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youngest. A year or two ago we sent one of our dairymen down 

 here, and I can prove to you that he knows all about the dairy 

 business, knows how to milk cows. I refer to our old friend 

 f 'Sudy" as we call him in the north, I presume he is Mr. Suden- 

 dorf down here. There was a time when he lived in Elgin that 

 he was working too hard and had to take a recess. He is one of 

 those nervous fellows and has to be doing something, so he took 

 the doctor at his word and took a vacation. He goes out to a farm 

 on the edge of Elgin and asks for work. He was white and 

 sick. The farmer saw him and Sudy asked for a job. He told 

 the farmer that the doctor said he was sick, but he wanted to 

 go to work on a farm. "What can you do on a farm?" "I can 

 do anything." It happened the man came out with a milking 

 stool and pail. "You take this pail and this stool and milk the 

 cow and bring the milk to the house," says the farmer. "All 

 right," says Sudy, "Anything that man can do I can." He goes 

 down to the pasture. An hour passed by and the farmer happen- 

 ed to think about the milk. Says he, "I better go down to the 

 pasture." He goes down and when he got near the fence, there 

 was Sudy with a pail on his arm and racing around after that 

 cow. The farmer asked him what he was doing. "I thought I 

 wanted you to milk that cow." "I will," says Sudy, "when I 

 can get that cow to sit down on this stool so I can milk her." 



I want to say to the citizens of Clinton that anything you 

 give to that man to do, he will undertake to do it, and before he 

 gets through with you, he will do it. You have another connec- 

 tion between Elgin and Clinton and it is this. I saw an adver- 

 tisement of this Shady Grove Creamery and asked where it was. 

 I was directed to a side street and into the basement of a build- 

 ing, and who do you suppose I found down there? The son of 

 one of the oldest buttermakers in the state of Illinois, Mr. Rem- 

 ington. I was very glad Mr. Sudendorf was fortunate enough 

 to get such a man here. You need have no fears that the cream 

 taken there will be improperly handled. The money will be 

 forthcoming and I predict it will be a success before many years. 



I am very glad to speak of Elgin tonight. Of course Elgin 

 and the dairy business goes back farther than I can remember. 



