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dend ch«ck$ averaging $13-94 each. Divi- 

 dend rates ranged from 8 fo 14 per^cent. 

 The total amount was $21,888.00. 



Three new directors elected are: Lester 

 Ramp, Artie Johnson and Will W. Jones. 



At the McLean County Service Company 



annual meeting, Bloomington, January 20, 

 2,640 persons, heard Manager George 

 Curtiss report net sales for the year of 

 $644,822.05, not including $91,000.00 in 

 gasoline taxes and $17,000.00 occupational 

 taxes. 



The business consisted of 4,800,000 gal- 

 lons of refined fuels, 91,362 gallons of oil, 

 75,918 pounds of grease, 13,654 gallons of 

 Soyoil Paint, and $29,475.38 of other non- 

 petroleum products. Patronage dividends 

 totaling $84,000.00 were paid. Average 

 patronage dividend check was $33.96. 



George Clark and Frank Moberly were 

 re-elected to the Board of Directors. Hassil 

 E. Schenck, president of the Indiana Farm 

 Bureau and G. W. Bunting were the 

 speakers. 



The Winnebago Service Company ninth 



annual meeting, Rockford, February 10, was 

 attended by 400 Farm Bureau members. 

 All directors were reelected. Manager Frey 

 distributed $17,326.00 in patronage divi- 

 dends. Rates ranged from 10',^ to 17%. 

 The average amount paid per Farm Bureau 

 member was $27.45. Fred Herndon was the 

 speaker. 



Three hundred eighty patronage dividend 



checks totaling $7,925.60 were distributed 

 at the annual meeting of the Grundy Service 

 Company, Feb. 19. Fred E. Herndon was 

 the speaker. All directors were reelected. 



The seventh annual meeting of Monroe 

 Service Company was held jointly with the 

 Farm Bureau at Waterloo, February 26. 

 Patronage dividends of $14,198.60 were dis- 

 tributed to the 700 Farm Bureau members. 

 Approximately 9140 of the membership pat- 

 ronized the company during the year. O. D. 

 Brissenden was the speaker. J. G. Dorward 

 represented Illinois Farm Supply Co. 



Housewives — when doing your 



spring housecleaning don't use tables, 

 chairs or boxes for stepladders. Nearly 

 70 persons daily fall to their deaths. 



Tariff reductions on American farm 

 products have been granted by Czecho- 

 slavakia in return for similar conces- 

 sions on American imports of shoes and 

 other manufactured products. 



U. S. sportsmen spent $11,000,000 in 

 1936 for state hunting licenses and 

 federal duck stamps, says the U. S. D. A. 



ColevDouglas Supply Company, at its 

 eleventh annual meeting. Villa Grove, Feb- 

 ruary 23, distributed 1167 patronage divi- 



Records show that sweet clover pas- 

 ture will carry 25 per cent more stock 

 than any other legume except alfalfa. 



ANOTHER REASON FOR COUNTRY LIFE'S LOW RATES 

 lean Reader and Otiica Manager John Weaver investigate an application. Evelyn 

 Anslay. below, files the incoming cards. The cabinet contains cards which bear the 

 state oi health oi more than a million persons. When a life insurance company re- 

 fuses to issue a policy at standard rates a record oi the applicant's health is sent to 

 an insurance statistical company. The compony sends a duplicate oi the record to 

 Country Life. Each incoming application is checked with this file to determine whether 

 or not the prospective policyholder is insurable at standard rates. Most life insuronce 

 companies employ this system to prevent fraud. 



Move Shawneetown 



To Avoid Floods 



Shawneetown, 1,400 population, the 

 "oldest community in Illinois, is being 

 moved to a new site three miles inland 

 to avoid repeated floods from the Ohio 

 river. It will be 25 to 50 feet above 

 the crest of the disasterous 1937 flood. 



The new town will be a model city. 

 It will be the second time the community 

 has been plotted by government sur- 

 veyors under special act of aoiigress in 

 .1810. The only other city in the coun- 

 try so plotted: is Washington, D. C. 



The cost at moving the 500 Shawnee- 

 town families to the new 320-acre site 

 wiU be shared byr federal, state and coun- 

 ty governments. The Works Progress 

 Administration is providing $680,495, 

 the Disaster Loafi Corporation, $450,000 

 and the state of Illinois, $162,000. 



Gallatin county will sell $20,000 of 

 b>onds to finance its share of a proposed 

 new $62,000 court house. The town of 

 Shawneetown will raise $15,000 to fi- 

 nance one-third of the cost of a new 

 municipal building. 



Owners of property in old Shawnee- 

 town will be credited with the sum of 

 the 137 assessed valuation in buying new 

 houses and lots. 



U. S. farmers carry more than five 

 billion dollars worth of mutual wind- 

 storm insurance. Of this amount. 

 Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Company 

 has more than 70 million in force in 

 Illinois. ; 



On Christmas night, 1863, a group 

 of Long Island truck farmers organized 

 a cooperative, elected a sea captain as 

 purchasing agent to buy Peruvian 

 guano to fertilize their crops. 



Exports of farm products increased 

 20 per cent, July through January, with 

 wheat and corn leading, says the U. S. 

 D. A. 



Country Liie 



(Continued jrom page 19) 



the low operating cost of $2.44 per 

 thousand. Careful selection of risks 

 and the fact that rural people are pre- 

 ferred risks is the reason for the com- 

 pany's excellent mortality experience 

 of less than 30 per cent of the expected. 

 All of these facts place Country Life 

 in an enviable position when analyzed 

 for quality and price. 



The record acfomplishment of Coun- 

 try Life Insurance Company is un- 

 equalled anywhere in the history of life 

 insurance. The fact that farmers have 

 built this company and operated it suc- 

 cessfully for the benefit of policyholders 

 during the hardest financial years in 

 history is proof of their ability to oper- 

 ate their own business. 





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