Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-07-31

News Nuggets
From Illinois


Springfield. - Thousands of visitors
are expected to Springfield dur
| ing State Fair week. which opens
| August 20 and continues until
, August ~. Among the many nttrac-
; tions at the fair this year will he %
| display of better homes. Dumonstra-
| tions will he given every day on sub
| iects which have To do with the better
home movement, including the art Of
dress, home building. clay modelling.
| cartoon talks and sketches from life.
| Exhibits of architecture, covering
moderate priced homes, city planning
and community centors, will he shown.
Galesburg. Golfers of centrai
| Illinois attending the annual meet
| of the Illinois Association of Country
clubs at Gulcsburg elected these Off.
GERS: President, George NJ. Brinker-
hoff, Jr., Springfield; tirsmt vice-presi-
\ dent, w. l.. Mckee. Quincy; second
| vice-president. II. NJ. Stone, Bloom
ingtOn secretary. Edgar :. Barnes,
! Springfield: treasurer Ralph Conklip,
| Decatur. The Illini Country club OF
| Springfield was awarded the tOurna-
| ment for next year
Rockford. - What Is regarded as
n triumph IN tree grating has
been accomplished by George X. Nc
| CARNEY of Rockford He has been
| experimenting for n number of years,
grating cherry slips upon plum trees
and apples upon pear trees. All are
thriving and the novel spectacle of
different kinds of blossoms and fruits
upon the same tree has attracted wide
attention.
Elgin. - It cost less than nine
cents a meal to feed 2,110 inmates
and 2S3 employees of the Elgin State
hospital last year according to the an
Dual report of the institution. The
average cost of food per person was
but 90 cents day. That figure in
cludes products raised on the hospital
farm as well as food purchased out
side.
Normal. - II. w. Funk, a veteran
apiarlst Of Normal, says that this
is n poor season for honey. The month
long drouth in June killed the white
clover, from which bees draw the
major portion of their honey stores
and the result Is that the stock of the
sweets laid away this summer Is much
below normal.
Tampico. The Interstate com.
merce commission has been asked
to grant permission for the building Of
an extension to the Galesburg, Rock
ford 4 Northern railroad west from
I Hooppole to furnish transportation tc
n rich farming region now ut con
siderable distance from rail lines.
Chicago. - There have been 36l
fewer deaths from tuberculosis In
! Chicago so far this year than for the
corresponding period last year, accord
Ing to Health Commissioners Robert
son. He says the cleaner air, due Il
the anti-sm0ke campaign. Is TO ID
credited with the decrease.
Clinton.-Material Is being received
for the making OF improvements tc
! cost about S25OOOO by the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad company here. one nun
dred thousand dollars VIII De expend
ed on new buildings and like sun
Tor machinery. New yards VIII p'
laid out to accommodate the increased
traffic.
Byron.-Miss Mary Blount OF Chi
cago has offered to the city Of Byron
the old BlOunt homestead, to be USED
rs community house. The com
munity house Is to be a memorial e
Miss Blount's mother. A special cleo
ton will be held to vote on specia
tax levy for equipping ana maintain
Ing the Institution.
I Chicago. - 1t is not the in
tentiOn of members Of the state public
utilities commission to resign befor'
their terms end, as rumor had 1t. Al
the members will remain until tn,
ne wgovernor Is inaugurated In Jan
uary, Commissioner James II. Wilker
son declared.
Danville. - Only fifteen miles o
the Dixie highway between Chicago
and Danville remain unpaved. Thu
gap remaining Is now under construc
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