Verne Hoar Heads 

 Western III. Grain 

 At Dallas City 



VERNE HOAR, who has been in the 

 grain business most of his life, is the 

 new manager of the Western Illinois 

 Grain Company at 

 Dallas City. He suc- 

 ceeds Fred Watts, 

 now manager of 

 the Havana River 

 Grain Company. 

 Hoar was born 

 * i:^ *"'J reared in Col- 

 lli^i^fl Chester and opcr- 

 W^^M ated the mill there 

 ^^^ for many years. 

 iHi After selling the 

 mill several years 

 ago, he worked at 

 the Seneca Shipyards during the war, 

 then returned to grain marketing as 

 manager of the Western branch ele- 

 vator at Adrian. On March 1 he be- 

 came manager of the Barge Terminal 

 elevator. He is married, has three 

 married children, and three grandchil- 

 dren. 



Verne Hoar 



WILLIAMSON COUNTY GETS 

 NEW FARM ADVISER 



Williamson county, which hasn't had 

 a farm adviser since January will get 

 a new one Sept. 15 when Ralph C. 

 Broom, 31, takes over his duties. Broom 

 is from Edgewood and graduated from 

 Effingham high school and the College 

 of Agriculture. He has done rural re- 

 habilitation work, taught vocational 

 agriculture and in recent years has been 

 operating a fruit farm and serving as 

 a Veteran's administration appraiser. 



This Is the White County Form Bureau's new $100,000 home which they recently moved 

 into, it is one of the finest Farm Burwm buildings in the state. 



White Co, Builds 

 $100,000 Home 



AMONG the proudest Farm Bureau 

 people in Illinois these days are the 

 folks down in White county. They have 

 one of the finest new Farm Bureau build- 

 ings in the state located at Carmi. 



Construction was finished recently at a 

 cost of $100,000 and the building was 

 occupied this summer. The new Farm 

 Bureau structure is 60 feet x 80 feet and 

 stands on three lots. 



Planning was started in June 1945 

 but construction was delayed by mate- 

 rial shortages. It is built of brick with 

 a concrete foundation and is fireproof 

 thro,ughout. 



Rooms are spacious and well-lighted. 

 Less than half the floor space is occupied 

 by the Farm Bureau. The rest is rented 

 by a dentist, a law firm, an oil drilling 

 company, county nurse, public aid com- 

 mission, and the county superintendent 

 of schools. 



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 JHhA ^m' \Jhm 



This is a view of the front office of tlie new 

 White County Farm Bureau at Corml. in- 

 laid mop In marfiex floor is of WMt* 

 county. 



Bonds to the amount of $100,000 at 

 four per cent interest were issued to 

 pay for the building. All furnishings 

 are paid for. Most of the stock is being 

 held by Farm Bureau members. 



The Illinois delegation to the Form Bureau Midwest Training School lield at Upper Sandusky, Ohio in July are shown as they posed far 



a group picture. 



SEPTEMBER, 1947 



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