George Bone talks to members of the Moultrie County Historical and Genealogical Society after their offsite meeting at his round barn in Bethany on Thursday, July 16.
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Moultrie County Historical and Genealogical Society members take a free tour of George Bone’s round barn in Bethany on Thursday, July 16.
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Moultrie County Historical and Genealogical Society members listen to George Bone tell stories about the construction of his round barn in Bethany for their offsite meeting on Thursday, July 16.
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Cathy Yantis, of Findlay, looks at pictures of the construction of George Bone’s round barn during a free tour in Bethany on Thursday, July 16. “I was real curious to see tonight,” said Yantis.
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Horses were in good demand at the George W. Freed farm sale at Gridley on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1942, this team of mares going to Earl Thompson of Colfax for $375. But the highest values of all were bid for labor saving machinery.
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This image appeared in the Sept. 5, 1949 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Miss Clarabelle Garber is interviewed by judges prior to her selection as pumpkin queen Sunday (Sept. 4, 1949). Judges, left to right, are Eddie Meier, Lowell R. Huckstead, L.J. Ely and Miss Barbara Samuelson. Contestants were rated for beauty, poise, personality, special ability."
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This image appeared in the Sept. 5, 1949 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "New queen (Miss Clarabelle Garber) ascends throne of pumpkins to receive pumpkin crown from members of her court. Stem of pumpkin plant serves as scepter. Attendants, from left, are Annette Hartier, Peggy Ulrich, Virginia Sutter and Delores Krumholz. Pumpkins and field were provided by Ted Ludwig."
This photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection has been preserved and digitized by the McLean County Museum of History as a part of its ongoing digitization efforts to save our history. Please visit bit.ly/savingourhistory to learn more.
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This image appeared in the Saturday, Nov. 5, 1949 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Volunteer workers dump a load of corn into hoppers of the Martin Grain Co. elevator here (in Waynesville), representing part of a 60-acre field picked Saturday morning when 22 neighbors of Mrs. P.A. Powers helped her out with a "husking bee." Peter Powers, Mrs. Powers' husband, was killed on the night of Oct. 3 in a car-truck crash on Route 66 near Atlanta."
This photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection has been preserved and digitized by the McLean County Museum of History as a part of its ongoing digitization efforts to save our history. Please visit bit.ly/savingourhistory to learn more.
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Corn Belt Hatchery men observe some of the characteristics of a Hy-Line chicken held by Ralph Taylor, flock supervisor for the Illinois Corn Belt Hatcheries who handle the hybrid birds. Left to right, Byron Chipman, Kankakee; Frank Howard Jr., Pontiac flockman and Louis Murray, fieldman from Normal.
This photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection has been preserved and digitized by the McLean County Museum of History as a part of its ongoing digitization efforts to save our history. Please visit bit.ly/savingourhistory to learn more.
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This image appeared in the Dec. 10, 1949 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "C.G. Bowes, National Live Stock and Meat Board, demonstrated means of cutting the unattractive portions of pork so that they would be attractive to housewives in preparing various types of dishes at the pork promotion meeting held at the Farm Bureau Thursday evening (Dec. 8). The meat was donated by the McLean County Cold Storage company."
This photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection has been preserved and digitized by the McLean County Museum of History as a part of its ongoing digitization efforts to save our history. Please visit bit.ly/savingourhistory to learn more.
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University of Illinois dairy scientist W.W. Yapp is shown here addressing the 120 people who attended the banquet of the Illinois Guernsey Breeders' Association on Thursday, Feb. 2, 1950, at the Farm Bureau, where "Golden Guernsey" milk was served. Seated, left to right, are Lou Nanning and Lloyd Wescott of Golden Guernsey, Inc.; O.M. Burton, state president; and in rear, George Campbell, secretary.
This photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection has been preserved and digitized by the McLean County Museum of History as a part of its ongoing digitization efforts to save our history. Please visit bit.ly/savingourhistory to learn more.
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This image appeared in the Friday, April 14, 1950 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Tree planters, with the (Illinois College) machine used Thursday (April 13) are left to right: Clarence Westfall of Six Points garage, operator of the tractor; Lafayette Funk; forester W.F. Bulkley who is showing one of the small white pine seedlings; Ben Stubblefield and John G. Guthrie, I.C. forestry agent."
This photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection has been preserved and digitized by the McLean County Museum of History as a part of its ongoing digitization efforts to save our history. Please visit bit.ly/savingourhistory to learn more.
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This image appeared in the Tuesday, June 6, 1950 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Fred Hoppin, Logan County farm adviser, urged the 300 persons present on the Logan County Swine Herd Improvement tour Friday (June 2) to plan carefully before expanding their hog business. A great deal of feed will be saved if adequate pastures are available for hogs, he said. Dick Carlisle, livestock specialist at the University of Illinois, advocared for the use of rye for early spring pasture."
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This image from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection appeared in the June 26, 1950 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Portable storage tanks are used to supply the tractor tanks with anhydrous ammonia, the new nitrogen fertilizer. The big portable tank holds 1,000 gallons and the tractor tank 100 gallons. Anhydrous ammonia is 99.6% ammonia (about 82% nitrogen), says Reid White of the Schrock Company, shown here at the tank."
