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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24
PLANS COMPLETED FOR WOI
MEMS SHORT COURSE

Plans which have been completed
for the seventh annual Rural Wos
mems Short Course to he held at the
University of Maryland, June IL to
%, call for a program that will be
just as interesting and instructive
as in the past, according to recent
statement of Miss Venia M. Kellaf|
State Home Demonstration Agent.
Those who are planning to attend
the course again this year will be
glad to learn that DR.. Esther II
Richards, who has assisted with the
program for two years, will again
deliver her popular lecture on
Nerves" DR.. Richards is associate
professor of psychiatry, Johns Hop
kins Hospital, Baltimore, and has
had wide experience in the study
CT the nervous system.
In addition to DR.. Richards, Mrs.
Evelyn Tobey and Miss Edna Bryte,
of Columbia University, New York;
Miss Lucille Brewer and Miss Grace
MORN, of Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York; Miss Ella Gardner, oI
the Children's Bureau, United States
Department of Labor; Miss Mar
Dahnke, Chicago, and Mrs. Claribel
P. Welsh, University of Maryland,
will have prominent parts in the
program.
Following the schedule of former
years, the course will offer instruc-
ton in foods and nutrition, house
hold management, house furnishing,
clothing, home health and santa
ton, ornamental gardening, home
dairying, poultry production and
parliamentary law.
AS has been the procedure in the
past, the opening day will have no
classes but will he devoted to the
location of rooms in the various
dormitories and to registration. In
the evening a reception will be held
and next day, June 10, instruction
will begin. Tuesday evening there
will be reception by President r.
A. Pearson of the University of
Maryland.
1t is expected that large number
will attend the exercises incident to
the presentation of certificates to the
fourth year class on Friday as this
has always been a big occasion for
the relatives and friends of the class
members.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

This is to give notice that the
subscriber of Cecil County has
obtained from the Orphans Court
of said County, letters testamentary
on the personal estate of
JOHN T. MECASLIN
late of said County, deceased. All
persons having claims against the
said deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof duly authenticated,
on or before November 10th, 1929
they may otherwise by law be ex-
Guided from all benefit of said
estate. All indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate
payment to the subscriber.
Given under my hand and seal
this 27th day of April, 1929.
LIDIE J. WHITMAN,
of John T. Mecaslin,
deceased.
Test: Robt. ]. McCauley, Register. !.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24

The League of Nations committees
are associated in the mind with political
affairs, such as disarmament manda ties,
minorities, and so on. some of TIE
committees meeting in April dealt with
thoes matters which closely affect ev,ly
day life. The price Of fresh fruit. veg, :
tables and rice, for example. will e
lower. if countries can be persuaded o
reduce the customs tariffs on them.
The oil. whale-bone, and so on VIII, h
we get from whales are also among Il e
subjects treated by League Commit. c
in April. Application has been mac
to it for some interna tional action fer
preventing the wholesale and wasteful
destruction of whales which has resulted
from the employment of mechanical
means of killing in the place of har-
poems. Circulation of false coins, forg, d
notes. illegal traffic in dangerous drugs
were also considered.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24
PENALTY
Important Notice To Merchants
and Traders

and Traders
Your attention is called to the
provisions of Senate Bill No. 63
recently passed by the general as
sembly of 1929, under which there
is imposed on persons who fail to
take out licenses in the month of
May penalty of 10 percent per
month on the cost of the license.
This is not merely 10 percent
fiat penalty but 10 percent per
month Or fraction of a month.
The Clerk of the Court has no
discretion in the matter, but will
be held accountable to the State
for tine collection of all penalties.
Licenses are now on hand ready
for distribution.
S. RALPH ANDREWS,
Clerk
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24
members

A barberry bush destroyed now
may save the small-grain crop of an
entire community. One common
barburry bush to 8 feet in height
is capable of producing in one year
more than 81 million spores of stem
rust, the most destructive disease of
small grains in the United States.
The spores are very small and are
carried by the wind, and rust dam
age from single hedge OF barber
ries has been traced to distance Of
over 100 miles, says the U rs. De
partment Of Agriculture.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24
DECORATION DAY

Thursday next, May 80, is Deco
ration Day,-the one day of the year
that has been dedicated to the honor
and memory of that great army OF
soldiers that has marched away to
the last encampment.
AT this time of the year it is easy
to forget the real significance of the
lives of those who fought and died
The uselessness of war, the need OF
all nations to live at peace with one
another, the brotherhood of man,
these are the lessons we should draw
from Decoration Day.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24

Interchange of students. or perhaps
tours Of students would be better, are
now being arranged rot only from coun-
try to country. but state to state city TO
city. The Virginia State Chamber Of
Commerce. for inst'nce, has planned 10
bring 400 school children from New
York to Virginia for week end. The
trip is to include visit to jamestown,
to Williamsburg. anu to Richmond.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24
WET NEWSPAPERS INSPIRING
IAWLESSNESS

