Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-06-11
ILLINOIS
News
Happenings

The annual convention of the Hi
nOis Abstracters' association will be
held in Bloomington July 10 and Is.
With corn planting over, farmers of
central Illinois are rushing their old
corn to market and the railroads are
swamped with calls for cars.
Frank O. LOwden, former governor
of Illinois, was elected president of
the HOlStein-Friesian Association of
America at its annual meeting in SYRIA
cuse, n. y.
Mrs. Laura Duncan, age thirty. was
found guilty of the murder of Harry
Perry, Jr., of Jacksonville by q jury
in Circuit court. She was sentenced
to an indefinite term,
A knights of Columbus band is to
be organized by musicians in the
Davenport, Moline and Rock Island
councils. The tri-city band will num-
Der at least 90 pieces.
In the hope of lessening the num-
Der of bank and pOStOffice rObberieS,
bankers of Cass county have voted to
pay $1,000 for the capture of any such
burglar. dead or alive.
Five hundred delegates are expected
when the state convention of the Cath
Ollie Order of Foresters is called to or
der at Rockford Monday, June 13. The
sessions will last three days.
State and county highway forces de-
clared war on the iron wheel tractors
and overloaded trucks which for more
thana month have damaged the crack
concrete road system in nothern Cook
county.
Eleven of the score of Peoria teach
erS who were members of Peoria Men
Teachers Federation No. "A, before
that organization recently surrendered
its charter under protest, were dis
missed from service in Peoria city
schools.
Thirty-five bands and bugle corps
rave been secured for the state con-
ventiOn of the American Legion, to be
held at Decatur October 10 and IL.
Ten thousand uniformed men are ex-
pected TO parade the first day of the
| convention.
Talk of raZing the old county court
house at Springfield-at one time the
| state capitol building-to be replaced
| by modern office building, has
brought forth a storm of protest from
| ciIiZens who point to the historic val
he Of the structure.
William Hale Thompson suffered his
| first reverse at the polls since his cleo
! ton as mayor in 1915 when a coalition
| judicial ticket swept Chicago carry
| ing every Thompson candidate to de-
! feat. \ proposition for the issue of
| $9O00,00O bonds for building a new
| jail was decisively beaten. Another
| proposal that free text books be sup
| piled in the public schools carried by
a small majority.
Milk prices to be paid by the Milk
| Producers Cooperative Marketing
company at their branch plants in In
diana, Illinois and Wisconsin will be
unchanged during June, the present
price of $2.O5 per hundred pounds con-
tinuing during that month, it was an
nOunced, following a meeting of deal
| erS and producers. In July the price
will be increased to $3.50 per hundred
| pounds, it was announced.
| William Ray Jewell, for half a cen
fury prominent figure in politics and
for many years the adviser and jour
nalistic mouthpiece of Congressman
]. G. Cannon, is dead at his home in
Danville after a long illness From
| 1872 until a few years ago. when he
retired and sold his paper, he was the
editor and publisher of the Danville
Morning News. He served as post
master under Presidents Arthur, Har-
risOn, Mckinley, Roosevelt and Taft.
Mr.. Jewell was born at TaylOrville
| XIV in 1897