Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-06-12
NEWS OF
ILLINOIS


nual commencement of the University
of Illinois occurs on Wednesday,
June 10. Approximately $50 degrees
will be conferred by the institution mt
, that time. commencement week Is
lnaugurated with the baCcalaureate
service on Sunday, June -. Rev.
Sohn Timothy Stone, ID. d., pastor of
the Fourth Presbyterian church. Chi
cago, will conduct the devotional ex-
crclses anu the music will he under
the direction of Prof. J. Lawrence Erh,
university Orgunist and director of the
school Of music. Monday, June ii, Is
class day, the exercises occurring Mt
$3.50 q. IN. The class officers who will
preside are: President, Raymond e.
Hans, South Bend, Ind; vice presi-
dent, Katherine Hun. Champaign; sec.
rotary, Caroline Mansppaker. Char-
paign, and treasurer, Alvin T. Ander-
son. Wheaton. The SalutatOry address
will be delivered by Hans G. Thory Of
Chicago: tie Ratchet Grafton by John
Powell of Kansas City, Mo-: the re-
spCnse by A. a. Arnold Of Palmer.
Of Champaign will read the class class
history, and WarneD G. Rice of Aurora
| Will deliver the valedictOry address.
| The annual senior ball occupies Mon
| day night. The commencement eXer-
| clses occur at 10 o'clock. Wednesday.
| June 10. The annual address will he
| delivered by Robert T.. NinSon. ID. D.,
1 Il IN ne Ia, mi 10
| of Texas. Er. David Knlcy. presl-
dent Of the University of Illinois, will
confer the degrees.
! rlngheld-I'rovided for by the
new coal miners wage contract
signed recently In New York. an Ill
| inois commission Is delvlng into the
| costs of explosives used by miners in
the digging of coal. This commission
has been instructed to hurry It's work
| as coal miners of the state are COM
| planning against the alleged high
| price Of the explosives. The person.
| mel of the commission Is aS follows !:
Coal operators representntivcs-lll-
inois Coal Operators association. Rice
Miller, Iiillsboro; Coal Operators as
ISOLATION, Fifth and Ninth districts
II. c. Perry, Hlllsboro: Central Illinois
| Coal Operators association. l.. Z. Sol
onion, Auburn. Miners representa-
tives-George l.. Mercer, Canton: L.
J. Reynolds, Colllnsvlle; Joseph Som
crs, Benton.
Springtield.-The Illinois State Fed
Grafton Of Labor nominated the fol-
lowing state ticket: Governor, John
Walker, president state federation
United States senator. John Fitzprt'
rick, chicago, president Chicago fed
Grafton Of labor: lieutenant governor,
Charles Dold, Chicago, president In
tcrnatlonGl piano and electrical work
CrS secretary of state, Frank Espcr
Rivcrton. secretary state labor party
state auditor, John SChaefer, Belle
Vile; state treasurer, John II. Len.
non. Bloomington attorney general
William l.. Rodriguez, Chicago: clerk
Supreme court, Al Towers, Bclcvlllc
REPRESENTATIVES, clifford Earn
est. Eldorado: university trustees
Madge Argo, Joliet; Mrs. John Ma
meth, Eldorado, and Agnes Ncster
! Chicago.
lngheld.-COmmittcc to examine
applicants for admission tn bar were
named for each of the four appellate
court districts by the supreme court
The committees follow: First district
Mitchell ID. Follansbce, Amos &, Mil
Ter and Albert G.. Wclch. all of Chi
cago. Second district. Henry :. Dix
on, Dixon; Earl Il, Reynolds, Rock
ford Hiram L. Todd, Peoria. Third
district, Henry A. Neal. Charleston
Franklin l.. Nelde, Pekin; Clifton j
| O'Hara, Carthage. Fourth district, j
G. Burnsides. Vandalia; Robert VI
4 Farthlng Mount Vernon; Samuel w
Baxter East ST. Louis.
Chlcago.-Mayor Thompson of Chi
cago and his city hall organization
I sustained clean cut defeat ut the
hands of the Illinois delegation. The
mayor was refused reelection 10 the
Republican national committee. His
platform was dumped into the waste
4 basket. He was left only with the
\ tickets assigned to Illinois, which Ii
handled as national committeeman
Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman wa'
elected national committeeman by
this vote, no candidate having beer
nominated against him.
Observation-Disclosures Illinois farm
ers will assemble ut Geneva July , Il
discuss the proposition of marketing
their own grain without middle men
1t will be the first of series of snQI
meetings. The call has been issued b,
the Illinois Agricultural association
The object is TO get ideas and sugSes
j lions from grain growers, manager'
I OF farmers elevators and others. VI
to the present farmers have devoted
their efforts to production and pait
less attention to marketing.
Washington, ID. C.-Population fS
. ures issued by the bureau Of censu
included: Bridgeport, 2OO2; Jersey
. Vile, $3.50; Olney, 4,491; Roodhouse
2,92S; Whitehall. 1854.
Pana.-Miss Edith Bailey, twenty
five years old, committed suicide q
Pana by throwing herself beneath
switch engine In the Illinois Contra
yards, where her fiance, Adam Stalets
was killed few days ago when strucl
/. by u train.
. pringfield.-United States Marsha
/ Mailman continues m hnva his hand