Mrs. James V. Stevenson of Route 4, Streator, retired this week as editor of the household column of the Corn Belt Livestock Journals.
"Hope Needham", as Mrs. Stevenson is known to her thousands of readers, became editor of the column in the summer of 1926, upon the sudden death of its original editor.
In her more than 38 years as the column editor, the local woman's column has attracted thousands of contributors with problems, criticisms, and praise.
In 1963, her readers presented her with a surprise check, for a project called "Flowers For The Living" among the "householders". This resulted in the church in Rio Muni in Equatorial Africa. Building of the mission is now in the preliminary stages.
The Corn Belt Livestock Journals are four publications of the Livestock industry, one of which is the daily Drovers Journal of Chicago.
A successor to Mrs. Stevenson has been named by the paper.