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Show Farmers Strengthen Neighborly Tradition EL PASO, ILL. Strengthening a tradition of neighborliness between El Paso villagers and Woodford county farmers originally launched 33 years ago, 50 farmers aided in cleaning streets and yards of debris left in the village by a storm. With tractors, axes and saws, the farmers cleaned up parts of fallen trees, brush and twigs, hauling the debris to a dump for burning. Then the farmers were treated to dinner in two El Paso cafes. The neighborly tradition began in 1914, when 160 farmers hauled 700 loads of dirt into town to fill in the village parks, then being developed as a recreation center for children of the community and outlying rural areas. In 1918 the viDagers reciprocated recipro-cated by organizing shock troop grain harvesters during a farm labor la-bor shortage. |