President Hoover's appeal to the
press made in his address at the
annual luncheon of the Associated
Press seems to have aroused a num-
Der of the wettest newspapers to in
crease their vicious attacks upon
the Eighteenth Amendment and its
enforcement.
Can it be possible that the editors
of these wet newspapers do not
realize the degree of responsibility
that rests upon them for tragedies
resulting from bootleg liquor?
There is no influence at work in the
country to-day that is doing more to
encourage bootlegging than the
newspaper which is continually ridi-
culing the dry policy; condemning
the officers who are compelled in
self-defense to resort to drastic
methods in dealing with the liquor
criminals and offering maudlin
sympathy for the bootlegger in
trouble. And it is invariably true
that newspapers of this class are
never known to utter a word of
appeal to their readers to support
the government in its efforts to en-
force the law.
Ii the truth would once dawn
upon these editors that In taking
the position they are taking, they
are in partnership with the man who
buys the contraband liquor and the
man who sells it and the man who
commits the crime that frequently
results from drinking it perhaps
they would change their attitude
American Issue.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24

"A Mennonite of the Union Board Of
the United States and Canada is visit
ing the Mennonite colony in Argentina.
The colony was founded in 1926. 1t has
I,743 members from Canada. Laboring
in the wilderness on a tract of land
eight by twenty-seven miles they have
already constructed IA adobe villages.
They enjoy local autonomy and cannot
be called upon to take up arms.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24

When you buy $500 town To-
you demand an abstract and have
a lawyer examine it to see that the
title is clear and you are safe II
making the investment.
When you buy $500 bonds OF
stock the common practice is to pay
money on a "hunch" or on Tip "
Sound investments can be made
on the advice of investment bankers
or brokers who are members of lead
ing stock exchanges.
Why not show the same good
augment in making such security
purchase that you would in buying a
piece of land?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24
MEXICAN CHILDREN ENJOY
FRIENDSHIP BAGS

Mexican. school children are plan
at receiving from the children O
the United States 10000 FRIENDSHIP
School-bags. They went from thou
sands of classes here, in schools anC
Sunday schools, filled with toys ant
pictures that would give joy to The
Mexican boys and girls VINO re, CIV
ed them, and would also show then
something about how boys and girl;
live in the United States.
DR.. Noises Saenz, Assistant Min
lister of Education in Mexico, ha
just made a brief visit to the United
States. He told of Mexican plans
to reply to this friendly gesture from
the United States.
"You will be glad to know" sait
DR.. SaenZ, that National Com
mittee on World Friendship among
Children has been formed in Mexico
We have also instituted similar com
mittees in 81 states. We are now
planning a reciprocal goodwill pro
ject which we hope will be brough
to successful termination befor,
the end of the year.
sit is our plan to send to eacf
separate State in the United State.
an exhibit representative of the ar
tistic handicraft of the Mexican PEG
pie. Many of these art products
will be made by children, others by
Indians, still others by poems. 1t il
through art that the Mexican people
express their genius and soul. In
sending you these gifts we will be
sending you little bit of the sou.
of Mexico"
1t was then explained by DR.
Saenz that, following the receipt il
Mexico of the Friendship Schoo
Bags, ten lessons on internationa
goodwill had been introduced into
the regdsar curriculum OF the Mexi
can schools. For we are satisfied,
said DR.. Saenz, that we must begir
with the child in teaching interna
tional goodwill if we are really t.
have better relations between
nations"
One of the bags went to a SINAI
tribe of Seri Indians on remote in
land in the Gulf of California.
The suitcase in which this ba.
was enclosed was taken by auto
across the desert for seventy O.
eighty miles, then by cart until Tho
cart got stuck in the mud. ther
horseback to the shore of the Gul
of California, then by row oat t.
Tiburon Island, then on the back o
an Indian for several miles to thu
Indian camp where the bag wa
opened, and the goodwill things dis
tributed to the Seri children, VIII
were made very happy to receiv
them, as they rarely receive gift
from anyone, receiving in the mali
little except persecution and ill-will
These primitive people, wild a
coyotes, appreciate kindness, gener
osity, and thoughtfulness as we'll a
more civilized people who have S,
many advantages that they lack
Yours was the, first free gift from
any children, either American O.
Mexican, and they were correspond
ingly happy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24
MRS. JENNIE TAYLOR

Licensed Funeral Director
Gentleman Embalmer Lie
ensed for Maryland and Penn
sylvanta.
Dignified service given all
calls, night or day.
Cor. N. Queen & Walnut SITS.
Phone 1872 Rising Sun, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24

