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Despite the encroachments of soft ball 

 regular baseball is still the most popular 

 farm sport in many counties and pros- 

 pects look bright for at least 25 to 30 

 baseball teams playing in eight to nine 

 divisions this year. 



At a meeting in Albion May 14 steps 

 were taken at a meeting of farm ad- 

 visers and Farm Bureau baseball fans 

 with George Thiem, secretary of the 

 state league, to set up a new baseball 

 division including Edwards, Clay, Rich- 

 land, Wabash and White counties. A 

 schedule of games ha« been drawn up 

 and arrangements made to play the first 

 series of games on Saturday, June 8. 



Division II composed of Boone, Lake, 

 McHenry and DeKalb, organized at a 

 meeting in Marengo, April 27, and 

 agreed to begin Saturday, May 25, With 

 DeKalb at Lake and McHenry at Boone. 

 Floyd Lobdell of Boone county was 

 elected district chairman. A series of 

 13 games between each of the teams in 

 the division runnrng from May 25 to 

 August 10 was scheduled. June games 

 will be as follows: June 1, McHenry at 

 DeKalb, Boone at Lake; June 8, DeKalb 

 at McHenry, Lake at Boone; June 15, 

 Boone at DeKalb, McHenry at Lake; 

 June 22, DeKalb at Boone, Lake at Mc- 

 Henry; June 29, Lake at DeKalb, Boone 

 at McHenry. 



Ray Ihrig, I. A. A. director in the 15th 

 district, presided at the organization 

 .meeting of Division V at Macomb on 

 May 11. McDonough, Adams, Fulton 

 and Henderson will play in this division. 

 Otto Steffey, I. A. A. director in the 

 14th district, was selected as district 

 chairman. County directors are Melvin 

 Barclay, McDonough county; Gale 

 Fengel, Fulton county; Paul Reinebach, 

 Adams county, and Otto Steflfey, Hender- 

 son county. 



A schedule of games was drawn up 

 beginning Saturday, June 1 when Hen- 

 derson will play Fulton at Henderson 

 and Adams vs. McDonough at Adams. 

 Other games will be played as follows: 

 June 8, Henderson vs. McDonough at 

 McDonough, Adams vs. Fulton at Ful- 

 ton; June 15, Fulton vs. McDonough at 

 McDonough, Henderson vs. Adams at 

 Henderson; June 22, Henderson vs. 

 Adams at Adams, McDonough vs. Fulton 

 at Fulton; June 29, Fulton vs. Adams 

 at Adams, McDonough vs. Henderson at 

 Henderson. 



Ogle County Farm Bureau is planning 

 to organize a team and play with Carroll 

 in division 1. It is hoped that other 

 counties in this territory will bring out 



KB8. ELLA SHORES 

 _: • Gold Medal Winner 



(Boone County) 

 "She writes her own bumoroui readlnft." 



their teams to bring the division to full 

 st»ength. 



Division 3 comprising Kendall, Will, 

 Livingston and LaSalle, is scheduled to 

 begin Saturday, June 1, with Kendall at 

 Livingston and LaSalle at Will. Other 

 games in June are: June 8 — Will at 

 Kendall, Livingston at LaSalle; June 15 

 — Kendall at LaSalle, Will at Living- 

 ston; June 22 — Livingston at Will, La- 

 Salle at Kendall; June 29 — LaSalle at 

 Livingston, Kendall at Will. 



Henry, Peoria and Woodford counties 

 have been placed in a new division. 

 Peoria county is hoping to organize two 

 teams to make a four-team division. 

 Bond and Fayette are organizing new 

 teams and St. Clair county has shown 

 interest in joining this new division. 

 DeWitt and Macon counties are planning 

 to organize, and Piatt has been invited 

 to join in a new division to include these 

 three counties and Sangamon. 



As we go to press we have yet to 

 hear from Shelby, Coles, and Moultrie 

 who played as a division last year. 

 Douglas and Edgar counties have been 

 invited to join this division. 



Announce Lyceum Gold 



Medal Winners 



Mrs. Ella Shores of Boone county and 

 the Cloverland Four, competing from 

 White county were judged the Gold 

 Medal winners in the statewide Country 

 Life Lyceum course. In all, 35 counties 

 held contests, ;260 contestants vied with 

 one another for county and then state 

 honors, 30,000 people attended and ap- 

 plauded their efforts and listened to L. 

 A. Williams, manager of Country Life 

 Insurance Company, deliver his famous 



address "Full Measure and False Bot- 

 toms". 



Mrs. Shores was one of Jthe two given 

 highest rating in the state and the 

 judges proclaimed her a Gold Medal 

 winner. Her speciality is humorous read- 

 ing and impersonations. Most of her 

 sketches are written by herself and she 

 has shown herself to be a young woman 

 of exceptional attainments. She won the 

 Silver Medal in Boone county in com- 

 petition with a number of others who 

 showed outstanding talent. In winning 

 the highest lyceum honors she gives evi- 

 dence of being one of the finest enter- 

 tainers and writers in the state. 



The Cloverland Four, competing in 

 White county who hail from the corners 

 of three counties, White, Edwards and 

 Wayne counties not only shared Gold 

 Medal honors with the brilliant Mrs. 

 Shores but were chosen to entertain the 

 16,000 who came to Peoria for the big 

 AAA meeting May 20th. There they 

 demonstrated again the wisdom of the 

 judges in naming them one of the two 

 Gold Medal winners. Not only honored 

 with the Silver Medal in White county, 

 they would undoubtedly have been hon- 

 ored again at Peoria, as they were en- 

 thusiastically received and the response 

 to their efforts left no doubt they know 

 how to give farmers the kind of music 

 they like. They are talented harmo- 

 nizers. In their prize winning number 

 they offered a combination of musical 

 instruments with vocal harmony that 

 listeners claim is worth going miles to 

 hear. 



According to L. A. Williams, who led 

 most of the Lyceum meetings, the talent 

 discovered was the best yet. It is 

 planned to expand the Lyceum Course 

 into other counties next year. 



THE CLOVEBLAND FOUR 



Sold Medil Winners 



(Edwards and Wayne Conntles) 



At Peoria. 16.000 farmers approved the choice 



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