lAA Annual Meeting 



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on Wednesday night for the entertain- 

 ment of convention visitors. 

 Meeting Places 



While the main sessions of the lAA 

 convention will be held in the Armory 

 which, reports indicate, has a capacity of 

 5000 or more, other meetings will be 

 scheduled for the three hotels, Abraham 

 Lincoln, St. Nicholas, and Leland, the 

 Elks Club, the Knights of Columbus 

 building, and the Centennial Building. 



All available rooms in the hotels have 

 been reserved, late reports from Spring- 

 field show. Many excellent rooms in 

 private homes are available according to 

 the Springfield Association of Commerce. 

 Reservations should be made through the 

 Association of Commerce. 



Convention headquarters will be the 

 Abraham Lincoln Hotel where voting 

 delegates are to register and get their 

 credentials promptly on arrival. Attrac- 

 tive badges carrying the lAA emblem 

 in colors with space for the name of the 

 wearer will be distributed to all conven- 

 tion visitors who register. Voting dele- 

 gates will receive special ribbons. 



There will be no special rail rates since 

 the western roads have all been operating 

 under reduced fares during the past sev- 

 eral years. Members are advised to buy 

 round trip tickets which make possible .1 

 substantial saving compared with one- 

 way fares. 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 



FARMERS MUTUAL REINSURANCE 



COMPANY 



Notice is hereby given that the annual meet- 

 ing of the FARMERS NOJTUAL REINSUR- 

 ANCE COMPANY will be held in the Elks 

 Club Auditorium, Springfield, Illinois, on 

 Wednesday, January 26, 1938, at 9:30 o'clock 

 A.M. to elect three directors to succeed the 

 directors whose terms then expire; to receive 

 and if approved, confirm the report of the 

 Board of Directors of the Company for the 

 fiscal year ending December 31, 1937; to con- 

 sider and if approved, ratify and confirm all 

 the acts and proceedings of the Board of Di- 

 rectors done and taken since the last annual 

 meeting of members of the Company and for 

 the transaction of such further and other busi- 

 ness as may properly come before the meeting. 



Dated at Chicago, Illinois, on December 20, 

 1937. 



L. E. Lingenfelter, Secretary. 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 

 ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 

 AUDITING ASSOCIATION 

 NOTICE is hereby given that the annual 

 meeting of the members and shareholders of 

 Illinois Agricultural Auditing Association will 

 be held on Wednesday, the 26th day of Jan- 

 uary, 1938, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock A.M. 

 in the Auditorium of the Centennial Build- 

 ing, Springfield, Illinois, to elect directors, re- 

 ceive, and if approved, confirm the report of 

 the board of directors of the Association for 

 the fiscal year ending December 31. 1937, and 

 to consider and, if approved, ratify and con- 



firm all the acts and proceedings of the board 

 of directors done and taken since the last an- 

 nual meeting of the members and shareholder! 

 of the Association; and for the transaction 

 of such further and other business as may 

 properly come before the meeting. 



Dated at Chicago, Illinois, December 20, 

 1937. 



Geo. E. Metzger, Secretary. 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF 



ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU 



SERUM ASSOCIATION 



NOTICE is hereby given that the annual 

 meeting of the members and shareholders of 

 Illinois Farm Bureau Serum Association will 

 be held on Wednesday, the 26th day of Jan- 

 uary, 1938, at the hour of 10 o'clock A.M. at 

 the Abraham Lincoln Hotel, Springfield, Il- 

 linois, to elect directors, receive, and if ap- 

 proved, confirm the report of the board of 

 directors of the association for the fiscal year 

 ending December 31, 1937; and to consider 

 and, if approved, ratify and confirm all the 

 acts and proceedings of the board of directors 

 done and taken since the last annual meeting 

 of the members of the Association; and for 

 the transaction of such further and other busi- 

 ness as may properly come before the meeting. 



Dated . at Chicago, Illinois, December 20, 

 1937. 



S. F. Russell, Secretary 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF 



SHAREHOLDERS OF ILLINOIS 



AGRICULTURAL HOLDING CO. 



Notice is hereby given that the annual meet- 

 in? of the shareholders of ILLINOIS AGRI- 

 CULTURAL HOLDING CO. will be held on 

 Wednesday, the 26th day of JANUARY, 

 1938, at the hour of 11 o'clock A.M. in the 

 Elks Club Auditorium, SPRINGFIELD, ILLI- 

 NOIS, for the purpose of electing directors 

 for the coming year; for receiving and, if ap- 

 proved, confirming the reports of officers for 

 the preceding year and for considering and, 

 if approved, ratifying and confirming all the 

 acts and proceedings of the Board of Directors 

 done and taken since the last annual meeting 

 of the shareholders of the Company ; and for 

 the transaction of such further and other busi- 

 ness as may properly come before the meeting. 