Always extinguish cigarette, cigar
and pipe ashes. These are deadly
sources of forest fires. Never throw
them out of a car while burning.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24

Some people seem to think they
can buy their way into heaven by
paying pew rent.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-05-24
FARM WANTED

Want to hear from owner having
good Maryland farm for sale for fall
delivery. Send description, F. A. o. 1,
Box 4o8, Olney. ILL.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-09
coon SAFETY RULE

The legislature did not adopt the
proposed amendment to the traffic
law requiring pedestrians on the
highways to walk on the left side.
It is a good safety rule, neyerthe-
less. Persons walking on the right
side cannot see approaching We
hicles, and the driver often does not
know what the pedestrian is going.
to do. If the driver turns out to
pass them, he runs the risk of col
lision with cars coming the other
way. If he cannot turn out, the
pedestrian may be hit.
Walking on the left side enables
the pedestrian to see approaching
cars and protect himself. In re-
fusing to enact this rule into law,
the legislature did not mean to i'm
ply that it was not good rule, but
the members simply felt that mat
| tiers of this kind can be handled
better by education than by pass
| ing a law"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-09
Highway Department to
Get Bids on Paving
Contracts for Grading, Crawling,
Bridge and Guard Rails Pro-
jects Will Be Let

Bids on 1853 miles Of concrete
paving on the Minnesota trunk
highways will be opened at the
offices of the State Highway de-
partment May %, according to an
nouncement by Commissioner c. M
Babcock. The largest paving pro-
ject is on T. H. No. IL, starting at
the junction with T. H. No. 81 in
Chaska and running 1877 miles west
through Norwood and Glencoe to
Brownton. Connecting with pave
ment built last year on Highways
No. 81, 5 and 50, between Chaska
and the Twin Cities, and on No. IL
to Hudson, this will give an east
and west paved road from the Wis
consin line nearly half ways across
the state.
An extension of 10.5 miles is pro-
posed on T. H. No. 1 from the end
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-09
E. B. Spoford, Resident Of
Little Sank AZ Years, Dead
Ill But Short Time-81 Years Old
Funeral Held Tuesday AZ
ternOOn, April 80

The death on Sunday, April %, at
his home in Little Sank township
of Edwin Burge Spofford, removed
another of the old settlers of Todd
county. Mr.. Spofford passed away
suddenly, having been i'll but a
short time. He suffered a fainting
spell Saturday morning but seemed
to have recovered from this and
retired as usual Saturday night
When Mrs. Spofford went to call
him Sunday morning about soc
o'clock she learned that he had
passed away.
Mr.. Spofford was born in Susque.
hanna county, Pennsylvania, March
1, 1848, and was therefore aged 81
years, month and. 81 days at the
time of death. He was a descend
ant of an old English family, and
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-09
Financial Statistics of
Minnesota for Year 1926
United Department of Commerce
Has Completed Some Very In
teresting Facts

The Department of Commerce
announces summary of the finan-
cial statistics Of the State of Min
nesota for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1928. The per capita fig
ures for 1928 are based on an es-
timated population of 2,706,000.
The payments for operation and
maintenance of the general depart
ments of Minnesota amounted to
1885,, 115, or 1892 per capita.
This includes $9,996,434, apportion-
ments for education to the minor
civil divisions of the State. In 1927
the comparative per capita for OPP
Grafton and maintenance of gener-
al departments was $13.75, and in
1917, $8.15. The interest on debt
in 1928 amounted to $4,103, 1856; and
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-09
sAUK CENTRE HERALD, Sank Centre, MINI.

day afternoon, April 80, from the
home at 2 o'clock and from the
Baptist church in this village at
2:30. The large attendance testi-
fed in no uncertain way to the
high esteem in which the pioneer
settler had been held in his home
community, and there was a wealth
of floral tributes which attested the
sympathy Of friends for those be-
reaved. Rev. s. Arthur Nyborg Of
ficiated at the funeral, and inter-
ment was made in Evergreen ceme-
terry.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-09

the ancestary Of the spoffords in
America have been traced back
more than 800 years. Mr.. Spofford
was the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Silas
Spofford, and direct descendant of
John Spofford, who came to Ameri-
ca in 1885, and members of the
Spofford family have participated
in every war in which this coun-
try has been engaged, including the
early Indian outbreaks. There are
thousands of Spoffords in America
and annually they hold a family
reunion on a farm near Boston,
Mass, called Ball Pate.
Edwin Burge Spofford came to
Minnesota and to Todd county in
1886, from Kansas, where he had
resided for several years. When he
first came to the west he accom-
panied his parents from Pennsyl-
vania to Wisconsin in 1860. In 1858
he moved to southern Minnesota,
residing there for a couple of
years, then moving to Kansas
where he resided until 1886, when
he came to Todd county. Having
been married in Kansas on New
Years Eve, 1876, to Miss Emma
Jones, he established his home in
Todd county on the farm in Little
Sank township, where they contin-
ued to reside thereafter.
Three children were born to Mr..
and Mrs. Spofford, one of whom,
Oliver, having passed away at the
age Of seven years. Surviving him
are the devoted wife, one son, DR.
Geo. e. Spofford, Of Long Prairie,
and one daughter, Mrs. Theresa
Capkey, Of Little Sank township
He is also survived by one sister,
Mrs. Mae Gale, who resides in Los
Angeles, Calf.
Funeral services were held Tues
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-09

