Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-08-20
ILLINOIS
State News

Farmers of Will county will hold
their annual picnic at DellwoOd Park,
Joliet, August ~ The national
sport of the farmer, horseshoe pitch
ing" will feature the event
Methodist preachers of central nli-
nOis will attend the annual Illinois
conference Of the Methodist Episco-
pal church at Jacksonville September
5 to u. Bishop Thomas Nicholson of
Chicago will preside. The lay cleo
toral conference will be held at the
same time.
]. B. Smith, for many years ed
itor and publisher of the Kankakee
Daily Democrat, and a leader in
estern Illinois Democratic circles
was struck by lightning during an
electrical storm and instantly killed.
Halliday sessions, with two groups
of children occupying the same rooms
daily, will become necessary in all
grade schools of Rockford next fall be-
cause of lack of room. Space has
been rented in two churches to ac-
cOmmOdate the overflow from two of
the schools
frigeratOr company at Morrison was
put into operation after six
months shutdown. Other departments
of the plant which employ about 200
men normally, will be reOpened soon.
The wage scale of the employees has
been reduced 10 to 40 per cent.
Hope that the building wage
hnc id
cago construction since May would be
definitely settled soon went glimmer-
ing when Federal Judge Lands, acting
as arbiter, ordered every individual
craft agreement changed to conform
with the sO-called agreement entered
into recently by E. NJ. Craig for the
Building Constructor Employers asso-
citation.
When August Bellendorf of Quincy
decided to make a trip to Ger
many, he sold his household goods at
auction. Mrs. Edward III. Sass was
curious about the contents of the hair
mattress she bought, and upon ripping
1t open found greenbacks tOtaling 81,
015. The woman took the money to
not know there was money in the mat
tress and offered her a reward of So
BellendOrf left for Germany.
Dr. Philip B. Wooworth, appointed
by Secretary of War Weeks as a men,
Der of the advisory board of the war
plans division of the general staff said
at Chicago his new duties would not
interfere with his work as president
of Rose POLYTECHNIC institute, which Of
fee he will assume September l. Doc
tor Woodwork organized the educa-
tiOnal work in the military camps of
the central department, and in Janu-
AIRY, 1920, General Pershing, after a
tour of inspection, declared Camp
Grant to be the model army school.
The United States shows that
the value of farm land and build
ings in Cook county an January 1,
1920, was 800, 730,S31, an increase of
$5,1S7,744 over the values of 1910.
The acreage was as follows: 1920,
total, 34S,619; improved, 303, 40;
1910, total, 3S7,6O3; improved, 3d.
| 092. The decrease is about 10 per
cent in total acreage and per cent
in improved. Oats and corn are the
banner Cook county crops. The totals
| for harvests, 1919 and 1909, of the
| four principal crops are as follows
Oats-1919, 56,196 acres, 1,6S2.9S1
bushels; 1909, 59,465 acres, 2,21O,S56
bushels. Corn-1919, 54,a51; acres,
/, 4S5, S35 bushels; 1909, $500 acres.
| 2,137, 1913 bushels. Wheat-1919, 25,-
1O5 acres, 4,261,7 49 bushels; 1909,
| 3,033 acres, Il, 401 bushels. Hay
1919, 6S,242 acres, S5,443 tons; 1909
81, 421 acres, 100, 104 tons. The total
number of farms in the county is
5,3O5, of which 2,19S are operated by
| tenants.
Curtailment Of the injunction pow
er of the Illinois courts will be
! the chief topic of discussion at the
thirty-third annual convention of the
Illinois State Federation of Labor,
which will meet in Aurora for one
week, commencing October II. The
call for the convention, which will
draw 1000 official delegates TO Au-
rora was sent to all labor unions
fD the state. Accomplishments Of the
legislatures work will be reviewed
| first, according to President John H.
Walker, but discussion of the constitu-
| tional convention which will then be
In session, will overshadow all else.
Labor's attitude toward the proposed
new constitution will be determined.
Mr. Walker said, by the action basic
| lawmakers take on the labor article
before them on their return to Spring
field in September. Both Mr. Walker
and Secretary Treasurer Victor A.
| Olander of Chicago, who joined in
| sending out the call for the convention,
regard the injunction evil" as labor's
most vital issue. That evil, they said,
is more violent today than ever
The first Jersey bull show ever held
| I'm the United States, it is said, has
| lust been held at Robinson. Forty
bulls were in the show ring from diff
ferent parts Of Illinois and Indiana.
The grand prize-winning bull is owned
by G. H. Miles 8 Sons of Lawrence
Vile.
The fifty-second annual convention
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of