The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-03-12
The Cecil Farmers Club.
Interesting Meeting Held February 24Club Wants Rising
Sun-Far Hill Road completed-Essay On
Home By the Host
Home By the Host

any nome IS to have Christian IA
ther and mother, to have that love
for their children that they win think
there. Is no place like home. Why
1t IS don't know, that some people
will treat strangers better than their
own children. Now our own bows and
girls should be of more use to us
than any strangers. When they are
treated right they surely will take
more interest in US than a stranger.
! want to give you little illustra-
ton OF what / think is not the right
way for a father and son to treat
one another. A good many years
ago when | was small boy, / was
at a place where a father and son
were tanning seed wheat. / stayed
while they famed twenty bushels;
neither of them spoke kind word
the whole time; they said every thing
but their prayers. Some years after
that the father died. The son said.
well now at last I can have nv
own way" The son married but soon
got a divorce from his wife. Don't
you suppose that if this father had
ruled his children with love that things
would have been different and much
more pleasant in that home. People.
like the times, are changing fast, 1t
won't be much longer in the country
now till people will not work any
more on Saturday afternoons, unless
it is some old farmer who is so greedy
that he wants it all, his children have
all left him, and he has all his work
to do himself. Now we can sometimes
do too much work for our own good.
Why not take off one-half day out of
SIX and perhaps we will live longer
and enjoy ourselves better. If we 90
to any of these cities or towns on
Saturday afternoon we will see there
lots OF people who do not live in the
city. 1t is not going to be long till
most of all our roads will be macada-
mized or gravelled. No use kicking
about the taxes, its going to be done.
Then when we all have autos the city
and the country will be close together
and there will be more of the Young
people stay on the farms.
Comments being called e. Balder-
ston stated that the essay was lust
in line with his thoughts. The family
OF happy boys and girls, each one
filling a niche in the home circle, in
way that lends assurance that here
the thoughts are put into practice.
"A diploma, handsomely engraved.
from our Agricultural High School,
and signed by County Superinten-
dent, School Board, Principal and
Teachers, attests to the standing of
one of the young men.
Joseph Scarborough fully endorsed
the essay IN every way, and of the
spirit and manner of the family life,
God bless them" Rev. Thomas
Jones reviewed the paper in detail
very fully, dwelling particularly on
the JOY and happiness in well reg
ulated home, Of the necessity of
good roads, of the good sense and
Judgment in the proposition to grant
half holiday on the farm as well as
elsewhere, of the value of the auto
mobile in conjunction with these fea-
lures. The time may be spent profit
ably and pleasantly, with your neigh
bors and friends in the nearby towns
and go back to your work with re-
newed energy and with your sons and
your daughters to help you.
The Secretary called attention to
the good roads" in the essay under
discussion, and offered the following
resolution in behalf of our unfinished
State road
Resolved, that it is the sense of
this meeting that the State Roads
Commission should complete the
macadam road from Rising Sun to
Fair Hill, approximately six and a
half miles.
The resolution was approved and
unanimously adopted by the Club,
and the following Committee are APP
pointed to make an appointment with
Chairman Weller, and urge its
prompt completion: Chairman, John
H. Kimble; H. M. Mccullough, A. H.
Mendenhall, Jos. T. Grove, e. Bald
erston.
Adjournment to meet with M. L.
Thompson, on Wednesday, March II.
ELWOOD BALDERSTON, Sec'y.