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FURTHER progress in the organizing, 

 planning and developing of the 

 Farm Bureau cooperative grain market- 

 ing association, which will be allied 

 with the lAA's Illinois Grain Terminals 

 Company, have been reported by Act- 

 ing Manager G. H. Iftner. 



Added to the lengthening list of 

 counties which plan to affiliate with 

 Illinois Grain Terminals Company is 

 the Livingston County Grain and Sup- 

 ply Company which recently purchased 

 the holdings of the Saunemin Farmers 

 Elevator Company which included four 

 elevators. 



Besides marketing grain, the Living- 

 ston county co-op plans to become 

 aflFiliated with Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company and to supply farmers with 

 Blue Seal and Service Brands of feed 

 and fertilizers. 



The Havana River Grain Company, 

 which will seiVice Mason, Logan, Me- 

 nard, Cass, Schuyler, McDonough and 

 Fulton counties, reported the near com- 

 pletion of its 70,000 bushel elevator at 

 Havana. It will be ready to buy grain 

 about March 1 and with the old eleva- 

 tor will have a storage capacity of 

 90,000 bushels. 



The three elevator sites purchased 

 by the Prairie Grain Company, which 

 will serve La Salle, Lee, Henry, Mar- 

 shall-Putnam, Stark, Woodford, Bu- 

 reau and Peoria counties, are at Lacon, 

 Hennepin and Ottawa. 



Plans for the construction of a 125,- 

 000 bushel elevator at Lacon will be 

 discussed with the contractor when he 

 submits his first draft about April. 



The board of directors will meet 

 soon with the builder of the Hennepin 

 elevator. Work is expected to begin 

 about April 1. The site at Ottawa still 

 awaits clearance of title. Other sites 

 are being sought by the Prairie Grain 

 Company. C. H. Kreiling, Havana 

 engineer, has been authorized to secure 

 permits for the construction of the 

 Lacon and Hennepin elevators. 



The elevator at Havana will be com- 

 pleted about the same time as the ele- 

 vator being built at Decatur, Ala., by 

 the Indiana Grain Cooperative. Havana 

 River Grain Company intends to ship 

 grain by barge to the elevator at De- 

 catur, Ala., and later to the elevator 

 at Louisville which the Indiana co-op 

 is planning to build. 



Havana Grain plans a membership in 

 the Illinois Grafn Corporation, the 



lAA's grain brokerage affiliate, which 

 has an agreement with Indiana Grain 

 to credit for patronage purposes grain 

 marketed through Indiana Grain by 

 Illinois Grain Corporation members. 



Officers and members of the board 

 of directors of the new Livingston 

 County Grain and Supply Company 

 are : Leonard Sellmyer, president, 

 Saunemin; John Roth, vice president, 

 Fairbury; Eugene Mies, secretary, Pon- 

 tiac; William Thomas, treasurer, Flan- 

 agan; M. D. Rich, Saunemin; Charles 

 Chappie, Dwight; Edward Brandes, 

 Manville; John Murphy, Odell; and 

 Charles Lauritzen, Reddick. 



Western Illinois Grain Company, 

 Dallas City, became the first active 

 member of Illinois Grain Terminals 

 Company on Jan. 13 when president 



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Workmen, ihewn crtep tha Havana RIvar 

 Grain Cempany'i 70,000 bwihal alavatar, 

 put tha fInUhIng toachas ta tha itructura 

 which I* axpactad to ga inta aparatlan 

 March 1. 



Emory Ward, Ferris, signed the mem- 

 bership agreement following ofiFicial 

 action by his board of directors. 



LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 



PRACTICAL JOKER 



1 note in the material for the February 

 issue of the Record the story announc- 

 ing the resignation of John C. Moore as 

 assistant organization director for District 

 3. You have a statement in the article to 

 the effect that practical jokes are legend- 

 ary with Mr. Moore. I think I might 

 enlighten you on a practical joke that 

 John pulled on lAA Organization Di- 

 rector O. D. Brissenden during a Mid- 

 West Training School in Madison, Wis., 

 in 1931. 



O. D. Brissenden and L. F. Brissen- 

 den, his father, were both in attendance 

 at the school. L. F. Brissenden is quite 

 a fisherman. The school was-conducted 

 at the University of Wisconsin which lies 

 on the bank of a lake. Rather early each 

 morning, L. F. Brissenden would get up 

 and go down to the bank of the lake and 

 do a little fishing. He usually pulled out 

 a few small fish and gave them to some 

 of the boys who would be along the lake 

 shore. 



On next to the last day of the school, 

 O. D. Brissenden accompanied his father 

 down to the lake to fish. They came up 

 about 8 o'clock in the morning and 

 thought nothing of their fishing adven- 

 ture. However, the sly John Moore took 

 cognizance of this event and decided to 

 play a practical joke on O. D. Brissenden, 

 who of course had no fishing license. 



During the noon hour, John drove 

 over to the state house, went into the 

 oflFice of the state office of conservation, 

 secured some conservation department sta- 

 tionery, and a copy of a summons which 

 was used to summon men into court who 

 had violated the fish and game act of 

 the state. John had this summons very 

 carefully filled in with a typewriter, and 

 then bribed a university cop to step into 

 one of the sessions of the school and serve 

 the notice on O. D. Brissenden before 

 some 400 or 500 people assembled in this 

 meeting. 



Brissenden had no knowledge of such 

 actions until the cop approached him, and 

 the summons was so neatly done, that 

 even after it was served, he never sus- 

 pected John Moore as the man who had 

 figured out the practical joke. Of course 

 it was embarrassing to Brissenden, but 

 John split his sides laughing. It was 

 several hours before Brissenden finally 

 discovered that it was a joke and found 

 out who had been back of it. 



I thought you might be interested in 

 knowing about this occasion because it 

 is fully characteristic of John Moore. That 

 is one of the reasons why we all love 

 him. 



George E. Metzger 

 lAA Field Secretary 



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