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Your 4500 THE DAILY PANTAGRAPH, BLOOMINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1941. SEVEN A DE FARM FAMILY CONTEST Thomas Family Fighting Keep in First Place J. F. Dickersons Threaten to Pass Leader BY THE FARM FAMILY CONTEST EDITOR. Even though 40,000 votes have been received by The since Saturday, the Millard Thomas family of Farmer City is still leading the Typical Illinois Farm Family contest A8 voting swings into the final week.

Lead Threatened. The Thomas family holds a lead of less, than 1,000 votes (100 ballots) over the climbing second place Dickersons from Leroy. The Dickfamily rose from a low fourth place in the last three days. Oliver Troyer's family and the Leslie Sutters dropped back one place each. Close behind is the Wendell Beeler family from Bloomington that has maintained a steady position.

Standings Daily. These standings are by no means final of who will be the indication, totals readily show, any family can still walk off with votes the during prize if these they last draw seven enougs. Standings, keeping the voters posted on their favorite family, will be published daily beginning today. Watch your contestants and keep them on top. Final deadline for all votes is MIDNIGHT, July 15.

All letters must bear a postmark not later that time and date to be than accepted, Votes in letters after that date will be thrown out, Remember, the district winner will receive one of these prizes: PANTAGRAPH DISTRICT. First in cash given by the State fair management for traveling and other expenses for a day at the while guests fair. Also a beautiful radiophonograph combination, courof Sears Roebuck and tesy Company, which normally retails for $100. Second prize A Defense Bond, series with a maturity of $50, courtesy the value National Bank of Bloomington. Third prize Funk's hybrid seed corn for up to 100 acres.

Courtesy Funk Brothers Seed company. STATE OF ILLINOIS. Grand prize Super DeLuxe Fordor sedan plus a full week, all expense visit, to the Illinois State fair. Second prize Big farm designed, eight cubic foot General Electric refrigerator. In addition, the 10 leading famiMies will receive an photo of their farm with the compliments of Scoop, Pantagraph airplane.

Don't hold back your votes. Get them in now because every second counts. Chenoa Methodist to Meet CHENOA. (PNS) The Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist church will meet Friday afternoon at 1:30 at the home of Mrs. Ben Wade, northeast of town.

Mesdames C. LeDuc, Alva Schickedanz, Christian Zimmerman, John Harkrider, WesBarringer, Armstrong, Koch ley, Raymond Koerner will' be assistant hostesses. Mrs. Ray Kramer will have charge The of Rev. the Charles devotional L.

service.m the book "Administering to review, Shifting Population." Miss Mary Elizabeth Cox will the chapter for the month discuss from "Investing Our Heritage." San Jose Church Women to Meet SAN Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Salem church will meet at the home of Mrs. Sam Brady at 7:30 m. Thursday. Assisting hostesses p. will be Mrs.

George Wiemer and Mrs. Maurice Wainwright, Mrs. Fred Jacobs will lead devotions and Mrs. E. N.

Wisely will be in charge of the program, "Investing Our Heritage for Co-operative Work in Methodism." Children to Work SAN -The Children's society of Christian Service of the Salem Methodist church will meet at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the church to work on scrap books. TYPICAL ILLINOIS FARM FAMILY CONTEST STANDINGS Millard Thomas, Farmer City J. F.

Dickerson, Leroy Oliver Troyer, Danvers Leslie Sutter, Towanda Wendell Beeler, Bloomington Walter A. Jiles, Arrowsmith Harry Fienhold, Pontiae Charles Boaz, Arrowsmith Lester Reeser, Arrowsmith Raymond Reed, Towanda 0. H. Elder, Lexington Albert Bray, Wapella Gordon Worthington, Pontiac Earl 0. Freed, Lexington Joe Vogel, El Paso Anton Hiledbrandt, McLean J.

C. Bess, Danvers Hugh L. Kirkton, El Paso Ernest Sanders, Bloomington James Lawless, Strawn Frank L. Keeneth, Odell Fred Oltman, Chenoa George E. Armstrong, Clinton Lyle Fonger, Dewitt John Schroeder, Fairbury Merle E.

