Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-10-14
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From Illinois


the executive committee of the ILL
nois Retail Me-chants' association for
its 1923 convention.
| Protestant churches of Rock Falls
| and Sterling are raising a fund of
several thousand dollars to support
weekday religious education in pub
! lie schools !.
A bowlder. said to be one of the
oldest in this part of the country, Is
| to be placed on the campus OF Millikln
university at Decatur in honor OF the
late DR.. A. A. Tyler.
Students of East Aurora high |
school earned S2S, 22O93 during the
| summer vacation, according to re-
port prepared by Principal Waldo.
In 1921 the students earned $16,5S9.
Eighty-three marital misfits will be
| investigated at the forthcoming term
of the Circuit court at Rockford. This
is the largest number, it is believed,
ever filed for a single term of court In
Winnebago county.
Ry the will of the late Fannie j.
Murden of Peoria, the bulk OF her
$4,000 estate is left to the Presby-
terrain church and affiliated organiza-
lions. A number of the philanthropic
institutions of the city are left $500
each.
Miss Frances Ball, Logan county
tuberculosis nurse at Mount Pulaski.
will have charge of the health crusade
| throughout the 1873 rural, village and
parochial schools in the county that
will be conducted during the school
year.
Rockford coal dealers have lodged
protest with the school board
: against the recent contract with the
! Minonk Coal company for the WIN
) ter's supply of fuel charging the
: board has purchased coal of low effi-
, cheney at an excessive price without
securing competitive bids.
Evert Murra of Adeline is the tall
est man in Illinois, it is believed
:, Murra. who is a farmer, is eight feet
:, in height. Eyes. we're "a pretty tall
! crowd, we Murras," said Evert, sex
I cept my younger brother who's only
6 feet inches My boy, who is four
! teen. is not quite six feet in height
? Hog cholera is raging in Stephenson
= county. In nearly every township one
or more cases are reported and stock
p men at Freeport are taking steps
to stamp out the scourge. Vaccina-
ton has been commenced among all
: droves not yet affected. tuberculosis
q In cattle also appears to be prevalent.
;, If an individual were to begin read
: ing the books in the University of Hi
: nois library at Urbana at the rate of
one a day. he would have to live over
1926 years to complete the task. The
number of volumes in the University
library, which is the general college
d library. and in the group of depart
e mental libraries is about 45OOOO
is A funeral sermon, written for his
IS own obseuuies by Gustavus Selg. resi-
dent of Dixon for over half a century
was read by County Superintendent
o. of Schools L. w. Miller at Selig's fu
j. neral. Selig, not a preacher, expressed
q desire that his own composition bt
read at his funeral rather than thai
lg of a minister.
IL Total registration at the Universit,
is of Illinois at Urbana on October
n shows 1920 students enrolled, an in
b. crease slightly in excess of 400 com
pared with last year at the same tile
The figures, announced by Registra
ne G. p. futile, indicate 895 students II
de the Chicago departments and 8.025 il
fe the Urbana colleges. s.
re Over 100000 was bequeathed to II
lg braries in Illinois last year, the Illinoi
state library reports at Springfield
The two largest gifts were for $500
[e- each. Horace G. Parkins, formerly o
st. Havana, willed $4,000 to the publ
he library there. Mrs. Jane Fletche
in beoueathed her farm of 40 acres an
OIL her home for a library in Milledg yills
The properties are valued at $35,OO'
The rapidly thinning ranks of 18th
boys in blue" as the years take the
toll caused the consolidation of Low
Post. G. A. r. Of Jerseyville, and tn
o. Kane Post which was organized
- 1883. Only one, Dr. e. l.. H. Berr
~ now answers the roll call. SIEVE
county boys of 81" from Gree
county now answer with seventee
from Jersey county, now constitutir
- Lowe Post, G.. A. r.
90 Vigorous refutation of a myster
10 Gus report broadcast to all newsp
- pers of the state that the Illino
- State Bar association is opposed
the new state constitution was mac
by r. Allen Stephens, secretary of Il
.1 association at Springfield. The r
- - port that the bar association hi
- taken q stand against the constit
- ton was sent by some one to Il
90 newspapers throughout the state in
circular.
Gus Rockford high school memoir
ON fund has loaned 5000 to former st
rit- dents of the school who have gone
ent college this year. More than
.rty dozen students have been assisted
this manner. The fund was este
lished by gifts from classes and grad
res ates and is added to from year to yes
fish With 139 cases on its advisemc
hrs docket and 200 on the call docket. I
Illinois Supreme court convened
Springfield following the summer
cess. The call docket ends Octoh
arr 81 and decisions are to be hand
down that day.