The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-11-03

womans' department Of the States Re-
lations Service in Washington, ID. C.,
" acting advisory council to the COM
mittee.
Mrs. Vera Busiek Schuttler OF Farm,
ington, Mo, chairman Of the commit
tee, has played an important part in
the organization and development CT
the Farm Bureau in Missouri. She
has served as a member of the eXecu.
tive committee Of her county farm
bureau, a member of the executive
committee of the Missouri Farm Blu
rea Federation, voting director in the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
member of the committee on relations
to the College of Agriculture and sec
rotary of the Farm Bureau Roads con-
vention. She has taught Latin and
MIXED COWS, kept house and made
speeches.
Another versatile farmer lady is Mrs.
IZetta Brown, who mentions a five-year-
old daughter as the most important
feature of her career. Mrs. Brown, as
Izetta Jewell, has starred with Otis
Skinner and James Hackett in New
York productions and filled a three
year engagement at Polls theater in
Washington, d. c. In 1914 she was
married to Congressman William
Brown, Jr., of West Virginia. When
Mrs. Brown was widowed in 1916 she
gave her entire services to war camp
work. She has been prominent in the
political world and is an enthusiastic
Farm Bureau member. Mrs. Brown
now lives on and manages a dairy farm,
on which she maintains herds OF pure
bred cattle, near Kingwood, w. Va.
For the past year she has been speak
ing in West Virginia for the agricul-
tural extension department, the home
bureau and the farm bureau.
Mrs. A. e. Brigden has made Of
home bureau work almost a religion
and has invested in it her time and
ability, both in p~ainstaking committee
work and on the platform. Mrs. Brig
den is president of the New York
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She is also a member Of the executive
committee Of the New York Farm Blu
reau Federation. Although Mrs. Brig.
den Is in much demand as a speaker
and counsellor in home bureau circles
in New York state and other states,
she Is first of all a wife, mother and
grandmother. Secondly, she is a prac-
tical farmer, directing a successful
farm in Cortland county, New York.
Mrs. John c. Ketcham is classed in
the census as a farmer. If she had
never lived on a farm she would have
earned that right through her years
OF work for farm people. She has had
much experience assisting her hus
band in his duties as master of Michi.
gan Grange. Mr.. Ketcham Is now rep.
~resentative for the fourth district OF
Michigan. in congress, and Mrs. Ketch.
am Is his secretary. For two years
she was a member of the executive
committee Of the Michigan Farm Blu
reau Federation. Besides doing hel
own housework, Mrs. Ketcham a
present holds the following Offices:
Member Of republican state central
committee; chairman of home econom
les committee of the National Grange;
chairman Of the southwestern division
Of the home economics committee OF
the Michigan Federation Of Womans
Clubs; members Of the national legis
lative committee, American home eco
nomics committee; and member OF the
committee Of rural health and santa
ton Of the National Country Life asso
citation. She has a daughter in the
Michigan Agricultural college and the
twins are seniors in the Hastings high
school.
Wv. S. S.
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