Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-08-13
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News Brepities
of Illinois

training of disabled veterans at Maui
VOC is being enlarged to accommodate
100 or more additional students. Work
is in progress on an additional build
ing to take care of the added number.
Nearly 80 students are enrolled at
present. The school is known as
convalescing center. Its function is
to take care of men just discharged
from hospitals until they are able to
carry the full-time work at other fed
eral schools for men who have been
declared fully cured. All of the men
at the school are arrested tuberculo-
sis cases. Students undertake from
two to six periods of work day, de-
pending on their condition A staff Of
IA teachers is instructing the men in
academic subjects, including agricul-
ture, mechanical drawing, commercial
training, tailoring, watch repairing and
shoemaking. r. H. Harpster. educa-
tional director, is at the head of the
school.
Plans are being laid for a fund drive
among the alumni of the university
to raise additional money needed TO
build the Illinois new memorial stadi-
UNI, according to X. w. Clark of the
stadium committee at Urbana. The
campaign will likely start on October
%, the day of the Michigan football
game on Illinois field, and will con-
tinue one week. The drive will be
made in such way as TO induce each
individual student to offer assistance.
The minimum quota donation from
alumni has been set at 500, while an
Offering of $500 will be considered an
honor quota. With the lesser dOna-
ton, an alumnus is entitled TO an OPP
ton of one seat in the stadium for
ten years or two seats for five years,
and as the pledge increases the num-
Der of seats increases in the same
ratio.
Cooperation between Peoria and
Springfield in offering mutual assist
ance to the fairs to be held in the
respective cities has been arranged,
according to an announcement at
Springfield. At the request of officials
of the Peoria district fair and of the
Peoria chamber of commerce, Wednes-
day, August "a, will be set aside as
Peoria day during the Illinois state
fair to be held here August 10 to =.
1t also will be War Veterans day.
In return, the Peoria district fair will
set aside a day to be known as Spring
field and Governors day at the Ma
tiOnal Implement and Vehicle show.
All city and township clerks of
Illinois have been supplied with
the hunting licenses for the sea-
son which opened August 1. There
has been delay in issuing the new per-
mits as it was necessary to wait until
the legislature adjourned, some
changes in the game and fishing laws
being proposed. The lawmakers failed
to adopt any of the proposed amend
ments and the old law remains in eff
feet. The licenses carry a digest of
the game laws for the information of
all nimrods. They will be valid I'M
til the close of the hunting season In
the spring of 1922.
Two Chicago convicts who disap-
peared at Joliet penitentiary were
captured when they sought to
escape from the haylOft of a barn
barn within the prison yards, where
they had been hiding The men are
William Dickman and James Kelly,
each serving from one year TO life for
robbery. They remained in the barn
until hunger drove them to attempt
to escape A guard on the wall saw
them and fired several shots. A de-
tail captured them. All convicts at
the penitentiary have been kept in
confinement since the disappearance.
Fred II. Kolze, latest victim in the
Schiller Park arsenic mystery, which
involves the poisoning of three mem-
bers of two intimately connected fam
lilies, committed suicide because of
criminal knowledge of the way in
which his wife and his housekeeper's
husband came to death. That is Cor
orner Hoffman's theory, developed af-
ter hitherto unqueStiOned witnesses
had told their stories.
The annual fish fry and carnival, ar
ranged by the business men of Boards
town, will be given the week of Au-
gust Is to %. All visitors will be
given all the fish they can eat without
charge, and there will be a week.
program of amusement in addition
c. F. Fetterer, a curio dealer, has
In his possession a pertified birds nest
which he found in a ravine near Rock
Island The eggs in the nest are per-
fectly formed, and the twigs with
which the nest was made are evenly In
place.
The chamber of commerce at Aurora
Is going ahead with its housing pro-
gram and will have 90 new homes
ready by December 1. Two sample
structures, one costing So, 200 and the
other $500 have been completed.
Sunday was day of military funer'
ais in Chicago. Firing squads payec
| tribute to 10 heroes in a dozen GENE
teries, while American Legion posts
marched in uniform in as many funer
al professions.
Danger of cancellation of night per
formances and stock shows at the III
| linOiS state fair as a result of tht
controversy between the city 81
| Springfield and the Springfield Gas anC
| Electric company has passed, accord
| ing to state fair officials, and the nigh
events will go on as originally planned