At the AU Lean Ciouniv' Service C^)nipan\' 



antni.il meciiiif:. Hlc>i>mini;lim, lanu.iry 20. 

 2.6-l() persons, heard M.iii.ii;cr Gcorce 

 tiirtiss rcpiirt net s.iles fur the year of 

 $6 11,822.0'). not inclii.iiiig S';i. 000.00 in 

 .tavoline la.\es anJ Sl^.OOOOO occupalion.il 

 t.:.\es. 



The business consisted of t.SOO.OOO pal- 

 hins of refined fuels, yi.if)2 uaihins of oil. 

 "■i.'JIS pounds of prease. 1 ^.6S ( pallons of 

 Soyoil Paint, and S20.-l~'i..'S of other rion- 

 petioleuni products. Patron. ipc dividends 

 totaling SSl.OOO.OO were paul. Average 

 patrorvaue dividend clieck was S'^^.^C". 



George Clark and Frank Mohcrly were 

 reelected to the Board of Directors. Hassij 

 1: Schenck. president of the Indi.ina Farm 

 Hure.iu .mkI Ci. ^X'. Buntinp were tile 

 speakers. 



TBe W'innehapo Service Company riinih 



annual nieetnii;. Rocktord. February 10, w.is 

 .ittended bv UK) F,irin Bureau members. 

 All directors were reelected. Mana.uer Frcy 

 di-.trihuted SI^.s26.()<) in patrona.ne divi- 

 demls. Rates ran.ped from lO'v- to ]~'''r. 

 The average amount paid per Farm Bureau 

 member was S2" fi. Fred Herndon was the 

 speaker. 



Colcs-Doufjias Supply ("ompany. at its 

 eleventh annual meetin.c Villa Grove, Feb- 

 ruary 2^, dl^trlbuted 116" palrona,i;e divi- 



iKnd check-, .o er.i.mnt; SI Vol e.icli. Divi- 

 dend rates ianj;ed from S ti> 1 I per cent. 

 The tol.d amount w.is -'2 I ..SHH.OO. 



Three ik u dncctois elected .ne: l.e^ter 

 R.nnp. Artie Jolinson and Will Vi'. Jones. 



Three hundred tinlity patronage dividend 



^he^.k^ tot.iliiig S~.''2'^.60 were distrtlsuteii 

 .It the annu.il meetin.u of the Grundy Service 

 Company. Feb. 19. Fred 1:. Hermlon was 

 the Npe.iker. All directors were reelected. 



The seventh annual iiicelin,g of Monroe 



Service Company was held jointly with the 

 F.irm Bureau at VC'aterloo, February 26. 

 Patronage dividends of SM.1')8.60 were dis- 

 tributed to the "00 Farm Bureau members. 

 Approximately 91'; of the membership pat 

 ronized the company during the year. O. D. 

 Brisseiukn sv.is the ^pe.lker. J. G Dorward 

 represented Illinois Rirm Supply Co. 



Housewives — when doing your 



'spring house-cleaning ilon't use t.ibles, 

 * cliairs or boxes for stepladclers. Nearly 

 70 persons ciaily l-'H 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 m.'.nufactured products. 



U. S. sportsmen spent SI 1,000,000 in 

 I93<'> tor state hunting iicenSit-s and 

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



Records show that sweet clover pas- 

 ture will carry J'S per cent more stock 

 than any other legume except alfalfa. 



ANOTHER REASON FOR COUNTRY LIFE'S LOW RATES 

 lean Reeder and Ofiice Manager lohn Weaver investigate an application. Evelyn 

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

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

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

 an insurance statistical company. The company sends a duplicate of 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 insurance 

 companies employ this system to prevent fraud. 



Move Shawneetow^n 



To Avoid Floods 



Shawneetown. l.lOO population, the 

 oldest cominunity in Illinois, is being 

 moved to a new site three miles inland 

 to avoid repeated floods from the Ohio 

 river. It will be 2°) to ^0 feet above 

 the crest of the disasterous 1937 flood. 



The new town will be a model city. 

 It will be the second tirnc the community 

 has been plotted by government sur- 

 veyors under special act of congress in 

 1810. The only other city in the coun- 

 try so plotted is Washington, D. C. 



The cost of moving the "iOO Shawnee- 

 town families to the new 320-acre site 

 will be shared by federal, state and coun- 

 ty governments. The Works Progress 

 Administration is providing $680, 195, 

 the Disaster I.oai-i Corporation, S 150,000 

 .md the state of Illinois. $162,000. 



Gallatin county will sell S20.000 of 

 bonds to finance its share of a proposed 

 new $62,000 court house. The town of 

 Shawneetown will raise $15,000 to fi- 

 nance onc'third of the cost of a new 

 municipal building. 



Owners of property in old Shawnee- 

 town will be creditecl with the sum of 

 the 1 37 assessed valuation in buying new 

 houses and lots. 



U. S. farmers carry more than five 

 billion dollars worth of mutual wind- 

 .storm in.sjarance. 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 Life 



fC'>nti>:mJ jmni p.ii^e Wi 



the low operating cost of $2. -if 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 cjuality and price. 



The record accomplishment of Coun- 

 try Life Insurance Company is un- 

 ecjualled anywhere in the history of life 

 insurance. The fact that farmers have 

 built this company and operated it suc- 

 cessfully for the benefit of polic}'holders 

 during the hardest financial years in 

 history is proof of their ability to oper- 

 ate their own business. 



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