Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-21

Il l ,INOIS
State News

The McHenry County Good Roads
association has been organized, with
the object of boosting the plan TO
build chain of hard roads.
A boys band sponsored by the Ma
comb Rotary club. is to be organized at
Macomb. Ninety-seven boys ranging
from eight to eighteen years of age
are clamOring for membership.
Figures compiled by the city clerk
for the last twenty years, show that
during the last eighteen years perma-
nent improvements totaling S1,976. 104.-
63 have been made in Belleville.
DR.. Otto L. Schmidt, Chicago, presi-
dent of the Illinois State Historical So
ciety, and all other officers were re-
elected at the annual business ses-
sion of the society at Springfield.
On the ground that the cost of liv-
ing has declined 80 per cent within
the last year, the West Aurora school
board has rejected the plea of school
teachers for an increase in salary
Disease among poultry in the state
last year caused losses estimated at
fessOr in animal pathology, University
Of Illinois, declared in a statement
One person was probably fatally in
jured and score more seriously hurt
when the Chicago & Alton crack
train. The Hummer" plunged at 80
miles an hour through an open switch
at Shirley.
Gov, hoonc I'LL H. ,,,oro
Illinois this year than ever before,
planting extending to both southern
and northern Illinois, according to the
Extension Messenger of the University
of Illinois.
Central Illinois may become a rival
of Kentucky in the cultivation of to-
baccO. A farmer of the vicinity of Glib
son City, who experimental with three
acres last year, has just computed that
he realized S460 from 3,4OO pounds
WOOdchucks are being gasSed in
Kendall county, reports the agriculture
al extension messenger of the state
university. A hose attached to an
automobile exhaust and run into the
woodchuck hole is credited with I'M
questionable results.
At special election in Harvey three
propositions submitted by the city adj
miniStratiOn for the betterment of the
public health and welfare were de-
feated two to one. One proposition
provided for 100000 bonds for public
parks and Fairgrounds, another for
$4,000 bonds for a garbage incinerat-
ing plant. and the third sought to
establish city court to do away with
delays and expenses incidental to hav-
ing Harveys cases tried in Chicago.
Guy Kyle, former Free Methodist
minister, and Loren Williamson of
Mount Vernon were sentenced to
six years each in the federal
penitentiary at LeavenwOrth, Kan,
by Federal Judge English at East st.
Louis to a charge of robbing a pouch
containing mail valued at $500 at
Mount Vernon, January IA last. Kyle
pleaded guilty and in addition to the
penitentiary sentence, was fined $1,000
Williamson was found guilty last Fri
day He steadfastly denied completely
in the theft and filed a motion for a
new trial. The motion was Overruled
Williamson, besides the prison sen
tence, was fined $500.
Establishment of fine arts courses
| in all high schools of the state and
Standardization of the study of music
| both in high schools and grade schools
| was recommended by the Illinois
| Music Teachers association at its
convention at Springfield. The con
vention proposed to establish the
dignity of music" and to place its
study on a par with the classics
| science and business.
June - IA and Is are the dates
| announced for the annual convention
of the Catholic Order of Foresters Of
| Illinois, TO be held at Rockford.