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The Menard County Farmers Supply 



Company distributed patronage divi- 

 dends totaling $8,435.00 on the past 

 year's business. The rate of patronage 

 was 12y2%i with an average of $16.10 

 per member. 



Clark Service Company held its first 



annual meeting at Martinsville recently. 

 W. B. Peterson of Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company was a speaker on the program. 

 A patronage dividend of 12% was paid 

 on rural sales, and 8% on dealer and 

 station sales. This company operates un- 

 der the management of Edgar County 

 Supply Company. 



Checks totaling Sll,i>00 were distrib- 

 uted to Farm Bureau members by the 

 Winnebago Service Company on the past 

 year's business. The Farm Bureau and 

 Service Company held a joint annual 

 meeting with some 450 people in attend- 

 ance, during the sub-zero weather late 

 in January. C. H. Becker represented 

 Illinois Farm Supply Company. 



Ninety-four per cent of the Farm Bu- 

 reau members of Randolph County pat- 

 ronized Randolph Service Company the 

 past year. At the annual meeting held 

 on February 4th, Manager Voss an- 

 nounced that the company had 1,011 cus- 

 tomers, and 457 of these were non-mem- 

 bers. The patronage dividend checks dis- 

 tributed among members totaled $7,- 

 892.98. W. B. Peterson of Illinois Farm 

 Supply Company spoke. 



Some 600 Farm Bureau people faced 



sub-zero weather to attend the annual 

 meeting of Shelby-Effingham Service 

 Company at Sullivan January 23rd. L. 

 R. Marchant addressed the stockholders. 

 Manager Foley reported a 52% gain in 

 business during ten months' operation. 

 Patronage dividends totaled $25,362.03 

 to 1,249 Farm Bureau members. The 

 rate of patronage was 9% on service 

 station and dealer sales and 15% on rural 

 sales. 



Cold weather and heavy snow ad- 

 versely affected attendance at the an- 

 nual meeting of the Farm Bureau and 

 Mercer Service Company. Yet a most 

 enthusiastic group was present. Russell 

 Sandquist, manager, reported an increase 

 of 57% in the total sales of the com- 



WABASH VALLEY SERVICE COMPANY CUTS A MELON 



pany for the past year. Talmage De- 

 Frees, vice-president of Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, and W. B. Peterson 

 were speakers. At the close of the meet- 

 ing 395 dividend checks totaling $5,933.85 

 were distributed. 



' Farm Bureau members of McLean 



County received $45,686.92 in patronage 

 dividends on the past year's operations 

 of the McLean Service Company. Some 

 800 Farm Bureau members attended the 

 tenth annual meeting and express their 

 appreciation of the service. George 

 Metzger and W. B. Peterson took part 

 in the program. 1743 patronage dividend 

 checks were issued, which averaged 

 S27.65 per member. The company has 

 paid over S.300.000 in dividends to mem- 

 bers during the past ten years. 



Eighteen to twenty below zero weather 



accompanied by one of the worst snow 

 storms of the winter, held down attend- 

 ance at the annual meeting of McDon- 

 ough County Ser\'ice Company. Stock- 

 holders who did brave the storm heard 

 E. W. "Boots" Runkle, manager, state 

 that "going after the bus-.ness" doubled 

 the sales of the company in the past 

 three years. Preferred stock and patron- 

 age dividend checks totaled $13,146.25. 

 Patronage dividends alone were far in 

 excess of the total Farm Bureau dues 

 collected during the year. 604 Farm Bu- 

 reau members, representing 90% of the 

 membership, received checks. The patron- 

 age rate was 10% on service station and 

 dealer sales, and 12Vi% on rural sales, 

 except for 8% on distillate. L. R. Mar- 

 chant addressed the meeting. 



As evidence that a local service com- 

 pany is a tax collecting agency for the 

 government and state, Morris Crandall, 

 manager of Wabash Valley Service Com- 

 pany, revealed at the annual meeting, 

 Grayville, January 24th, that the com- 

 pany had collected $57,308.34 in State 

 and Federal taxes on sales totaling 

 $245,687.33 the past year. For the third 



year this company closed its books ¥rith- 

 out a penny in accounts receivable. This 

 record has been unequalled by any other 

 service company in the state. $25,648.15 

 was paid to 1,215 Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers in the form of patronage dividends 

 on the past year'.< business. Dividends 

 paid by the company during the five and 

 one-half years of operation totaled $90,- 

 461.39. Close to 1,200 people attended 

 the annual meeting, according to L. R. 

 Marrhant, the speaker. 



Hancock Counfy Youths 



Win Declamatory Bout 



Kenneth Myers. Warsaw high school 

 junior, speaking on the subject "Wliy 

 the Farmer Needs to Market His Grain 

 Cooperatively," won first place in the 

 Hancock County Farm Bureau Declam- 

 atory contest held in the Carthage High 

 School. He scored 244 points out of a 

 possible 300. Ruth Stevenson. Carthage 

 high school sophomore, won second with 

 a score of 238 on "Why Farm Women 

 N'eed the Home Bureau." Robert Little, 

 LaHarpe high school, speaking on "What 

 Farmers Gain by Owning Their Own 

 Life Insurance Company." won third by 

 237 points. Ellen Forrest, .Augusta high 

 school senior, won fourth on "Why Farm- 

 ers Need Their Own Publicity Depart- 

 ment." scoring 229 points. Roderick 

 Lewis, Nauvoo high school senior, also 

 speaking on "Why Farmers Need Their 

 Own Publicity Department," scored fifth 

 with 216 points. 



Kenneth Myers, Robert Little, and 

 George Slater, a high contestant in the 

 Augusta preliminary substituting for 

 Miss Stevenson, who could not go, went 

 to Urbana, Farm and Home Week, chap- 

 eroned by Mrs. William Radel, President 

 of the Hancock County Home Bureau. 

 The other three contestants in the final 

 will be given a trip to the State Fair, 

 Springfield, on Farm Bureau day. The 

 contest was organized by M. G. Lam- 

 bert, county organization director. 



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