Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-08-05
News
Nuggets
From Illinois

! are above the average this year.
! Thrashers report the crop running
! from 30 TO 30 bushels per acre. testing
! from IS To GA pounds per bushel.
! Automobile thieves entered the Lawn
ton automobile repair shop within a
stones throw of police headquarters
at Paris, robbed the cash drawer of
$40, knocked the combination from
the safe which contained 500. and
escaped.
Citizens of Moline are divided and
much bitterness, ii is said has arisen
since the Moline Chamber of Com
merce adopted a resolution declaring
that the labor board has made il
plain that the strike order is unwar
ranted"
Prohibition enforcement in Illinois
was declared TO have paid a net profit
of about 30 per cent on the investment,
in a report of compilations of the
Anti-SalOOn league made public at
Springfield by George Yule. district
superintendent of the league.
Following a tournament held at
Freeport for men golfers more
than fifty years old, members of
northern Illinois and southern Wis
cOnsin Country clubs, a permanent or
ganiZatiOn was effected, with the view
of holding a tourney each year.
The Illinois State Association of let
ter Carriers at the closing session of
its twenty-fOurth annual meeting at
Champaign recommended holiday
and discussed a 3-cent letter rate Mo
| h, eli in,
1923 William II. Rogers, Kankakee,
was elected president.
War mas been declared upon the
Canada thistle in Winnebago cOun-
ty f. W. Harrison of Springfield,
state commissioner for the enforce
ment of the thistle law. arrived in Rock
ford to launch campaign against the
pest y commissioner has been APP
pointed in every township, whose du-
ties will be To see that the weed is
banished from every farm and all
highways.
Cook county's taxable personal
property is now valued at more
than 81 .OOO, 100000 The 1929 valua-
tons fixed by the board of assessors,
made public, total $972, 97S7S4, a gain
of S91, 100. 40 over the board of review
, figures for last year. 1t is known that
enough property escapes taxation to
much more than make up the differ
ence between the assessors figures and
the biIliOn-dOllar mark.
Mrs. Catherine ]. Holmes, eigh-
ty-nine, of Henderson is the
first woman to enter the contest be
, / IL
+ Fair and Exposition company to de-
r ! termine the oldest person actually en-
| gagged in the operation of a farm in
the United States. Mrs. Holmes has
/ lived on the same farm since she was
t born and declares she has done actual
: farm work every day since she was
seven years old.
'The old oaken bucket" too often
= proves the mOSS-cOvered bucket, the
| germIaden bucket, the pestilentia
bucket that won't leave folk well
: according to DR.. Isaac d. Raw
e. Iings of the Illinois department OF
health. Because of the infection orig
mating in the open country well wheI
= it is shallow. poorly constructed anC
tainted by surface drainage and in 9th
: er sources of a contaminated water
G supply, Doctor Rawlings department
4 is taking up the matter of rural SAM
tatiOn.
Governor Small of Illinois i
5 urged in a letter sent by thu
. board Of directors of the NatiOna
t Coal association to have state force
make a thorough investigation of tn
| ~ hot 10
spirators and aSSasSins will be prompt
IN brought to justice" The letter de
t. clareS that no arrests have been mad
/ in connection with the massacre, an
t adds: The impression also seems I
e be gaining ground that the state al
e thoritieS are failing to show that dc
termination necessary to discover an
punish those responsible for the GU
IS rage"
g. About a hundred persons were il
n iured, most of them burned more G
4 or less severely, a dozen fires wer
10 started. and section of Chicag
was thrown into panic when Cigar
tic tank of the Peoples Gas. Ligl
s | and Coke company collapsed and e,
o plOded. sending sheets of flame shoe
n ing into the surrounding neighbOrhOO
2 at West Twenty-fifth and ThrOo
streets Most of those burned wei
pedestrians, teamsters driving by, {
IF children playing in the neighbOrhOO
q A few who live nearest to the seer
d, of the explosion were attacked by I'll
d. strange flames in their own homes al
badly burned.
Miss Alice F. Miller of Chicago, TO
ut merly of Terre Haute state norm;
n school, was appointed dean of wOme
u for Illinois Wesleyan university
IL Bloomington and takes charge of hC
s. new post September l.
Officials of the state depar
ment of mines and minerals, sta
mine inspectors and a large numb'
e of mine superintendent from warrior
III parts of Illinois recently inspected Il
3 coal mines in Franklin county, Il
al largest coal producing county in Il
er state. The men said they were takiI
III advantage of the strike to check I
on the collierieS in the county.