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This image appeared in the Aug. 5, 1950, edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Dean H.P. Rusk, on left, praised the science of feed mixing at the Honegger mill opening. Shown with him are, left to right, Dr. Damon Catron of Iowa State College, Sam Honegger, and Ben Roth, president of Honeggers' & Company."
This photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection has been preserved and digitized by the McLean County Museum of History as a part of its ongoing digitization efforts to save our history. Please visit bit.ly/savingourhistory to learn more.
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This image appeared in the Aug. 14, 1950 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Jack and Jill Woods' hybrid hogs, unusually long in body, won first in the single barrow and pen of barrow classes for “other breeds” in the McLean County Fair. This is a good sample of the hybrids grown for four years by their father, Forrest Woods."
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These three sheep, shown in an image from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection, placed high in their classes at the 1950 Fairbury Fair. From left, Roger Weeks of Fairbury had blue ribbon Hampshire ram lamb; John Hildreth of Fairbury had champion aged Cheviot ram; and S.R. Jackson of Seneca had champion Hampshire ewe. Fair secretary Robert Maurer told The Pantagraph that one of the largest crowds ever to attend the fair turned out Aug. 23.
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This image appeared in the Friday, June 12, 1942 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Over 1,000 boxes of freshly hulled peas have already been sent to the Gibson City canning factory from this viner station south of Cropsey, where farmers are working 16 hours a day delivering their first war crop."
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This image appeared in the Friday, June 12, 1942 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Heavy rains Tuesday night didn’t keep Arthur Huston from harvesting peas Wednesday. Growers report rains have helped this crop, and the labor supply."
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The Central Soya company received 34 truck loads of beans on Thursday, Feb. 18, 1943, some from 150 miles away. In this photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection, Ralph Kail, plant manager and Elmer Hopke, elevator superintendent, are inspecting beans delivered from Saybrook by Bernard Satchell.
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This image from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection appeared in the Feb. 20, 1943, edition with the following caption: "Dale Moxley has been kept busy at the Gibson City soybean mill testing samples from many truck shipments. Moisture averages about 18%, damage nearer 50%, indicating an average value of $1.25 for beans delivered this week."
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A Hampshire pig owned by Gerald Batterton of Colfax was named grand champion in the gilt class at the McLean County 4-H Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 1950. This image, preserved by the McLean County Museum of History, originally appeared in The Pantagraph the following day.
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Horses were in good demand at the George W. Freed farm sale at Gridley on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1942, this team of mares going to Earl Thompson of Colfax for $375. But the highest values of all were bid for labor saving machinery.
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This image appeared in the Sept. 5, 1949 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Miss Clarabelle Garber is interviewed by judges prior to her selection as pumpkin queen Sunday (Sept. 4, 1949). Judges, left to right, are Eddie Meier, Lowell R. Huckstead, L.J. Ely and Miss Barbara Samuelson. Contestants were rated for beauty, poise, personality, special ability."
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This image appeared in the Sept. 5, 1949 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "New queen (Miss Clarabelle Garber) ascends throne of pumpkins to receive pumpkin crown from members of her court. Stem of pumpkin plant serves as scepter. Attendants, from left, are Annette Hartier, Peggy Ulrich, Virginia Sutter and Delores Krumholz. Pumpkins and field were provided by Ted Ludwig."
This photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection has been preserved and digitized by the McLean County Museum of History as a part of its ongoing digitization efforts to save our history. Please visit bit.ly/savingourhistory to learn more.
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This image appeared in the Saturday, Nov. 5, 1949 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Volunteer workers dump a load of corn into hoppers of the Martin Grain Co. elevator here (in Waynesville), representing part of a 60-acre field picked Saturday morning when 22 neighbors of Mrs. P.A. Powers helped her out with a "husking bee." Peter Powers, Mrs. Powers' husband, was killed on the night of Oct. 3 in a car-truck crash on Route 66 near Atlanta."
This photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection has been preserved and digitized by the McLean County Museum of History as a part of its ongoing digitization efforts to save our history. Please visit bit.ly/savingourhistory to learn more.
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Corn Belt Hatchery men observe some of the characteristics of a Hy-Line chicken held by Ralph Taylor, flock supervisor for the Illinois Corn Belt Hatcheries who handle the hybrid birds. Left to right, Byron Chipman, Kankakee; Frank Howard Jr., Pontiac flockman and Louis Murray, fieldman from Normal.
This photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection has been preserved and digitized by the McLean County Museum of History as a part of its ongoing digitization efforts to save our history. Please visit bit.ly/savingourhistory to learn more.
- PANTAGRAPH NEGATIVES COLLECTION
This image appeared in the Dec. 10, 1949 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "C.G. Bowes, National Live Stock and Meat Board, demonstrated means of cutting the unattractive portions of pork so that they would be attractive to housewives in preparing various types of dishes at the pork promotion meeting held at the Farm Bureau Thursday evening (Dec. 8). The meat was donated by the McLean County Cold Storage company."
This photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection has been preserved and digitized by the McLean County Museum of History as a part of its ongoing digitization efforts to save our history. Please visit bit.ly/savingourhistory to learn more.
