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in the schools, equipment for the hot lunch, supporting county nurses, child 

 welfare work, putting music in the schools, buying home economics library 

 books, working out club projects, and having special lectures on dietetics, 

 textiles, household management, health, poultry raising, home dressmaking 

 and use of machine attachments, and home dyeing, are some of the things 

 done. Others are using moving picture machines on educational subjects 

 for the home maker, keeping up community centers, teaching the work of 

 the pressure cooker and studying family marketing. 



Some good resolutions were passed at the Monmouth meeting, among 

 them the following: Sensible children's clothes, more knowledge of house- 

 hold fabrics, need of more consolidated schools and county health centers, 

 harmony in all home economic organizations, full attendance at the state 

 fair school and good meeting places for institutes. 



The officers elected for the coming year are: President, Dr. Eva M. 

 Wilson, Manhattan, 1st Vice-President, Mrs. S. E. Bradt, DeKalb, 2nd Vice- 

 President, Mrs. J. L. Van Gundy, Monmouth. The Department voted unani- 

 mously for the secretary to be recommended for another year. 



Credentials were returned from forty-eight counties. 



The secretary has been given a place on the membership committee of 

 the new Illinois Home Economics Association. She has been named on the 

 food and supply committee of the Illinois League of Women Voters. This 

 will keep the Department in touch with all organizations in the State. 



Respectfully submitted, 



MBS. H. A. MCKEENE, Secretary. 



Moved that the report be received and placed on file. Seconded and 

 carried. 



President Wilson, of the Department of Household Science, spoke regard- 

 ing the function of the committee named at the annual meeting of the De- 

 partment in Monmouth, to confer with the University relative to more 

 active co-operation in household science work, throughout the State. She 

 also outlined plans for a rural home survey in which the Department is 

 interested. 



Moved that consideration of these matters be referred to the new board. 

 Seconded and carried. 



The secretary presented the following report of the Convention of Dele- 

 gates held at Monmouth, February 22, 1922: 



TRANSACTION OP THE CONVENTION OF DELEGATES, 

 MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 22, 1922. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS. 



To the Convention of Delegates, Illinois Farmers' Institute, Honmouth, 



Illinois, 



GENTLEMEN: We, your committee on credentials, beg leave to report 

 that we have examined the credentials of the delegates representing the 

 various congressional districts and find the following named persons entitled 

 to seats in this convention: 



Districts 1 to 10 inclusive, L. C. Brown, C. C. Pickett, Charles Gray, J. S. 

 Denman. 



District No. 11. E. A. Carncross, Mrs. A. H. Seaton, C. V. Gregory, 

 H. Lees, J. P. Mason, H. E. McDonough, C J. Luther, Mrs. James Owen. 



District No. 12. James Gough, D. L. Hilderbrand, John Burke, A. H. 

 Wixon, George F. Tullock, Clinton T. Glenny, Fay Stewart. 



District No. 13. Charles Bicklehaupt, W. G. Curtiss, Charles Arnold, 

 Boyd Ritchie, G. A. Lazier, A. W. Johnson, A. N. Abbott, Edward Devine. 



District No. 14. I. A. Whitcomb, G. A. Switzer, Otis Twaddle, J. E. 

 Stickle, J. W. Sprout, R. D. Kyle, Carl Stewart. 



District No. 15. Julius Cline, Dr. W. E. Mercer, F. A. Gougler, J. E. 

 Mummert, Arthur Brown, J. W. Wertman, O. W. Hoit, W. K. Clifford, O. L. 

 Campbell, E. M. D. Bracker, G. E. Gentle. 



