Rural Safety 



By C. M. Seagraves 



Runaway-- July 7 — Tragedy 



struck LaPrairie community, Marshall 

 county, today, claiming the life of 

 Everett A. Talbert, 46. As he was 

 sticking the fork in a load of hay on 

 the Charles Collins farm, the team 

 hitched to the load became frightened 

 and started to run. Although no one 

 saw the accident, it is believed that Mr. 

 Talbert lunged for the lines and as the 

 hay rack struck the corner of the barn 

 he was thrown between the rack and 

 the doubletrees. Injuries consisted of a 

 broken neck, fractured skull and nu- 

 merous cuts. 



Missed— July 6 — a combine and 

 tractor made two attempts against the 

 life of Chet Dorothy of Basco, Han- 

 cock county, today. Both were foiled 

 by a pair of overalls and Mr. Dorothy's 

 son Wayne. Chet, driving the tractor, 

 stood up to get a better view of where 

 he was going. As he sat down he 

 missed the seat falling onto an unpro- 

 tected knuckle of the power take-off. 

 The high-speed joint drew him away 

 from the controls, ripped off his over- 

 alls and tossed him in the path of the 

 heavy combine wheel. Wayne leaped 

 from the combine, dragged his father 

 to safety but was unable to dodge a 

 severe blow by the reel which threw 

 him aside. Art Damron, helf>er, stopped 

 the tractor, took the battered men to a 

 doctor. 



Combine— July 21 — Frank Price, 



DeWitt county farmer, suffered a bad- 

 ly mangled right hand when he caught 

 it in the chain of a combine, when the 

 machine dropped into a hole throwing 

 Frank off balance. Reaching for sup- 

 port, he grabbed the chain. 



Bell— July 28 — Frances Marron, 24, 



will keep his eyes on his work next 

 time he pours dressing on a belt. To- 

 day he glanced aside while applying 

 dressing to a thresher belt. His right 

 hand was pulled between the belt and 

 the pulley and painfully lacerated. He 

 also received a badly damaged right ear 

 and lost a tooth as he was thrown 

 against the machine. 



Mower— July 24 — Ramon Divine, 



youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde 

 Divine, Kane county, was killed when 

 a trusted team he was driving on a 

 mower bolted throwing the lad under 



Plodding along in a horse drawn ark, Twelve folks and a baby — all in the dart. This 

 evening, they said, is devoted to fun. Skid, scream and crash! Then there was one. 

 Thirteen persons in this wagon were on their way to visit a neighbor. As they 

 drove along Route 177 near Frogtown, Harry Brennecke crashed into the wagon injur- 

 ing all but o baby. Moral: li you must drive a horse-drawn vehicle on the highway at 

 night, equip it with two or more lanterns to warn motorists. 



the wheel of the machine. The team 

 was frightened when a faulty connec- 

 tion between the horses and the mower 

 broke. 



lugged wheel of the driverless tractor 

 ran over his leg severely mangling it. 



Horse— July 14 — Chester Stewart, 

 18, son of John Stewart, Carroll county, 

 suffered severe internal injuries when 

 he was thrown from a horse. 



Heat— July 7 — Although Edward 

 Schneider, Monroe county farmer had 

 complained of the heat for several days, 

 he worked steadily with the threshing 

 crew until illness caused him to seek 

 shade for relief from the sun. He died 

 a few hours later. 



locii jaw— July 15 — Lockjaw de- 

 veloping from a cut receive'd on his 

 left arm a week ago from a binder 

 sickle, caused the death of William 

 (Ted) Hull, 49, Douglas county 

 farmer. 



Pulley— July 16 — Elmer Gardner, 

 employed on the Frank Stewart farm in 

 DeWitt county, caught his hand in a 

 pulley while unloading hay. He was 

 lifted to the top of the hay barn and 

 fell between the load and the barn 

 when the load was lowered to release 

 him. The hand was badly cut and 

 bruised. 



Upset— July 15 — Ira Fisher, Henry 

 county farmer, received fractures of 

 his right arm and collar bone and 

 bruises on his shoulder and leg when 

 his tractor upset. 



Tractor— July 15 — when a com- 

 bine he was towing behind a tractor 

 broke loose, Verlin Hudson, Morgan 

 county, was thrown over the machine. 

 Before he could crawl to safety, a 



NOTICE 



Illinois Agricultural Association 



Election of Delegates 



Notice is hereby given that in con- 

 nection with the annual meetings of 

 all County Farm Bureaus to be held 

 during the months of September and 

 October, 1939, at the hour and place 

 to be determined by the Board of Di- 

 rectors of each respective County Farm 

 Bureau, the members in good stand- 

 ing of such County Farm Bureau, and 

 who are also qualified voting mem- 

 bers of Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, 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 election of 

 officers and directors, as provided for 

 in the By-Laws of the Association. 



During September, annual meetings 

 will be held in Christian, Macon and 

 Stark Counties. 



During October, annual meetings 

 will be held in Adams, Cass, Fayette, 

 Hancock, Henderson, JoDaviess, Mar- 

 shall-Putnam, Menard, Montgomery, 

 Pike, Pulaski-Alexander, Scott, Wash- 

 ington, Wayne and White Counties. 

 (Signed) Paul E. Mathias, 



Corporate Secretary 



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