Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-09-08
BIGGEST EVENT IN
1921 SEASON
Extra Does Herself Proud
in Furnishing Entertain
ment for Many Visitors

County Farm Bureau picnic ended
in a blaze of glory after the midi
night hour on Tuesday when the
st,strains of the goodnight waltz
at the big dance in the Legion pa
vilion brought to a close the last
event Of day of big events. A
crowd, variously estimated at from
five to ten thousand people at
tended the picnic during the day.
Ideal weather brought out people
from every corner of the county.
The crowd began to gather early
in the morning and by ten o'clock
when the formal program began
there were perhaps two thousand
visitors in the town. The Audu-
bon and Extra business houses
closed all day and most of the
business men and clerks and their
families joined with the farmers IN
their big celebration.
After a half hours program by
the Extra Military Band the big
parade was started. Six town
ships, two more than last year,
had prepared floats and had come
with the determination to wrest
the silver loving cup from the
Douglas organization which has
held it since last year. Greeley
was able to do it, leaving Douglas
to reconcile herself with second
place until next year when she will
get another chance to redeem it.
Greeley had seven floats which
may not have been the best from
an artistic standpoint but they
carried out an idea so effectively
shat the judges were unanimous IN
awarding them first place. The
Claude Jayne family, Greeley's
banner family Of SIX boys and SIX
girls, and the parents, led the floats.
Following this came church
mounted on a truck. This was
filled with people singing the Gree
ley song. Then followed a series
of five floats portraying the history
of the farm bureau movement from
its birth. In the third came Uncle
Sam, Capital and Labor, the doc
tor, nurse and an infant, the
farmers organization. The first
ahree were seemingly unconcerned
as to whether the infant lived Or
died, but the doctor and nurse
were doing all in their power to
save it, although the doctor
seemed very doubtful. The next
float portrayed the American farm
bureau federation at it's inception,
depicted as a boy twelve years Of
age. The young organization was
still unable to get recognition from
Capital, Labor and Uncle Sam.
The fifth represented the result of
the membership drive held by the
federation two years ago when the
organization reached, a membership
of 1,25O,OOO, depicted now by a
youth of 18. He was now able to
get the attention of Uncle Sam but
not from Capital and Labor, Fol-
lowing this was shown the farm bu-
reau today, now a man fully as
large as either Capital or Labor.
He was greeted by Uncle Sam and
introduced to Capital and Labor
with the explanation that he had
relied on the two factors, Capital
and Labor-in the past but that he
now recognized the organized far
mers as the biggest Of them all.
On the same float the strength Of
the organization was shown by
three sticks representing individual
farmers; one of them could be cas-
lily broken but taken together they
withstood all attempts to break
them. Finally, in the seventh float
a large balance was mounted with
the farm bureau, represented by a