Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-07-09
News Nuggets
From Illinois


Structed.
Peoria.-Peoria's post of the Ameri-
can Legion is waging a vigorous cam
paign TO obtain jobs for all ex-service
men. Personal letters are being mailed
to employers asking for their coop
Grafton.
Springfeld.-An attempt was made
to secure the appointment by Cover
nor Small of the daughter of the late
William E. Mason as congressman at
large from Illinois to succeed her
lately deceased father.
Springfield.-While no official opin-
ion is forthcoming from the attorney
generals office, the opinion prevails
there that laws signed after July /
by the governor, will not have to wait
until July 1, 1922, before becoming
effective as has been the belief of
many officials.
PeOria.-Mayor Victor P. Michel has
doubled his promise made before cleo
ton, and has announced that instead
of SOC, 1000 he will save the city $780,
600. He has discharged eight street
fOremen as essential and has
notified all city employees he expects
as much work from them as if they
were working at their own private
business.
Washington, d. C.-Population fig
ures for Illinois according to color or
race just released by the bureau of
census, Department of Commerce,
show the total population of Illinois
in 1920 was 6,4S5,3 The figures for
the various races are subdivided as
follows: White, 6,299, 339; negro, 1872
254; Indian, 1914 Chinese, 2,794; Jap
anese. 47S; all others, 221.
Observation-Disclosures of Scott field
near Belleville as the home station of
new dirigibleS purchased abroad, and
as the site for a balloon training
school, has been approved by Secretary
of War Weeks, according to word re-
ceived from Washington by the Belle
vile board of trade. An appropria-
ton of S1,250,OO0 for construction of
hangers was approved, it was said.
Springfeld.-The new law giving
Secretary of State Louis L. Emmerson
power to appoint Investigators to Co
operate with local authorities in en-
forcing automobile and road laws will
save the state at least S2500OO a
year, the automobile department Of
the secretary's Office estimates. This
amount has been escaping annually
because there has not been adequate
law-enforcement machinery.
acknowledgements Small has
signed the cement plant bill, which
sets aside $5,OOOOOO of the road fund
| for a cement plant and lands contain
! ing roal building material. The gov
ernOr also signed the bill reappro-
| priating $2O,OOO,OOO for construction
of the Illinois waterway and the tax
| for general purposes and $S,OOO,OO0
annually for the school fund.
| Chicago.-Organized farmers of the
| Illinois Agricultural association and
| 46 other state agricultural bureaus
will gather at Atlanta, Ga, on the 22d,
23d, Oath and 25th of November for
the annual meeting of the American
| Farm Bureau Federation, the ma
| tiOnal organization to which all the
state bureaus belong. Important Ques-
lions Of national agricultural policies
are to be threShed out at this years
meeting Several officials of the Illi-
nois association are scheduled for adj
dresses.
| Springfield.-More than S1,OOO,OOO
| of Illinois road funds have just been
contracted to be spent in closing up
Of hn in hn h0r ron n
highway between Chicago and st.
Louis When this work is done, there
will remain to be built only the seven
mile Depue gap In Bureau county, a
short stretch near Edwardsville, and
some grade crossings that will have to
be cut out, then a quick through trip
can be made from Chicago to the lit
tie sister city that was Shown" by
rail or road The latest contracts let
for good, hard concrete roads embrace
So miles in II sections. They are to
cost under their contracts 81, 276, 6O5,
without cement. That Is at the rate
of $22,O25 a mile.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. owners in
Illinois are increasing every day.
More than 10000 additional licenses
were issued during the last six months
as compared with year ago. Figures
announced by the state automobile de-
partment show 511 ,935 passenger car
licenses were issued since the first of
the year. On June %, 1920, there were
AL .4O4. The increase is 70,591. A
large increase in the number of auto
mobile truck licenses was also shown
The number now is 67,713. A year
ago it was 55,242, making this years
increase 12,471. The total fees paid
to the department for passenger car
truck, dealer, motorcycle and chauf.
feur licenses totaled $6,120, 1857, an
increase of more than a million dol
lars over year ago.
Jerseyville. - An adequate water
supply for it's citizens is troubling the
city of Jerseyville. The city's water
supply now comes from artesian wells
and the salt in the water is constantly
rusting the pipes, making it a con
tinued drain upon the treasury of the
city to keep the watermains and pipes
in repair.
Springield.-At commencement exer
cises of the Mooseheart high school
declared by educators to be the mos