ELECTIVE OFFICERS FOR 1930 



EARL C. SMITH, 

 elected president for 

 the fifth consecutive year, 

 operates a 1,140 acre grain 

 and livestock farm near 

 the village of Detroit in 

 Pike county. 



He was born at Pitts- 

 field, Illinois, in 1886 and 

 began farming in Pike 

 county at the age of 19. 



Mr. Smith came up 

 through the Farm Bureau 

 ranks serving first on the 

 county executive commit- 

 tee and later was elected, 

 successively, vice-presi- 

 dent and president of the 

 Pike County Farm Bureau. 



He is a director in the 

 First National Bank of 

 Pittsfield, served on his 

 local school board many years, has served as 

 chairman of the board of the Christian 

 Church for more than 10 years, and prior 

 to his election as president of the I. A. A. 

 was a member of its executive committee 

 for three years. Mr. Smith was the Illinois 

 member of the resolutions coxnmittee at the 

 Republican national convention in June, 

 1928, where he presented the minority re- 



EARL C. SMITH 

 President 



A. R. WRIGHT 

 Vice-President 



port on the agricultural plank in the party 

 platform. 



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WRIGHT of Varna, Marshall 

 county, newly elected vice-president, 

 is one of the oldest men in point of service 

 on the board of directors. 



He helped organize the Marshall-Putnam 

 Farm Bureau serving first as president, then 



secretary, and later as a 

 member of the executive 

 committee. He assisted in 

 organizing the Marshall- 

 Putnam Oil Co., was its 

 secretary three years and 

 now is a director. Wright 

 is treasurer of the Varna 

 Co-operative Farmers Ele- 

 vator which he previously 

 served as president and 

 secretary. 



In 1912 Mr. Wright 

 became vice-president and 

 cashier of the Marshall 

 County State Bank and 

 in 1921 was elected as 

 active president. He is 

 chairman of the agricul- 

 tural committee of the, 

 Marshall County Bankers 

 Federation. Wright is out nearly every day 

 actively managing the operation of his 700 

 acre grain and livestock farm. 



In addition to his long service on the im- 

 portant finance committee of the Associa- 

 tion the newly elected vice-president acts 

 as secretary and a member of the board of 

 the Illinois Farm Supply Co. 



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NEW DIRECTORS NAMED 



"r I TriE election of myself as a director 

 I of the I. A. A. came as a complete 

 surprise to me," writes William A. Dennis 

 of Edgar county, the new director from the 

 18th congressional district. "I was at the 

 meeting Wednesday and part of Thursday 

 when I felt obliged to return home. 



"I have helped in a small way in Farm 

 Bureau work ever since it was started as I 

 have long been convinced of the necessity 

 of farmen organizing. The demands of my 

 own business of general farming have pre- 

 vented me from spending as much time 

 in the work as the importance of it requires. 



"The I. A. A. is without question the 

 most courageous, active, and successful state 

 association, and I have the utmost respect 

 for the ability of the officers and directors 

 who have developed it. It can be only very 

 inspiring to be associated in the manifold 

 r activities of the present officers, directors, 

 and department executives. 



"I have been farming 37J acres in a gen- 

 eral system since graduating from college 

 20 years ago. The farm has been in the 

 family ever since my maternal great grand- 

 father bought it from the government in 

 1817. 



"I am building up a pure bred Jersey 

 herd with the assistance of a cow testing 

 association. Last year I had the high herd 



Chas. L. Scott 



Ceo. B. Mailer 



and the two high cows in the association. 



"Regarding your inquiry for a picture, 

 I have had no pictures taken these many 

 years, but'will attend to it soon." 



The father of Mr. Dennis is Charles H. 

 Dennis, editor-in-chief of the Chicago 

 Daily News. 



CHARLES L. SCOTT of Grayville, the 

 new member of the Board of Direc- 

 tors from the 24th district was reared on a 

 farm in Edwards county, Illinois, was a 

 charter member of the Edwards County 

 Farm Bureau and for years was on its exec- 

 utive committee. He is a grain farmer 

 and for the past five years has represented 

 Illinois wheat growers on the board of di- 

 rectors of the Central States Soft Wheat 



Growers Association with headquarters at 

 Indianapolis. He served as president of the 

 association one year and now is vice-presi- 

 dent of the Central States Grain Elevator 

 Corporation. 



GEO. B. MULLER, the new member 

 of the board of directors from the 

 l-6th district, operates a 170 acre grain and 

 dairy farm near Washington in Tazewell 

 county. He raises Holstein cattle. 



Mr. Miiller has been an active member 

 of the Tazewell County Farm Bureau since 

 it was organized about 16 years ago. He 

 is an active member of the Hopewell Grange 

 which placed second in the state-wide com- 

 munity club contest conducted last year. In 

 addition to being a township director for 

 the Farm Bureau, he is treasurer of the 

 Farmers' Mutual Automobile Association at 

 Pekin, also treasurer of the County Fire 

 Insurance Company. Mr. Muller is a mem- 

 ber of the board of directors of the Wash- 

 ington Co-operative Grain Company. 



He has been enrolled in the farm ac- 

 counting project conducted by M. L. 

 Mosher since 1925. The new director from 

 the 16th district is 60 years old and for 5 5 

 years he has been a resident of Tazewell 

 county. Mr. Muller is not a talkative 

 man, but he inspires confidence. 



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