Of the present pavement at the
Steele county line to within miles
of Albert Lea. Another project
consists of 1853 miles on T. H. No.
40, from Owatonna to Blooming
Prairie, connecting with the pave
ment built last year from Blooming
Prairie to Austin. A ten mile link
on T. H. No. 10 between Benson
and DeGraff is also included in the
list.
Bids are also asked on "a miles
of new grading, covering No.
from Morton to Olivia, No. from
Rochester to Eyota, No. from
Erskine west, No. 16 from Worth
ington to Fulda, No. 40 from Aus
tin to the Iowa line and short
stretches on No. 20 and No. AZ.
Crawling 235 miles of highway
graded last year is proposed in an
other list of projects, including
14.8 miles on No. IL and 81 miles
| on No. 81.
Six new bridges are proposed
The largest is a 40 foot structure
on No. 16 south of Madelia. Five
bridges are to be built on T. H. No
35, in preparation for the relocation
and grading of this road between
Hill City and Swatara. Widening
two bridges is proposed, one on No
% near Oak Park and one on No
Is east Of Brainerd.
A separate bid is asked on 401,
600 linear feet of guard rail, in
GLIDING material and installation
Guard rail is erected on all high
fills on each new highway shortly
after grading is completed. This
work is done under separate con
tract.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-09

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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-05-09
TO TAKE FEDERAL
CENSUS NEXT YEAR
Data Collected Will Record
Many Things of Interest
Besides Population
WORK TO START MAY !
Will Take Four to Six Months
to Enumerate Country's
Population

The regular federal census Oh
the United States is to be taken
next year. Plans are ALREADY pc
ing made for the work whlcn II Is
estimated will cost around $4O,OOO,-
900.
The federal census is taken ev-
ery 10 years. The job will be Dig
ger and more difficult next year
than ever before, because there
are more people to be counted ana
more facts of various kinds are TO
be ascertained. The coming census
viu record not only population
growth, but also reliable data on
agriculture, irrigation, drainage
and trade distribution, the latter
.xubiect having been inserted at the
suggestion of President Hoover.
The work will start May 1, 1880,
under the bill passed by the lower
House of Congress, and will con-
tinue from four to six months. An
effort is being made in the Senate
to amend the House bill so the
work would begin November l,
but this proposal is meeting con-
siderable opposition on the ground
that the change would throw the
entire undertaking out of gear, es-
pecially in rural districts, where
winter months would present diff
sculties.
1t is estimated that close to l.
100000 special employees will be
required to take census. The APP
pointment of census supervisors in
most of the states in the past has
been considered patronage belong
ing to members of the House and
in only a few instances have such
places been claimed by Senators.
Supervisors years ago received
from $500 to $4,000, and bonus
of 81 for each thousand population
and 4 cents for each farm in the
district.
Enumerators received 4 cents
per name, and their compensation
ranged from 81 to Sc per day. The
bill just passed by the House pro-
vides that all persons connected
with the census shall be named by
the director of the census and that
supervisors, clerks, enumeratorS,
interpreters and special agents
shall receive compensation at per
diem and piece price rates to be
fixed by the director of the census,
except that special agents are not
to receive in excess of So per day.
The enumerators are to be named
by the director upon recommends
ton of the supervisor.
According to the census enum-
Grafton in 1920 the population of
Brown county was o. 21. 1t is an
ticipated that there has been some
increase in the number of inhabi-
tants in the county during the past
ten years, presumably this increase
will be found in the cities and viii
lagos. There will likely be no in
crease in the rural districts, posi-
bly, decrease will be noted. The
population of New Ulm was 6,745
in 1920, and it is anticipated that a
healthy increase will be noted In
1920 there were eleven cities,
which had a population of more
than 10000 inhabitants, namely,
Minneapolis, st. Paul, Duluth, Wi
mona, st. Cloud, Rochester, Fari-
bault, Austin, Hibbing, Virginia
and Mankato. There will be more
in the 1880 census. The total popu-
lation of the state of Minnesota in
1920 was 1887, 125, and this will
show healthy increase for the
fRn-vaar nariOd