Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-11-05
I. ILL NOIS
BREVITIES

The reduction will mean saving to
farmers of from 10 to 80 cents per
hundredweight, according to distance.
Montgomery county, where the saving
amounts to a little more than 20 cents
per hundredweight. uses 600 tons of
import nitrate of soda a year. The
annual saving to farmers there will
amount to S2,400. About twenty-three
Illinois counties are steady and ex-
tensive users of the fertilizer while
other counties make some use of it.
Most Illinois towns have been receiv-
ing their supply from New Orleans.
The new rates probably will be effec-
tive on December /.
ringfield.-Douglas, Ford or Liv-
1ngston county farmers are offering 8
and 31a cents bushel and three square
meals day to experienced men who
are out of work Within the last few
days appeals from these cOunties-all
three in the east central part of the
state-have been received by the Illl-
nOis Agricultural association, in spite
of the general "hard times and short
age of jobs. Other counties are said
TO be needing men to gather this sea-
sons crop, which means that several
hundred men who are unemployed may
find work on the farm. The Illinois
free employment bureau has been
asked to help supply corn huskers, but
so far applications of experienced men
have not been sufficient to meet the
need.
Springfield.-State educational au-
thorities express themselves as very
much satisfied over the progress being
made by schools in Illinois. espe-
cially in the rural sections. in the
consolidation of school districts. New
schools are being erected in numer-
Gus communities throughout the state
and great sums of money are being
expended in order to replace the old
frame structures with new and mod
ern buildings. Many of these new
buildings are in country districts
where consultations have been made
to take in larger areas and afford bet
ter instruction for the pupils.
Springfield 1,O35 coal mines
produced S0,121, 94S tons of coal during
the year ending June 80, 1921, the di-
rector of mines and minerals reported
in summarizing the results of the
states mining industry The tonnage
was the output of % counties. During
the year ODD miners were killed in mine
accidents and 1927 suffered injuries
which kept them out of the mines for
periods of 80 days or more. Deaths in
the industry were at the ratio of %
to every 1000 men employed One out
of every % men was injured.
ROOdhouse-The Illinois commerce
commission has been asked TO cancel
a contract entered into between this
city and the Chicago and the
Chicago and Alton railroad in 1913, by
pOratiOn with water for cents per
thousand gallons. When the reservoir
of the city became exhausted the city
was forced to pay 10 cents per thou
sand gallons. The railroad insists upon
a supply at the old figure. The city
is losing heavily.
Observation-Disclosures cases in Hi
nOis, especially at Chicago, are on the
Increase, according to the health re-
port issued by the state director of
public health. A total of. 702 cases
was reported, of which 263 were at
Chicago. Five were reported from
Springfield, Is at Bloomington, IA at
Decatur and six at Maroa. Only %
cases Of infantile paralysis are under
quarantine in the state, of which %
are at Chicago.
ChicagO.-AnthOny Szolny, thirteen
years old, of Chicago was found dead
with a rope around his neck, his body
from a rafter in barn in
the rear of his house. 1t was the third
case Of its kind in the last few weeks.
SOlzny, his father, was I'M
able to explain the affair, except by
saying that his son had read much
about the recent hanging of another
boy, whose death is a mystery.
ringfeld.-SeparatiOn from poll
tics of the state school tax rate, so that
jealousy of politicians will not touch
It, was declared imperative if Illinois
schools are to thrive by A. NJ. Shell
TON Of Crystal Lake, president of the
newly created Illinois educational COM
in an address before the an
lual conference of the Illinois State
School Boards and City Superintend-
ents at Springfield.
Observation-Disclosures and surround
ing territory voted in favor of a COM
munity high school by a majority Of
%. The new district comprises sixty |
nine square miles. 1t will be the first |
high school in bingham
county.
acknowledgements Small. in a
called upon the people |
Of Illinois to pause for silent prayer |
ut eleven o'clock on Armistice day for |
two minutes il honor of Americas |
lead warriors.
ArcOla.-JOhn Bracken, 81, is still 1
operating the sorghum mill Oh the 1
banks of Jonathan creek near ArcOla, /
which he started iii 1871. He produces /
1000 gallons of the product each /
year, raising his own sugar cane In |
he vicinity of the mill and then grind
ng and boiling down the product
Carlinville.-In accordance with a
contract with the city, the Standard
Dill company has paid $4,000 into the
,fty treasury for paving work at
NarlinVi1la Tho o0mnapv hoe b,,ilt