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McLaughlin Quits 



Walter W. McLaughlin, state director 

 of agriculture for Illinois during the past 

 five years has resigned to resume his 

 Farm Management Service work at De- 

 catur. J. H. "Hank" Lloyd, assistant di- 

 rector has been appointed to succeed Mc- 

 Laughlin. 



McLaughlin and Lloyd, both successful 

 former county agricultural advisers, have 

 had unusual qualifications for their work 

 in the State Department. Mr. McLaugh- 

 lin has given the state intelligent, trust- 

 worthy service with an understanding of 

 farmers problems second to none. Mr. 

 Lloyd, a pioneer farm adviser, farm man- 

 ager, and former manager of the Soybean 

 Marketing Ass'n. may be expected to 

 give the same kind of service. 



lAA Board Meetings 



The Board of Directors of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association have changed 

 the date of their regular monthly meet- 

 ing to the third Friday of each month. 

 Accordingly, the meetings will be held 

 on the following dates: 



April 23, May 21, June 18, July 16, 

 August 20, September 17, October 15, 

 November 19, December 17. 



lAA staff meetings will be held on 

 Thursday evenings preceding the meeting 

 of the Board of Directors. 



The new Argentine corn crop is 



estimated at 362,184,000 bushels, eight 

 per cent below the '35 - '36 crop, but 

 seven per cent above the five-year aver- 

 age ending in '35. 



McDonough County 



(Continued from page II) 



Mr. Doneghue had a serious auto- 

 mobile accident three years ago when he 

 suffered a skull fracture and hovered be- 

 tween life and death for several weeks. 

 He has entirely recovered from the acci- 

 dent which left him with a new apprecia- 

 tion of his many friends inside and out- 

 side the county who took a keen interest 

 in his fight for life. 



Mr. and Mrs. Doneghue have five chil- 

 dren. Dorothy, the oldest, is married 

 and lives in Plymouth in Hancock coun- 

 ty; Merritt, 23 is working for the Rural 

 Resettlement Administration at Camp 

 Point; Donald is a senior in Commerce 

 at the University of Illinois; and Everett 

 and Mary Jane attend public school in 

 Macomb. 



Ray Doneghue has made friends and 

 kept sweet despite long years of trying 

 work with many kinds and types of per- 

 sons. You are impressed by his spirit of 

 good will toward others and his sense 

 of humor. "I try to get the other fel- 

 low's point of view," he said. 



"Larry" Wllliamt ^ 



Lorry Williams Leaves 



The resignation of Lawrence A. Wil- 

 liams, manager of the Country Life In- 

 surance Company since its organization 

 by the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 81/^ years ago was accepted by the Board 

 of Directors at its monthly meeting in 

 Chicago, March 19. 



Mr. Williams came with the company 

 at its beginning in the fall of 1928 after 

 nearly 20 years' successful experience in 

 life insurance, sales promotion and ad- 

 vertising. Mr. Williams' ability as an 

 organizer and salesman was brought into 

 play to start the company aggressively on 

 its way in providing low cost legal re- 

 serve life insurance for the people of 

 rural Illinois. A field force of more 

 than 1,000 general and special agents in 

 every Illinois county, also an organization 

 in the Home Office were established un- 

 der Mr. Williams' immediate direction. 



At the close of last year, less than eight 

 years after its organization, the Company 

 had achieved a phenomenal growth with 

 more than $100,000,000 of life insur- 

 ance in force and $5,456,865.85 of total 

 assets. 



Mr. Williams has not announced his 

 future plans. Directors and officials of 

 the Company regret the loss of his valu- 

 able services. 



At Grundy Service Company's annual 



meeting held at Morris, March 4 plans were 

 made for a substantial increase in business 

 in 1937. Patronage dividends totaling $5.- 

 13979 were distributed. The rate of patron- 

 age ranged from 5 to 25%. N. B. Heddon, 

 service manager for Ethyl Gasoline Corpora- 

 tion, and L. R. Marchant spoke. The fol- 

 lowing men were elected directors of the 

 company for the ensuing year: E. B. Reeves, 

 Fred Gantzert, Henry Harper, J. Francis Buck, 

 S. H. Burkness. 



One hundred and one new members were 

 signed in Tazewell County during the recent 

 organization drive which ended March 6. 



Fulton County Farm Bureau 

 Leader Dies 



/E. MUMMERT, president of the 

 Fulton County Farm Bureau, 

 * died at his home near Sum- 

 mum, March 8. His death was caused 

 by complete exhaustion during the fite 

 which destroyed his home. 



Mummert, bom near Summum in 

 1883 in the community where he spent 

 his entire life, was 

 active in many local 

 organizations. H e 

 was the only man 

 who has continued 

 to serve the Fulton 

 County Farm Bu- 

 reau in an official 

 capacity since it was 

 started in 1916. He 

 was one of the 

 founders of the or- "'■ ^- •^""""•r* 

 ganization and since 1928 has Deen its 

 president. He has not missed an annual 

 meeting of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation since it was established. 



TTie development of good corn was 

 his specialty. He was made "Com 

 King" of America in 1920 when a sam- 

 ple of his corn won the grand champion- 

 ship in the single ear class at the Inter- 

 national Hay and Grain Show in Chi- 

 cago. In 1926, this honor was again 

 bestowed upon him. He had the dis- 

 tinction of being the only man to win 

 grand championships on single ear, ten 

 ear and bushel samples of corn at the 

 International corn show. In addition, he 

 was among the first in the state to gain 

 recognition as a "Master Farmer." 



J. E. Mummert will be missed by his 

 hundreds of friends throughout the state. 

 He is survived by his wife, a son and a 

 daughter. The son, DeVere, is a district 

 4-H club leader with headquarters in La- 

 Salle county. Maxine, the daughter, is at 

 home. 



Mrs. Henry T. Rainey of Carrollton, 



widow of the late Speaker of the House 

 of Representatives, recently presented 

 the gavel her husband used in opening 

 his last session of Congress, to Presi- 

 dent Earl C. Smith. 



A county court in Pennsylvania re- 

 cently upheld the constitutionality of 

 the Pennsylvania Filled Milk Act to 

 protect farmers against fraudulent and 

 deceptive sale of filled milk. Filled 

 milk is a product made by removing 

 butterfat from evaporated milk and 

 replacing the butterfat with cocoanut 

 oil. 



APRIL, 1937 



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