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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Auto Insurance Co. 



Looks Forward To 



Good Year In 1929 



Policy Holders to Meet in Annual Session 

 Jan. 29, Danville 



SHOP talk, including questions 

 and problems of interest to 

 policy-holders in the Illinois 

 Agricultural Mutual Insurance 

 Company, will have a promi- 

 nent place on the program at 

 the organization's annual meet- 

 ing to be held on the afternoon 

 of Tuesday^ January 29, at Dan- 

 ville. Questions pertaining to 

 liability, various forms of cover- 

 age, insurance costs, and meth- 

 ods of figuring losses will be up for 

 discussion. 



The annual reports of the officers 

 are expected to reveal a very satisfac- 

 tory condition in the development of 

 the company in 1928. Organized only 

 a year and a half ago, the auto insur- 

 ance project now serves more than 

 11,000 policyholders located in nearly 

 every county of the state. The service 

 has met with general satisfaction and 

 the company is looking forward to an- 

 other good year in 1929. -~ 



Employers' Liability 



A new question which may be in- 

 jected into the meeting this year is 

 employer's liability insurance. Under 

 the common law rule of negligence, 

 farm operators are liable for injury 

 to employees while on duty. Expe- 

 riences have been numerous in which 

 hired men and other employees have 

 secured judgments in injury cases. 

 Fanners are not subject to the Work- 

 men's Compensation Act, but they are 

 none the less liable for damages aris- 

 ing out of injuries to hired help. Even 

 where the employer has not been espe- 

 cially guilty of negligence, judgments 

 in favor of the employee have been 

 awarded. 



Senator Glenn 



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 ber of a Chicago law firm and he no>^ 

 maintains offices both in Murphysboro 

 and Chicago. In 1916 he was elected 

 States Attorney in Jackson county 

 and four years , later Glenn went to 

 the State Senate from the 44th sena- 

 itorial district. 



Following his father's death in 1912 

 the Senator has given considerable 

 time to supervising farming and fruit 

 gfrowing on 2000 acres of land, most 

 of which lies in Jackson county on the 

 Mississippi river. 



Mr. Glenn is a vigorous and force- 

 ful speaker. He has pledged his aid 

 as the down-state Senator from Illi- 

 nois to work for the interests of agri- 

 cultiire in the upper house of Con- 

 gresa. Illinois farmers will welcome 

 the opportunity to meet and hear their 

 new representative. It will be the 

 Senator's first public appearance since 

 his election. , i ] 



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WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 



MRS. HOMER R. JOHNSON 

 Mrs. Johnson of McLean county, president 

 of the Illinois Home Bureau Federation, will 

 preside at the coming Women's Conference 

 scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, January 

 30, at the I. A. A. annual meeting. Danville. 



ADVISER L. W. WISE OF 



IROQUOIS CO. RESIGNS 



L. W. Wise of Iroquois county, one 

 of the oldest farm advisers in pbint of 

 service in Illinois, tendered his resigna- 

 tion recently. 



Mr. Wise came to Iroquois county in 

 1912 when the Farm Bureau movement 

 was young, and continued there as ad- 

 viser for the past 14 years. He will 

 undertake farm management work and 

 superintend farms for non-resident 

 landowners. 



Fifty pairs of Bob White quail were 

 imported from the United States by 

 the Calgary Fish and Game Associa- 

 tion, Canada. The experiment is be- 

 ing made in the hope that this choice 

 game bird will flourish in Alberta. 



Get Your Ticket! 



"When you buy your round- 

 trip ticket to and from tbe an- 

 nual meeting of the I. A. A,., 

 Danville, January 30-31, mahte 

 sure that you get fare and a half 

 rates," states L. J. Quasey, direc- 

 tor of transportation. 



"No certificates are required," 

 be says, "but if the agent re- 

 fuses to sell tickets at a rate of 

 fare and a half get a receipt from 

 him for tbe fare paid, then take 

 it up with a representative of tbe 

 I. A. A. at tbe annual meeting in 

 Danville." 



Dates of sale are from January 

 24 to February 2 inclusive, witb 

 final return limit February 4. 



Women's Conference 



To Consider Higher 



Standard Of Living 



Running Water in Every Farm Home is 

 Bureau Proposal for 1929 



WAYS and means of improv- 

 ing living conditions on 

 Illinois farms will be the chief 

 topic for discussion at the Wom- 

 en's Conference scheduled for 

 Wednesday afternoon, January 

 30, at Danville. Mrs. Homer R. 

 Johnson of Covell, president of 

 the Illinois Home Bureau Feder- 

 ation, who is formulating the 

 program, states that there will 

 be speakers to show what has 

 been, done to improve standards of 

 living without expending a great deal 

 of money. The speakers will be real 

 farm women who will talk from expe- 

 rience. It is proposed to follow the 

 talks with an hour of open discussion. 

 An address on coming legislation of 

 interest toj. Illinois farm men and 

 women also has been scheduled, the 

 speaker to be announced later. 



"The Home Bureau Federation was 

 formed to unite and strengrthen the 

 county Home Bureau organizations; to 

 promote the welfare of the Individ^" 

 ual and the family; to adjust their 

 relations with the home, school, 

 church, community, state, and nation; 

 and to further the various interests 

 of the homemakers," states Mrs. 

 Johnson. 



Works Through Committees 



"The Federation does most of its 

 work through standing committees. 

 The Better Practice Committee in the 

 coming year proposes to work out a 

 plan designed to bring running water 

 into every farm home in Illinois. 

 Specifications and approximate costs 

 for both simple and more elaborate 

 systems will be drawn up. It is hoped 

 to interest landlords in the project so 

 that the tenant will receive compen- 

 sation far equipment he installs and 

 leaves in the home when he moves. 

 We find tenants unwilling to spend 

 money in a house which they may 

 leave in a year or two," declared Mrs. 

 Johnson. "We believe that if land- 

 lords were more generous in this re- 

 spect many a tenant's wife could have 

 simple conveniences which would help 

 wonderfully." 



The fall pig crop in Illinois is about 

 three per cent larger than that of a 

 year ago, says the Federal and State 

 Departments of Ag^riculture. 



Iowa reports an increase of 12 per 

 cent and Kansas a gain of six per cent. 

 However, the fall pig crop is about 1.5 

 per cent smaller than a year ago for 

 the_eom belt as a whole and about five 

 per cent less for the United States. 



"The grreatest good to the greatest 

 number" is achieved when cooperation 

 is scientifically and justly applied to 

 production-distribution-consumption. 



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