September, 1931 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Seven 



CONTESTANTS AT STATE FAIR FARM BUREAU DAY 

 Seated — 1931 Country Life Q,ueen, MIsh Frances Johnston of Lawrence county. Left to right, Rtanding — Ida I. Eppel, Mc- 

 Henry county; Helen Kolnier, Monroe i Elizabeth Meyers, Morgan; Eleanor Fergruson, Henry; Dorothy Roberts, Champaign, 

 who placed second; Elaine Plott, Union; Helen Phillips, Mncon; Sara Blederbecic, Stark, and Helen Honiann, Efllnghani. 



2,000 at Kendall Picnic 



SANDWICH, Illinois, August 29.— 

 A parade of 4-H Club members with 

 their livestock impressed the 2,000 peo- 

 ple who sat in the grandstand at the 

 fair grounds here this afternoon at the 

 Kendall County Farm Bureau picnic. ' 



A compact column of boys and girls 

 reaching more than 200 yards as they 

 marched past the reviewing stand em- 

 phasized the magnitude of this move- 

 ment among the farm youth of the 

 country. More than $500 in premiums 

 was awarded to winners of the various 

 divisions of the 4-H Club show. 



V. Vaniman, director of insurance 

 service for the I. A. A., was the speaker 

 of the day. He emphasized the fact 

 that this is a day of organization when 

 farmers must stick together. 



"Nobody is going to solve the farm- 

 er's problems for him," said Mr. Vani- 

 man, "and the individual farmer is not 

 going to solve it. When a solution 

 comes it will be reached by organized 

 agriculture." 



The morning program consisted of 

 judging 4-H livestock and judging the 

 girls' 4-H exhibit. C. E. Gates, farm 

 adviser of LaSalle county, was judge 

 of all livestock and Mrs. Carl Lewis 

 judged the girls' exhibits. 



Horseshoe pitching and music by the 

 amplifying system of the I. A. A. also 

 preceded the picnic dinner. In the 

 afternoon the Plattville Community 

 Band and the East Oswego Male Quar- 



tette furnished special music. Farm Ad- 

 viser W. P. Miller presided. 



A baseball game between the LaSalle 

 County Farm Bureau nine and Kendall 

 County was the final event on the pro- 

 gram. :' " - • . 



Picnic and 4-H Show at 

 Lincoln 



LINCOLN, Illinois, August 31.— 

 The Logan County Farm Bureau 

 picnic held at Chautauqua Park here 

 today closed the most popular month 

 for holding annual Farm Bureau pic- 

 nics. More than 40 Illinois county 

 Farm Bureaus held their annual outdoor 

 gatherings during August. 



A crowd estimated at 3,000 attended 

 the picnic in spite of threatened rain. 

 One feature that drew a good crowd 

 during the morning was the county 4-H 

 Club fair where more than 60 pigs, a 

 score of baby beeves and lambs were 

 exhibited. The entire morning was de- 

 voted to judging livestock. 



In the afternoon at the auditorium, 

 Larry Williams, manager of Country 

 Life Insurance Company, spoke on the 

 ideals of the Farm Bureau. He empha- 

 sized that the organization was not 

 formed to make more money, but to 

 maintain and defend a decent standard 

 of living. ; > 



"The farmer didn't start this organi- 

 zation business," said Mr. Williams. 

 "Every other industry in the world was 

 organized first and the farmer was 



forced to do it as a defense measure. 

 No organization has ever succeeded by 

 making money its only ideal. The 

 quicker Farm Bureau members realize 

 that their organization has a greater 

 goal than this, the better it will be for 

 the organization." 



Other numbers on the program were 

 as follows: a style show by Logan Coun- 

 ty 4-H Club girls, a demonstration of 

 how to make a bed properly by one of 

 the room improvement clubs, and sev- 

 eral selections by the Pawnee Quar- 

 tette. Farm Adviser J. H. Checkley 

 presided. 



As the last event of the day, the Lo- 

 gan County Farm Bureau baseball team 

 played an exhibition game with Sanga- 

 mon county. Logan won 12 to 2. 



Livingston Co. Board Meets 



The Livingston County Farm Bu- 

 reau board of directors held its regular 

 monthly meeting in the I. A. A. of- 

 fices on Sept. 8. Meeting with the 

 board also were members of the or- 

 ganization committee from the 18 units 

 in the county. More than 50 attended 

 the meeting. 



Raster Takes Bride 



Hermann Raster, field resepresenta- 

 tive for the Illinois Produce Marketing 

 Association, was recently married to 

 Miss Mary Ellen F. Randolph of Can- 

 ton, Illinois. They are making their 

 home at Canton. 



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