Page Ten 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Seek Better Barge 



Ljne Terminals On 



111. and Mississippi 



Robt. A. Cowles Represents I. A. A. On 

 Important Waterways Committee 



PICNIC SPEAKER 



Games and Contests 



Attract Many At I. A. A. 

 Picnic, Sullivan, Aug. 10 



T^O provide suitable terminal facili- 

 ^ ties for the federal barge line 

 service on the Illinois and Mississippi 

 Rivers and other local tributary 

 streams wHJ be the work of the new 

 Uniform Waterway Terminals Com- 

 mittee recently named by John H. 

 Camlin, president of the Illinois Cham- 

 ber of CcMimerce. 



The committee will be entrusted 

 with the job of assisting in making the 

 barge line service of greatest use and 

 benefit to Illinois shippers. To this 

 end it will work for adequate and uni- 

 form terminals at cities and shipping 

 points adjoining the Illinois, Missis- 

 sippi, and other tributaries within and 

 adjoining the state. , 



Meeting Aug. 2 { 



The work of the Committee was out- 

 lined at a meeting held in Chicago on 

 Aug. 2, when preliminary plans 

 were made for a definite campaign. 

 The opening move to carry out the 

 program will be a tour of inspection 

 of the ports in Illinois on the Lakes-to- 

 the-Gulf Waterway to be arranged by 

 George Stephens, secretary of the 

 Committee. 



W. F. Mulvihill, superintendent of 

 state waterways, Theo. Brent, Lachlan 

 Macleay of the Mississippi Valley As- 

 sociation, and others have pledged 

 their support. 



Robert A. Cowles, treasurer of the 

 I. A. A., will represent the Association 

 on the Committee. The other mem- 

 bers are as follows: A. T. Griffith, Pe- 

 oria," chairman; Congressman Wm. E. 

 Hull, Peoria; F. L. Stephen, Morris; 

 John Hanifen, Ottawa; Bedor Wood, 

 Jr., Col. Robert Isham Randolph, Chi- 

 cago; Ray Williams, Cairo; Francis 

 Kilduff, La Salle; F. F. McNaughton, 

 Pekin; R. B. Glenn, Beardstown; E. T. 

 Harris, Chicago; Wayne Hummer, La 

 Salle; John H. Camlin, Rockford, and 

 Walter W. Williams, Benton, 



Form New Produce Unit 



HARRY REID was elected president, 

 Lloyd Elmore, vice-president. Jay 

 Basom, secretar y-treasnrer, and 

 Wayne Herrick and Sherman Ready, 

 directors of the recently organized 

 Farmer City Dairy Marketing Associa- 

 tion in DeWitt county. 



The association will handle produce, 

 -mostly cream and poultry products. 



More than a hundred members have 

 already sigrned the agreement. Bids 

 are being received from creameries 

 for the entire year's output of the as- 

 sociation. 



Farm Adviser Allen of Dewitt.county 

 and Frank Gougler, director of pro- 

 duce marketing for the I. A. A., are 

 assisting in getting the association 

 launched. 



Cong. Chas. Adkins 



CONGRESSMAN CHARLES AD- 

 KINS of Decatur was born Feb- 

 ruary 7, 1863, in Pickaway county, 

 Ohio. He was educated in the country 

 schools, and taught school for a time. 

 He moved to Piatt county, Illinois, in 

 1885 and has been engaged in farming 

 and stock raising since that time. 



He served as a member of the 45th, 

 46th, and 47th General Assemblies, and 

 was speaker of the house in the 47th 

 Assembly. Congressman Adkins was 

 appointed Director of the State De- 

 partment of Agriculture during the ad- 

 ministration of Gov. Frank 0. Low- 

 den. 



He is married and has five boys and 

 five girls. He is a Methodist and a 

 member of the Hamilton Club of Chi- 

 cago. 



Mr. Adkins was elected to the 70th 

 Congress where he distinguished him- 

 self in support of farm legislation. He 

 proved to be an effective and formidable 

 fighter on the floor of the House for 

 the McNary-Haugen bill. 



Congressman Adkins will speak on 

 the farm question at the District I. 

 A. A. picnics scheduled for Marion on 

 Aug. 17, and Macomb on Aug. 21. 

 Mr. Adkins appeared on the program 

 with "Fighting Bill" Settle, the speaker 

 of the day, at the 19th District Picnic, 

 Sullivan, on Aug. 10. 



NEW LIMESTONE PLAN 



Be sure and see your Farm 

 Adviser for details about the new 

 limestone purchasing plan. If 

 you are going to order limestone 

 this season, it is worth ten cents 

 (10c) a ton to you "through a re- 

 fund" to place your order 

 through your County Farm Bu- 

 reau and not send it in direct. 



No discount at time of payment 

 applies under the new plan. • 



Jersey Calves Selected For State Fair 



WATER sports, Farm Bureau base- 

 ball, horseshoe pitching, auto 

 driving contests, and a hangup pure- 

 bred Jersey calf exhibit by the Monroe 

 County 4-H clubs were entertaining 

 features at ihe I. A. A.-Farm Bureau 

 district picnic held at Sullivan on Fri- 

 day, Aug. 10. 



The baseball game between the 

 Champaign and DeWitt county Farm 

 Bureau teams, the details of which are 

 given elsewhere in this issue, went to 

 Champaign, 17 to 2. 



Owners of calves selected to go to 

 State Fair, Springfield, arei as follows : 



Senior Yearlings ; 



1. Hugh Righter, Sullivan. 



2. Vincent Esry, Bethany. 



3. George Atchison, Lovington. 



4. Alex Mitchell. Bethany. 



5. Glen Clark, Bethany. 



Senior Calves : 



1. Merwyn Tipsward, Bethany. 



2. Ralph Sharp, Bethany. 



Horseshoe Pitching : 



1. Emmett Burcham, Lovington. 



2. W. A. Kamm, Atwood. 



3. R. Temple, Oakland. . ^^• 



Milkmaid Contest: 



1. Geraldine Keyes, Lake City. 



2. Grace Clark. Sullivan. 



3. Dorothy Winings, Lake City. 



Water Carnival : 



Boys 12 and under — 100 feet. , ,< 



1. Dean Foster. i s! 



2. George Poland. ' * 



3. Wendel Turner. 



Boys 15 and under, dive from pier and 

 swim 150 feet. 



1. Elmer Dunscomb. 



2. Chas. Cummins. I '^* 



3. John McDonald. ' * 



-Across the Lake — 100 



Men's Free for All- 

 yards : 



1. K. K. Hoagland. . 



2. John Moran. I 



3. Sam Bolin. 



Girls 15 and under — 100 feet: 



1. Eileen Myers. 



2. Norma Hanson. J 



3. Beatrice Hill. 



Women's Free for All— 200 feet: 



1. Dorothy Wood. 



2. Beatrice Hill. 



3. Ruth Monroe. 



Men's Fancy Dive : i 



1. Will Baker. I 



2. George Poland. ! 



3. Sam Bolin. I 



Men's High Dive from Tower:- 



1. Sam Bolin. 



2. Jack Condon. I 



3. Luke Parker. I 



f 

 Men's Long Dive under water; 



1. Will Baker. 



2. Roy Bai)ey. | 



3. Sam Bolin. 



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NINETY-TWO STATE PRISOfjS 

 and reformatories had a total of 

 41,942 prisoners during the year 

 1926 as compared with 33,298 in 

 1923, and 26,415 in 1910. The fed- 

 eral prisons had 5,010 admissions in 

 1926 compared with 3,703 in 1923, 

 and 987 in 1910. 



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