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A. A. APPEL'S HOME. 

 Saline County, near Stoneforf. 

 The Irees are walnut. 



A. A. APPEL— Prop. 

 "They moved Stonefort 

 right from under us. 



MRS. SALLIE APPEL— Quilter 

 Wife, mother, companion, help- 

 mate and chief listener. 



ED. LOIS (MR. & MRS.) APPEL 

 Pretty soon, their own home, 

 down the road a piece. 



Farmer by Profession^^ 

 Fisherman by Choice 



So Says Andrew Appel, Charter Member of the 

 Saline County Farm Bureau 



THEY say Saline county got its 

 name because of the salt marshes 

 that once covered a good part of 

 it. But to an uninitiated writer, going 

 there for the first time, the county 

 might as well have been named for the 

 salty humor of those who live above 

 such lowly things as a marsh, up in the 

 foothills of the Ozarks. It so happened 

 that one warm day, this writer and 

 "Light Horse" Harry Neville, the hefty 

 Farm Adviser and bowling expert of 

 Saline county, decided against the low- 

 lands in favor of the highlands where 

 there might be a breeze. We wound up 

 at Albert Andrew Appel's place, in 

 Stonefort township. 



Now, we had heard about the way 

 Ozarkians call out over the valleys to 

 their neighbors. We've discovered the 

 truth about this legend and there's a 

 trick to it. We personally talked in a 

 quiet voice to Mr. Appel from Pope 

 county while he was in Saline county. 

 It seems that the county line runs right 

 through his barn lot. So, any good Mc- 

 Lean county hog caller could win a 

 valley yelling contest in the Ozarks, 

 hands down. 



They Got Together 

 Where the Appel farm stands used 

 to be the town of Stonefort. Like, 

 Mohammed, when the railroad 

 wouldn't come to Stonefort, Stonefort 

 went to the railroad. There he farms 

 230 acres of good land. There's 15 acres 

 of com, 50 acres of lespedeza and 

 clover, counting that in the orchard. 

 About 12 acres is in beans for hay. The 

 rest of the farm around 100 acres is 

 devoted to fruit. There are some fine 

 yellow Transparent apple trees. Wine- 

 saps, Kinnard's choice, Jonathans, Gol- 



den Delicious, Red Delicious, and 

 Ingrams. Andy thinks that this year 

 he'll get about a third of a crop. The 

 cold weather, a good crop last year, 

 and then some scab makes him think 

 that this won't be such a good fruit 

 year. The orchard is still young, so he 

 is looking forward to the future with a 

 good deal of optimism. He's trying his 

 hand at budding some walnut trees in 

 the front yard. Maybe something will 

 come of it after while. He is a life 

 member of the Illinois Fruit Growers 

 Exchange and while he likes to go to 

 meetings, he gets pretty tired of the 

 lads who sidle up to him and ask, "Do 

 you grow apples, Mr. Appel?" He 

 wishes they'd think up something new. 



Bom In White County 



Andy is 49 years old and was born 

 in White county, in Burnt Prairie 

 township. His parents, of German ex- 

 traction were fanners and came to Illi- 

 nois from Vandenburg county, Indi- 

 ana. Andy came to Saline county when 

 he was fifteen years eld and doesn't 

 plan on leaving very soon. Somewhere 

 back around 1912, Andy found himself 

 just over the line a few miles in Pope 

 county. He got acquainted with a 

 young lady in Saline county named 

 Sallie Lewis. "It wasn't only about 2 

 or 3 miles", Andy informed us with a 

 grin. "I could walk it easily even in 

 bad weather." Well, as those things 

 turned out, Andy usually had to leave 

 early of an evening to get back home. 

 So these two set the date for March 21, 

 1912 and were married. Now, they live 

 comfortably in a 9 room white frame 

 house with their two children, daugh- 

 ter-in-law and granddaughter. The 

 home is lighted with electricity from 



the home plant in the garage. The 

 barn is large and holds 6 Red Polled 

 cows and 2 mules. Right now the 

 cream is going into Harrisburg and to 

 old line cream buyers but Andrew Ap- 

 pel says definitely that it will go to 

 the Producers when they establish 

 their route. He has no hogs. Most of 

 the farm work is done with a Farmall 

 tractor. He uses Aladdin gas and 

 Blue Seal greases. Mrs. Appel has a 

 nice flock of White Rock chickens and 

 she sells the eggs in Harrisburg. There 

 are three other houses on the farm. 

 One, a house that remains from the 

 time the town of Stonefort moved. The 

 others were built by Appel to house 

 railroad people when about 7 years 

 ago they built the I. C. spur line a 

 half mile from the house. Andy had 

 a store too, and a number of room- 

 ers who were glad to pay good prices 

 for room and board. He says those 

 were pretty good times. In the garage 

 there is a new truck and a car. They 

 are both insured in the Farm Bureau. 

 So are the buildings. Things are still 

 pretty good with the Appels. 



A Charter Member 



Mr. and Mrs. Appel have two chil- 

 dren. There's Edward Lewis Appel 23, 

 who is married to pretty Lois (Wise) 

 Appel. She was a Johnson county girl 

 from near Burnside. They have been 

 married a year and a half and have a 

 baby girl, Dolores, 7 months old, who 

 flirts outrageously with her grand- 

 father and any and all male visitors. 

 Edward and Lois live in the big house 

 now, but the other house on the farm 

 is being modernized and they will 

 move in sometime this year. Addison 

 is 19 and attends the Harrisburg High 

 School where he is a senior. He and 

 his father both have policies in Coun- 

 try Life. 



Andy Appel is a charter member of 

 the Saline County Farm Bureau. "The 

 reason I joined was because I believe 

 in organization, especially for farmers. 

 It didn't amount to very much when 

 I joined but it's certainly worthwhile 

 now. The insurance service is a real 

 development. Then there's the farm 



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