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


farm.
Coal ratiOning regulations as rigid
as those in the wartime fuel short
age are in force IL Chicago
big Tim" Murphy, labor car of
Chicago, las indicated by the law of
completely in the murder of Police
Lieutenant Terrence Lyons.
A newly formed golf club at Quincy
has adopted the name of Cedar Creek
Country club, derived from Cedar
creek, which runs near the course.
The organization has taken over the
old Otis golf course.
Gridley shortly will hold a special
election to vote on a proposal to issue
$4,000 in bonds to build a waterworks
for the town. Ten years ago bonds
amounting to $1,000 were issued to
construct a surface sewer system.
These have recently been paid off.
lngersoll Memorial park at Rock
ford will be formally opened Septem-
Der 2 by Winthrop IngersOll, who has
been invited TO drive the first ball over
the new golf course there The park
is the gift of Mr.. and Mrs. Ingersou in
memory of their son, Lieut.. Clayton c..
hgersOll, who was killed in the World
war.
a winter wheat yield of 171a BUSH
els, compared with the average of 1874
bushels, corn conditions above the av-
erage and slightly improved in July
an abundant hay and fruit crop and
tatoes below average are reported in
the August 1 crop survey issued by
A. J. Surratt, federal crop statiStician
for Illinois.
The fight is on for "safe milk"
in Illinois. The Cow Testing as
ISOLATION of Knox and Warren
counties announces that 50 per cent
of the herds of those counties have
been given the tuberculin test, and
that the remaining Is per cent will
be tested as rapidly as possible.
Great activity along this line is also
reported from Kane and other cOun-
ties in northern Illinois.
Mrs. lone Moore, seventeen-year-
old bride of Rockford, was killed and
teen years old, and her sister, Eva
Griffith, thirteen years old. slightly
hurt when Moore, hit on the head by a
stone snapped through the windshield
of his car from the tire of a passing
automobile, fell unconscious at the
steering wheel and his car ran into a
ditch and turned over.
Methodist ministers and laymen
composing the committee of 76 to at
tend the needs of Methodist education
al institutions in Illinois, met in
Springfield to consider the plans of
Bishop Thomas Nicholson for raising
funds. The conference approved a cam
paign in the coming year to raise ST.
100000 for the institutions, including
Wesleyan, Hedding Illinois Women's
college and the Chaddock School for
Boys.
Definite campaigning has started
for the reOpening of the judicial
article of the proposed new I'LL
nOis constitution when the cOnstitu-
tional convention reassembles at
Springfield September u. The pro-
posal is to increase the size of the Su-
preme court from seven to nine men,
bers. The six dOwnstate districts
would stand as they are now cOnsti-
tuted, and the present Seventh" or
Chicago district would be given three
justices instead of one.
1t cost Morgan county only $2OO.04
to treat 10 patients at Oak Lawn
sanitarium during July, according
to the monthly report of the secre-
tary. This means that $14.67 was
spent on each patient during the
month, which would be less than 80
cents per day. The farm of the SAM
tarium produced $143 worth of vege-
tables in July, and S1,107 was received
from the federal government for the
care of a number of eX-service men.
This left but $4,000 for the county to
pay. A total of % patients are now
under treatment at Oak Lawn.
The state game and fish depart
ment is beginning the task of re-
claiming the many fish endan-
gered by floods of last spring. The
work has been delayed until the wa
I6TS udu IeCeutu lHS O1OhCn
levees were repaired, according to w
J. Stratton, chief game and fish
warden. A crew of four men was
sent to East st. Louis to work in the
Oakaw lakes, near there, and in other
neighboring places where the fish will
die If they are permitted to remain
when the back water recedes. Some
work has been started in the back
waters near BeardstOwn, but the re
clamation cannot be completed there
until the Ievees are fully repaired
Mr.. Stratton said.
Fire of unknown origin caused dam
age of $4,000 TO the stock of the Pen
ney company department store and
probably $4,000 damage to the Pfeif
fer block in Centralia.
Shortage of cement due to the
railroad strike is endangering road
construction over the state, accord
ing to highway department Off
Gals. Lack of cement has already
caused the cessation of work on the
Beardstown road between Bradford
ton and Farmingdale. Reasons for the
nonshipment of the cement were giver
as the delay caused by the railroad
and coal strikes.