.
the home OF Joseph W. Reynolds aad organized
what has since been known as the Cecil Farfhers