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(Continued from page 9.) 

 President of the Massac County Farm 

 Bureau it was quite generally under- 

 stood by veterinarians and others to 

 mean that the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation was backing this measure. It 

 was necessary for the Association to 

 write a good many letters explaining 

 that we had nothing to do with the in- 

 troduction of it. After our position 

 was known the sponsor of the bill al- 

 lowed the same to be tabled in Com- 

 mittee. It is understood that Repre- 

 sentative Rush introduced this bill on 

 request. 



House Bill 533 was introduced by 

 Representative Breen by request. This 

 bill if enacted into law would have pro- 

 hibited farmer vaccination of hogs with 

 the double treatment. Your Commit- 

 tee aided in killing this bill in the 

 House. The Agricultural Committee 

 in the House is composed largely of 

 farmers, many of which are Farm 

 Bureau Members and they soon put the 

 bill asleep in a sub-committee. 



House Bill 60 sought to amend the 

 Public Utilities Act providing for the 

 creation of Municipal Public Utility 

 Commissions. This measure was known 

 as the Home Rule Bill. By this bill 

 many large utilities would have been 

 taken out of the jurisdiction of the 

 Illinois Commerce Commission and 

 your Committee felt that such action 

 would have been detrimental to agri- 

 cultural interests. This bill was se- 

 verely attacked in Committee in the 

 House and was supposed to have been 

 dead. However, later in the session, it 

 was revived and passed in the House 

 but later died in the Senate Public 

 Utilities Committee. 



House Bill 148 introduced by Rep- 

 resentative Cork sought to increase 

 the maximum amount to be levied in 

 non-high school territory from the 

 present rate of 2-3 of 1 per cent to 

 1% per cent. This bill passed the 

 House in its original form. The Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association represen- 

 tatives felt that there was no justifica- 

 tion for such a large increase. Ac- 

 cordingly the influence of the Organi- 

 zation was used to amend the bill in 

 the Education Committee of the Sen- 

 ate, thus reducing the maximum to 

 1*4 per cent and by further amend- 

 ment submitted by Senator Cuthbert- 

 son upon second reading in the Sen- 

 ate to one per cent. This means that 

 the maximum school tax rate for non- 

 high school territory is now $1. 



MARSHALL-PUTNAM I' 



WINS THIRD TITLE 



Defeats Logan County In One-Sided 

 Game 12 to 3 . ' li 



MARSHALL-PUTNAM won its 

 third state Farm Bureau baseball 

 title on August 11 when it defeated 

 Logan County in a one-sided game 12 

 to 3 at Mooseheart. 



Logan started the contest by a col- 

 lection of hits that netted them one 

 run, but Marshall-Putnam came back 

 in the following inning and with the 

 help of D. Zollars, Logan pitcher 

 who lacked control in the early part 

 of the game, and a few well-placed 

 hits, brought in six runs before the 

 inning was over. : ^'.•• {"-■/•.:■.."■: j 



This sudden onslaught took the fight 

 out of the Logan boys and from that 

 time on the Marshall-Putnam players 

 had things pretty much their own way. 

 Spangler, the Marshall-Putnam pitcher, 

 received good support from his team 

 mates while the opposing team made 

 frequent errors. Logan lost many op- 

 portunities to score through careless 

 base running. Frank Wallace, catcher 

 for the winning team, was especially 

 effective in catching runners going 

 around the bases. 



The only home run of the entire 

 game was made in the eighth inning by 

 Logan county just after one of their 

 men had been caught off third base. 

 The Marshall-Putnam team tighened 

 up when the opposing batters threaten- 

 ed and through good field work re- 

 tired the side before the Logan team 

 could bring in the needed runs. .;. j 



Cusack and Statz, professional um- 

 pires from Chicago, officiated. Bur- 

 dette Griffith, captain of the winning 

 team, received the beautiful gold I. 

 A. A. trophy from Secretary George 

 A. Fox following the speaking on the 

 afternoon program. 



BIG 



A presidential poll taken by Kes- 

 singer's Mid-West Review at the I. A. 

 A. picnic on Aug. 11 revealed that, of 

 the first 135 cards turned in, 124 were 

 for Lowden, 5 for Dawes, 3 for Al 

 Smith, and one each for Coolidge, 

 McAdoo, and Capper. ■■■... 



Auto Driving Contest Arouses 



Much Interest 



The auto driving and parking con- 

 tests in charge of V. Vaniman, J. P. 

 Gibson, and A. E. Richardson of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 

 Company aroused much interest among 

 picnickers at Mooseheart. 



Prizes offered in both classes were 

 $10 for first, $5 second, and $3 third. 

 The winners were as follows: 



Men. 



First — R. Hoover, Piper City, 111. 

 Second — C. A. Stookey, Majrwood, 

 111. 



Third— W. H. Dowell, Henry, 111. 



Women. 



First — Margaret Short, Melvin, 111. 



Second — Phyllis Dougan, Iowa Falls, 

 Iowa. 



Third — Mrs. F. W. Baxter, Hazel- 

 hurst, 111. 



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STATE RALLY ^ • 

 FRIDAY, FAIR WEEK 



Car of Limestone to be Awarded 

 I Free to Lucky Registrant - 



A State Farm Bureau Rally 

 Day will be held on Friday, Au- 

 gust 26, at the Illinois State Fair, 

 Springfield. 



Plans have been completed 

 for jestablishing headquarters in 

 a large new 50x80 foot tent to 

 be erected in a centrally located 

 spot just east and north of the 

 new grandstand. The tent will 

 be surmounted by a large sign 

 labeled "FARM BUREAU 

 HEADQUARTERS." j i 



The rest tent with parcel-checking 

 facilities, seats, cots, and other accom- 

 modations will be open throughout the 

 week in charge of George E. Metzger, 

 director of organization, who knows 

 personally more Illinois Farm Bureau 

 members than any other man in the 

 statd 



Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association officials will be on 

 hand to meet visitors, and get them 

 acquainted. Tent facilities will be 

 available to all comers. ' 



Every visitor will be asked to regis- 

 ter. A popular drawing of names of 

 registrants will be made at a stated 

 hour when the two lucky names will be 

 announced for special prizes. 



Prizes Offered. 



ime- 



First prize will be a car of 

 stone delivered free of charge to the 

 Fanri Bureau member drawing the 

 luck^ number. Second prize will be a 

 full coverage auto insurance policy in 

 the Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insur- 

 ance 'Company. ..,[.• j: j 



In. a special letter addressed t6 all 

 the County Farm Bureaus of Illinois, 

 President Earl C. Smith is inviting the 

 membership to come out and have a 

 part 'in the celebration. No parade is 

 contemplated but moving slides and 

 pictures depicting the activities of the 

 Farm Bureaus of Illinois will be shown 

 in the tent. f 



The invitation from State fair of- 

 ficials to name Friday FARM BU- 

 REAU DAY is in recognition of the 

 agricultural interests of the Pair and 

 the leadership of the organization in 

 this field. E. C. Coulter, president of 

 the Sangamon County Farm Bureau 

 was instrumental in bringing about the 

 necespary arrangements made possible 

 through the cooperation and good will 

 of S. J. Stanard, State Director of 

 Agriculture. ; 



Diif««tor Stanard voiced 'the opinion 

 that more than 90 per cent of the live- 

 stock, grain, and farm crop exhibitors 

 at Springfield are Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers. Practically all of the boys and 

 girls club activities likewise are car- 

 ried on by the County Farm Bureaus 

 and their members. 