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University of Illinois dairy scientist W.W. Yapp is shown here addressing the 120 people who attended the banquet of the Illinois Guernsey Breeders' Association on Thursday, Feb. 2, 1950, at the Farm Bureau, where "Golden Guernsey" milk was served. Seated, left to right, are Lou Nanning and Lloyd Wescott of Golden Guernsey, Inc.; O.M. Burton, state president; and in rear, George Campbell, secretary.
This photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection has been preserved and digitized by the McLean County Museum of History as a part of its ongoing digitization efforts to save our history. Please visit bit.ly/savingourhistory to learn more.
- PANTAGRAPH NEGATIVES COLLECTION
This image appeared in the Friday, April 14, 1950 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Tree planters, with the (Illinois College) machine used Thursday (April 13) are left to right: Clarence Westfall of Six Points garage, operator of the tractor; Lafayette Funk; forester W.F. Bulkley who is showing one of the small white pine seedlings; Ben Stubblefield and John G. Guthrie, I.C. forestry agent."
This photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection has been preserved and digitized by the McLean County Museum of History as a part of its ongoing digitization efforts to save our history. Please visit bit.ly/savingourhistory to learn more.
- PANTAGRAPH NEGATIVES COLLECTION
This image appeared in the Tuesday, June 6, 1950 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Fred Hoppin, Logan County farm adviser, urged the 300 persons present on the Logan County Swine Herd Improvement tour Friday (June 2) to plan carefully before expanding their hog business. A great deal of feed will be saved if adequate pastures are available for hogs, he said. Dick Carlisle, livestock specialist at the University of Illinois, advocared for the use of rye for early spring pasture."
- PANTAGRAPH NEGATIVES COLLECTION
This image from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection appeared in the June 26, 1950 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Portable storage tanks are used to supply the tractor tanks with anhydrous ammonia, the new nitrogen fertilizer. The big portable tank holds 1,000 gallons and the tractor tank 100 gallons. Anhydrous ammonia is 99.6% ammonia (about 82% nitrogen), says Reid White of the Schrock Company, shown here at the tank."
- PANTAGRAPH NEGATIVES COLLECTION
This image appeared in the Aug. 5, 1950, edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Dean H.P. Rusk, on left, praised the science of feed mixing at the Honegger mill opening. Shown with him are, left to right, Dr. Damon Catron of Iowa State College, Sam Honegger, and Ben Roth, president of Honeggers' & Company."
This photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection has been preserved and digitized by the McLean County Museum of History as a part of its ongoing digitization efforts to save our history. Please visit bit.ly/savingourhistory to learn more.
- PANTAGRAPH NEGATIVES COLLECTION
This image appeared in the Aug. 14, 1950 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Jack and Jill Woods' hybrid hogs, unusually long in body, won first in the single barrow and pen of barrow classes for “other breeds” in the McLean County Fair. This is a good sample of the hybrids grown for four years by their father, Forrest Woods."
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Wearing his crown, corn-eating champion Roland D. Keehma fans himself with a paper plate after consuming 14 ears at the Louis E. Davis Legion Post Sweet Corn Supper held Thursday, Aug. 24, 1950.
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These three sheep, shown in an image from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection, placed high in their classes at the 1950 Fairbury Fair. From left, Roger Weeks of Fairbury had blue ribbon Hampshire ram lamb; John Hildreth of Fairbury had champion aged Cheviot ram; and S.R. Jackson of Seneca had champion Hampshire ewe. Fair secretary Robert Maurer told The Pantagraph that one of the largest crowds ever to attend the fair turned out Aug. 23.
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In this photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection, Don Reeser is shown holding a champion Hereford female at the 1950 Fairbury Fair.
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This image appeared in the Friday, June 12, 1942 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Over 1,000 boxes of freshly hulled peas have already been sent to the Gibson City canning factory from this viner station south of Cropsey, where farmers are working 16 hours a day delivering their first war crop."
- PANTAGRAPH NEGATIVES COLLECTION
This image appeared in the Friday, June 12, 1942 edition of The Pantagraph with the following caption: "Heavy rains Tuesday night didn’t keep Arthur Huston from harvesting peas Wednesday. Growers report rains have helped this crop, and the labor supply."
- PANTAGRAPH NEGATIVES COLLECTION
The Central Soya company received 34 truck loads of beans on Thursday, Feb. 18, 1943, some from 150 miles away. In this photo from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection, Ralph Kail, plant manager and Elmer Hopke, elevator superintendent, are inspecting beans delivered from Saybrook by Bernard Satchell.
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This image from the Pantagraph Negatives Collection appeared in the Feb. 20, 1943, edition with the following caption: "Dale Moxley has been kept busy at the Gibson City soybean mill testing samples from many truck shipments. Moisture averages about 18%, damage nearer 50%, indicating an average value of $1.25 for beans delivered this week."
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A Hampshire pig owned by Gerald Batterton of Colfax was named grand champion in the gilt class at the McLean County 4-H Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 1950. This image, preserved by the McLean County Museum of History, originally appeared in The Pantagraph the following day.
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