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Here's Chance to 

 Take Educational 

 Eastern Trip 



AN interesting and educational all- 

 expense tour to New England is 

 being sponsored Oct. 22-31 by the Ag- 

 ricultural Leaders' Digest, Chicago. 



The tour is being conducted by Mr. 

 and Mrs. C. L. (Cap) Mast, Jr., who 

 will be assisted by representatives of 

 the New York Central Railroad and 

 other tour services. Cap, who is editor 

 and publisher of the Digest, was for- 

 merly a 4-H club leader in LaSalle 

 county. He has also been editor of 

 Prairie Farmer, lAA Record and the 

 Business of Farming. He is a native of 

 Adams county. 



To make reservations for the trip, 

 write to Cap Mast at 139 N. Clark 

 Street. Chicago 2, 111. 



CROSS STITCH 



Two popular forms of noadlework |oin 

 forces In this handsomo ofghon. The side 

 panels arm worked in afghan stitch and 

 crocheted together with strips of star stitch. 

 A colorful leaf and trellis pattern in rust, 

 tan and maroon Is cross-stltched to the 

 back -ground panels of dark green. The 

 center stripes combine light and dark 

 green, Fei' free instructions send a self- 

 addressed stamped envelope to Women's 

 Editor, Illinois Agricultural Association Rec- 

 ord, 43 East Ohio Street, Chicago 11, llli- 



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Members of the Pike County Home Bureau are shown during their trip by bus to St. 

 Louis In late July. Seventy-four members mode the trip and visited numerous points 



of interest in the city. 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



ASSOCIATION 



Notice is hereby given that the 

 annual meeting of the members oi 

 Illinois Agricultural Association will 

 be held in the Sherman Hotel, Chi- 

 cago, Ilhnois, on the 17th day of 

 November, 1948. at 9:30 o'clock A.M. 

 for the following purposes: 



To receive, consider and if ap- 

 proved, to ratify and confirm the re- 

 ports of the officers and the acts and 

 proceedings of the Board of Direc- 

 tors and officers in furtherance of 

 the matters therein set forth since 

 the last annua! meeting of members 

 o! the Association: 



To approve, ratify and confirm the 

 several purchases heretofore made 

 by this Association of stocks and 

 evidences of indebtedness of cor- 

 porations whose activities will di- 

 rectly or indirectly promote agri- 

 culture or the interests of those en- 

 gaged therein; 



To secure consent and aut.horiza- 

 tion to acquire on behalf of the As- 

 sociation by purchase certain stocks 

 and evidences oi indebtedness of 

 corporations whose activities will 

 directly or indirectly promote agri- 

 culture or the interests of those en- 

 gaged therein; 



To elect eight (8) members of the 

 Board of Directors to serve for a 

 term of two years; 



To elect a Pre.-^ident and Vice- 

 President who shall also serve as 

 directors for a term of one year; 



To consider and act upon such 

 proposed amendments of the Arti- 

 cles of Incorporation or of the By- 

 Laws of Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation as may be properly sub- 

 mitted; 



For the transaction of such other 

 business as may properly come be- 

 fore the meeting. 



Paul E, Mathias, Secretary 



HOME BUREAU WOMEN 

 HOLD THREE-DAY RETREAT 



The annual Home Bureau retreat for 

 counties in the central Illinois area was 

 held for three days in late August at 

 East Bay Camp. Home Bureau women 

 attending heard lectures during their 

 stay on such subjects as handcraft, and 

 nature study. Book reviews and inspi- 

 rational talks and a stunt night also 

 were included. Activities included 

 swimming and boating. 



FESTIVE TABLECLOTH 



For a table cloth with a party flavor, moke 

 it with Irish crochet. The rose petals, 

 scallops and picots which characterize It 

 hove on ornamental, special eccoslon qual- 

 ity. You can make this cloth In any size 

 to fit your table by |olnlng tegotbor as 

 many of the four-Inch motifs as you need. 

 For free instructions send a self-addressed 

 stamped envelope to Women's Editor, Illi- 

 nois Agriculturol Association Record, 43 

 East Ohio Street, Chicago 11, Illinois. 



OCTOBER, 1948 



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