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Counties Get Ready For 

 Sports Festival Sept. 3-4 



Complete plans for the second an- 

 nual Illinois Farm Sports Festival were 

 made and sub-committees were ap- 

 pointed to administer them, when the 

 official 1937 Sports Festival Committee 

 met in the New Agricultural building. 

 May 28, at the University of Illinois, 

 Urbana. The sports and musical pro- 

 gram to select state champions in 

 scores of contests is to be held on the 

 U. of I. campus, September 3 and 4. 



The permanent committee, repre- 

 senting County Farm and Home Bu- 

 reaus, the lAA, U. of I., Prairie Farmer 

 and Radio Station WLS, is headed by 

 Ebb Harris of Lake County. 



Other members of the committee 

 are: Eugene Curtis, Otto Steffey, A. O. 

 Eckert, George Metzger, C. M. Sea- 

 graves, Frank Gingrich, Paul E. Ma- 



thias, George Thiem, of the lAA ; Miss 

 Cleo Fitzsimmons, Prof. E. T. Rob- 

 bins, Prof. George H. Dungan, J. C. 

 Spitler, S. C. Staley, and Dr. D. E. 

 Lindstrom, of the University; Lois 

 Schenck, Merrill Gregory, George Big- 

 gar and Arthur Page, of Prairie Farmer 

 — WLS. Farm Advisers S. F. Russell, 

 J. E. Harris, Roy Johnson, I. E. Parett, 

 C. A. Hughes, C. E. Yale, E. C. Foley, 

 Edwin Bay and Harry Gilkerson ; Mrs. 

 R. E. Milligan and Miss Clareta Walk- 

 er, of the Home Bureau 



According to the plans made, the 

 1937 festival will be similar to that 

 of last year with several events added. 

 The evening program will include a 

 pageant of the first 25 years of ex- 

 tension, and farm advisory work and 

 Farm Bureau organization in Illinois. 



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Mrs. Elsie Mies, state Home Bureau 

 organization chairman, reports that the 

 Kankakee County Home Bureau is the 

 first county with less than 300 members 

 to pass the 300 mark in the state mem- 

 bership campaign. 



Effingham county will soon have a 



Home Bureau organization reports the 

 Teutopolis Press. ' 



Representatives of the 50 County 

 Home Bureaus in Illinois will meet for 

 the second annual conference for lead- 

 ers on the state fair grounds, Spring- 

 field, July 20 through July 23. 



Winter clothing stored in tight- 

 topped wooden boxes or trunks with a 

 quarter pound of paradichlorobenzine 

 (P-D-B) sprinkled over the top of the 

 garments will be safe from moths, says 

 the New York State College of Agri- 

 culture. 



Public enemy No. 1 for Illinois 

 homemakers is "Clostridium Botuli- 

 num," an organism that forms a pow- 

 erful active poison. It works in jars of 

 food that have not been properly 

 canned. When canning non-acid foods, 

 follow prescribed scientific methods, 

 warns Miss Grace Armstrong, ex- 

 tension specialist in foods. University 

 of Illinois college of agriculture. 



About 15 per cent of American 

 farms are using electricity, in addition 

 to those which have their own home 

 lighting plants. 



Three Farm Bureau 

 Leaders Pass On 



Edgar Walther, a prominent cattle 

 feeder, president of the Rock Island 

 County Farm Bureau and president of 

 the Illinois Farm Bureau S^rum Asso- 

 ciation, died suddenly of a heart ail- 

 ment. May 9. Mr. Walther was one of 

 the early leaders in the Rock Island 

 County Farm Bureau. He was known 

 to hundreds of Farm Bureau leaders 

 over the state as a loyal worker for 

 farmers' interests. 



William C. McQueen, former presi- 

 dent of the Kane County Farm Bureau, 

 once a nominee for vice-president of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 and the first president of the Pure Milk 

 Association, died following a long ill- 

 ness at his farm home in northern 

 Kane county. Mr. McQueen guided 

 the Pure Milk Association through the 

 stormy period following its birth. He 

 later joined the staff of the marketing 

 section of the AAA to assist in ad- 

 ministering milk marketing agree- 

 ments. 



Charles Mies, former president and 

 long a leader in the Livingston county 

 Farm Bureau, was killed in a railroad 

 crossing accident near his home at 

 Saunemin. Mrs. Mies, who was with 

 her husband, was seriously injured. 

 Henry, brother of Charles, was killed 

 in a railroad crossing accident several 

 years ago. 



Leslie Scrantoo, star pitcher last year 



for Adams county is under contract 

 this year to the St. Louis Cardinals. 



Talmage DeFrees, LAA vice-president 



and president of the Bond County 

 Farm Bureau presided at the meeting 

 in Greenville where a new baseball di- 

 vision was set up. The new district 

 includes Bond, Fayette, Montgomery, 

 and Macoupin counties. 



Albert Hayes, vice-president of the 



State Farm Bureau League was elected 

 district director of the Peoria-Wood- 

 ford-Henry division at Peoria May 4. 

 County baseball directors are J. C. 

 Poppen, Henry; J. L. Rich, Woodford; 

 and Dan McCoy, Peoria. The opening 

 game will be played at Kickapoo be- 

 tween Henry and Peoria June 12. 

 Other games are scheduled as follows: 

 June 19 Woodford vs. Peoria at 

 Eureka; June 26 Woodford vs. Henry 

 at Cambridge; July 10 Peoria vs. Henry 

 at Cambridge; July 17 Woodford vs. 

 Peoria at Kickapoo ; July 24 Woodford 

 vs. Henry at Eureka. 



McLean county may have a basebaU 



team if satisfactory arrangements can 

 be made to play in an adjoining di- 

 vision, reports Farm Adviser Rodman. 

 McLean may line up with the Peoria- 

 Woodford-Henry division playing the 

 idle team in the above schedule. 



CarroU-JoDaviess-Ogle and Stephen- 

 son or Winnebago will likely have a 

 division, latest reports indicate. Ogle 

 announced at the annual meeting that 

 it hopes to come through the first year 

 with a championship team. Well, you 

 don't succeed unless you think you can. 



Lake, McHenry, DeKalb, and Boone 



had their annual spring pow-wow at 

 Woodstock where they drew up a 

 schedule of games (not yet reported) 

 with President Ebb Harris presiding. 



Sangamon county is ready to plaj 

 ball but there are no takers in the 

 Springfield area. 



It looks like Will-Livingston, and 



LaSalle this year in a three-cornered 

 scrap for the district title. 



JUNE. 1937 



