Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-01-28
News Breuifies
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+. commission plan). and for TOWNSHIP
offices and offices in cities containins
one or more townships and in villages
whose boundaries coincide with the
boundaries of a township April 10
school elections. April 1S-For offices
OF cities and villages organized under
the general law Except where the ter.
ritorial limits coincide with the terri
rltorlal limits of a township or which
contain one or more townships. June
5-FOr six judges of the Superior
court of Cook county November G.
For state treasurer. congress- general
assembly Senators i'm odd-Gumbered
dlStrlctS), three trustees of the Uni
NerSlty of Illinois, superintendent of
public instruction. clerk of the Grim
inal court of Cook county. county and
probate judges and clerks. county
treasurerS, SheriffS and county super
intendentS of schools Primaries in
1922 fall on these dates: February
2S-TO nominate candidates To he
voted for April T. March 14-Munici-
pal primaries for April Is election
APRIL 11-Regular primaries for nomi-
nation Of candidates to be voted for
in November 6 election
ChicagO-JOhn III. Walker WAS re
elected president of the Illinois State
Federation of Labor. according To the
returns from the referendum vote in
December. The other officers elected
are: Victor \. Olander secretary and
treasurer; Robert Fitchie. Chicago
first vice president: Nan, McInprney
Chicago. second vice president: Mi
chael j. Whelan, East st. Louis. third
vice president: Thomas Kelly. Strea-
tor. fourth vice president: Joseph w
Morton. Chicago. fifth vice president:
Al Towers. Belleville sixth vice pre>i-
dent; Emil Reinhold. Decatur. seventh
vice president: james T. ConnOr~
Chicago, eighth vice president. and
Waldo Cross, Peoria. ninth vice pres
dent.
Observation-Disclosures farmers planted
three per cent more acreage in wheat
in the fall of 1921 compared with the
revised wheat acreage of 1920. accord
ing to s. y. FeSSenden. federal agri-
cultural StatiStician for Illinois. The
total acreage of wheat planted i'm the
state last fall was 2,775.OOO. while in
the year previous, 1854. 900 acres were
planteS in wheat an increase approx
imately three per cent. The cOndi-
ton of the crop generally in the state
was estimated ut - per cent on De
cember /, last.
ringtield.-AlthOugh Illinois aver
aged a fire every forty-three minutes
in 1921. the $1S.3IO.JIO loss shows a
decrease OF S1.S24.S72 under the 1920
loss. according to the state fire marshal
The 12,265 fires in the state last year
were 1.911 fewer than in 1920. The
decreases for 1927 are the first since
the war The Armour elevator eX-
plosiOn in Chicago is included in the
totals for last year, although the bulk
of the damage WIS due to explosion
and not to fire.
Crbana-A telegraphic meet between
the freshmen track teams of the Uni
versity of Illinois and the University
of Wisconsin will he held Saturday
afternoon. February IS the date of
the Iowa indoor meet ut Iowa City.
Each team will run the respective
events in its own armOry or gym
naSium. and the results will be tee-
@raphed TO the other institution for
comparison of times.
Belleville.-A temporary Injunction
restraining members of all unions in
East st. Louis from interfering in any
way with the business or mOleSting
of
OF Swift * Company and Armour &
Company was issued in the Circuit
court at Belleville. The order is re-
turnable at the April term of court.
Union packing employees have been
on strike six weeks.
Springfield-Wo on the states
new S150,000 building at Jacksonville
to care for World war veterans now
at state hospitals for the insane is ex-
pected TO start soon, following the
selection of site Appropriations az
gregating 100000 were made by the
last general assembly for buildings and
equipment to provide for 300 World
war veterans receiving treatment at
state institutions.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Gov.
Len Small at Waukegan has been
postponed one week, according to an
announcement by States Attorney C.
f. Mortimer of SangamOn county. The
delay was suggested by the chief of
counsel for the defense, owing to the
fact that Vernon S. Curtis, Governor
Smal's cO-defendant. had been quar-
antined because of diphtheria in his
family
Urbana-TeStS to determine the
best method of Oiling roads. and the
economic value of such roads after
Oiling will be started soon by the
University of illinois,
PeOria.-A squad of state police
will start a campaign in this city
against viOlatorS of the state motor
laws beginning February l.
Springfeld.-The mean temperature
and absolute minimum for 1921 in I'LL
nOis were much higher than in any
previous year and the snowfall was
the least on record, according to the
annual summary of weather cOndi-
lions prepared by Clarence J. Root.
meteOrOlOgist in charge of the Illinois
section.
AurOra.-The area of the city of
Aurora will be increased by seven and