Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-05-14
AL OVER THE STATE.

at Herscher.
Marengo expects to have its new cleo
trio light plant in operation soon.
The village board at Emden has or.
dered the sale of $4,000 village bonds.
The Christian Church Of Pekin his
extended call to Rev. II. q. Waggoner
Of Hamilton.
Hunters report that never have there
been SO few ducks flying in Lake Conn
~ as this year.
The new Champaign Methodist Mis-.
sion Church will soon pe completed and
opened for service.
The collar pad factory at Mackinaw
IL almost completed and much VI the
machinery has arrived.
The village of Penneld is without a
meat shop and the people are in the
midst Of meat famine.
The new school builair~ - Middle.
town is nearing completion, and The
roof Ia now being put on.
Cecil Hill of Forest City has Just
completed fifty consecutive months VI
perfect attendance at school.
Rev. Abraham 4. Stone. % years old.
resident Of Quincy for sixty.hvc
years, died the other night.
The graduating exercises OF the Sib-
ley High School will take place June
2. There are two graduates.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles Meharry OF
Loda recently celebrated the golden
anniversary OF their marriage.
The question Of erecting an up.to.
date school building Is being consid.
cred by citizens CT Green Valley.
A new watcrworks system is to be
installed at Rankin. the proposition
being carried at the recent election.
The third and fourth grades Of the
public school at Odell have been closed
on account Of measles and chicken.
pox.
Pontiac Is confident OF securing the
Meadows Manufacturing Company's
plant for $4,000 In cash and tract OF
land.
The little daughter OF Fred Marks
Of Streator fell recently. fracturing tho
bone In her right leg just above tho
ankle.
Citizens OF Shelpyville have decided
to proceed ut once with the but'ding
OF a new high school building 10 cost
$4,000.
The graduates OF the Fairbury High
School will appear this year at the
commencement exercises In caps and
gowns.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Harfst OF Pc.
oria have started on their thirty-sec-
ond trip to Europe, to be gone three
months.
There has been remarkable do.
crease In the number CT tramps which
nightly sought refuge In Inc town hall
at Morton.
p. B. Webster. a merchant at Lodge.
has resigned as postmaster. and Miss
Stella Wood has been appointed to al
the vacancy.
An expert accountant probably will
be engaged at Springfield to inves,i-
gate the charges Of graft made by tic
Comptroller.
A $23,2SO contract has been let for
the erection Of the new Dennis school
building at Decatur and excavation
work has begun.
The accredited relationship Of the
Minonk High School has been renewed
with the University OF Illinois for
period Of three years.
One hundred and seventy.tive acres
Of watermeions will be planted near
White Heath this year. Last years
crop averaged $l25 an acre.
Farmers In the vicinity of Kenney
have lost number Of horses this
spring. due. 1t 10 thought. to the drink.
ing OF too much cold water.
The business men of Mantle are plan.
ming to take immediate steps to pro-
vide q water supply and the ,auip-
ment to protect their property.
Charles Smith OF Urbana was shot
while watching Champaign police
man scuffie with an offender In an en-
deavor TO get him off the sidewalk,
The Rev. Edwin Weary, rector OF
Grace Episcopal Church. Sterling, has
been appointed archdeacon of the Epis.
copal diocese Of the State of Texas.
The new school building to be erect
ed at Metamora will have six main
rooms, besides library and Railways,
and the whole cost will be about SIS.
900.
The chairman Of the Aurora City
Board Of Health says that every case
of typhoid fever In the last year was
caused by drinking water from private
wells.
Otis Preston, Is years old, and John
IrranniverOs, a section hand, were
killed at Ottawa by the Golden State
Limited train on the Rock Island Rail
road.
Students at the University of iii.
nois, Urbana, have begun a campaign
for wOmen's dormitories for the nous.
ing Of women students at that insti-
tuition.
The epidemic Of bowel and stom.
ach disorders and of typhoid fever
which has ragged at the State Hospi-
tai for the Insane at Anna has been
checked.