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/ 'OM.MriTKKS in 11 



' districts arc meeting 

 thcsi" (lays, each (it'tormincil jto outdo 

 the others in orjianizin.; the f.est I. A. 

 A.-F a r ni Bureau 

 picnics in, the state. 

 That tHese gath- 

 erings Will coin- 



fchiduled for all except three of the 

 ! ! picnics. These include congressmen 

 and leaiiers who have leen prominent 

 in the cause of e(|uality for agriculture 

 (iuring the past six years. \Vm. H. 

 Settle, known as "Fiphting: Bill" in the 

 Hoosier state where he is inesident of 

 the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, 



p a r e jfavorably will be a popular attraction at Taylor- 



tirin^ 'em along 



with former I. A. 

 A. state licnics is 

 assured ;iccoi'ding 

 to news sjnd infor- 



fro.li 



various! sections 

 Baseball gamos, horse- 



ville on .August S, Highland Aug. '.I. 

 and at ,Sullivan on Au'^. 10. 



]Mr. Settle is a director in the Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Federation and acts 

 as manager of the Central States Soft 

 Wheat Growers Association. 



Tune up Lizzie 



The 

 be held first 



Smith to Speak 



ist ))icnic to be scheduled wil 



namely, the 11th <listrict 



mation cominj. 

 of the state. 



shoe pitching, hog calling anjl chicken 

 calling contests, races for the kids, 

 and all the attractions herethfore as- 

 sociated with the annual statje picnics 

 will feature the . ilis- 

 trict events. 



.As one farm ad- 

 viser put it, "We ex- 

 pect to have just as 

 large a crowd and as 

 much fun at our dis- 

 trict picnic with the 

 further advantage 

 that the members can 

 make the drive much 

 more easily and Ix" 

 home in time to do 

 cbiires." 



Want Baseball Teams 



The districts al- 

 ready are vieing with 

 each other to get the 

 leading teams in the 

 Illinois Farm Bureau 

 Baseball League ti> 

 play olf their I'eguhir 

 semi-final and final 

 games at their re- 

 spective picnic s. 

 League leaders are 

 co-operating in this 

 move. The semi-finals 

 are expected to begin 

 ' about the third week 

 in August. 



A movement is un- 

 derway to arrange 



for a state horseshoe tournament where picnic booke<I for Herrick Lake 

 the winners at the district picnics will Wheaton in Dupage county on Wednes 

 meet to decide the state chamjiionship. day, July 25. 



THE FAMOUS ED TORBERT AND JOE HESKITT TEAM 



The late Ed Torbert. who succumbed to a fatal attack of pneumonia recently and Joe 



Heskitt, his partner, did much to raise the standard of horseshoe pitching in Illinois. 



They won the state championship three years in succession. 



Whether this tournament willj be held 

 in connection with the last picnic of the 

 season on Labor Day at Jackscinviile 

 has not been definitely decidad. But 

 this picnic in the 20th district is being 

 favorably considered because of the ad- 

 vantages in time and location af- 

 forded. 



"Fighting Bill" Settle! 



" Speakers already have been definitely 



Earl C. Smith will be 

 speaker. 



Congressman Charles Adkins of De- 

 tatur will speak at Marion Aug. 17, 

 and at Macomb on Aug. 21. Mr. Ad- 

 kins is well known to Illinois farmers. 

 For many years he was active in the 

 grain business, and later served as 

 state director of agriculture. He was 

 especially prominent in the McNary- 

 Haugen debates in the 70th congress. 



Congressman Charles Brand of IJr- 

 bana. Ohio, one of the most able sjxikes- 

 men for agriculture in congress, will 

 appear at Olney on Aug. 30, Blooming- 

 ton Aug. 31, Free- 

 liort, Sept. 1, and 



Jacksonville, Sept. 

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Some of the best 

 picnic sites in Illi- 

 nois have been 

 chosen. Estimates 

 of the expected 



crowds vary from fi.OOO to 10,000 to 

 as high as 20,000 i)eoi)le. Knox 

 county heretofore has had unusually 

 large crowds at the annual Farm Bu- 

 reau picnics. With the aid of other 

 counties in the district this year, the 

 picnic at (iaiesburg 

 on Aug. 15 promises 

 to surpass those held 

 in previous years. 

 Peach Crop Harvest 

 For the most part 

 the dates have been 

 chosen to avoid con- 

 flicts with harvest. 

 Whether or not the 

 peach cro|i will be out 

 of the way around 

 Marion by Aug. 17 is 

 problematical, but 

 local leaders are in 

 hopes that most of 

 the peaches will have 

 been disposed of by 

 that time. 



Some of the old 

 familiar faces will be 

 missing at the picnics 

 this year. Such 

 prominent figures as 

 Ed Torbert and his 

 son Walter of Dewitt 

 county, always the 

 center of attraction 

 where the horseshoes 

 were flying at former 

 I. A. A. state picnics, 

 will not be there. 

 Father and son passed 

 rwny recently from a short but fatal 

 attack of i)neumonia. Harry alone is 

 left of this most famous trio of barn- 

 yard golf exjierts in Illinois history. 



The poster part of which is repro- 

 duced on the cover page will advertise 

 the picnics in every congressional dis- 

 trict. Local committees will provide 

 their own windshield stickers and ar- 

 row.? to mark the roads to the picnics. 



The fourteenth annual meeting of 

 the I. A. A. will be held at Danville, 

 Jan. 30-31, 1929. 



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