Notice 



lUinoU Agricultural Association 

 Election oi Delegates 



Notice is hereby given that in 

 connection with the annual meeting 

 of the Ford County Farm Bureau, to 



be held during the month oi August, 

 1938, at the hour and place to be 

 determined by the Board of Directors 

 of said County Farm Bureau, the 

 members in good standing of such 

 County Farm Bureau, and who are 

 also qualified voting members of 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 shall elect a delegate or delegates 

 to represent such members of Illinois 

 Agricultural Association and vote on 

 all matters before the next annual 

 meeting or any special meeting of 

 the association, including the elec- 

 tion of officers and directors as pro- 

 vided for in the By-Laws of the 

 Association. 



(Sgd) Paul E. Mathias, 

 Corporate Secretary. 

 Dated July 5, 1938 



Sport Festival Coming Sept. 2-3 



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Sixtieth General Assembly 



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and their operation, and partly because a 

 portion of the cost of education has been 

 transferred from city and village prop- 

 erty to country property. The Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, in line with 

 resolutions adopted by the delegates to 

 the annual meetings, opposed the state 

 school board bill. This bill was defeated 

 in the Senate. 



The Association favors the voluntary 

 consolidation of schools wherever feasi- 

 ble. However, the Association has long 

 held that until a much larger mileage of 

 country roads is so improved as to permit 

 all-weather transportation and until the 

 taxing system has been equitably revised, 

 compulsory consolidation of schools 

 would be impossible in most counties and 

 would be unfair to country people 

 throughout the state. The Association 

 further believes that the parents of the 

 children involved and the local school of- 

 ficials are in a better position to deter- 

 mine local school questions than is a state- 

 board meeting in Springfield. 



State High School Fund 



The General Assembly passed a bill 

 appropriating one million dollars and 

 establishing a temporary board of state 

 officers and heads of departments to ad- 

 minister this fund, for assistance to high 

 schools and non-high school districts un- 

 able on their own resources to levy suf- 

 ficient taxes to meet their reasonable 

 needs. By this Act, with which the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association, by resolu- 

 tions, is in accord, the state for the first 

 time assists needy high school districts 



the world over. Gingrich's cards showed 

 a lively interest in this sport. The square 

 dance contest at the Festival is one of the 

 most popular. 



A fellow on the radio the other night 

 said he could make music out of most 

 anything. He did, too. Played a tune 

 on a girl's toe nail. Sounded nice. Some 

 folks are like that. They can make music 

 come out of a jug or most any old thing. 

 There'll be a contest for them at the big 

 Festival to see which one or which band 

 can make the sweetest music out the 

 sorriest kind of instruments. 



Square dance bands, too, will have 

 their chance to fiddle each other down. 



Another thing folks like is shooting. 

 There'll be plenty of that what with trap 

 shooting, skeet shooting and rifle shoot- 

 ing. Although the rifle matches are the 

 only ones with a special class for women, 

 there's nothing to keep them from enter- 

 ing the other shooting matches. The 

 men will probably take the prizes but 

 suppose a woman did win either the trap 

 or skeet shoot, wouldn't that be some- 

 thing ? 



Come to think of it, there was a 

 sprightly miss from Greene county, Cara- 

 line Cuddy, who shot in the trap shoot 

 last year. She showed up some of the 

 men and it was her first match at that. 



In Skeet shooting you use a double- 

 barrelled shot gun of any bore, and clay 

 targets. You shoot on a special field or 

 course laid out in a half-moon shape on 

 which there are eight shooting stations 3 1 

 feet apart. 



But there's more to the state Festival 

 than games. Take the Friday night show- 

 in the Memorial Stadium, for example. 

 The program calls for a chorus of singers 

 from all over the state, five hundred or 

 more of them. Folk'll get to see Illi- 

 nois' best square dance and folk dance 

 teams in action and hear top-flight novelty 

 and square dance bands. Then, too. 



there'll be boxing and wrestling exhibi- 

 tions. Have you ever wondered what 

 other folks see in these sports.' Well, 

 see for yourself. And there'll be experts 

 to tell you the fine {joints as well. 



Radio Talent 



Musicians from three radio stations 

 will be on hand with their best. WLS, 

 the Prairie Farmer station, Chicago. 

 WDZ, Tuscola, and WMBD, Peoria, will 

 be represented. 



At the swimming meet, slated for Sat- 

 urday morning, George Lowe, captain of 

 the 1938 University of Illinois swimming 

 team will demonstrate the various ways 

 that experts swim. If you want to see 

 the closest thing to a human seal, see this 

 exhibition. And Eli Elias, also a varsity 

 man, will go through all the dives. Many 

 of them from the high board. 



Radio stations WLS, KMOX, WILL 

 and WDZ and others have arranged to 

 broadcast from the Festival. Who'll be 

 the champ hog caller that will have a 

 chance to call hogs all over Illinois, Indi- 

 ana, Iowa and other states? 'You won't 

 want to miss that I 



Camera fans will have their inning this 

 year. Cash prizes are being offered for 

 the most interesting picture taken at the 

 big two-day affair. No matter what kind 

 of a camera you have, bring it to the Fes- 

 tival. You may win a prize. See the an- 

 nouncement and rules elsewhere in this 

 issue of the Record. 



The Farm Bureau Baseball league will 

 furnish plenty of sport for fans. 



The League plans to run a two-day 

 tournament in which eight games will be 

 played on two diamonds. Six teams will 

 be in it. Only one can come out state 

 champs. Will it be your favorite team? 



Fishermen, too, will have their spot 



on the program in the bait casting contest. 



It's the one contest that's open to all. 



Any number from a county can enter. 



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for the same purpose which the state has 

 long had in providing special quota aid 

 for needy elementary schools. 



Constitutional Convention 



The calling of a constitutional conven- 

 tion, a subject included in the call of the 

 special session by the Governor, was con- 

 sidered but failed to receive the necessary 

 two-thirds majority. The proposal was 

 to submit the question of calling a con- 

 stitutional question to a referendum at 

 the fall elections. The Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association has considered such a 

 referendum and such a convention as 



futile and a needless expenditure of 

 money. It is of the opinion that any con- 

 stitution submitted would fail of adoption 

 by the people because of disagreement 

 upon legislative reapportionment and the 

 provisions of the Revenue Article. 



Beg 'Vour Pardon 



A. E. Potts, Woodford county, who con- 

 tributed a letter to the July issue of the 

 -RECORD, reports that he sold the Wood- 

 ford County Journal, Eureka, Mar. 1, 1937 

 and has had no connection with the paper 

 since that time. The title added to his 

 signature, "Editor Woodford County Jour- 

 nal" was in error. 



AUGUST, 1938 



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