With the Home Bureau 



By Neil Flatt Goodman 



Leads In State 



Champaign County Home Bureau 

 members are hobby minded. Collections 

 of match boxes, exhibits of stones 

 brought from the shores of the Great 

 Lakes, antiques, books, and what not are 

 a source of great interest and enter- 

 tainment. 



Starting with the county exhibit last 

 August at the annual Farm and Home 

 Bureau picnic, hobby interest has grown 

 amazingly. At that time, instead of a 

 harvest festival or flower show as had 

 been customary, individual hobbies were 

 on display. Patterns, quilts, handwork 

 of all kinds, dramatic exhibits, and land- 

 scapes are only a small portion of the 

 variety of tastes. 



Gratified with such interest on a first 

 try, Mrs. R. E. Milligan, county presi- 

 dent, suggested that the individual units 

 conduct hobby shows ir their own com- 

 munities. Four months later, such shows 

 are being held in various parts of the 

 county. 



With games, contests, skits, stunts, 

 rnd surprises, 250 members of Cham- 

 paign County Home Bureau took part 

 in a first annual Play Day, Friday, De- 

 cember 13, in the First Methodist Church, 

 Urbana. Well filled baskets were 

 brought to the party and time out was 

 taken during the noon hour for a pot 

 luck lunch. Features of the afternoon 

 were a bull fight to music and "The 

 Tragic Quest" impromptu. 



With six one-act plays, two mixed 

 Cjuartettes, one ladies' quartette and one 

 orchestra. Mason County is ready to 

 enter the Rural Music apd Drama 

 Tournament sponsored by the University 

 of Illinois. 



Hints on silverware, dustmops, and 

 canlids, not being sufficient for Mc- 



Rellef and Schools Get 

 Most of State Sales Tax 



GENERAL! BONDS 



PUBUC vl^'^i 

 WELFARE ^ , ^ 

 II 591 X AiNEMPlOYMENll 



rpmiANEMr 



5333% 



SCHOOLS 

 27.40% 



Lean County women, a paper on 

 'Dvorak's New World Symphony" was 

 given in 22 units with 618 present. 



When business meetings were dis- 

 pensed with in the morning session, the 

 Jersey County Home and Farm Bureaus 

 met together for an afternoon progfram 

 en their annual meeting day, December 

 12. Mrs. Elsie Mies, member of the State 

 Board, spoke for the women to the men. 

 Mr. C. B. Denman, president of the St. 

 Louis Livestock Producers, spoke for the 

 men to the women. 



With 308 members enrolled, DeWitt 

 County has organized a new unit of 

 Home Bureau. Miss Mabel Bushnell, Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin graduate and a 

 former teacher, has been engaged as 

 county home advisor. Having taken a 

 very active part in 4-H Club work. Miss 

 Bushnell is fitted particularly for Home 

 Bureau leadership. Mrs. Kathryn Van 

 Aiken Burns met with the executive 

 board, December 16, to assist in planning 

 unit divisions. Members of the executive 

 Doard are: President — Mrs. Roy Thomp- 

 son; vice-president — Mrs. Leo Walsh; 

 secretary — Mrs. E. J. Lucas; treasurer — 

 Mrs. Clyde Wade. 



Thirty-seven women of Adams County 

 met at the Quincy Women's City Club 

 recently for an 8 o'clock "kick-off" 

 breakfast. Sixteen teams went out for 

 the first day's work to get new mem- 

 bers. 



Husbands and wives of Home and 

 Farm Bureaus of Lake County attended 

 the first of a series of talks on Family 

 Relations, by Miss Edna Walls, state ex- 

 tension specialist. The men, in par- 

 ticular, showed considerable interest in 

 continuing the scries. 



Heavy Applications For 



Corn Loans Reported 



Evidence that farmers generally are 

 bullish on corn at present prices of 

 around 47c is seen in the wide demand 

 for loans on corn of suitable quality 

 for storage. From Champaign, Living- 

 ston, McLean, Ford. Bureau, Whiteside, 

 Lee, Sangamon and many other counties 

 come reports of increasing applications 

 for corn loans. 



Paul V. Dean, adviser in Bureau writes 

 that 175,000 bu. were sealed shortly after 

 the sealing program started. "Banks are 

 cooperating wholeheartedly," he said. 

 "Some are making loans at 35c per bu. 

 to men who are ineligible for the 45c 

 government loans." Private banks, it ap- 

 pears, will make more loans than the 



Ben A. Roth, of McLean County, led 

 Country Life agents in production in 

 1935 with $2,000,000 of business written 

 for the year. He 

 topped the year's 

 production with 

 $400,000 in Decem- 

 ber. 



Ben is out to get 

 the world's record 

 for 1936 by writing 

 $3,000,000 of busi- 

 ness. This total 



BEN ROTH ^'""'^ •>« t*** ^*''e«St 



amount of business 

 produced in any county of 200,000 

 population or under for a year's produc- 

 tion. 



Illinois Leads At 



1935 International 



(Continued from page 11) 

 pound. Another Illinois farm girl, 

 Marie Krejci, of Madison county, 

 brought out the winner in the on-hoof 

 competition that preceded the carcass 

 judging. 



Helms Brothers, prominent sheep 

 breeders, St. Clair county, had the win- 

 ning lamb carcass (Southdown) of the 

 1935 International. Weighing 52 pounds, 

 the carcass was bought by the Rotary 

 Club of Belleville for $1.10 a pound, 

 later served at a luncheon there. The 

 champion lamb carcass at the 1934 Ex- 

 position sold for 36 cents a pound. 



A number of Illinois Farm Bureau 

 members won first prize awards on 

 their ten ear samples of utility type corn 

 in the Grain and Hay Show. The winners 

 were Warren Butz, of Dwight; W. E. 

 Mills, of Sherman; S. W. Spalding, of 

 Macon; Everett S. Toll, of Chestnut; C. 

 Worth Holmes, of Illinois City; Tilman 

 Blumer of Eureka; and John Mathews, 

 of Tolono. Both Blumer and Mathews 

 exhibited in the junior corn classes, lim- 

 ited to the participation of farm youths. 



C. Worth Holmes, winner of the "Corn 

 King" title at the 1933 Exposition, by 

 reason of his having exhibited the grand 

 champion ten ear sample of the show, 

 was awarded the championship of Region 

 3 this year on his sample of utility corn. 



C. E. Canterbury, Sangamon county, 

 was awarded the reserve championship 

 on his sample of soybean seed; and 

 Trimble Brothers, Crawford county, were 

 first prize winners in the class for Les- 

 pedeza. 



The 36th annual show, according to 

 Manager B. H. Heide, was one of the 

 largest ever held. Attendance for the 

 week at half a million established a new 

 record. 



Commodity Credit Corporation. Bank 

 loans are being made with and without 

 warehouse receipts for collateral. 



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LA. A. RECORD 



