Below is Vermilio}! Farm Adiher Orni 

 Hii/z' ihiiiuni of ibe intersUUe 3^'f»j 

 chainpionbtp game with Iowa u hich II- 

 Iniois uo», 8-2 an J 6-1. Vermil/oii won 

 the llI/no/\ liile at the Farm Sport i f es- 

 tiva! in Aitgiist. 



CORN BELT CHAMPIONS 



TWO games were played against the 

 Webster county, Iowa, 35-anii-over 

 iliampions at Dayton, Iowa, Sept. 

 18. For Vermilion county Forrest 

 Hunt pitched the first game and 

 Elmer Learnard the second, with Ray- 

 mond Sprouls catching hoth g.imc^;. 



In the first game it was three runs 

 scored on John Klayer's being hit by a 

 pitched ball. Merle Jeffers' sacrifice, Ray- 

 mond Sprouls' three base hit and Glenn 

 f lister's lioine run that started tiie series 

 in projier order for Vermilion County 

 ind Illinois. The final score was H to 2. 



In the second game, after two and one- 

 half scoreless innings, it w.is a single by 

 Ken Berry lollowcil by his thefts of sec- 

 ond and third, coupled with an over- 

 throw at third, that produced the first 

 run, which looked big at that time. The 

 final score was 6-1 with Learnard giving 

 them but two hits. 



Our team was quite anxious to make 

 this trip and to soundly trountc Iowa 

 to make up for a pre-war loss or two 

 to Iowa teams when Vermilion County 

 35'ers had been the state champs. A 

 total of 26 people drove to Fort Dodge 

 in six automobiles. One carload even 

 stopped .It Ames to see an Iowa State 

 football game. All felt that the trij^ was 

 worth while and returned in good order. 



This /f Liiing\triii A^'i^lant Vayni AJ- 

 fiicr H. H. r;/lier<oii'! Jewripl/'n; of 

 //'i- ill C.bih thanipionship ^anic uilb 

 Inn.; tii'ich lllmoii l<u!. 3-6; "i- I : .iiiJ 

 *4-5. Liinig\ii;ii won tbe state title at 

 the r.irin Sp'>rt< FeUiial it: Angml. 



ONE RUN LOSES SERIES 



THE Livingston County 4-H Club 

 Softball team traveled to Chariton. 

 Iowa, to play an interstate cham- 

 pionship Softball playoff with the 

 Iowa state champions Sept. 18-19 

 After a hard-fought battle, the Iowa state 

 champions pulled through \ ictonous two 

 games to one. 



Iowa got into the one game lead by 

 copping the first game 6- i on ^ hits 

 while the Illinois champions were collect- 

 ing 5 hits. The batteries were |. 

 Nicols and Rinehart for Iowa and Emmet 

 Trainor and Elmer Huisman for Illinois. 



The Illinois champions came back with 

 a hard-fiyhtins,' team to win the second 



game 5-4, collecting 10 hits to Iowa's 

 3 hits. The outstanding thing in this 

 game was that the lUmois battery, con- 

 sisting of Trainor and Huisman again, 

 made 15 putouts, with Trainor striking 

 out 10. 



Iowa, taking advantage of five costly 

 Illinois errors, emerged victorious in the 

 third game, winning 5-i on eight hits 

 compared to 10 for Illinois. 



The team felt it a high privilege to 

 have been able to make this trip to Iowa 

 and felt that Lucus County had made it 

 a ver)- receptive visit. 



ILLINOIS 



Wins One, 



LOSES 2 TO 



Iowa Farm 



BUREAUS 



Will iounty'i ibamp/onrb/p Farm Bu- 

 reari banball team, winner at the Sports 

 Fol/ral. ui'it to Decorab. Intia. in Sep- 

 tember, wbere they played lowa'f Festi- 

 val u inner' Winneshiek county. Illinois 

 lou the three game pJayojf 2-1 : 4-7; 3-5. 

 Fi'lloinng if the .m'oimi "i /,'( ;jr"V by 

 \\"il! Cf'iinl) F.-.nij .-iJi/'U Wayne 

 Churchill. 



WIN FIRST, THEN LOSE TWO 



N the first game Will defeated Win- 

 neshiek two to one. Will made two 

 runs, seven hits and one error; Win- 

 neshiek one run. seven hits and 

 three errors. Will's battery was 

 made up ot R. Bormet piltliing and .\li- 

 Quarrie. tattliing. 



In the second game. Winneshiek de 

 feated Will seven to four. Winneshiek 

 had seven runs, ten hits and two errors: 

 Will four runs, six hits and six errors 

 Battery in this gatne was Hoiisbruch 

 pitching and MeQuarrie catching. 



In the third game. Will lost five to 

 three; summary. Winneshiek five runs, 

 seven hits and three errors; Will, three 

 runs, two lilts and two errors. K. Ikir- 

 met was the pitdier with Jacobs and Mc- 

 Quarrie < atching. 



More lli.ui (■>> ..iconipanied the team 

 to Iowa from Will county. I lie first 

 game was as good as am one would 

 ever want to see with the score tied one 

 to one goir.g into llie last half of the 

 p.iiiih inning. Three singles by Palmer. 



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HIS month s lOVer picture is of the rc- 

 ^ -—^^^^— constructed store in tlie abandoned village 



•kflfc ■■'^'B^BI I '^* ^'"^^ Salem at New Salem State Park 



northwest nf Springfield. It is tiie ISth 

 in our series ol historiial .ind pictiirescjuc 

 photographs of Illinois. 



It was the first store built in the village and 

 was constructeil hv Samuel Hill in 1S29. It 

 was here that Abraham Lincoln served as .i 

 clerk for Hill and Liter as the village post- 

 master. 



On completion of the building Hill was 

 named first postm.i.ster of tlic vill.ige in I,S29. 

 The store thereujxin became New Salem's first 

 post office. Tiiis was the only store in the 

 village after the failure of Lincoln and his 

 partner, William F. Berry, and two other en- 

 terprises. 



Hill moved the store to nearby Petersburg 

 in 1839. This building was set up on the 

 exact site of the original store and is stocked 

 with many of the authentic articles sold over 

 the counter during the time of Lincoln. Illi- 

 nois' famous son lived in New Salem from 

 1831 to 183". 



'R.ECORD 



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