Miller, Leroy Henry Frahm, Stanford Rudolph 1 Flentje, Lincoln Walter Bielfeldt, Anchor Howard Hieronymus, Atlanta John L. Finnell, Chenoa Clifford Hoyt, Deer Creek Orville Stinde, Saybrook Lincoln Man Charged With Assault Injures Mother In Law, Claim LINCOLN. -(PNS)- Warrants charging assault with intent to kill and assault and battery and warrant were issued for a peace Herman Bree Tuesday following a disturbance at the home of his mother in law, Mrs. Icy Mapes, 618 Oklahoma avenue, about 9 p. m.

Monday. Bree was arrested by Officers J. A. Leininger and Floyd Kennedy and placed in the county to jail. the He is alleged to have gone Mapes home in bad temper to get his wife and was ordered away from the place.

He is said to have shoved open the door and grabbed hold of Mrs. Mapes and twisted her right arm. The door window was smashed also. Mrs. Mapes was taken to the Deaconess hospital for X-ray examination and medical care.

It was found the muscles in her right arm and shoulder were badly sprained. She was able to return home Tuesday morning. A peace warrant was first issued for Bree and Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Matilda Huneke, a sister in law, signed assault complaints. He will be given a hearing before Justice of Peace Vincent Jones.

Hopedale Band To Give Concerts HOPEDALE. The Hopedale Community high school band under the direction of Homer F. Ely, will climax the third summer music school sponsored by the board of education with two public concerts in the village park at 8 p. m. (standard) July 11 and July 25.

Several members of the grade school orchestra as well as a few alumni make up the personnel of the group for the summer. The band will also appear at the Illinois state fair. Wenona to Accept Postmaster Applications MINONK. (PNS) John C. Ryan, secretary of the civil service board, announced Monday that the United States civil service commission will hold an open competitive examination to fill the position of postmaster at Wenona, where a vacancy exists or is about to occur.

The salary is $2,000. Applications must be properly executed and on file at Washington, D. prior to the hour of closing business July 11, 1941. This examination will be held at Minonk. The date of examination will be announced after the close of receipt of applications.

Applications for the examination may be secured from the postmaster at Wenona. THIS COUPON GOOD FOR 10 VOTES In The Pantagraph, Illinois State Fair 'Typical Illinois Farm Family Selection' This coupon, when properly filled out, will count as ten votes for the family whose name is written on the lines below: Name R. F. Every day one of these coupons will appear in this newspaper. Fill all in and mail to the "Illinois Typical Farm Family Editor, Pantagraph, Bloomington." This contest will close July 15.

Central Illinois Deaths Mrs. Etta Wikle ATLANTA. -(PNS) Mrs. Etta Wikle, 70, died at her home Tuesday morning after a nine months Illness. The body was removed to the Tuttle funeral home where services will be held at 10 a.

m. (standard) Thursday with the Rev. R. W. Seath officiating.

Burial will be in Atlanta cemetery, She was the daughter of Harvard Martha Ellen Gordon Barham and was born Nov. 25, 1870, Covell. She was married to William T. S. Wikle April 15, 1890, Atlanta.

He preceded her in death. In Her entire life was spent in Atlanta. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Maude Sutton and two grandchildren of Royal Oak, and A brother, Benjamin, St. Louis, Mo.

She was a member of the Christian church. Hodge Rites LEXINGTON. (PNS) Funeral services for Garness Hodges, who died Monday, will be held at 2 p. m. (standard) Wednesday at the Pleasant Hill chapel with the Rev.

Fred Foster officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill cemetery. He was born Jan. 1901. He married Ruby Ellis Nov.

6, 1921. He is survived by his widow and seven children, Louise, Dorothy, Dean, Lyle, Gordon, Caroline and Kenneth, all at home. Two children preceded him in death. He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. James Hodge, Waynetown, five brothers, Ingram, Waynetown, John, Summershade, Carl, Danville; Chris, Forrest, Cecil, Lexington, and three sisters, Mrs.

Cummings, Mrs. Vincie Ranking and Mrs. Vic Underwood, all of Crawfordsville, Ind. Emery Turner -Emery Turner died Monday afternoon at hie home in Springfield. The funeral will be held in Wenona Thursday afternoon but further arrangements have not been made.

He was born in Wenona Aug. 21, 1887, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Turner. He was married Miss Marie Grant.

