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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1939
Page
4
Community note covers sale starts Thursday August 24 with used stoves and bargains. Local visits include Miss Etta Stansbury of Peoria and families from Macomb Brimfield Arlington and Elmwood. Travel, picnics, and social visits fill weekend as residents report road trips to Kansas Wisconsin and Illinois towns.
The 1939 Peoria County Farm and Home Bureau Picnic at Glen Oak Park on Saturday August 19 will feature talks marking the 25th anniversary of U S extension work and the 20th anniversary of the American Farm Sureas Federation and the Illinois Agricultural Association. Past and present farm advisers and bureau presidents will speak. A horseshoes and checkers event starts at 9 a m. winners will compete in the Illinois Farm Sports Festival at Illinois University Sept 1-2. The afternoon includes a DeKalb state champion girls softball game and a Tazwell county district champion men’s baseball game.
The Peoria county 4-H club live stock show will be held at Elmwood on August 31 and September 3. Final class plans were made by the county 4-H committee and club leaders at the Farm Bureau office. Paul Harker and Carol Cunningham will lead preparations, aided by the Elmwood American Legion and local clubs, with seven 4-H clubs participating. Exhibits include beef and dairy calves pigs lambs and poultry fed by members. The event coincides with the Elmwood Legion home coming on September 3.
Lost or strayed black male boy. Rotary C. F. Dungan of C. C., Blundy. For sale dining room table chair set. Mrs James Kemper aura. Get Heart O Gall melons at George Traver's miles east of Brimfield on route 150. Bana Instruments for rent clarinets etc. Adams Music Co Peoria. Wanted buyers for hybrid seed corn by William Schwenk of Edwards and Harold Shissler of Elmwood donated to Old Settler's Assoc. of Brimfield. Delivery spring 19:0. Bid to finance committee.
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