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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



13th ANNUAL MEETING, ROC 



Notice of Annual Meeting 



and 



Election of Directors 



The annual meetinsf of th» 

 members of Illinois Agricultural 

 Mutual Insurance Company will 

 be held in the Ballroom of the 

 Fort Armsteb^g Hotel in the City 

 of Rock Island, Illinois, on the 

 18th day of January, 1928, at 

 one o'clock P. M., to hear the re- 

 port of the Board of Directors 

 for the fiscal ■ year of the com- 

 pany ending December 31, 1927; 

 and to elect nineteen (19) direc- 

 tors to serve^^for one year and to 

 attend to siicb other business as 

 may properly come before the 

 meeting. 



I President. 



President Smith To 



I Report To Members 



'[T^E annual address of the president 

 tl to the membership on the state of 

 the organization will 

 be made on Thurs- 

 day morning, Jan. 

 19, in the -general 

 session to be held in 

 the Ft. Armstrong 

 Theatre. 



President Earl 

 Smith will discl.ose 

 and review at that 

 time the problems 

 of the Association 

 and its accomplish- 

 ments during 1927. 



During the year, 

 the Association 

 added approximately 4,000 members 

 although only a comparatively small 

 number of counties held organization 

 campaigns. Details will be given with 

 reference to the new projects launched 

 during the year, and a thorough ex- 

 planation will be given of policies on 

 such public matters as tax equalization 

 and legislation. I 



Earl C. Smith 



Auto Insurance Company 

 ' Holds First Annual Meet 



&:>ard of Directors To Report To Policy 

 Holders 



THE first annual meeting of the Ill- 

 inois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 

 Co. is scheduled for 1 :00 p. m. Wednes- 

 day, January 18, 1928 in the ballroom 

 of the Ft. Armstrong Hotel, Rock Is- 

 land. 



Each member of ^he Company is en- 

 titled to one vote ^to be cast at the 



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9:00 A. M. 



Tentative Program I. A. A. 

 Annual Meeting, Jan. 19-20 



THURSDAY, JAN. 19 ■ " •■ ; ' 



Ft. Armstrong Theatre 



Call to order . .. . v 



Invocation 



Address of Welcome, Mayor of Rock 



Island 

 President's Address --..-' 



Treasurer's Report V "- 



Appointment of Committees : , - 



Sectional Conferences • t 



Organization and Information 

 Public Relations ■.■;■' 



Business Service • 

 Marketing 



Home and Community (in charge of Illi- 

 nois Home Bureau Federation) 

 District Caucuses (eveij-numbered Con- 

 gressional Districts) 

 General Business Session (odd-num- 

 bered Congressional Districts) 

 Annual Banquet " 



Speakers, President Sam H. Thomp- 

 son of the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation, and others. 



Election of Officers 



Election of Executive Committeemen 



FRIDAY, JAN. 20 

 Ft. Armstrong Theatre 



9:00 A. M. Reports from Sectional Conferences 



Reading of Resolutions ' 

 10:3* A. M. Address by George O. Fairweather, 

 Chicago, Vice-Chairman , 



Joint Commission on Real Estate Valua- 

 tion for Cook County, Illinois 



1 :00 P. M. Annual Luncheon 



Introduction of Invited Guests 

 Address by Hon. Adam McMullen, 

 Governor of Nebraska 



Adoption of Resolutions . ■ 



Business Session of Delegates 



1 :00 P. M. 



1 :00 P. M. 

 4:30 P. M. 



6:30 P. M. 



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HOTEL FT. ARMSTRONG, RO 

 HEADQUARTERS FOR I 

 ANNUAL MEETING 



annual meeting, and 500 members pres- 

 ent in person or by proxy shall con- 

 stitute a quorum. The by-laws of the 

 Company provide for a board of di- 

 rectors of 19 members elected an- 

 nually who must receive a majority 

 of the votes cast. The directors hold 

 office for one year and until their suc- 

 cessors are chosen. The directors se- 

 lect their own officers* and choose an 

 executive committee composed of the 

 president, secretary, treasurer, and 

 two other members of the Board. 



The Illinois Agricultural Mutual In- 

 surance Co. started operations on April 

 1, 1927. In the first eight months 

 closing Nov. 30, the Company had 6270 

 policy holders, and total applications 

 for policies aggregating 6326. 



The first assessments to policy hold- 

 ers revealed that protection was given 

 at a lower cost for like insurance, than 

 is offered by any company operating 

 in the state. 



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Marketing To Be 



; Fully Discussed 



■pETTER marketinig of farm prod- 

 ■L'ucts through cooperative marketing 

 associations and cooperation with pres- 

 ent agencies when advisable will be 

 the subject of a full afternoon's dis- 

 cussion during the I. A. A. annual 

 meeting on Thursday, Jan. 19, at Rock 

 Island. 



Every phase of the cooperative mar- 

 keting question will -be taken up in or- 

 der according to commodities. The 

 first order of business when the con- 

 ference convenes at 1 :00 p. m. will be 

 dairy marketing. Next in order will 

 come produce marketing, fruit and 

 vegetable, grain, and livestock market- 

 ing, and finally a general discussion in 

 which any and every phase of the I. 

 A. A. marketing program will con\e 

 up for consideration. • | ?? 



Sam Sorrells," chairman of thp ad- 



The L A. A. 

 Annual 

 Meeting 

 will be 

 broadcast 

 from Sta- 

 tion woe, 



Davenport. 



Attend the 

 meeting if 

 you possibly 

 can but if 

 you can't 

 TUNE IN. 



The dates 



are: Jan. 



19-20, 1928. 



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