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 n home. 



adviser. Anything 1 want to know 

 about farming I can find out from him. 

 I consider the $15 dues as the best in- 

 vestment a fellow could make. Why 

 look at the way taxes have been cut 

 down by organization? A farmer 

 couldn't get that done by himself. On 

 what I save on taxes I can pay my 

 Farm Bureau dues and then some. 

 Then there's the Fruit Growers Ex- 

 change, and the creameries and the 

 Service company where I buy my gas 

 and oil. I save money and get better 

 products and service all around." 



Andy is pretty definite about the 

 new Soil Conservation plan. He says, 

 "I believe in it. I think it's going to 

 be all right and work out the way it's 

 planned. It appeals to me better than 

 the AAA. What I like about this new 

 plan is that it takes in all of us. The 

 other plan didn't. 



"What I'd like to see the Farm Bu- 

 reau do is double its membership. 

 We've done a lot for ourselves and all 

 farmers with the membership we've 

 had. With one double the size just 

 think of what we could do that we 

 can't now? One thing about this new 

 plan, I believe it will help boost mem- 

 bership because more farmers will be 

 farming according to the same kind of 

 a plan. It will bring them closer to- 

 gether than they have been." 



Plenty of Flowers 



The Appels attend the Stonefort 

 township Seventh Day Baptist church. 

 That has always been Mrs. Appel's 

 affiliation so Andy goes there too. Mrs. 

 Appel, besides making qu'.lts, keeping 

 house with Lois to help her. also does 

 a little landscape gardening. She has 

 irises, a nice snowball bush that was 

 in full bloom and was sorry we weren't 

 there to see her Easter flowers. She 

 also has some fine peonies and roses, 

 she says. Then every once in a while 

 she puts in some new bushes. What 

 she likes to do is go to fish frys with 

 Andy. She likes movies too, and coun- 

 ty groups. Of course Andy is quite a 

 fisherman, as what fisherman won't 

 admit. Several of his friends make 

 up a group that sets out for Shawnee- 

 town or Metropolis on the Ohio River, 

 every once in awhile for a couple of 



Where Lincoln 

 Laid Cornerstone 



Just before his assassination 

 in 1865, Abraham Lincoln 

 came to Lincoln, Illinois to 

 slap a bit of mortar on the 

 cornerstone of the new Lin- 

 coln University. That build- 

 ing is the right hand one in 

 the photo. The cornerstone, 

 though chipped by souvenir 

 hunters, still shows that the 

 Great Emancipator had not 

 forgotten his more earthy ex- 

 perience in building log cab- 

 ins and rock chimneys. 



The school, now known as 

 Lincoln College, is located on 

 the outskirts of Lincoln, in 

 Logan county. Several hun- 

 dred pupils attend regularly 

 and the school has a good 

 rating scholastically. 



days of fishing for catfish, blue gills, 

 buffalo, white perch and whatever 

 takes the bait. There's good fishing 

 ever on the Wabash too and in some of 

 the nearby lakes. He thinks he'll go 

 one of these days. 



All in all, the Appels seem to have a 

 good deal of fun out of life. Andy says 

 he is just a hill-billy. We're inclined 

 to dispute that poini as he didn't' play 

 the guitar and didn't yodel once while 

 we were there. That ought to settle 

 that. But the thing that impresses you 

 about talking to Andy and his wife is 

 that there is a well balanced philosophy 

 of living in that household. The boys 

 have the kind of grin that would make 

 the worst crank in the world sweeten 

 up. Andy is the kind that just can't 

 help bubbling over with good spirits. 

 And Mrs. Sallie Appel? There's the 

 one. She's the kind they have Mother's 

 Days for. She doesn't say much. She 

 has a slight little smile. Her eyes 

 are soft and deep, and you couldn't 

 "fib" to her on a bet. She may prefer 

 to stay in the background, but gosh. 



you know she's aroundl — John 

 Tracy. 



Carroll Service Co. released its final 



payment of 1935 dividends on May 13 



making: the total distribution for last 

 year nearly $20,000. 



LaSalle County Farm Bureau will 



drop its baseball team and organize a 

 county soft ball league this year. Games 

 will be played on lighted fields at night. 



Co-operative marketing associations 



for fishermen are described in detail in 

 a new bulletin by L. S. Salter, fishery 

 economist, Department of Commerce. A 

 co-operative act for fishermen compa- 

 rable to the Capper- Volstead Act of 1922 

 was enacted two years ago. 



Members of the staff of the I. A. A. 



and associated companies will take part 

 in the program at the 12th annual ses- 

 sion of the American Institute of Co- 

 operation. June 15 to 19. 



DOLORES— 7 MO'S. 

 A soft spof in har 

 heart for "Gramp" 

 Appel. 



SON ADDISON 



and FRIEND 

 They ride to hi9h 

 school together. 



FAMILY "DAWS" 

 ' A flea and a skunk 

 upset his day. 



APPEL & FARM ADVISER 

 Harry Neville in the orchard. 

 "What kind? You guessed it." 



HEADIN' HOME 

 Proprietor Appel brings 

 his mules home to rest. 



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