Middletown transcript., 1916-10-21
STATE
CAPITAL
TO HONOR THE
BOY FARMERS

moro at neon Wednesday november
Is. from their automobile trip over the
good TUzt41s system, en- the Home State
Tour.
Those who attended the meeting
are as follows:
Samuel N. Shoemaker, Frank A.
Furst, Frank N. HOen, Carl R. Gray. H.
Findlay French, Robert Garrett. Gen.
Felix Agnus, Robert ]. Beacham.
James C. Legg, Thomas O'Neill. Robert
e. Lee, Henry F. Baker, Edwin A.
Seidewitz, DIR. w. Bullock Clark, Asa
B. Gardiner, DR.. H. N. Rowe, Charles
Hahn, George NJ. Shriver, William A.
House, Charles ]. Bolgiano, Francis
N. Jencks, Robert Grain, Robert L.
Graham, Herbert Sheridan, B. Howell
GriswOld, Jr., Van Lear Black, Stuart
Olivier, Chas. e. FalcOner, Jerome H.
Joyce, Jacob Epstein, Blanchard Ran
dali, e. Lyell Cunts, DR.. Henry Barton
Jacobs, Charles E. Ford, A. H. Hecht.
Capt. Isaac E. Emerson, w. w. Cloud,
Harry Busick and William G. Scarlett
Mayor Preston called the meeting
to order and explained its purpose,
which is set forth in the letter Of invi-
tatiOn as follows:
Maryland is one of the Is States
having a county demonstration system
among farmers and educating the
younger generation through agricul-
tural club contests. Two boys from
each of the % counties will be award
ed FIRST prize for corn and potato rec
Ords this year. These boys, as a
special award Of merit to promote In
terest in the best agricultural methods
in Maryland, will be taken through the
State in automobiles and enter. lined
by citizens of the various towns
through which they pass, on what Is
known as the Home State Tour.
"The tour will start in two parties
from Crisfeld and Oakland, Novem-
Der 6, and the boys will reach Balti-
more about midday, November Is. It
is desired to give them great recep-
ton on the Courthouse Plaza at noon
on that day, at which time the girls of
the Home Economies Division will join
them and share the hospitality of the
city. Immediately thereafter the boys
and girls will be received by the State
of Maryland at Annapolis, and then by
the Federal Government at Washing
ton
This meeting is called to arrange
for a fitting climax, so that the Home
State Tour shall reach Baltimore in
the midst Of Maryland Week, In q
creditable manner.
'"rhe relations between the city and
country and between the soil and the
people are so vital that Baltimore can
not fai1 to do her utmost eEaa this &C.
easion."
Up to the moment the boys reach
Baltimore, half Of them making the
Eastern Shore trip and the other half
visiting the mountains of Western
Maryland, they will be in the hands Of
the people Of the various towns
through which they pass. In all these
towns, more than 40 in number, COM
mittees have been organized, and
everywhere there will be decorations,
public eeremonials, bands and parades.
special night entertainments and
similar demonstrations of public ap-
plause for the prize winners. The
prize winning girls, while in Baltimore,
will be entertained at the homes ct
members of the Federated Clubs. H
is planned that the boys. also. shall be
entertained at private homes On the
night they are here.
State Board to Pass on Ferry
The State Roads Commission a It's
meeting this week will receive from
Frank Seth, Of Talbot county, one Of
its district engineers, report show
ing the probable cost of purchase Of a
ferrybOat and it's operation between
Annapolis and Claiborne. For the
enterprise there is available an apprO-
priation Of $4,000 by the last leghslar
ture.
Upon its receipt the State Roads
Commission will refer the report to
the Board Of Public Works, which cor
sists Of Governor Harrington, Comp
tfoller McMullen and Treasurer Den
mis-. THIS reference will be made be-
cause the Roads Commission Is con
Viaeed that the proposition involved
has q financial bearing beyond its
province and within the jurisdiction Of
the Beard Of Public Works. II the
latter board passes favorably upon the
protest the State Roads Commission
will proceed to carry out the require
ments Of the act authorizing the
project. Because Of the great ineon-
venience to Eastern ShOremen in
Annapolis and Baltimore
since the discontinuance Of the steam
er Texas, which piled between An
Aa2olis and Claiborne until a few
moHths ago there is a great demand
frOm residents Of that section for the
service which is contemplated in the
ferry. AS Governor Harring-
ton is the most influential member Of
the Board Of Public Works and he ls
ever anxious and ready to serve the
Eastern Shore, it looks as If the
project will see the light of day If its
cost Is not excessive as reported By
Mr. Seth.
The proposed ferry is designed to |
bO q connecting link in the system Of
improved roads.