ELLVEN NELSON 

 "The radio keeps me 

 in touch with marketB 

 but a motor on the 

 com elevator would 

 be nice, too. Well all 

 use more power when 

 we've learned more 

 about handling it." 



the best our old plant would do was 

 give us lights. Washing is my heaviest 

 task so the washer was the first equip- 

 ment we bought. I have an iron and 

 a vacuum cleaner, too." 



EUven J. F. Nelson has rented the 

 farm on which he lives for 25 years. 

 His landlord, like many another far- 

 seeing landowner in Ford county, wired 

 the farmstead before the power line 

 was energized. Although Nelson used 

 little more than the 40 kilowatt mini- 

 mum during the first month, he hopes 

 to use more of this inexpensive power 

 in the future. 



Nelson shared his wired help with 

 the community as soon as it was avail- 

 able. When a group of neighbors and 

 friends met on his lawn for a picnic 

 supper, EUven put an extra large bulb 

 in the yard light and strung other 

 lights over the lawn. The brilliance 

 must have added much to the event 

 because the group is planning more 

 meetings like it. 



"I get more good from the radio 

 than from the lights," Nelson said. 

 "We always listen to a farm program 

 at noon and I get the market reports. 

 A fellow must keep up on his markets 

 these days if he wants to get the most 

 for what he has to sell. Later we hope 

 to have motors to help us out around 

 the barns. We could use one on our 

 corn elevator now if we had it." 



A milking machine, water pump and 

 radio in the barn are among the appli- 

 ances that would aid EUven in produ- 

 cing the rich Guernsey milk he sells 

 to a dairy in town. 



Robert Smith junked his pumping 

 engine for a motor as soon as he could. 

 That helped the whole family. Mrs. 

 Smith or one of the children can start 

 the electric pump any time but it often 

 tried the patience of a skilled mechanic 

 to start the engine. In addition to 

 lights and running water, Mrs. Smith 

 has a vacuum cleaner to speed up the 

 housework. Like many others, the 



Smiths will use more and more power 

 as their budget permits the purchase of 

 labor savers. 



Bob Smith is a booster for the East- 

 ern Illinois Power Cooperative. When 

 right-of-way was difficult to get, due 



ELLA MAY STANFORD 

 Her Saturday chores are lightened and 

 electric lights at school make studying 

 easier on dark days. 



to misunderstandings of absentee land- 

 holders, Bob worked with Floyd Ruble, 

 the right-of-way superintendent, to get 

 the line through. They were successful 

 in every case. 



And so the folks who are using 

 EIPC electricity are richer than the 



kings of Arabian Nights. They have at 

 their command a servant more power- 

 ful than Aladdin's jinn. It fetches 

 water, keeps food, washes dishes, 

 circulates air, washes and irons clothes, 

 illuminates dwellings, yards and barns, 

 saws wood, milks cows, hatches eggs, 

 broods chicks, cooks meals and does a 

 hundred and one things Aladdin never 

 dreamed about. 



The cooperative organization that 

 made possible this change in the mode 

 of living for some 4000 eastern Illinois 

 families first developed in Iroquois 

 county. Early in January, 1936, Ernest 

 W. Sass, a Farm Bureau member living 

 near Hoopeston conferred with Farm 

 Adviser C. E. Johnson. Their conversa- 

 tion, the germ from which the EIPC 

 grew, might have gone something like 

 this: 



"I tell you Mr. Johnson, if we can 

 interest enough Iroquois county folks 

 in a power cooperative, I feel sure that 

 the REA will loan us the money for 

 lines and we can pay off the debt on 

 an amortization plan." 



"Yes, Mr. Sass, we need such a proj- 

 ect all right. But we don't have enough 

 facts to present a case to the REA. 

 Let's see what the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association thinks about it." 



"You get that information and I'll 

 find out what the folks around Hoopes- 

 ton think of it." 



Interest was growing in Ford and 

 Vermilion counties, too. A meeting 

 of representatives from the three 

 County Farm Bureaus was called by 

 Johnson with the cooperation of Guy 

 Baxter of the transp)ortation-utilities 

 division of the lAA. The meeting was 

 held on the afternoon of February 26 

 in the town hall at Wellington in 

 Iroquois county. 



Each county group appointed a com- 

 mittee to study conditions in the area. 

 The Iroquois committee was composed 

 of Herman W. Danforth, E. W. Sass 

 and Mrs. Sanders. Ford county selec- 

 ted Harry Diehl, C. F. Dueringer, and 

 Clarence Helmricks, and Vermilion 

 appointed George Lenhart, Ore Ross, 

 and Harvey Boardman. 



In June, the three counties presented 

 their reports to a field representative of 

 the REA. He told them that the demand 

 for REA funds was too heavy just then 



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THE EIPC FLEET MAINTAINS CONSTANT SERVICE 

 Left to right: lohn H. Cox, lineman; Frank K. Jones, general foreman; Kenneth 

 Slater, meterman; A. H. Barbier, lineman, and Manager T. M. Brady. 



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