Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-10-08
ILLINOIS
Il STATE NEWS

Misunderstanding TO the state tax
commissions recent demand upon
boards of review in % counties for as
sessment lists, Oscar +. Carlstrom. a
member of the commission, declared
in an address before the state conven-
ton of county clerks, circuit clerks
and recorders at Alton that the order
was given in order TO obtain definite
information to use in checking on fig
.ures from few counties in which the
commission had been Informed fair
assessments on capital stocks of banks
had not been made. Commissioner
Carlstrom also said that there would
be no great increase In the state tax
rate for the present two-year period
Springield.-IllinOis shipped out
2S,373 animals, including cattle, horses
dogs, to other states and foreign cOun-
tries during the first half of 1921,
according to report just completed
by the superintendent of the division
Of animal industry Department of
Agriculture. Tennessee received the
greatest number of the animals, 1867,
while 1870 were sent to Kentucky.
Georgia, New Mexico, Oregon. Rhode
Island and Washington received one
apiece. Seventeen cattle were shipped
to Cuba, "a to Mexico and one TO
Brazil
AltOn.-Luther Burbank's rival in
plant experimenting is E. III. Riehl Of
hi ast L. boz -
successful ventures in propagating
new fruits. He has received word
from the plant industry department
of Washington, d. c., that plant ex
pert will visit him and see the new
everbearing blackberries with which
he is experimenting. He also has
everbearing strawberries of fine flavor
and likewise raspberries. His COM
binatiOn of peach and apricot is said
to vie with that propOgated by
Luther Burbank.
ADMINISTRATIVE of the voters TO ap-
prove at the polls proposition to is
sue 100000 worth of bands to COM
plete the county Jail at Moline has
forced new problem for the board
of supervisors. The old Jail repeated
ly has been condemned as being in
sanitary and unless the new jail is
completed the authorities may be
forced to transfer all prisoners to the
jails of adjacent counties, this pro-
gram TO be maintained until the voters
are in a mood to vote money for the
completion of the new structure.
Cairo-Mrs. A. w. Weldon, 81, past
president Of the Illinois Assembly of
the Daughters of Rebekah and the
first president of the Past Presidents
association of that lodge, is dead at
Cairo of heart trouble. She was
author and director of the OddfellOws
centennial, pageant at Springfield in
1919, and was a trustee of several Re
bekah charitable institutions.
Decatur.-TwO hundred and fifty
members of the ladies' auxiliary to the
Illinois Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers, in convention at Decatur,
selected Peoria as the 1922 meeting
place officers elected follow: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Jennie Boomer, Chicago !;
vice president, Mrs. Larry Orr, PeO-
ria: secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Eliza
beth Stetler, Chicago.
misunderstanding blowing In his
field one mile north of Normal, Charles
Anderson unearthed bills, coins and
bonds to the value of $4,000 The
bonds were identified as having been
Stofen from the Farmers bank of Ben
son the night of October s, 1920, when
the bank vaults were dynamited and
safe deposit boxes looted.
ROckford.-One hundred Rockford
public school teachers earned $50
year increase in salary by attend
ing college during vacation. The
offer was made by the board of edu-
cation. Most of the teachers went to
the University of Chicago and the
University of Wisconsin.
Urbana.-With a total enrolment
of 1894 students, the College of Com
merce of the University of Illinois
has broken all previous registration
records. Past records are as follows
1861, 6O6; 1917-1S, 739; 191S-19,
LIP; 1920, 1883; 192O-21, 1,841 ;
1922, 1894.
Observation-Disclosures carried by
the Chicago & Alton railroad this year
decreased 16,2O9O26 ton miles below
last years total, according to figures
announced by the superintendent.
Traffic between Peoria and Springfield
showed an increase.
Rock Island.-The value of disease
free seed corn from a production
standpoint Is to be determined by a
series Of tests to be made on farms
where planting was supervised by the
farm bureau last spring.
Momence.-Fire destroyed the plant
of the Merit Cap company here during
the night causing a loss Of nearly
100000. Fire departments of sur
rounding villages aided In fighting the
flames.
Galena.-A fig tree. grown in the
garden at the home of r. F. Bell In
Galena, bore a crop of fruit this year
equal, 1t is said, in size and flavor to
that of semi-tropical regions.
Rock Island-Evidence showing op-
position to one-man street cars In Rock
Island, East Moline, Silvis and MI
Ian will be presented by Mayor
Schriver of Rock Island at a hearing
by the Illinois commerce commission
MOnticellO-The high school and