Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-05-20
ILLINOIS
StateNews

many miles of land on both sides of
the Illinois river recently. Ninety
five county farm bureaus in the state.
cooperating with the Illinois Agri-
cultural association. the Red Cross,
the extension service of the College
of Agriculture of the University of
Illinois and the Illinois Farmers in
Stitute. are conducting a drive to raise
a fund of S250.OOO To purchase the
seed. None of the fund is To be used
in restoring property losses. it was
announced. 1t is estimated that 100
farm families lost their crops and
large share OF their live stock in the
high water of last month.
Spring tield.-TruckS being used by the
state highway department to destroy
the Bates experimental road in tests
being made on road construction have
travelled a distance of 10000 miles,
highway officials estimated. The eS-
innate is based on the number of
trips which the trucks have made back
and forth over the twO-mile stretch.
The trucks have been run almost CON
Stantly since March 80. the date when
the test was begun. Highway depart
ment officials expect TO complete the
test by the middle of June although
no definite date for their termination
has been fixed. Highway experts and
engineers are constantly watching the
progress of the test and tabulating
carefully the results
ROckfOrd.-When Mrs Fred \.
Dyer, Pomona, Cal, former Rockford
teacher receives a letter soon to be
mailed to her by her father, Henry X
Hall of Rockford. she will have no
cause for complaint that the missive
IS too brief. The letter written on
window shade cloth. is 10 feet in
length and two inches in width. Mr..
Hall was aided in its preparation by
friends of himself and his daughter,
who wrote portions of the miSsive.
The letter will be rolled up and placed
in a tube for mailing.
Springtield.-A case to test the con
! StitutiOnality of the medical practices
act of 1899 was taken to the Supreme
court from the municipal court of
| Cook county by DR. Robert f.
| Schaeffer, an OSteOpath of Chicago
| Doctor Schaeffer was fined 500 anG
| costs in the municipal court for prac
ticing medicine and surgery with
! out license from the state
! department of registration and educa
ton. The action was one in deb
brought against the doctor by the
state department.
Urbana.-Success has attended the
campaign to encourage strawberry
planting among children in Illinois, ac
cOrding to an announcement from the
junior extension and the horticulture
department of the state university
! These departments which conducted
| the campaign announced that 725 boy!
and girls from IS counties in the state
have set out more than 220,0OO straw
berry plants. Enrolment varies from
one in some counties TO fOrty-nine il
VermiliOn county, which has the iarg
est enrolment.
ChicagO.-Alfred Miller will receiv
the income from the 100000 eStat,
left by his father, William H. Miller
during his life, at the end of which
will be used to provide an amUsemen
park End benefit quarters for working
people at Harvey. This is provided il
a will left by Mr. Miller. ST., who die
recently. He was q pioneer banker o
Harvey.
Chicago.-Active preparations 70
the 1922 wool pool among the count
bureaus of the state are being starte
by the Illinois Agricultural association
The association is supplying the
county farm bureaus represented i
the 1921 pool with sacks and Irvine t
handle the clip this spring. In the 1872
pool the association figures it save
the farmers $1,000.
Effingham-The Effingham count
board of supervisors will encOurag
the boys and girls of the county I
grow corn. A prize of $50 will b
given to each boy or each girl VIII
gets the best yield Certified see
will be furnished to each cOntestar
free
Peoria-Guy A. Bryan of Prince
ton, mead of the Bryant nursery. Wa
, fined 500 and costs in the Unite
, States District court on charges
, shipping diseased plants into Kansa
He was the first person to be trie
here under the new federal nurSel
I law.
: Washington, ID. C.-AppOintment I
D L. G.. Mutt, former chief of the ma
S cOtic section of the internal revenU
bureau, as associate federal prOhit
ton director of Illinois, was a
/ nOunced by Commissioner Haynes.
n FreepOrt.-Bishop Peter J. Muldoc
: of Rockford viii dedicate st. ThOmi
{. AquinaS Catholic church of this eli
/ on Sunday, May %.
AltOn-Graduates of the Westel
: Military academy here, whose COZ
mencement has been set for June
. were issued commissions as brev
: second leutenants OF the Illinois y
; tiOnal Guard by Adjutant Gener
Black. There are 60 of them.
West FrankfOrt-An Sunday schO
a attendance records in southern ii
it nOis are believed to have been br
It ken when the First Baptist chur
Q reported LAG present on Mother
S. day." Other churches also report
record attendance, the result of c
Q tensive newspaper advertising.