With the Home Bureau 



By Nell Flati Goodman 



Champaign Cuuiity llnini- Bureau 

 niciubers are hcibby miiidcd. ColU-elion.- 

 of match Ixixes. exhibit.- of stone;; 

 brought from the shores of the Great 

 Lake.-, atitiiiue-. books, and what not are 

 a sourcf of (ireat interest and enter- 

 tamnK'nt. 



.■^tattiii}; wild thf iM.unly exhibit bist 

 Aiiv'ust at the annual Farm and Home 

 r.uieau |>i(tnc. Iiobby interest ha.- (rrown 

 ama/.iiiirly. .At that time, instead of a 

 h;irvest festival or flower show as had 

 b.cii i-ustomary. indivi<lual hobbies were 

 on display. I'attenis. (luilts. handwork 

 of all kinds, dramatie exhibits, and land 

 scapes are only a snwJl portion of the 

 variety uf taste.s. 



Gratified with such interest on a first 

 try. .Mrs. K. K. Millijri'.n. county presi- 

 dent, si^irirested that the indivi<lual units 

 condtic' hobby shows i'' their own com- 

 munities. Four months later, such -hows 

 are lieintr h<dd in v.tr'ou- part- of the 

 county. 



With jfanMs. contests, skits, stunts. 

 ; nd surprises. 250 niendier- of ('ham 

 paifrn County Home Bureau took pait 

 in a first annual Play l>ay. Friday. I>i- 

 ceniber l:i. in the First .Methodist Clnircb. 

 I'rbana. Well filled baskets were 

 broujrht to the party and time out Wa- 

 taken durine the noon hour for a pot 

 lui-k lunch. Feature- of the afternoon 

 wen- a bull fijrht to music and "The 

 Trayic t^uc-t" inijiromptu. 



With -i.\ oiieaci play-. tvM' mixed 

 <,uartet1es. oni' laiiie-' ouartetle ;ind one 

 orchestra. Mason (dunty i- ready to 

 etiter the Kural .Mu-ic and Drama 

 Tournament spon-ored ))y the University 

 of Hlinois. 



Hints on silverware, dustmop-. and 

 canlid-. not beint.' -ufficient fio- Mc- 



Relief and Schools Get 

 Most of State Sales Tax 



'GENERAL 1 BONDS 

 ^URPOSfS \Q.Q% 



PUBLIC \I18IZ 

 'WELFARE 



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PERMANENT 



NEMPIOYMENTI 

 RELIEF 



5333% 



SCHOOLS 

 27.401 



i.iaii County women a paffer on 

 ■ Dvorak's .\ew World .Symphony" was 

 i;iven in 2- units with lilh pre-ent. 



When liusine-s nieetinu:- were dis- 

 I.. ii-ed with in the moiinntr session, the 

 •Krsey County Honn' and Farm Bureau.- 

 rmt toirether for an afternoon profrram 

 11 their annual meetin^^ day. December 

 12. -Mrs. Klsie Mies, member of the State 

 Bi^aril, spoke for the women to the men. 

 .Ml. C. B. Dennian. president of the St 

 Louis Livestock F'roducer-. spoke for tht 

 men to thi- women. 



Witli :Wh member- enrolled. DeWitt 

 ('■lunty has ortfanized a new unit of 

 liiiine Bureau. Miss .Mabel Bushnell. Uni- 

 versity cd" Wisconsin jrrailuate and a 

 former teacher, has been etifrajred as 

 I'.unty home ailvisor. Having taken a 

 very active part in III Club work. Miss 

 !5jshnell is fitted particiil.-irly fur Home 

 Bureau leadership. .Mi-. Kathryn Van 

 Aiken Burn- met with the executive 

 board. Deeember U'>. to a-sisl in plannini; 

 unit liivisions. Meniln'rs of the executive 

 oiiaril an-: I'li-ident Mrs. Roy Thomi>- 

 -oii; vi(i-|ilesidenl Mr-. Leo Walsh: 

 eciitary .Mi-. K. -I l.iii;i-: tre.i-urer 

 Mr- Cly.l. Waii. . 



riiirty-seveii women of .Adams County 

 met at the Quincy Women's City Club 

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

 breakfast. Sixteen teams went out for 

 the f\r<\ day's work 'o L'tt new niem- 

 1 ers. 



