This is what's left of 

 the Montgomery 

 Service Company 

 warehouse and feed 

 milt at Butler after a 

 fire thought to have 

 been caused by span* 

 taneous combustion. 

 An adjoining elevator 

 (rights background] 

 ivas saved. Sensible 

 insurance coverage 

 prevented a disas- 

 trous financial loss. 



of at least S iOO a year. Farmer member- 

 ship in Farm Bureau tlicrelore is 108 per 

 cent higher tlian the number of farms 

 in the county. In addition Wabash has 

 78 non-votinjj associate members. 



Speakint; at Wabash's new member 

 meetinc. (). D. Hrissenden, lAA director 

 of organization, praised the excellent 

 record of the county sayiny that onlv 

 throui^ii tine oryanization work like theirs 

 could I'arm Bureau speak in Sprinetield 

 and Washinj^ton for all the farmers. 



Brissenden told the new members to co 

 to the I'arm Bureau office at the first 



Insurance Survey 

 Saves Service 

 Company $18,500 



ARLV one morning about two 



months ago flames burst from the 



Montgomery C^ounty Service C^ompany 



feed mill anil warehouse at Butler. By 



dawn the building, e<.]uipment. and stock 



valued at S'^y.OOO were a total loss. 



Fortunately for the Montgomery Serv- 

 ice Company a chain of events had been 

 forged several months before the fire 

 broke out. . .a chain ot exents that as- 

 sured the company recovery of S'i^.OOO of 

 the loss in insurance. 



Credit for softening the financial blow 

 which would have resulted from the- fire 

 losses goes to the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation's insurance service tor coopera- 

 tives department under the direction of 

 Albert R. Grauer. 



The lAA set up the department Jan. 1. 

 1948 to advise Illinois farm cooperatives 

 on their in'>;urance needs. 



Last September Grauer made a survey 

 of the insurance carried on the feed mill 

 and warehouse at Butler. Based on pres- 

 ent-day values, he found that coverage 

 was inadequate. As a result, the insur- 

 ance on building, stock, and equipment 

 was raised from S33.°*00 to S'52,0(H), 



Credit also goes to Manager Charles 

 Votsmier for seeing the need for more 

 insurance based on Grauer's survey and 

 to the service company board for having 

 the foresight to follow the manager's rec- 

 ommendation that the insurance be in- 

 creased. 



In a recent letter to the lAA's insur- 

 ance service for cooperatives department 

 Votsmier says: "The type of service you 

 are rendering member companies has cer- 

 tainly been of great value to our com- 

 pany, and I want to express the apprecia- 

 tion of our board of directors and mv- 

 self for the time and effort you spent in 

 our behalf. I am sure we all have a 

 greater appreciation of the insurance serv- 

 ice being rendered by your department. ' 



Wabash is Only Southern 

 County With Farm Bureau 

 Member for Every Farm 



11 F I'IRST county in the southern 



Illinois region to h.ive one farmer 



member for every farm in the county 



— that's the proud boast of the ^X'abash 



County Farm Bureau. 



A year .igo County Organization Di- 

 rector J. E. Moyer and his organi.'ation 

 workers set their goal tor 19)9. It was 

 to Ix- at least UK) per cent of all the 

 farms in the county. 



In the recent membership drive 32 

 volunteer workers brought in "^2 new 

 members and total membership in the 

 county soared to 715 farmer members. 

 Wabash county has 662 farms listed bv 

 the 19)() federal census as havint; income 



Typical of the young farmers easily sold 

 on the advantages of belonging to farm 

 Bureau is Warren Gumbrell, 70, (second 

 from right} of West Salem, Wabash coun- 

 ty, shown with his 17-year-old wife chat- 

 ting with O. D. Brissencien, lAA director of 

 organization. At right is Wabash Organ- 

 ization Director J. f. Moyer. Married a 

 year Gumbrell told Brissenden: "I've 

 known all along that the smart farmers 

 belong to farm Bureau." 



opportunity and tell the farm adviser and 

 officers who you are." 



As a member of Farm Bureau, he con- 

 tinued, ask yoursell these three questions: 

 ( 1 ) Is my community a better place be- 

 cause of Farm Bureau? (2) Has it helped 

 develop leadership in the county.'' (3) 

 Has it increased the farmer's bargaining 

 power.-' The answers must be "yes". 



"My last plea to you," Brissenden said, 

 "is to use Farm Bureau in every way you 

 can. Get everything out of it you can. 

 It is your privilege. " 



ENTER of Inciian life in pre-historic 

 times when it was called 'The Habitation 

 of the Great Spirit," the site of a great 

 gaping hole in the bluff on the Ohio 

 River in Hardin county is the 24th in our 

 series of historic and picturesque Illinois pic- 

 ture covers. 



The cave gives Cavc-in-Rock State Park its 

 name and principal feature. During the days 

 when pioneers began filtering into southern 

 Illinois, the cave became a rendezvous for 

 river pirates and later for robbers and counter- 

 feiters. The mouth of the cave is 55 feet wide 

 but averages 40 feet inside. It extends 108 

 feet into the river bluff. 



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