Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-04-23
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ILLINOIS
News Notes
Observation-Disclosures

with a capital of $4,000.
Uniform costumes will be worn by
the girls of the graduating class of the
Batavia high school at the commence
ment in June. The girls will make
their own graduation dresses.
Capt A A Rice of Aledo has
announced his candidacy for Illinois
department commander, Grand Army
of the Republic, at the annual encamp-
ment to be held in Galesburg.
A man, who attempted TO deliver
corner ut Rend City, was escorted out
of town by mob. Several in the mob
struck him with hOrsewhips, it was
said.
The Illinois Music Teachers as
ISOLATION will meet in Springfield
April % to May 1. The program will
be mde up of selections by Illinois COM
posers. A chorus of 1000 student
voices of Springfield will be heard.
The treasury of Illinois will
be enriched by $4,000 inheritance tax,
to be paid from the estate of the late
S. d. Seamans of Aurora. He left
100000. His widow and three chill
dren are the principal beneficiaries.
One thousand pedagogues attended
the thirty-seventh annual meeting of
the Central Illinois Teachers assOcia-
ton at Bloomington. An exhibit of
physical training work by the pupils
of Bloomington schools was a feature
of the opening session.
Without a dissenting vote, the
Chicago city council passed a cur
few ordinance making it unlawful for
ChicagO'S youth to be on the streets
between ten o'clock in the evening and
six o'clock in the morning, unless &C
cOmpanied by parents or other adults.
Five hundred high schools of the
state have been invited by the AthlL tic
Association of the University of Il
linOiS to enter teams in the twenty
seventh annual interschOlastic meet
The track and field championships for
the state will be settled on May 20
and 81.
Leonard Kolter was found bound,
gagged and beaten to death in the
barn on his farm near Belleville. His
head had been covered with a sack.
His house was ransacked and the pO-
lice believe robbery was the motive.
Mr.. Kolter was siXty-siX years old and
a bachelor.
The scholastic average for all
men in the University of Illinois
last semester is 3.201, according to fig
ures just released by the office of the
dean of men. Nonfraternity men lead
the fraternitieS with an average of
1922 as compared with an average Of
3.172 compiled from fraternity aver
ages.
To avoid bankruptcy, the Chicago,
ottawa & Peoria line has petitiOned
the city council of Ottawa for permits
sion to carry freight through the city.
1t is represented that the decline in
passenger earnings, due to the great
| increase in the number of automobiles,
| has become so great that it is no long
er possible TO meet operating expenses.
Illinois today claims another achieve
ment in American Legion affairs, for
the John ROlinski post, No. 40, at
TOluca, is now 100 per cent in mem
berShip and service. This makes the
state first on record at national head
| quarters of having a community swept
| clean of all claims needing adjustment
and every eX-service man a legion
naire.
The annual meeting of the Hi
nOis Academy of Science will be
held in Carbonate Friday and Satur-
day, April % and 80. Five other socie-
ties of scientists will meet here in con-
| junction, these including the Illinois
Audubon, the wild flower preservation,
the Illinois section of the American
| Mathematical association, the St Louis
! Academy of Science and the Indiana
| Academy of Science
Forty-ive wOmen's clubs, repre-
senting eight counties, with about
J 500 visiting delegates, will meet
| at West Frankfort in annual conven-
| ton of the WOman's club of the Twen-
ty-fifth district. May Il and 13. The
| local club, is busy arranging program
of entertainment for the visitors The
| eight counties that will be represented
are: Pulaski, Alexander, Union, Jack
son, Randolph, Perry, Williamson and
| Franklin.
Six weeks will elapse before fruit
men in Illinois can say definitely how
much damage was done their crops,
according to A. M. Augustine of Nor
| NAL, prominent nurseryman and secre.
tary of the Illinois State Horticultural
society. Mr.. Augustine says many fruit
trees are showing early signs. of re-
vival following the frost, but that not
all of these signs are to be taken as
| reliable. His expression of opinion
was of the commercial crop.
| Twenty cases of smallpox have
made radical quarantine rules nee.
essary at Plainfield. No one will be
permitted to enter a public building or
attend church, theater or any other
gathering, unles able to show a certifi.
cate of vaccination or previous illness
with the disease.
| U. S. civil service examinations
| will be held May IL, June %
and August 2 for weather bureau as
sistants at Decatur, Peoria, Quincy
Effingham. Urbana, Springfield and
other places, the civil service commits
| sion announces.