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Rural Safety 



By C. M. Seagraves 



Kerosene — Mrs. Florence Hoyt, 

 Champaign county, died from burns 

 received when she poured kerosene on 

 live coals while attempting to start a 

 fire. The stove exploded. 



Lockjaw — Harvey Wilken, 24, Iro- 



3uois county, died of lockjaw which 

 evelojjed from a scratch on his finger 

 received a month ago. 



Traaor — John Olson, 67, died 

 from chest injuries received while dis- 

 connecting a wagon load of corn from 

 a tractor being driven by a helper. 

 Olson slipped and fell under a drive 

 wheel. The accident occurred on the 

 John Cronin farm. Will county. 



Colts — Henry Weaver, Ford county 

 farmer, was severly bruised and cut 

 about the head when he opened the 

 barn door to turn out some colts. They 

 bolted knocking Henry to the ground. 



Corn Picker — RoUand Carlson, 25, 

 Henry county, is in a serious condition 

 at the Geneseo hospital as a result of 

 falling into a corn picker while try- 

 ing to remove a corn stalk from the 

 machine. His right hand and left leg 

 were amputated. 



Buzz Saw — The tendons on Harry 

 Frazier's right hand were severed while 

 he was working with a circular saw 

 near Rockwood in Randolph county. 



Grit — James Tully's left ankle was 

 broken when he fell while loading 

 cord wood on his Marshall county 

 farm. He crawled 40 rods to his home, 

 got his car keys, drove to the yard 

 gate, opened it, started toward Henry, 

 collapsed as he reached a gas station. 

 He used an ax handle to operate the 

 clutch. 



Plow — Gilbert Blake, Boone county, 

 fell between his tractor and plow it 

 was pulling when the seat broke. The 

 machine dragged him until it hit a 

 tree. He is survived by his widow 

 and eight children. 



Fight — Although Arch Hall won 

 his bout with a bull, he has no desire 

 to ref>eat the performance. The bull 

 knocked him down but Arch was able 

 to fight him off with a pitchfork. The 

 battle occurred on the Charles Thomp- 

 son farm, Champaign county. 



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OLDEST MEMBER 

 H. O. Acorn, 92, has been a member oi 

 the Macon County Farm Bureau since its 

 organization. His home is painted with 

 soyoil paint and is lighted with R£.A. elec- 

 tricity. He says he will be a Farm Bureau 

 member as long as he lives. 



Cream Meeting at Carlinville 



Friday the 13th didn't keep 13 men 

 from eating supper together. Nor did it 

 frighten them out of discussing problems 

 relating to the Producers Creamery of 

 Carlinville. The men were Farm Advis- 

 ers Alden Snyder, Montgomery county; 

 W. F. Pumell, Greene; C. T. Kibler, 

 Jersey; J. H. Allison, Calhoun; and O. 

 O. Mowery, Macoupin ; County Organiza- 

 tion Directors Roy Tucker, Montgomery ; 

 Hugh Rouden, Greene; Eugene Young, 

 Macoupin; Creamery Manager F. A. 

 "Al" Gourley; Plant Supt. Harold S. 

 Williams; Sam Ferguson, Jersey county 

 cream pool manager; Frank Gougler, 

 procurement manager with IPC. Presi- 

 dent Thad Loveless presided. Next meet- 

 ing of farm advisers and organization 

 directors in the Carlinville district is 

 scheduled for March 5. 



Directors of Farmers Creamery Com- 

 pany, Bloomington, declared dividends 

 of six per cent on preferred stock, 

 1^4 cents per pound butterfat to Farm 

 Bureau member patrons, and 1.4 cents 

 per pound to patrons who are mem- 

 bers of the Creamery only. Annual 

 meeting of the cooperative will be held 

 on December 15 with John Brandt, 

 president. Land O'Lakes Creameries, as 

 chief speaker. 



Harold W. Enns of McLean county, 

 president, Illinois Producers Cream- 

 eries, was crowned Corn King and 

 Irene Anderson, chic blonde YWCA 

 cashier at Bloomington, was crowned 

 Corn Queen at the Corn Belt Exposi- 

 tion, Bloomington, Oct. 20, by Irvin 

 Bauman, Eureka, state corn husking 

 champion. 



Phirago Milk Order 



Complaint was filed in the U. S. Dis- 

 trict Court, October 21, against the 

 first violator of the federal milk market- 

 ing order for the Chicago area. The 

 defendant is the Lemont Dairy Com- 

 pany which is charged with refusal to 

 file required reports and comply with 

 provisions of the order. 



N. J. Cladakis, milk market admin- 

 istrator, said: "This dairy has a history 

 of failure and defiant refusal to comply 

 with similar reporting provisions under 

 earlier milk regulations. If the Lemont 

 Dairy is permitted to flaunt the federal 

 law. it will lead to disruption of order- 

 ly marketing and ultimately defeat the 

 program." 



Are We Having Fun? 



A large part of the new cooperative 

 electric line has now been energized 

 and farmers are having a big time with 

 electricity. 



The word comes to us that Armin 

 Sondag and wife turned on all the 

 lights and then drove up and down 

 the road to see how the old place 

 looked from a distance. 



Wm. Thien, president of the coop- 

 erative had the experience of being 

 the first to have the lights go out on 

 his line a few hours after it was first 

 turned on. 



Wm. Niebruegge, vice - president 

 tried to turn out the lights and get 

 in bed before it got dark, says he ex- 

 pects to be able to do this before long. 



Geo. Ritzel, vice-president of the 

 Farm Bureau, says the meter wheel goes 

 around faster than an electric fan. 



Most- everyone is getting behind on 

 their reading, they are spending all 

 their time watching the meter go 

 around. 



One tree fire has already been re- 

 pK)rted. Mr. Electricity took it upon 

 himself to improve the tree trimming 

 job. — Monroe County Farm Bureau 

 Hammer. 



Herbert Peterson, New Windsor, 

 Mercer county, Illinois state sheep- 

 sheering champion will comf)ete in a 

 national contest during the Internation- 

 al Livestock Show in Chicago Dec. 8. 

 Clarence Jeffers, Bureau county. 111., 

 won at Chicago last year. 



Corn and wheat price adjustment 



payments totaling $8,416,346.48 have 

 been made to Illinois farmers under 

 the 1939 AAA program, according to 

 Lee M. Gentry, chairman of the state 

 AAA committee. 



Ralph McKenzie. formerly engaged in 

 rural youth extension work with the College 

 of Agriculture is the new assistant farm ad- 

 viser in Iroquois county. 



NOVEMBER, 1939 



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