Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-05-27
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was appointed acting manager of the
St Charles School for Boys which
post was left vacant recently by the
death of c. V. Adams.
An immense pageant, to he
called Forward Farm Bureau" will be
staged at DeKalb on June 30 at the
farm bureau decennial celebration.
More than 1000 people, members OF
farm families from 13 Illinois coun-
ties, will be actors in the spectacle.
Reports from Wabash, Lawrence and
Randolph counties show much larger
losses in the recent floods than were
first shown. Along the Illinois river, in
Green county, back waters have not
subsidized and two years of bad crops
and the running of the corn in storage
have put the farmer badly in debt, so
that he will be unable 10 recuperate
financially even with good crops this
year.
Mike Chiaventone, twenty-five the
Spring Valley boy who puzzled
the medical profession because of
having two separate hearts. is dead.
He had complained of heart trouble
ever since bOyhOOd, and eight months
ago he was examined at Rush Medical
college. Chicago. where it was diScOv-
cred he had two hearts. the larger one
on the left side and the smaller one on
the right side.
The v NJ c. 4. employment
department at the University of
Illinois filed 1927 temporary jobs and
inhS =
men with work in the last year. In
| the same period 947 men applied for
! work. The work supplied consisted
: chiefly of waiting on tables, washing
! dishes janitor work, clerical work.
| clerking in stores, tending furnaces,
washing automobiles, cooking and
| garden work.
Systematic registration of births in
the state of Illinois has been worked
out in detail, it was announced by the
state department of public health
T, which is making a concerted effort To
raise the states standard in this re-
spect The latest step of the health
department is TO have births recorded
in every township in the state with u
township registrar. 1t is believed by
establishing the township unit, more
| complete records can be secured than
! by having the reports made direct Il
the state health department.
Declaring the English sparrow Is
a detestable pest which serves ne
good purpose Prof. +. III. Smith of the
department of zoology at the state
university is starting Il movement t
eradicate the bird in the state. The
ENGLISH SparrOWS are deteSted pests
which the community as whole
should attempt To eradicate by co
operative action" declares the profeS
sOr. They are noisy, dirty and aDSO
lutely useless. Moreover, they drive
away the useful native song birds
whose main diet is destructive insects
they themselves live principally OF
grain"
Employment in Illinois shows :;
clear upward tendency according L
statement issued by the state de
Dartment of labor in ObSerVanceS mad
of changes during the month OF April
The reports from 943 employing estab
-, IfshmentS with working forces OF NOR
than 100000. actually showed re
. ductiOn of IS of one per cent. Thes
figures. however, include reports o.
coal mining. in which there was
complete suspension on April l. re
sulting in a reduction in employmen
of or per cent of the total employee
. connected with the mining companle
repOrting. "On the other hand. tn
- statement says. IF the mines ar
omitted from the totals, the increas
shown would be only one per cent
Eighteen thousand dollars was appr'
priated from the flood relief funds AT
meeting of the Illinois Red Cross NloO
Relief committee at Springfield. IL
the immediate purchase and distrib'
:, ton of seed grains and foOdstuf
:, TO the farmers whose lands lave bee
submerged along the Illinois, Missl
sipDi and Wabash rivers. instruction
were given to the subcommittee
= ! the purchase of seeds, and represen
;, ing all of the agricultural groups
the state, to forward grain N caI-of
= lots at once to Jackson, Union al
Alexander counties on the Mississip
where the immediate requirements a
IF most urgent. Inc lOCdl - CiO
q committee will in each case take ca
= of the distribution of the grain as
% arrives on the tracks and pass 1t o
on requisitiOn. The resident far
owners requiring feed stock, the &c
Ia ant farmers who are often living
= relief tents and need to be re-esta
n Iished in homes. the hOuSehOlderS a.
70 farm Iaborers who should We reli
Of furniture. clothing and food, are [
principal problem Of the relic comm
tee.
ee The case against DR.. Robert y
at Cracker of Belleville, promine
s throughout southern Illinois and f
Sc mer coroner of St Clair county. cha
ing bin with the murder of Mrs. Ola
Richwine and her aged father-in-la
n William Richwine. January 9 last, W
Il dropped by the state.
u The contract has been let at AIOu
Carroll for an addition to the Franz
Sinner academy. to be known as W
d" liam Parker Mckee hall. 1t will c
" approximately 100000 and will p
. nit considerably larger enrolment
students than at present.