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THE ballots arc- now in and the re- 

 sults of the election held by mail to 

 name 19*5 officers and directors of the 

 Illinois Home Bureau Federation have 

 been reported. When Farm and Home 

 Week was cancelled, the officers of the 

 Home Bureau in compliance with the 

 ^'overnment order on conventions 

 limited the annual meeting to an ad- 

 ^isory council and executive board 

 meeting. With terms of certain of- 

 ficers and directors expiring it was de- 

 cided that the report of the nominating 

 committee would be submitted by mail 

 to the voting' delegates for balloting. 

 Here arc the results: Mrs. C. W. 

 Cutler, LaGrange, Cook county, vice- 

 president; treasurer. Miss Myra Robin- 

 son, Kansas, Edgar county ; Mrs. M. 

 Kimmelshue, Manteno, Kankakee coun- 

 ty, north east director; Mrs. E. D. Mc- 

 Guire, Makanda, Jackson county, south 

 east director, and Mrs. R. E. XX'rigley. 

 Trivoli, Peoria county, west central di- 

 rector. 



The new \ ice-President, Mrs. Cutler, 

 helped to organize the Cook Countv 

 Home Bureau in 19 il and was a char- 

 ter member. She 

 has served as Cook 

 county president 

 for one year and as 

 treasurer for two 

 years. She has been 

 interested in -4-H 

 club work and 

 served for four 

 years as leader of 

 the Lyonsville -i-H 

 club. 



Mrs. Cutler's 

 li u s b a n d. Major 

 Clarence W. Cutler, is now stationed in 

 Belgium in charge of special equipment 

 for the U. S. Army. 



The new treasurer. Miss Robinson, 

 joined a local unit of the Edgar Countv 

 Home Bureau about a year after the 

 county organization was started. She 

 served as secretary of her local unit and 

 then was elected a director of the 

 county organization in I9-iO for a two- 

 year term. In 19-43 she was elected 

 county chairman and is just completing 

 her two-year term in this capacity. Miss 

 Robinson is the daughter of J. W. 

 Robinson, a former director of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association. 



Mrs. Kimmelshue, new director of 

 the north east district, is a director of 



Mrs. C. W. Cutler 

 Cook County 



^or5 



the Kankakee County Home Bureau 

 which is celebrating its 30th anniversary 

 this year. Kankakee county was the firs: 

 Home Bureau organized in the state 

 and the second in the United States. 

 Mrs. Kimmelshue has been an active 

 member of the Kankakee Home Bureau 

 for 17 years, and was elected chairman 

 of the county organization in 19-l0 anil 

 19 il. For two years prior to 19-10 she 

 served as county program chairman. Nfrs 

 Kimmelshue is a former assistant home 

 aiKiser and her husband is director o! 

 the 1 ith district of the Pure Milk Associ- 

 ation. 



Mrs. Kimmelshue recalls that way 

 back in 191 "i. when horses shied 

 at automobiles, ■ she drove throughout 

 the county for her mother and to 

 workers. These women were charier 

 members and hence, organizers who 

 worked hard to interest rural women 

 in something new — an organization 

 that would make them better house- 

 keepers, homemakers, and mothers. 



"It is most interesting. " Mrs. Kiir. 

 melshue says, "to look back to see the 

 long, upward path that Home Bureau 

 has traveled. It is also most fasiin.u- 

 ing to look forward to the great educa 

 tional opportunities that this organiza- 

 tion offers to homemakers." 



Mrs. McGuire. south east director, 

 has a Home Bureau career that dates 

 back to 1928 when the Jackson countv 

 merged with >X'il- 

 liamson and John- 

 son counties to 

 form the Tri-Coun- 

 tv Home Bureau. 

 At that time she 

 served as a member 

 of the original or- 

 ganization commit- 

 tee. Mrs. McGuire 

 later served as a 

 member of the or- 

 ganization commit- 

 tee when the Jack- 

 son-Perry Home Bureau was started. 



Mrs. McGuire has served at one time 

 or another in each of the various offices 

 of her local unit in the Home Bureau 

 and has served four years as a mem- 

 ber of the Jackson-Perry executive 

 board, one year as vice-chairman, one 

 as publicity chairman, and two years as 

 county chairman. She also served on 

 the lAA school committee as one of the 

 two members cJiosen from the 23th 



Mrs. McGuire 

 Jackson County 



congressional district. Mrs. McGuire 

 aLso served on the Illinois Home 

 Bureau Federation's 19-i^ resolutions 

 committee. 



Mrs. Wrigley, west central direttor. 

 is a charter member of the Peoria 

 County Home Bureau which was- or- 

 L'anized in 1930. 

 *^iHB^^^^ She served as its 

 tJPp^ 4(MK i tirst vice-chairman 

 ' anci then as treas- 



urer. Mrs. Wrigley 

 also acted as sec- 

 retary at various 

 times while holding 

 both of these jobs. 

 At the present time 

 she is tounty 1-H 

 chairman with a 

 background of nine 

 years as a leader. 

 Mrs. Wrigley has also served in various 

 offices in her local unit. 



Mrs. Wrigley says that i-H club 

 work is my special favorite, and we arc- 

 a cooperative. Farm and Home Bureau 

 and i-H f.imily. My husband leads a 

 boys club and Gene, 13. is a member. I 

 am one of the leaders of a girls club 

 of which Miriam is a member and a 

 leader of a junior uirls club." 



Mrs. Wrigley 

 Peoria County 



Cook County Home Bureau 

 Has 4th Annual Meeting 



Importance of home and family ties in 

 defeating juvenile delinc[ueni.y was 

 stressed in the address by Mrs. A. R. 

 Rohlting, former president of the Illinois 

 Home Bureau I'eder.itiun. at the fourth 

 annual meeting of the Cook ( ounty 

 Home Bureau in the Mural Room of the 

 .Morrison Hotel. Feb. 2K. 



A full program included a fashion 

 show bv a dress pattern company, an ex- 

 hibit of hand crafts by members, and a 

 fashion review by the Future Homes i-H 

 club. Members of the latter club mod- 

 eled costumes of the last "^0 years up to 

 the present day jiving jean-and jMaid- 

 shirt clad high schcxjl girl. 



OtfiLers elected at the meeting in- 

 cluded: Mrs. C. W. (Sutler, president: 

 .Mrs. L. J. E;b. \ ice-president : .Mrs. 

 James loggo. sci.relary; .Mrs A. W. Bor- 

 kenhageii. tre.isurer: .\frs. W. E 1 ritz. 

 membership i.hairman; .Mrs. George 

 Dean John.son. -i-H club chairman: Mrs 

 C. J. Hill, and .Mrs. A. Zuidema. project 

 chairman: Mrs. Robert Suydam, recrea- 

 tion chairman; Mrs G. Rex X'olz, pub- 

 licity chairman. 



lliree b.undred of the 600 members 

 attended the meeting. 



Fruiis and vegetables are valuable in the- 



liict ant) the food in tlic s<iil dttermin« tin 

 food values. 



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