Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26
HONOR MCCORMACK
Program in Connection With
Tooth Anniversary of In
ventor Completed.
PUT IN FARM HALL OF FAME
Exercises concentrating Achieve
ment of Man Who Built Har-
vester Held Dec. 10.

At a conference held recently at the
Office of the department of argicc,-
ture, capitol building, Springfield, ILL.,,
the committee on the program for the
exercises attending the admission OF
the name of Cyrus Hall Mccormick TO
the Illinois farmers hail of fame m
the afternoon of Wednesday, Dec. 10
completed the order of exercises for
said occasion.
The exercises will be held in the
memorial hall, college of agriculture,
University of Illinois, on the above
date, when the following distinguished
citizens will participate as noted be-
low:
| Invocation-Rev. James E. K. Nc
/ Clure, president Mccormick seminary.
| Opening remarks-President of the
commission, Hon. A. P. Grout.
| Address of welcome-HOa. Charles
S. Deneen, governor or Illinois.
Response-Professo Eugene Daven-
port. dean of the college of agriculture.
Address, The Reaper and What It
Has Done for Agricultme'-E. J..
Baker. Chicago, publisher Farm Imple-
ment News.
Address. THE Manufactures and the
Farmer'-Hon LaVerne W. Moves of
Chicago, president illinois Manufac-
turers' association.
Address, THE Reaper and the
Farmer"-Hon. Lafayette Funk Of
Shirley. H., ex-president Illinois state
board of agriculture.
Address, Cyrus Hall McCormick'-
Colonel Charles F. Mills of Springfield,
ex-secretary of the Illinois state board
of agriculture.
The unwilling of the portrait of Cy-
rus Hall Mccormick by Miss Muriel
Mccormick, the granddaughter.
Benediction-Dr. Edmund J. James,
president University of Illinois.
object md Personnel OF Commission.
The commemoTation of the achieve
ment of men who have rendered eX-
ceptionally useful service N promot-
ing agriculture is the object of the
commission appointed to select candL
dates for the Illinois farmers hall Of
fame
Members OF Communication
The commission is composed Of Hon.
A. P. Grout of Winchester. Ill, the
farmers representative ca the board
of trustees of the University of Hi
nois; Hon. John NJ. Crebs of Carmi,
H., the president of the Illinois state
board of agriculture; J. P. Mason Of
Elgin, ILL.,, the president of the Hi
nois' Farmers institute; Professor Eu-
gene Davenport of Urbana, H., the
dean of the state college of agricul-
ture; Colonel Charles F. Mills of
Springfield. ex-secretary of the Illinois
department of agriculture.
The first name to be thus honored
is that of Cyrus Hall Mccormick, the
inventor of the reaper.
The reaper has revolutionized the
agriculture of the world and its in
ventor is entitled to all honor. The
farmers of Illinois through n commits
sion selected by them in the Office Of
Hon. John NJ Crebs, the president Of
the Illinois state fair during the late
exposition, have very wisely presented
the name of Cyrus Hall Mccormick
as the first candidate to receive such
distinguished honors.
The action of the commission in pre-
senting the achievement of Mr. Nc
Cormick has been heartily commended
by the leading men of all nations and
the name of the inventor of the reaper
will with fitting exercises be admitted
to the Illinois farmers hall of fame
on Wednesday, Dec. Is, 1909, at the
Illinois.