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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



August y 1931 



Some of the girls 

 entered in the 

 ''Country Life 



Queen" 

 Contest to be 

 staged Farm 

 Bureau Day at the 

 State Fair, Spring- 

 field, Aug. 28. 



Frances Johnston 



Ida I. Eppel 



Helen Kolnier 



Helen Phillips 



Snra Biederbeok 



Selecting the "Country Life Queen" 

 will be the star attraction at the Illinois 

 State Fair on Farm Bureau Day, Aug- 

 ust 28. The state style show or beauty 

 contest in charge of V. Vaniman, direc- 

 tor of insurance service for the I. A. A., 

 will be held to select first and second 

 prize winners from among the county 

 entries all of whom won their respective 

 county contests last winter. 



Pictures of only five of the entries 

 had been received up to the time of 

 going to press. 



All of the young ladies are single and 

 all are daughters of Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers. Attractiveness, style, poise, per- 

 sonality, and natural beauty will be the 

 determining factors in selecting the 

 prize winners. 



Judges will favor simplicity in dress, 

 posture, good grooming, and well 

 chosen accessories. Where beauty and 

 charm prove equal ,the judges will favor 

 the one attired in the most becoming 

 dress suggesting simplicity. 



Following are brief sketches of the 

 county winners who had entered the 

 contest on or before Friday, August 7: 



Frances Johnston, Lawrence County 



Seventeen years of age, 5 feet high 

 and weighs 104 pounds and is a bru- 

 nette. She is a student at Lawrenceville 

 High School and an accomplished elo- 

 cutionist. Her favorite sports are swim- 

 ming, tennis and dancing, and her hobby 

 is public speaking. 



Elizabeth Meyer, Morgan County 



Twenty-four years of age, 5 feet 4 

 inches high and weighs 120 pounds. 

 She is a brunette. Miss Meyer is a mu- 

 sic student at Mac Murry College Con- 

 servatory of Music. Her favorite sports 

 are tennis and basket ball. She plays the 

 piano, xylophone and violin, and her 

 hobbies are music and travel. 



Elane Plott, Union County 



Sixteen years of age, 5 feet 6 inches 

 high and weighs 115 pounds. Elane is 

 a brunette. Miss Plott is a student at 

 Anna-Jonesboro High School. Her fa- 

 vorite sport is tennis; she plays the piano 

 and her hobby is reading. - 



Dorothy Roberts, Champaign County 



Twenty years of age, 5 feet 4 inches 

 high and weighs 126 pounds. Miss 

 Roberts is a brunette. She is a student 

 at the University of Illinois and a leader 

 in 4-H Club work. Her favorite sports 

 are swimming and tennis and her hobby 

 is flowers. 



Sarah Biederbeck, Stark County 



Eighteen years of age, 5 feet 3 inches 

 high and weighs 103 pounds; is single 

 and a blond. She is a student at Toulon 

 Township High School. Her favorite 

 sport is gymnasium; her hobby is music 

 and she plays thj; piano. 



Helen Phillips, Macon County 



Nineteen years of age, 5 feet 5 inches 

 high and weighs 115 pounds; is single 

 and a blond. Attended Argenta High 



School and is now a saleslady in a local 

 store. Miss Phillips' favorite sport is 

 basket ball; she plays the piano and her 

 hobby is reading. " 



Helen Kolmer, Monroe County 



Nineteen years of age, 5 feet 6 inches 

 high. Miss Kolmer is a brunette. She is 

 a student at Waterloo High School and 

 plays the piano. Her hobby is music. 



Ida I. Eppel, McHenry County 



Twenty-three years of age, 5 feet 4 

 inches high and weighs 110 pounds; is 

 single and a brunette. She is a teacher 

 and attended school at Woodstock High 

 School, Milwaukee Normal Western and 

 Illinois State Teachers College. Miss Ep- 

 pel plays the piano and is a member of 

 the Business and Professional Women's 

 Club. 



Eleanor Ferguson, Henry county; 



age 18, height 5 feet 4 inches, weighs 

 105 pounds. Miss Ferguson won the 

 Henry county contest. 



She is Scotch-Irish, a brunette, is 

 musically inclined, and has been promi- 

 nent in 4-H Club work. She plays 

 the violin, piano and pipe organ. Her 

 favorite sports are golf, tennis and 

 horse-back riding. She is a student at 

 the Orion Community High School. 

 She was a member of the All-State 4-H 

 Club orchestra in 1930 and 1931. • 



Believe It or Not — 



Marriages in the United States dur- 

 ing 1930. decreased 8.5 per cent from 

 the previous year as compared with an 

 increase of 4.2 per cent from 1928 to 

 1929, according to the bureau of cen- 

 sus. The decline was attributed to the 

 economic depression. 



State-supervised roadside markets in 

 Wisconsin will be designated by special 

 signs issued by the state, according to 

 the state department of agriculture and 

 markets. 



Calf club auctions sponsored by the 

 International Livestock Exposition will 

 open at the Union Stock Yards on 

 August 18. 



Steamship lines operating on the 

 Great Lakes have joined with the rail- 

 roads in their plea for a 15 per cent 

 horizontal increase in freight rates. 



Although more than 340 new post 

 offices on the average have been added 

 to the United States postal system an- 

 nually since 1789, there are nearly 28,- 

 000 less now than there were in 1900, 

 says the post office department. The 

 decline in the number of offices is at- 

 tributed to the creation and develop- 

 ment of rural mail service. 



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