They moved to Indiana where she died. He was later married to Mias Addie Stankie. Surviving are the widow, the following children: Charles in Camp Alexandria, Mrs. 'Marian Baldwin, Mise Hortense and Mrs. Mary McConnell of Springfield; the father, Charles Turner, former representative from Illinois of Wenona, Gilbert Zehr -(PNS)- Gilbert Laverne Zehr, 25, Tuesday at his home after a year's illness.

The body was taken to the Froelich funeral home and will be returned to the home Wednesday afternoon, Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. (standard) Thursday at the Methodist church. The and in the central market as the only dependable method of selling. Also important is the efficient, economical movement of livestock.

Rev. George Gundy of Meadows will officiate, assisted by the Rev, Orville Nelson of Gridley. Burial will be in Gridley cemetery, He was born Jan. 5, 1916 at agan, the son of Walter and Stahly Zehr. He came to Gridley, in 1925.

The only survivors are his. ents. He the Gridiey schools and graduated In 1934, He was a member of the Mennonite church. Louis Runeberg 22,490 21,550 19,680 18,200 13,290 11,520 7,020 5,510 5,160 4,850 4,360 4,280 4,180 3.770 3,640 3,030 2,830 2,640 1,710 1,580 1,480 1,390 1,300 1,140 829 810 590 390 320 Four Emden Church Groups to Meet -The Woman's Society of Christian Service will meet in the social rooms of the Methodist church Thursday afternoon. Mrs.

Nelle Zimmer and Mrs. Hiram Sampen will be hostesses. The Christian Women's council will meet at the church Thursday. The devotions will be led by Miss Mae Ireland and the lesson "Peace" will be in charge of Mrs. Herman Conrady, Hostesses will be Mrs.

Whittaker and Mrs. Nelson Jeckel. Members of the Yadnus class of the Methodist church will meet Thursday night at the home of their teacher, Mrs. Edward S. Combs.

The Friendly Circle class of the Methodist will meet Friday night at church, of Mrs. Henry Hildebrands. Mrs. George Miller will be assistant hostess. Auxiliary to Meet In Lexington LEXINGTON.

(PNS) The woman's auxiliary to the American Legion will meet Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Anton Winterland. Assisting hostesses will be Mrs. Ed Leach and Mrs. William Luster.

Meeting Place Changed ARROWSMITH. -(PNS)- The of the McLean County Council of the American Legion, scheduled for Monday, at 8 p. m. (standard) at Anchor, will be held in the Arrowsmith Community high school gymnasium because of repair work being done at the Anchor high school. -Carl Bowers, Illinois Central conductor, was crushed under this upset tractor on the Clinton croquet court late Monday.

Gift of a Dollar Gold Piece Started P. K. Willson in Livestock Farming To Mark 84th Birthday Wednesday CLINTON. (PNS) A dollar gold piece, gift of a grandfather 1 to a 7 year old boy in 1864, started P. K.

Willson of De Witt county on a career as one 'of the outstanding livestock farmers of Illinois. Wednesday, Willson, who lives north' and' east of Clinin Harp township, will celebrate his 84th birthday anniversary, and his 52nd year as a livestock shipper to the Chicago mar- kets. Shipping Since 1889. According to his records, Mr. Wilson has been shipping cattle to Chicago since June 22, 1889, but he's really been in the livestock business for 77 years.

His grandfather from Pennsylvania was in Illinois visiting the Willson family, and on leaving gave the youthful farmer a dollar gold piece. The boy used the dollar to buy a pig, and the return from the sale of the sow and her litter was used to buy a white steer calf. As a 1,600 pounder, it brought close to $80, and this sum was spent for a colt, which later sold for $125. So, before he was very old, Mr. Willson found that livestock has an interesting way of increasing in weight and value.

And for three quarters of a century he has been following his lesson he learned as a small boy. In his more than 50 years of cattle feeding Mr. Willson has marketed nearly 400 cars of stock in Chicago. The number of head is just under 7,000, but he has a carload about ready to go to market now, which will put the mark well above that figure. the Illinois Central railroad has paid out over $14,000 in freight charges.

Including feeder cattle purchases, Mr. Willson in his lifetime has handled well over 500 cars of stock, or about 25,000 head. This figure does not include 9,000 head of cattle which he has purchased in his home community. His feeder cattle purchases on the market have totaled around 000 and his total freight billion feeders and fat stuff is close to the $20,000 mark, his records show. Naturally Mr.

