Adviser Reports on County Marketing and Soil Programs
The Farm Adviser details feeder banquet in Lanark with 246 attendees and 250 stockmen at outlook meetings, plus a Chicago terminal markets tour with 105 participants. He notes 30 farmers audited books, flood-relief funds of 1056 dollars raised, and soil fertility as the core of county wealth with erosion control, crop rotation, lime tests on 76 farms, and 20,000 tons of limestone spread. He cites hybrid corn tests and disease resistant wheat oats, urging score-card trials to improve hybrid selection by soil type.
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Lanark
Producers’ Commission
Outlook
Chicago
Roske
J. C. Traum
Fair Haven
Ford Spaulding
Salem
Illinois
Carroll County
Soil Conservation Service
Soil Conservation Association
University of Illinois
Carroll
Farm Bureau
Re elect N Diehl as F B Leader for Rock Creek Farm Bureau
Naaman Diehl, prominent Rock Creek township farmer, was re elected president of the Carroll County Farm Bureau association at the Mt. Carroll annual meeting. This will be the fourth consecutive year Diehl has headed the local organization. Five new directors were elected and nine were re elected to represent Farm Bureau members in fourteen townships. Nearly 1100 county residents attended the election and business meeting. Directors elected include Osborn Shafer Lima Clarence Hartman Fair Haven John Richter Salem J R Chafer Mt Carroll Donald Hall Woodland Edwin Simon Washington E C Guenther Freedom John Henze Shannon Roland Artman Cherry Grove Lake Flickinger Rock Creek Charles Livengood Wysox E W Van Dorn Savanna.
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Naaman Diehl
Rock Creek Township
Carroll County Farm Bureau Association
Mt. Carroll
Diehl
Osborn Shafer
Lima
Clarence Hartman
Fair Haven
John Richter
Salem
J. R. Chafer
Donald Hall
Woodland
Now
Edwin Simon
Washington
E. C. Guenther
Freedom
John Henze
Shannon
Roland Artman
Cherry Grove
Lake Flickinger
Rock Creek
Charles Livengood
Wysox
E. W. van Dorn
Savanna
State Grades Exams For Superintendents
John C. Weigel of Illinois public welfare administrative staff says grading of exams for county welfare superintendents, taken by 425 applicants from 86 counties, is rushed but ongoing. An oral test will follow for those scoring 60 or higher. location of testing and fate of the 165 rejected nominees were not determined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Weigel
Illinois
Weigel
Springfield
Death of G. W. Fulrath at 70 in Mt. Carroll area
George W. Fulrath, 70, died at 2 30 a m Monday at his home south of Mt Carroll. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the home and Center Hill United Brethren church with Rev Grover Foltz officiating. Burial was in Center Hill cemetery. Surviving are his widow four children Mrs Harold Merchant of Lanark Mrs Wilbur Wilke of Greensfork Ind and Mrs Gus Sherman and Arthur Fulrath of Savanna five sisters and three brothers.
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G. W. Fulrath
Mt. Carroll
George W. Fulrath
Center Hill
Re-Elect Officers of Lanark Fire Ins Company Tuesday
L. A. Fink D. A. Fogel and D. R. Weed were re elected directors at the Lanark Mutual Fire Insurance annual meeting held in Lanark. All officers were re elected for another year with President J. T. Eckman Vice President S. C. Thompson and Secretary Treasurer Forrest Thompson. D R Lower and L A Fink were re elected surveyors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. Fink
D. A. Fogel
D. R. Weed
Lanark Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Lanark
J. T. Eckman
S. C. Thompson
Forrest Thompson
D. R. Lower
Farm Score Cards Sent to State Headquarters for 1938 Limits
Elver Eisseller, secretary of the Carroll County Agricultural Conservation association, reports that 1,792 farm score cards from Carroll County have been sent to state headquarters in Springfield for checking and forwarding to Washington. The cards describe each farm unit and will be used to compute soil depleting acreage and corn acreage limits for the 1938 farm program.
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Elver Eisseller
Carroll County Agricultural Conservation Association
Springfield
Washington
Savanna Wins Doubleheader Over Lyons in Nerve-Testing Night
Savanna high school swept Lyons in a Friday doubleheader on their floor. The varsity edged Lyons 27 to 24 as J Dahl led Lyons with ten points and Savanna’s DeFranco Cooley Watson and Myers tallied six each in a tight game. The lightweights won 20 to 19 in overtime on a late free throw by Savanna.
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Savanna High School
Lyons High
Lyons Lights
J. Dahl
Lyons
Harry
Savanna
Dahl
DeFranco
Cooley
Watson
Myers
Mt Carroll Defeats Savanna 24 22 On Savanna Floor
Mt Carroll high school edged Savanna 24 to 22 on Wednesday night on Savanna’s floor. The Walkermen trailed 14 to 9 at halftime but rallied in the second half to claim the two point win.
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Mt. Carroll High School
Savanna
Walkermen
Mt. Carroll
Morrison man seeks Whiteside County superintendent nomination
Bayard Hollinshead of Morrison announces his candidacy for Whiteside county superintendent of schools at the April 12 primary. He served in World War I, is a member of American Legion Post 328, and is a graduate of James Millikin University who studied at Illinois Colorado and Iowa universities. He taught at Savanna township high school and Whiteside rural schools.
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Bayard Hollinshead
Morrison
Whiteside County
Hollinshead
American Legion
James Milikin University
University of Illinois
University of Colorado
State University of Iowa
Savanna Township
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Alice Fay
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Milledgeville
Thomson
Orangeville
Chadwick
Polo
Fulton
Franchot Tone
Virginia Bruce
Dick Foran
SUN
MON
Joe Penner
Victor Moore
Helen Broderick
Ann Dvorak
John Trent
Lady
City Meat
Bor
Greta
Osentiries
Ford
Plymouth
Silvertone
Tray
Munson
Sears
Melton
America
W.ashers
Graham - Bradley
Graham-Bradley
Rockwood
David Bradley
Sterling, Ill
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