Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-28
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ILLINOIS
| News Notes
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


Aledo.-Bounties have been paid on
81 wolves killed in Mercer county
within the last three months, the
largest number in like period within
90 years.
ROckford.-Emil fostering, former
member of the legislature, who died
recently, willed the greater part of his
$4,000 estate to his old friend Gus
tat Palmer, of Rockford.
Notwithstanding of the Grant
highway through Boone county this
year is practically certain, according
to word from Springfield. Cement is
to be the material used.
Rockford-Judge Lands will pre-
side at a session of the United States
court in this city on June ,, at which
the condemnation suits in connection
with the site of Camp Grant will be
heard.
MarengO-Mrs. Casper Wilhelm,
who, with her husband, is employed
on a farm near here, a few days ago
shot and killed an eagle meaSuriaS
seven feet from tip to tip of its wings
and weighing nine pounds.
Urbana.-Ten meetings have been
held to date on the University of Hi
nois soil experiment fields scattered
throughout the state, with a total at
tendance of 9S1. A constantly grow
ing interest in these meetings is re-
ported by the university.
Kankakee = John NJ. Hayhurst,
eighty-fOur years old, said to have
been the first white child born in Kan
kakee county, died here recently. He
was the father of 13 children and had
more than 80 grandchildren and 13
Observation-Disclosures
STANDARDIZATION counties have
made bids for the annual state farm
ers' picnic to be held late this sum-
mer. The decision will be made by
the executive committee of the Illinois
Agricultural association, which will
wait a month for other bids before
deciding.
COMMUNICATING bells will lure
fewer school teachers from their posts
in Kane county this year, according to
the county superintendent The cOun-
try school teacher now receives from
1928 to $50 per month, and with no
prospect of wage cut the teachers
are staying on the job.
Washington, d. C.-AppOintment of
John HIGHLANDER of Chicago as super
vising federal prohibition agent for
the central department, with head
quarters in Chicago, was announced by
the internal revenue bureau. The
central department comprises the
states of Michigan, Indiana Illinois
and Wisconsin
ArcOla.-1I.". the stockholders of
the Arcola State bank will make good
the shortage in the bank funds, eX
pected to amount to 100000, and that
the bank will reopen, was the word
from directors and stockholders. Prop
erty of Ernest & Son, grain dealers,
amounting to $4,000, and property of
John Quirk, cashier, and NJ. T. Quirk
president. amounting to 100000, will
offset some of the shortage. The
Quirks were arraigned at TuscOla be-
fore Justice of the Peace J. G. Cutler
on charges of forgery, and after waiv-
ing preliminary examination were
bound over to the grand jury. Bank
officials said that complete charges of
Irregularities said to total more than
100000 will be filed later.
omington.-Dealers here have re-
duced the price of milk to eight
quarts for a dollar. Previously the
price has been II cents per quart.
This reduction brings the new scale
back to the figure in effect two years
ago.
Hammond, Ind.-Everett Boughan,
Samuel Katz, John NJ. Pom and Wal
ter Mcintosh, all of Roseland, H., face
prison terms of from one to fourteen
years for the holdup of a loan bank
here March 81. Pom and Mcintosh
pleaded guilty and a jury convicted
the other two.
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