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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



April Good Month in 



Auto Insurance Sales 



May, 1931 



High Agents and Counties An- 

 nounced, Prizes Awarded 



The Illinois Agricultural Mutual on 

 May 1 had received 27,468 applica- 

 tions for automobile insurance. The 

 total for April was 606. A total of 

 1,033 applications came in during 

 March and April. 



The 10 high counties last month in 

 applications are as follows: ^ 



Cook 43 St. Clair 21 



Champaign . . .34 Vermilion ... 17 



McLean 31 Iroquois 16 



Mercer . . . » . . . 21 Logan . . . . ; . 16 



Will 21 Morgan ..... . 16 



Madison 20 



In the prize contest (umbrellas) for 

 the month, the following agents won: 

 H. O. Hinklcy, Bond Co.; K. W. Cleland, 

 Boone Co.; Roy Mitchell, Champaign; Cook 

 County Farm Bureau; E. McClaughey, Frank 

 Diekman, Cook Co.; F. W. Case, DcKalb Co.; 

 C. T. Jessen, DeWitt Co.; D. J. Auble, Du- 

 Page Co.; H. O. Henry, Effingham Co.; Wm. 

 F. Hedgcock, Arthur Welmeier, McLean Co.; 

 Mark Foster, Mercer Co.; L. T. Oxley, Morgan 

 Co.; J. D. Smith, Sangamon Co.; H. A. Bon- 

 ser, Shelby Co.; D. P. Robinson, Henry Co.; 

 T. Wesley Reed, Iroquois Co.; F. H. Wilson, 

 Gerald Dickson, Kane Co.; Bertram Abney, 

 F. L. Thics, Lake Co.; F. W. Peckham, Lee 

 Co.; C. E. Hopkins, Livingston Co.; L. R. 

 Welk, Logan Co.; Chris Bunte, Madison Co.; 

 R. F. Shaffer, St. Clair Co.; Edw. L. Dillon, 

 Vermilion Co.; A. A. Miller, Wayne Co.; Wm. 

 C. Linker, Whiteside Co.; E. L. Wilson, Will 

 Co.; T. E. Benton, Williamson Co.; H. R. 

 Hitchcock, Winnebago Co. 



Tne following agents won electric 

 clocks: 



Roy Mitchell, Cook County Farm Bureau, 

 Clifford T. Jessen, T. Wesley Reed, Fred H. 

 Wilson, Bertram Abney, C. E. Hopkinis, L. R. 

 Welk, Wm. E. Hedgcock, Mark Foster, L. T. 

 Oxley, J. D. Smith, R. F. Shaffer, Edw. L. 

 Dillon, E. L. Wilson. 



The 10 high agents for the month 

 ire: 



Roy Mitchell, Champaign 26 



Cook County Farm Bureau 18 



C. E. Hopkins, Livingston 16 



R. F. Shaffer, St. Clair 14 



Edw. Dillon, \'ermilion 14 



Wm. Hedgcock, McLean 13 



L. T. Oxley, Morgan 13 



L. R. Welk, Logan 12 



Mark Foster, Mercer 12 



E. L. Wilson, Will 12 



Clifford Jessen, DeWitt 12 



E. McClaughey, Cook 11 



H. O. Henry, Effingham 11 



T. Wesley Reed, Iroquois 11 



Fred Wilson, Kane 11 



Bertram Abney, Lake. . .'■ 11 



J. D. Smith, Sangamon 11 



The counties 5n which more than 75 

 per cent of the Farm Bureau members 

 carry automobile insurance in the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Mutual are as follows: 



DuPage 1 18% 



Cook 7 TlO% 



Winnebago 95% 



Clinton . .; 79% 



Bond . 77% 



Will 77% : 



St. Clair . .1....,,,.... 76% 



Wabash 76% 



Montgomery .... . . ... . . ..... . "7t^ 



Members who have two or more cars 

 and trucks insured account for the high 

 percentage in DuPage and Cook coun- 

 ties. ■.-'':-■■:■;'.'- • : 



JEmployers* Liability 



APPLICATIONS for employers' lia- 

 bility insurance received during 

 April by the Illinois Agricultural Mu- 

 tual brought the total to 1,654 since 

 the service was initiated. 



The 10 highest counties for April 

 are: McLean, Morgan, Grundy, Henry, 

 Logan, Tazewell, Will, Winnebago and 

 Woodford. 



