Rural Safety 



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By C. M. Seagraves 



Grinder-- Sept. 6 — Peter, four- 

 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 

 Zermino, La Salle county, lost the in- 

 dex finger on his right hand when it 

 was caught in a hand corn grinder. 



Silo— Sept. 5 — Rueben Gates, Mont- 

 gomery county farmer and the father 

 of seven children, suffered a broken 

 back when he fell while plastering a 

 silo. 



Rope— Sept. 5 — J. H. Polnow, Mc- 

 Henry county farmer, lost two fingers 

 by amputation when his right hand be- 

 came entangled in a rope and pulley 

 while haying. Mr. Polnow lost his 

 left hand and forearm in an accident 

 several years ago. 



Tlp-0¥er~Sept. 6 — James B. El- 

 liott, 48, Clark county farmer, died late 

 yesterday of head injuries received 

 when a load of hay turned over while 

 driving across a shallow ditch. 



Tractor—Sept. 6 — Elmer Warren, 

 24, Logan county, was killed Tuesday 

 when the tractor he was driving 

 plunged into Kickapoo creek. The ma- 

 chine plummeted down an eight-foot 

 embankment into three feet of water. 



NOTICE 



Illinois Agricultural Association 

 Eleaion 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 of delegates 

 to represent such members of Illinois 

 Agricultural Association and vote on 

 all matters before the next annual 

 meeting of any special meeting of the 

 Association, including the election of 

 officers and directors, as provided for 

 in the By-Laws of the Association. 



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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WOODFORD'S 2STH ANNIVERSARY 



Prssidenis who hor* sarrad tha Woodiord County Farm Buraou ior tha past twonty- 

 fiva yaon, picturad at tha azmivarsory calebration, Euraka. August 30. Thay ara: (left 

 to right), Howard Laonard, Euraka. fiist prasident and iormar prasident o< the lAA: I. 

 Frank Falter, Eureka; Victor Darison of Lafayette, Ind.; loe B. Jochums, Benson: C. M. 

 SmitK. Matamora; Earl C. Smith, president of the lAA, who was principal speaker at 

 the celebration; and Lester S. Davison, ^Cnonk, present president of the organization. 



Four Farm Advisers have served the Woodford County Farm Bureau during its 25 

 years' history. They are, left, above: M. L. Mosher, Chompoign; Paul Johnson, Cham- 

 paign; H. A. deWerff. DeKoIb; and T. H. Brock, Eureka, present adviser. 



Lever— Sept. 7 — Ira Onken, Iro- 

 quois county farmer, owes his life to 

 ^ the high back of his tractor seat. Mon- 

 day, while plowing, and crossing a 

 ditch, the tractor tipped and the lever 

 caught Onken's shirt splitting it from 

 the neck down. His back was bruised. 

 The seat back saved him from being 

 thrown under the plow. 



Haying— Sept. 7 — w. e. waitnp, 



76, Coles county, suffered a broken leg 

 when a load of hay he was driving 

 turned over in crossing a ditch. 



jZuzaL YOUTH 



By Frank Gingrich 



A play "Blow Your Horn" will be staged 

 by the Boone County Rural Youth, Tues- 

 day evening, October 3rd. There'll be three 

 hours of fun and laughs according to 

 Ralph Swarens, president. 



The third Adams County Rural Youth 

 camp got underway with a basket dinner 

 on Sunday, September 3rd. Thirty young 

 people from Adams county attended and 

 many more came in from Adams and Han- 

 cock counties Monday evening for the so- 

 cial hour and dance. Roscoe Bennett, presi- 

 dent, helped in making the arrangements. 



Charivaried and much surprised were Mr. 

 and Mrs. Carl Turner when the Paris and 

 Chrisman units of Edgar County Young 

 People's Forum got in full swing at the 

 lawn party and potluck supper held at the 

 home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hoult, Chris- 

 man, Illinois. Mrs. Turner is Edgar County's 

 Home Adviser. 



Dooald Johnson, Genesee and Don Elliott, 



Greenview, were the first to register for the 

 Rural Youth Caravan Tour which heads 



toward Cairo and the cotton and oil fields 

 of Southern Illinois on October 9th. There 

 will be more than thirty young folks on 

 this first tour which leaves Champaign at 

 4:30 A. M. on October 9th, returning 

 to Champaign October 14th for the State 

 Rural Youth Conference. 



The second Caravan Tour will take South- 

 ern Illinois delegates to northern Illinois 

 including stops at the lAA offices and co- 

 operative headquarters in Chicago. It will 

 leave Marion at 6:00 A. M., October 23rd. 

 Each county may have a delegate on one of 

 these tours. 



District Talk Pest sessions will be held 



during December and January. Top notch 

 talkers from each district will have their 

 expenses paid to the annual meeting of the 

 lAA which will be held January 30 and 31 

 and February 1 and 2 at the Hotel Stevens, 

 Chicago. Each county may send three 

 Talk Fest participants to their district meet- 

 ing. Revised Talk Fest outlines are now 

 available. 



At the second annual meeting of the 

 Moultrie County Rural Youth Group, De- 

 catur, Gene Henneberry was elected presi- 

 dent to succeed Marjorie Casteel. 



Entertaining Gibson County, Indiana, ru- 

 ral youth and the Wabash County Farm 

 Bureau board on October 12th is the next 

 event scheduled in Wabash County says 

 Irma Sandwell, president. The County 

 Rural Chorus will furnish the music. 



There were cider and doughnuts galore 



at the Southern Illinois get-together held 

 September 8th at the Marion Golf Club 

 reports Claude White, president of William- 

 son County Rural Youth. He says that 

 Jerry Hudson, U. of I. did a "bang-up" 

 job with the recreation. 



It's aimual banquet time for many rural 

 youth groups in Illinois. McDonough County 

 has their's scheduled for October 26th. 

 Woodford County, November 9th. 



"What You Wish Others Wouldn't Do" 



is the intriguing topic which will be dis- 

 cussed at the next meeting of the Coles 

 County Rural Youth according to Catherine 

 Merritt, president. 



CXrrOBER. 1939 



