You'll Want to Be 

 There! 



, (Continued from page 7) 

 take off for the 100 and 50 yard swims. 

 Something doing every minute. Pole- 

 vaulters, broad jumpers and shot put- 

 ters, too. Track events and swimming 

 for the girls. 



Friday night there will be a big free 

 dance and musical show in the New 

 Men'.s Gymnasium. You'll want to be 

 there. The Prairie Ramblers and other 

 WLS artists will start off the evening's 

 performance with 40 minutes or more of 

 entertainment with George C. Biggar 

 of WLS in charge. 



"Swing yer partners right and left, all 

 join hands and circle to the left," shouts 

 a caller as his team warms up to the 

 music in the square dance contest. Then 

 comes the pick of the folk dancers. 

 Dave Lindstrom of the University of Illi- 

 nois who knows all about such things 

 through his work with rural community 

 groups will be there to run off this part 

 of the program. The pick of the string 

 and novelty bands — limited to six persons 

 — half of whom must be farmers — will 

 be brought on Friday night after 

 elimination trials in the afternoon. 



There's nothing like hog calling, chick - 

 t-n calling and husband calling to pro- 

 vide any gathering with farm atmos- 

 phere. These contests together with sock 

 darning and rolling-pin throwing — es- 

 pecially for women — with Lois Schenck 

 of Prairie Farmer in charge, will give an 

 interesting bit of color to the two-day 

 festival. Want to get in a little practice 

 beforehand with the rolling pin ? Just 

 step off 25 feet and try to knock the hat 

 off a dummy (not your husband). 



That the Farm Festival is attracting 

 state-wide interest is seen in the letters 

 received by WLS in response to the sev- 

 eral announcements thus far made. 

 "Track was always my favorite sport in 

 high school and college," writes Martin 

 Gaspardo of Livingston county. "Al- 

 though I've been farming for the past 

 six years, I'd drive a hundred or more 

 miles any day just to compete in such a 

 sport. Farm youths are all sport loving 

 people." 



Clara Spearing, Rockford, wants a 

 community sing in connection with the 

 music and dance program Friday night. 



"We want to get in the softball tourna- 

 ment," writes Wayne McCarter of West- 

 mont, DuPage county. "We have a team 

 of boys around the Meacher School, 17, 

 18 and 19 years old. We are well organ- 

 ized and want to play. We're young but 

 we can give a lot of competition to a 

 team of older men." 



All farm boys and girls and children 

 of Farm Bureau members — ages 4 to 14 



Creamery Makes New 

 Gains Despite Drouth 



(Continued from page 24) 

 Sports Festival program to be held at 

 Urbana Sept. 4-5 and asked the co-opera- 

 tion of the counties represented. 



Loud cheers and applause greeted the 

 presentation of a hat won by Frank 

 Gougler on a bet with Harry C. Neville 

 of Saline county that the creamery would 

 continue making gains in volume and 

 profits during May and June. The pres- 

 entation of the "offic'al" Stetson was 

 preceded by good-natured horse play 

 during which Frank drew an as.sort- 

 ment of odd sized and shaped hats engi- 

 neered by his partner. .lack Countiss. 



Whiteside Man Tops 

 Again in Fly Spray 



For the third time in the last four 

 years, the sweepstakes prize in the 

 fourth annual Fly Spray Contest went 

 to Bumie Vos, Morrison, salesman for 

 the Whiteside Service Company, when he 

 sold 250 gallons of fly spray during the 

 month of June. 



The Fly Spray Contest this year was 

 conducted on the order of a derby, each 

 of the four divisions of the state being 

 named after a popular race track, each 

 manager being known as a stable own- 

 er, and each si'esman representing a 

 famous jockev. Jockey Vos drew a horse 

 named Pharlap #ho finished .several 

 lengths ahead in the race. Vos sold 95 

 gallons more than Jockey Reeder, of 

 Adams Service Company, the runner-up 

 in the race. 



inclusive — are invited to register for 

 the Shetland pony drawing contest. Billy, 

 the gentle six-year-old gelding, mahog- 

 any brown and clean and smooth, will 

 go to some lucky kid as an attendance 

 prize. The boy or girl must be present 

 to claim the pony when the number is 

 drawn. Registration closes .Saturday at 

 12 noon. 