Only holders of the capital stock of record 

 as of the close of business on January 6, 

 1938, will be entitled to vote at said meeting. 



Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 18th day of 

 December, 1937. 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 

 HOLDING CO. 



E. E. Houghtby, Secretary 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL 



INSURANCE COMPANY 



NOTICE is hereby given that the annual 

 meeting of the members of ILLINOIS AGRI- 

 CULTURAL MUTUAL INSURANCE COM- 

 PANY will be held on Wednesday, the 26th 

 day of January, 1938, at the hour of 1 o'clock 

 P M. in the Elks Club Auditorium, Spring- 

 field, Illinois, to elect directors, receive, and 

 if approved, confirm the report of the board 

 of directors of the company for the fiscal year 

 ending December 31, 1937, and to consider 

 and, if approved, ratify and confirm all the 

 acts and proceedings of the board of directors 

 done and taken since the last annual meeting 

 of the members of the company, and for the 

 transaction of such further and other business 

 as may properly come before the meeting. 



Dated at Qiicago, Illinois, December 20, 

 1937. 



E. E. Houghtby, Secretary. 



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NEWS 



$00 Farm Bureau members attended the 



Stephenson Service Company annual meet- 

 ing at the Masonic Temple, Freeport, De- 

 cember 8. Messrs. Geiter, Scheffner and 

 Yeoman, President, Secretary and Treasurer, 

 respectively, reviewed the company's most 

 successful year. They reported a 29% in- 

 crease in business and a 40.4% gain in net 

 income. Manager A. O. Grossmann praised 

 the salesmen for their good work. Nine 

 out of ten Farm Bureau members patronize 

 the company. 947 Farm Bureau members 

 received checks averaging 122.63. Total 

 dividends distributed amounted to J21,- 

 499.11. Donald Kirkpatrick was the princi- 

 pal speaker. A slide film "Eleven Years of 

 Growth" was shown by W. B. Peterson of 

 Illinois Farm Supply Company. 



Manager G. R Clore of the St. Clair 



Service Company reported increases in the 

 company's business of $288,000 at the com- 

 pany's seventh annual meeting, Belleville, 

 December 10. 



Patronage dividends of $39,882.39 were 

 distributed at the close of the meeting. The 

 average dividend per Farm Bureau member 

 patron was $26.53. 



John J. Glauber, Jr. of East St. Louis and 

 J. J. Lortz of Freeburg were elected di- 

 rectors to succeed Fred W. Bergmann and 

 T. L. Stookey. 



The meeting was attended by 400 Farm 

 Bureau members from St. Clair, Washington, 

 and Clinton counties. C. H. Becker was the 

 speaker. 



Fourteen hundred and ten LaSalle County 



Farm Bureau members clipped patronage 

 coupons of $29. 07 each at a joint annual 

 meeting of the Farm Bureau and supply 

 company, Ottawa, December 16. 



LaSalle County Farm Supply Company 

 celebrated its tenth anniversary by distrib- 

 uting patronage dividend checks totaling 

 $40,731.39, or a total of $260,213.11 during 

 the ten year period. The sales of the com- 

 pany increased 25.5 per cent last year, ac- 

 cording to Manager M. H. Comisky. 



Reverend Oscar Johnson of St. Louis and 

 L. R. Marchant were the speakers. The 

 entire board of directors was reelected for 

 another year. 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 



ILLINOIS PRODUCERS' 



CREAMERIES 



Notice is hereby given that the annual meet- 

 ing of the members and shareholders of IL- 

 LINOIS PRODUCERS' CREAMERIES will be 

 held on Wednesday, the 26th day of January, 

 1938, at 1 o'clock P. M. in the ABRAHAM 

 LINCOLN HOTEL, SPRINGFIELD. ILLI- 

 NOIS, to elect directors, receive and if ap- 

 prove, confirm the report of the Board of Di- 

 rectors of the association for the fiscal year 

 ending September 30, 1937, and to consider 

 and if approved, ratify and confirm all the 

 acts and proceedings of the Board of Directors 

 done and taken since the last annual meeting 

 of the members and shareholders of the as- 

 sociation and for the transaction of such 

 further and other business as may properly 

 come before the meeting. 



Dated at Chicago, Illinois, December 2J, 

 1937. 



Wm. Bismark, Secretary. 



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