Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-12-10
ILLINOIS
State News

Teaching of agriculture has attracted
135 students this year TO the Southern
Illinois State Normal university al
Carbonate. That many are enrolled
IN its agriculture department
In the reorganization of the Illinois
National Guard Rockford will get two
companies which will be units of the
same regiment, the Third infantry
now in process of organization.
Illinois plans 10 mark its roads next
year with aluminium markers shaped
like the map of Illinois. At the same
time highway officials will remove all
roadside advertisements.
The home for the aged, maintained
by the Order of the Eastern Star for
years at Macon, is to be moved to
Rock Island, according to announce
ment.
More than $4,000 persons obtained
jobs from the Illinois free employment
offices during the year ending June 30,
according to George b. Arnold, direc-
tor of the Illinois department of labor.
Theft of q single newspaper from the
Mount Sterling poStOtfice cost a Mount
Sterling barber so and costs. He
pleaded guilty to taking Il copy of Il
newspaper to read about the base
ball series.
The Illinois river. because of its
polluted condition. will not be re-
stocked with fish, according To the
federal Inspector of the Peoria dis
trict. Abandonment Of the river as
Il hatchery is fOreSeen.
Advanced utility rates sought by
nine companies in Illinois were either
permanently denied or suspended by
the Illinois commerce commission.
Telephone rates in Compton and West
Brooklyn. in Lee county. were SuS-
pended until March 30. 1922. and rates
of DeKalb County Telephone company
i'll Dekalb and twelve other towns
were resuSpended until May 20. 1922.
The 1O3rd anniversary of Illinois
birth-the anniversary of the states
admission into the Union in 1S1S-was
observed at Springfield in a fitting pro-
gram arranged by the State Historical
society. Historians gave appropriate
talks on The early days when the
French settled here. going back through
the exploratory period, the pre-RevOlu-
ton period and the poSt-RevolutiOn
period.
There are 541 1863 women work
ers in Illinois of whom 81, 615 are
in Chicago and 229.615 are down
state, it was reported to the annual
convention of the Illinois League of
Women Voters in session at Chicago.
The percentage of women workers in
Illinois increased in the last decade
in proportion to the total number Of
women in the state while the per
centage of men workers to the total
number of men decreased.
Illinois may soon be noted for its
apple cider and apple butter Declar-
ing that the new apple-packfng law
passed by the last general assembly
marked big step in the progress of
horticulture in Illinois. fruit growers of
the state plan to take some concerted
action toward marketing fruit unfit
for packing. Establishment of a
market for apple juice and other by
products is one Of the matters to be
taken up by the Illinois State HOr-
ticultural society at its annual meet
ing this month in Champaign. The
society is one of the oldest organ
lied branches of agriculture iT. Illinois.
1t began its activities in 1866.
Declaring that every rain plunges
the town into darkness by put
ting the electric light plant out of COM
mission citizens of Benton have circu-
lated a petition to purchase a tent TO
cover the Central Illinois Public Serv-
ice cOmpany's power plant so lights can
be kept burning when it rains. The
petition in reality is facetiOus pro-
test against the service furnished by
the light company, and may be filed
with the Illinois commerce commission
with a formal complaint. when
cloud appears a mad rush follows for
candles" said James NJ. Snyder. sec
rotary of the Commercial club. "A
rain of any kind puts out the lights"
At the International Live Stock
exposition held in Chicago, Illinois
prize winners included DENLY Broth
ers, Carlinville. sweepstakes on fat
shOrthorn yearling steer; John I'm
bOden & Son. Decatur. first on Here
ford cattle; John Hubby. Mason City,
first and second on Aberdeen-Angus
On sheep RambOuillets) Marshall
Brothers, Belvidere, first; A. A Cox.
Altoona, second. On Berkshire
swine, ]. H. Nickel, ArenZville. first !;
on DurOc Jerseys, A. f. Price Grant
Park. first; on Poland Chinas, Farlow
& Seikals. Augusta, first; ]. w. Grass,
Delavan, second; on Chester Whites.
A. p. Hamilton, Augusta, first; G. z.
Phillips, Delavan, second; on Hamp-
shireS, X. ]. Nelson, Rushrille. second !:
on Tamsworths. w. G.. Mcclure,
Maroa. first; b. T. Harris. Champaign.
second
Mrs. Charlotte L. Whipperman, one
of Illinois Oldest citizens, is dead al
her home in Dixon at the age of
one hundred and three years, three
months and four days. She was born
in Hanover, Germany. and is survived
by four children, IS grandchildren, Sc
great grandchildren and three great
great-g grandchildren.
EdgingtOn claims the champion corn
huSker of the county and state in