Willson has seen a lot of changes in cattle feeding practices over the span of years he has been in the business. The biggest difference between present methods and those of the 1880's is the class of cattle fed. Times Change. "We used to think we had to start out with 3 and 4 year old steers. Now of course they want fat yearlings.

This taking of calves right from the cow and starting them on feed certainly would have created a sensation back in the early days," he commented. Mr. Willson has seen many ups and downs; times when a drove of cattle looked like they should make a profit and didn't; other times when conditions didn't look good at the time the cattle were bought, but then good profits were made: a marketing time. One of the disappointing years for him was in 1933 when he bought 300 good heifers at what looked like a decent price. To top it off corn was worth about 32 cents.

However later in the season corn brought 70 cents, or much more than it made marketed through the heifers. "You have to be smart to do the right thing at the right times," says and all evidence points to Mr. Willson being a "smart" farmer. What with the lean years and all the other losses a Central Illinois farmer can expect, he can say with few others, "I've never signed a mortgage in my life, and I'm too old to start now." He owns more than 1,100 acres of farm land, all of it in Harp township. One 40 acre lot of bluegrass pasture, across the road south of his home, has never been broken, according to his knowledge, being in grass when he moved on the place in 1882, It has been left in pasture ever since.

One of his best cattle investments was made in 1939, he says, a carload of thin SMS (Texas STERN'S OFFER "THE EASIEST CREDIT TERMS IN TOWN" mart! Buy Modern SECTIONAL SOFAS Offer Many Different Room Arrangements SEE HOW $69 SOFA LOVE SEAT: $5 WEEKLY READING Think of the infinite variety of strikingly differ- GROUP ent room arrangements you can enjoy with this modern sectional sofa in your home. We picture just five smart suggestions which can be made with the three pieces included at this sale price. CONVERSATIONAL GROUP DON'T MISS OUR DISPLAY of MODERN TABLES STERN'S CORNER CROUP Runes berg, 83, died Tuesday, morning at his home west of Paxton following long illness. four, Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m.

(standard) Thursday at home and at 2:30 at First Lutheran church with the Rev. Oscar Pern officiating, Burial will be in Glen cemetery, He was born in Sweden July 29. 1857, the son of Anders and Elsa Runeberg. At the age of 15 he came to the United States and has resided in the Paxton community since that time. He married Miss Betsy Rasmus of Paxton March 26, 1884, She died in 1930.

He is survived by two daughters and two sons, Ester and Alice, both at home; Elmer at home and Arthur, Laurens, Ia. Bowers Rites CLINTON, -(PNS)- Funeral services for Carl B. Bowers, who died at 9:15 p. m. Monday in John Warner hospital of injuries received when a tractor he was driving him toppled beneath over it, are backward, to be crush- held at 3:15 p.

m. (standard) Wednesday in the Clinton Methodist church. The D. Hopper, pastor, will officiate. Burial will Woodlawn cemetery.

brand) cows that cost around $38 per head. A few of the older cows were sold and the younger ones kept to raise calves crop of 21 from 21 cows. he wishes had more of them. Again in 1940 he bought cows, these of mixed brands, and at present there are more than 50 calves on the Willson farm. "Looks like the right thing to do now is raise calves," he Keeps Up With Changes.

He used to keep a fair sized cow herd and raise part of his feeder needs, but a few years ago when calves could be bought more cheaply than they could be raised he disposed of the cows, Now the cycle seems to be changing and Mr. Willson has changed with it. Despite his 84 years, P. K. Willson still looks to the future.

There seems to be something about livestock farming that does this to a man, he believes. Not that he does not like to recall the old days of the industry. But he thinks that he still has an interesting future, as well as an interesting and profitable past. Faster Shipping. He likes to tell of his family moving to DeWitt county in 1873, and how he helped drive the cattle through Springfield and across what is now the Illinois State fair grounds.

The trip with the farm equipment and stock took two days. "Now a fellow could move the same distance with a motor truck in as many hours," he points out. Mr. Willson is a strong believer in the livestock way of William Warren (PNS) -William Warren, 70, of Mt. Pulaski died Tuesday evening in Deaconess hospital.

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