The high agents for April were: Wm. 

 E. Hedgcock, McLean; L. T. Oxley, 

 Morgan; Wm. E. Freitag, Tazewell; 

 Paul Brown, Grundy; Hom;r Hitch- 

 cock, Winnebago; L. R. Welk, H. W. 

 Bradshaw, Woodford, and D. P. Robin- 

 son, Henry. "- ";7; ■■;^ '■,'.■;;■ • ':-■:■, 



Recent farm accidents reported are 

 as follows: DuPage county — shelling 

 corn with power sheller — employee had 

 bar in hand. Bar caught in drive chain 

 striking employee across face cutting 

 both cheeks. St. Clair county — em- 

 ployee broke thumb while driving steel 

 posts. McLean County — employee 

 kicked by cow — possible rupture. 



V. Vaniman, director of insurance 

 service, announces that any member of 

 any unincorporated association such as 

 threshing rings, stallion rings, bull asso- 

 ciations, etc., is liable for his total 

 worth. Insurance against accidents to 

 employees of such associations can be 

 had at very moderate cost. 



Lee County Member 



i Mangled by Tractor 



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Ed Hanson, a loyal Farm Bureau 

 member of Lee county, Illinois, was 

 accidently killed while plowing with his 

 tractor recently. Gordon, his son, 

 working at the opposite end of the field, 

 saw the tractor going down the road 

 without anyone on it and ran over to 

 investigate. He found his father's body 

 mangled between the plows. Mr. Han- 

 son apparently had fallen off the tractor 

 while trying to adjust it when still in 

 operation. 



When they learned of his untimely 

 end, 36 neighbors of Mr. Hanson came 

 over to assist the widow in completing 

 the seeding and planting that was under 

 way. Ten tractors and many teams 

 were put into operation. The neighbors 

 completed the planting and seeding, and 

 hauled out 80 loads of manure. 



The sad accident was a shock to the 

 community, and the Farm Bureau loses 

 an enthusiastic booster in Mr. Hanson. 

 His daughter, Marion, is graduating 

 this year as a nurse from the Augustana 

 Hospital in Chicago. 



Country Life Business 



Increases 60 Per Cent 



Heroine School Teacher 

 Held Country Life Policy 



Helen Scott of Atkinson, Henry 

 county, the brave school teacher who 

 dashed onto a Rock Island railroad 

 trestle recently to save her pupils from 

 an approaching passenger train, was a 

 policy holder in Country Life Insur- 

 ance Co. 



Miss Scott succeeded in saving one 

 child, but she and two others perished. 

 Her $1,000 policy was the first double 

 indemnity claim to be paid by the com- 

 pany. She was just 26 years old and 

 lost her life on her birthday while on 

 a picnic with her pupils. 



Editor, I. A. A. RECORD: 



"When the I. A. A. RECORD was 

 a little four-page paper we seldom 

 noticed it It usually w^ent in the 

 w^aste basket w^ithout being read. 

 But since the paper has been en- 

 larged and made more attractive, 

 we look forward to it each month, 

 and now^ the w^hole family reads it 

 from cover to cover." 

 • ;. Everett G. Reynolds, : 



: ■ Morgan county, Illinois. 



Country Life Insurance Company 

 made a new record in the life insur- 

 ance field when it wrote 60 per cent 

 more insurance during April than the 

 preceding month, and 60 per cent more 

 business than was written in the same 

 month last year. Since the first of the 

 year the company has written $5,725,- 

 000 of life insurance. 



Debates Announced 

 A series of seven debates between 

 Manager L. A. Williams and Donald 

 Kirkpatrick, legal counsel for the I. A. 

 A., will be staged during May and 

 June in the counties which placed high- 

 est in life insurance written during 

 April. Topics of widespread interest to 

 farmers will be chosen for the series 

 of debates to be announced shortly. 



The seven high counties where the 

 debates will be held are: Cook, McDon- 

 ough, Bond, Madison, Randolph, Du- 

 Page and Clay. The first two debates 

 on subjects to be announced later will 

 be held at Macomb on May 20 and 

 Greenville on May 21. 



More than $2,000,000 of "contest" 

 business written in April came in from 

 agents. 



Lloyd G. Rodman, a graduate of 

 the University of Illinois who 

 served four years as teacher and 

 principal in the DeLand high school, 

 has been employed as assistant farm 

 adviser in McLean county. 





