Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-06-25
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The annual convention of the Illi-
nois Abstracters' association will be
held in Bloomington July 10 and 16-
Old Settlers Association of Carroll
county has selected August Is as the
date for it's annual reunion, TO be held
| at Lanark.
Discharge of half the workers at
| Rock Island arsenal shops, July 1, will
leave a force of 1.2OO, the smallest
| number in the last II years.
No more carnivals or street shows
will be granted licenses in Springfield
during the present year, Mayor Bau-
mann announced at the meeting of
, the city council.
After writing his will, leaving his eS-
| tate to his betrothed, Miss Edith Bru-
no, Rockford nurse, Martin d. Fitch
| of Rockford committed suicide at Nor
folk. Va, by swallowing poison.
| John f. Mates, city commissioner
of health and safety, told the Decatur
| city council at recent meeting that
the last years mortality rate in De-
eatur was the lowest in the history Of
| the city.
Women seeking employment are on
the increase, according to the Peoria
superintendent of labor, as many of
their husbands have been laid off. He
reports that there is a fair demand
for women to do day work.
The largest seed corn plant in the
world, the property of w. 7. ms
worth & Son, near Mason City, was
destroyed by fire of unknown origin.
The blaze left the building a mass
of charred ruins in less than half an
hour. The total damage is placed at
$4,000.
President Harding has granted
stay of execution for 81 days
! in the case of Max Cornick of
Mount Vernon, sentenced recently to
serve three years in the federal peni-
tertiary and to pay $1,000 fine follow
ing his conviction of having received
stolen property The charge grew out
of the theft of hides valued at $4,000
from an interstate shipment near
Danville in September, 1919.
The SangamOn county board of
supervisors by resolution placed it
self on record as desiring to CO.
operate with the state in building
up and expanding the state fair, but
| opposes granting a deed (which by its
terms will release the permanent To-
cation of the annual state fair from
its present site" The board also de-
clareS its willingness as far "aS con-
sistent with the protection expressed"
TO modify or amend the present deed
to remedy any valid objection which
the state may point out.
DIR. Thomas Asbury Parger, eighty
six years old, army chaplain, church
builder and prominent in Masonic
circles, is dead at his home in Cham
paign. He served as chaplain in the
house of representatives in Missouri
and Illinois and in the army during the
Civil war, in which he was commits
stoned as a captain. For 10 success
i've years he was grand prelate of the
grand cOmmandery Knights Templar
of Illinois. He held pastorates at
Springfield, Danville, Bloomington,
Decatur and Lincoln. For II years
he was chaplain at the Danville Sol
diers' home
In statement issued announcing
that Assistant States Attorney Ed
ward H Taylor had been assigned to
assist the council committee on living
costs in it's investigation of the prices
charged by Chicago milk distributors,
Russell J. Poole secretary Of the CON-
mittee, declared present milk prices
are conducive to discomfort" "Our
records show" the statement says,
'fhat in 1915 the farmer was receiv.
ing $1.66 a hundred pounds for his
milk and the Chicago housewife was
paying eight cents quart and five
cents a pint. At present the farmer
is getting $1.66 a hundred, the same
as in 1915, while the housewife is
paying eight cents pint and Il cents
a quart.
Robert NJ. Medill of Herrin was re-
appointed by Governor Small as d.
rector Of the state department of
mines and minerals. Mr.. Medill was
appointed by Governor Lowden July
%, 1920, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Joseph Thompson
Charles A. Purdunn of Marshall now
heads the state civil service commits
sion. Mr. Purdunn has been ap-
pointed chairman of the commission
to succeed Albert o. Early of Rock
ford, who resigned. Mr.. Purdunn was
appointed by Governor Lowden.
Michael Walsh of Harvard, who was
appointed by Governor Lowden is
reappointed. The third member of the
commission is Mrs. Helen c. Griffin
of Grant Park, Kankakee county, ap-
pointed by Governor Small. All di-
rectOrS Of departments have been ap-
pointed by Governor Small except that
of finance, which is still held by Omar
d. Wright of Belvidere, Governor
Lowden's appointee
For refusing to wait on negro
couple who entered his confectionery
store, James Panagakis, Greek, was
fined 500 and costs in the Circuit
court at Rockford. The jury held
Panagakis violated the state law
| when he Disseminated against the ne
groes.
Probably the largest class yet to
seek naturalization at Peoria is ex-
pected the latter part of this month.
Applications for citizenship number.
ing IT'S papers have already been re-