Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-06-03
ILLINOIS
News
Happenings

In the period between March 10 and
May D, according to a statement on
the conditions of banks issued by Aud
itOr of Public Accounts Andrew Rus
sell The total resources of the 1,401
state banks on May are shown TO
be $1,9SS,917 1916, a gain of SS7 ,492, O36
over the total resources on March 10.
OF these banks, 1,247 are in the down
state and 154 in Chicago. The total
capital, surplus and profits on May 3,
tOtaled 500, 516.441, an increase of
81, S., 123 over March 10. The total
deposits on May We're 81. 63S. 759, 1913,
March 10.
Illini Dulcina DeKOl, a five-year-
old HOlstein COW owned by the
University of Illinois. now holds
the state record for production of
milk and butterfat for cows of any
breed as the result of years test
just completed. The COW gave 24,312.7
pounds of milk. Her butterfat pro-
duction was 99S.367 pounds, which is
equivalent to 124796 pounds of but
ter. She is the only COW in Illinois
which has a production of over loo
pounds of butter in one year, accord
ing to NJ. III. Campbell, associate in
dairy husbandry at the university.
With many nOtables of the Ameri-
can Legion present. the cornerstone
of the McBarneS Memorial hall. dedi-
Gated to the soldiers of the late
war, was laid at Bloomington. Ma
tionaI Commander MacNider, State
Commander William b. McCauley, o.
f. CarlstrOm, AledO. state commander
of the United Spanish War Veterans;
Andrew Cooper, Minneapolis, Mimi,
national commander of the World
War Veterans, and c. f. Wellman,
Danville, state commander of Veter
ans of Foreign Wars, participated in
the program.
Illinois will soon be able to boast
of the largest goldfish hatcheries of
the United States. A Chicago COM
pany has established ponds at Cary
and it is planned to raise several mil
lion fish each year. The Japanese
and Chinese fantail species will be
prOpagated. Similar ponds are con-
company, but the breeding has not
been upon such an elaborate scale as
planned for hatcheries at Cary.
A hotel lust for boys" the first
institution of its kind, will be
built in Chicago, T. w. Vanier, sec
rotary of the Rotary club boys COM
mittee, announced. Work of cOnstruc
ton will begin within a month, he
said The object of the hotel will be
to provide necessities but not lux
urieS, for lads temporarily in need of
a home.
A corOner's jury at Peoria recon-
mended that Coy MalIOtt be held with
out bail for the murder of Mrs. Minnie
Behms. MallOtt's condition is very
good, according to DR.. f. II. Maurer,
county physician, who said MallOtt
should recover from the gunShOt
wound he inflicted on himself after
Mrs. Benin was shot.
The Illinois Federation Of WOmen's
Clubs extricated itself from the pre-
dicament in which it became involved
when Mrs. John 7. Mason and Mrs.
William H. Hart refused to become
candidates for director, by holding a
special election from the floor and Sc
lecting Mrs. Harrison Monroe Brown
of Peoria.
Two men were killed when the
engine and several cars of a Min
neapoliS & ST. Louis railroad freight
train, eastbOund, plunged through a
burning treStle at Cedar Greek, three
miles west of Abingdon. The dead are {:
John DOyne, Monmouth, engineer, and
Richard HEWITT, Monmouth, brake
man.
Four school children drowned at
Centralia in one day. Lee Lee
Kratzler, aged fourteen, drowned
while swimming in Lake Centralia
Minnie Peckhaus, twelve years old ;
Margaret Crowley, twelve, and Clara
KleySteuber, eleven. drowned when a
boat overturned in the Burlington
reservoir.
Cement concrete pavement, similar
to the type of road being constructed
in Illinois, is withstanding the test al
the Bates experimental road 13 miles
southwest of Springfield, according
to a bulletin issued by the state oil
vision of highways.
Raising of the Burlington road bed
five feet to protect 5000 acres of farm
land In the Coal Creek drainage dis
trict near BeardstOwn was decided
upon by officials of the Burlington rail
road.
Salary increases for about 100 Au
rora public school teachers have been
voted. They range from $50 to 500
a year.
At the annual festival of the
community schools held in Bartlett
a milking contest featured the pro
gram. Mixers from nine cOuntie:
participated and first prize was wOr
by Miss Julia Schifferer of Elgin. The
nine prize winners received souvenir
milk pals with gold Innings an(
sterling silver engraving. The day
started with a parade.
The board of trustees of the Uni
versity of Illinois approved the budge
for next year, amounting to $4,000,
600, which is approximately the sam,
as last year.