Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-08-27
ILLINOIS
News
Happenings

nave arranged TO employ manager
to provide a more convenient means of
marketing their poultry. He will ar
range for a poultry car to come
through the county as often as neces-
sary. The poultry will be taken to the
car at the appointed date. The pro-
Queer will benefit greatly by this ar
rangement. He will receive within
one cent of the terminal market value
per pound. Poultry buyers now are
paying 9 to 10 cents per pound under
pOultry-house bids.
The apple king" of Calhoun and
Jersey counties is Chris RinghOusen.
He has raised nearly 1000 bushels of
and will have yields from three big
orchards in Calhoun county. He has
nearly 600 acres of land in orchard
in Jersey county and for years has had
the largest orchard acreage IN Calhoun
county, which won him the title Of
apple king" Apples in this vicinity
have sold recently for SO per barrel.
Completion of the new hog barn at
Peoria district fair grounds, which is
to house the sixth annual national
swine show, October to 8, will pro-
vide 800 spacious pens and full equip
ment. The work will be done by the
middle of September, and on Septem-
Der II the entries, which, it is an
nOunced, are open TO the world, will
be closed. College student judging and
boys and girls pig club shows have
a prominent place on the program.
After having been thought the vic
tim of a murder plot and to have been
buried in a lonely wheat field near
Granite City, Serena Collins, twenty,
formerly of the Illinois city, was found
at Cincinnati, O., by her grandmother,
Mrs. Martha Hull of East st. Louis.
The police Immediately wired Granite
City authorities and the latter will re-
lease Thomas Gilliland, whom they
had arrested and had charged with the
murder of the young woman.
Equal in authority with men preach
ers and fulfilling all the duties Of
office 10 women are serving as pastors
of the Disciples of Christ church in
Illinois, putting this state at the head
of that denomination for its number of
woman preachers, according to an
nOuncement Of the superintendent OF
women preachers, Rev. Mrs. Jessie
Coleman MOnSer of Decatur.
By the close of 1922 it may be pos
sible to travel by motor vehicle over
a concrete highway between Chicago
and ST. Louis. Two routes are now
racing to see which will be ready first.
The Peoria route, although go miles
longer, may win out. The Blooming
ton route, which is approximately $50
miles, may not be wholly completed by
the close of next year.
The university high school will be
opened at Urbana on September II to
a selected group of students, accord
ing to the dean of the college of educa-
ton. This will enable the college of
education to carry out its plans for
model high school in connection with
the university.
For many years George J.. Schudt,
wealthy retired farmer, entertained
the public at picnic in his private
park at Waddams Grove on each sue
ceeding Labor day, and when he died
a few months ago he left a fund for
the continuation of the annual outings.
Bloomington haberdashers believe
mems heads are getting larger. The
belief is based on the extraordinary
demand for large-sized hats. Three
probable causes for the phenomenon,
intensive study, Exaggerated egotism,"
and long hair, have been advanced.
The number of suicides in Cook
county during the first seven months
of 1921 was approximately "a per cent
greater than the number during the
corresponding months of 1920, accord
ing to figures on file in the cOrOner's
office.
Plans are under way for the building
of a new county home to house Jersey
county's wards, at the poor farm. 1t
is proposed to obtain the needed funds
by levying special tax rather than
by means of a bond issue.
An outbreak of typhoid fever at
Freeport, is believed by health officials
to have been caused by milk, all but
one of the patients having used milk
from the suspected DAIRY. Inere
have been two deaths.
The state law in relation to licenses
for nonresidents who indulge in
hook and line fishing was enforced for
the first time at Havana when two
men of st. Louis were arrested and
fined SIS each.
Thomas Macarthur, a wealthy mason
contractor living In River Forest, and
his wife were killed near Ottawa when
their automobile was struck by an
electric interurban train.
The old homestead of John Deere,
builder of the first steel pillow and
pioneer in the manufacture of agri-
cultural implements at Grand Detour,
which has been falling into decay,
Is to be restored by Mrs. William
Buttersworth, a granddaughter.
William III. Jennings of Chicago
was elected right eminent commander
of nlinos grand commandery. Knights
Templar, at the sixty-f1fth annual
conclave In Rockford. Glen. r. Coe
of Dixon was elected to the stepping
stone office of grand warden, defeating
w. r. Brown of East st. Louis.