Prairie Farmer and WLS are offering 

 n^w radios to the farm family of four 

 or more coming the longest distance, and 

 to the largest fprm family. The I. A. A. 

 will offer a new hat (a good one) to the 

 oldest Farm Bureau member. 



For farmers who want to see the ex- 

 perimental plots, livestock and dairy 

 breeding and feeding demonstrations, 

 there will be tours conducted late Friday 

 afternoon — 4 P. M. — and early Saturday 

 morning — 8:00 A. M. — in charge of com- 

 petent guides. 



That Softball game between the farm 

 advisers and I. A. A. staff using donkeys 

 or goats will be something you won't 

 want to miss. There'll be plenty to inter- 

 est everyone. C'mon, let's have some fun 

 at the first statewide farm sport festival 

 ever held in America. 



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For the first time since the opening of 

 the ',36 Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball 

 League season, D. Cremin, Lake County's 

 ace batter, was stopped at the plate. 

 Cremin early took the lead and held it 

 until the week-end of July 18 when 

 Burmeister, McHenry pitcher, held him 

 to one hit in six trips to the plate. The 

 League has offered a cup to the baseball 

 player having the highest batting aver- 

 age at the end of the season. The player 

 must have had at least 14 official trips 

 to the plate. Any player winning the cup 

 twice gains permanent possession. 



Leading hitters up to time of going to 

 press are: — 



AB R H Ave. 



Spencer, Adams Co 15 9 9 .600 



Murphy, Adams Co 14 9 " 8 .571 



Drecksler, Will Co 14 5 8 .571 



D. Cremin, Lake Co .30 20 17 .566 



B. Stephens, Henrv Co 21 10 11 .52,3 



H. Olson. Henry Co 23 7 12 .621 



B. Brook. McHenry Co 16 2 8 .500 



McCoy, Kickapoo 



of Peoria 14 2 7 .500 



L. Scranton, Adams Co. 15 7 7 .466 



E. Lamont. DeKalb Co. 27 14 12 .444 

 B. Slone, Kickapoo 



of Peoria 16 3 7 .4.37 



Beck, Livingston Co 14 6 6 .428 



Will County was the first to win its 

 division beating Living.ston two out of 

 three games. Livingston took the first 

 game of the series at Manhattan. June 

 13, score 7-6. Will came back in the sec- 

 ond encounter at Pontiac June 20. taking 

 the long end of a 16-12 count. In the 

 third and final game, Will whipned Liv- 

 ingston at Manhattan, June 27, score 

 10-6. 



Lake County has things pretty nearly 

 its own way in Division II. Lake has won 

 four games while losing one. DeKalb is 

 in second with two victories to one de- 

 feat. McHenry and Boone are tied for 

 the cellar position. 



Adams is the leader in Division V. Un- 

 defeated, Adams has three victories in 

 the win column. Henderson is in second 

 niace with one win in three tries, and 

 Mc'Donough has lost two games without 

 a victory. 



Henry County in Division IV has a 

 string of five wins with no defeats. 

 Peoria's Kickapoo team is in second place 

 with two wins and one loss, and Wood- 

 ford is in third with one win in three 

 starts. Peoria County's Cramer team lost 

 all five games played. 



Carroll and JoDaviess baseball teams 

 are scheduled to play July 25. 



Little Mackinaw is ruling the softball 

 league in Tazewell County, according to 

 G. H. Iftner, Farm adviser. Little Mack- 

 inaw ran up an 11-10 score against Wash- 

 ington at Minier. and later whipped Mor- 

 ton 1-0. Little Mackinaw then carried 

 on. whipping Groveland 3-2. 



The bovs over in Lee Countv have 

 dubbed the East Grove softball team 

 "the steamroller." East Grove has had 

 little trouble against seven other soft- 

 hall teams in Lee. 



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AUGUST, 19.36 