Husband- and wives of Home and 

 Farm Bureaus of Lake County attended 

 the first of a series of talks on Family 

 Relations, by Mis- Kdna Walls, state ex- 

 tension specialist. The men. in par- 

 ticular, showed considerable interest in 

 I'ontinuinc the series. 



Heavy Applications For 



Corn Loans Reported 



Fvidence that fanners (jenerally are 

 Imlli-h on corn at present price- of 

 around ITc is -een in the wide demand 

 to! loan- on corn cd' -uitable (|ualil\ 

 lor stoiau'c. From Cliaiiipaiirn. Living- 

 ston. McLean. Fold. Bureau. Wliiteside. 

 Lee. .Saiijramon and many other counti<'s 

 come reports •>( increa-intr application- 

 tor ciirii loan.-. 



Paul \'. Dean, advi-er in Bureau write- 

 'bat I7.">.oo(i liu. wiM-i' scali-d shortly after 

 the -cahiii;- proLMam -t.-irted. "Banks are 

 ciHiperatiny wholeheartedly." he said, 

 ■'.■-ome ;ire makiny loans at "-""c per bu. 

 to men whii are iiiclisrible for the b'lc 

 Uovernment lo.-ins." Private banks, it ap- 

 nears. wdl niaki- nioi-e loan- than the 



^ Leads In State 



Ben A. Koih. of .McLean County, led 

 Country Life iitrents iii production in 

 l'.»;!5 with $2.(i()0.()(l() of business written 

 for the year. He 

 topped the year's 

 production with 

 S4d0.000 in Decem- 

 ber. 



Ben is out to fret 

 the world's record 

 for 1936 by wiitin>.' 

 f.'i.OO0,000 of busi 

 ness. This totjil 

 would be the larpest 

 amount of business 

 proiluce<l in any county of 200.00(1 

 population or under for a year's produc- 

 ti(m. 



BEN ROTH 



Illinois Leads At 



1935 International 



(Continued from page 11) 

 pound. .Another Illinois farm girl. 

 Marie Kre.ici. <d' .Madison county. 

 brought out the winner in the on-hoof 

 competition that preceded the carcass 

 Juilnins;- 



Helms Brothers. prominent sheep 

 breeders, ."-t. Clair county, bad the win- 

 iiiiii;' lamb carcass (.Soutlxlown) of the 

 I'.i."..') International. Weij^hing 52 pounds. 

 Mie carcji-s was boutrht by the Rotary 

 Club of Belloville for SI.Kt a pound. 

 later served at a luncheon there. The 

 (hampion lamb carcass at the 1934 Ex- 

 position sidi! for •'?(• cents a pound. 



.\ number of Illinois Farm Bureau 

 member- won liist prize awards on 

 their ten ear samples of utility type corn 

 in the (!iain and Hay .Show. The winners 

 wei' Warren But/., of Dwight; W. E. 

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

 Macon: Everett S. T<dl. of Chestnut: C 

 Worth Holmes, of Illinois City; Tilman 

 Blumer of Eureka: ami John Mathews. 

 of Toloiio. Both Blumer and Mathews 

 exhibited in the junii.r corn classes, lim- 

 ited to the participation of farm youths. 



C. Worth Holmes, winner of the "Corn 

 Kinsr" title at the ITO" Exposition, by 

 'eason of his having exhibited the grand 

 chimpion ten ear sample of the show. 

 was awariled the ch.impionship of Region 

 '■ this year on his sample of utility corn. 



C. E. Canterbury. Sanjramon county. 

 w;is aw.'iriled the reserve championship 

 on his sample of soybean seed; and 

 Trimble Brothers. Crawford county, were 

 t'.rst prize winners in the class for Les- 

 t(dcza. 



The "i'>{}\ annual show, according to 

 Manager B. II. Heide. was one of the 

 larj^est ever held. .Attendance for the 

 week at half a million established a new- 

 record. 



Commodity Ci'eilit Corporation. Bank 

 loans are beini.' m:ide with and without 

 warehouse receipt- for collateral. 



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I. A. A. RECORD 



