Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-10-07
ILLINOIS
NEWS
BRIEFLY
TOLD


on the William Stewart bee farm near
Sterling
Rev. w. r. Yard of Dekalb was
elected president of the EOck River
Baptist association at its annual con-
vention. Ira c. Lewis of Dixon was
elected secretary The 1923 conven-
ton will be held in Freeport.
Sixteen thousand dollars will be |
saved each year in postage by the state |
automobile department through a. rul-
| ing obtained from the postmaster gen.
| eral by Secretary of State Louis L.
Emmerson on the mailing of automo-
| bile license plates.
The fourth annual convention of
the American Legion of Illinois ended
at Rock Island after Charles w.
| Schick of Chicago's naval post was
| elected commander and a resolution
asking for adjusted compensation had
been passed. Danville was chosen for
the 1923 convention.
Permission was granted the Chi
cagO, Burlington & Q Iincy railroad
| by the Illinois commerce commits
sion to construct reservoir six miles
south of Galesburg to supply water to
the railroad shops. Work is expected
to start at once on the project, which,
it is estimated, will cost $4,000. Its
capacity will be 9OO,OOO,OOO gallons
Illinois teachers salaries are 81
per cent more than their cost OF
living, according to Robert O.
Moore, secretary of the State Teach
| erS' association. AS compared with
| figures on the cost of living, published
by the United States Department of
Labor, teachers salaries have in
creased "a per cent in eight years, Mr..
Moore said.
According to statistics compiled by
the assistant dean of men at Urbana,
205 foreign men students registered
at the University of Illinois this fall.
This number represents approximate
ly 215 per cent of the total enroll
ment China, as usual, heads the list
with 30, Russia second with 80, India
third with q, and the Philippines fol-
lowing with 16.
In the Dekalb County court at Syca-
more, Mrs Mary Molln was fined 800
and costs on the charge of beating
Helen Beckman, seven-year old daugh-
ter of Henry Beckman, Sycamore
farmer The woman denied the charge,
but the girl testified Mrs MOlln
dragged her upstairs, stripped off her
clothing, tied her to trunk and beat
her with whip.
Eleven hundred and thirty-four trees
one for each member of the One
Hundred and Fortyninth field artillery
will be planted in Rainbow park
! Seventy ninth street and the lake, the
Chicago city forestry department an
: nOunced. The One Hundred and Forty
1 ninth artillery was known as REILLY:
d Bucks when it fought through IA bis
battles and so minor engagements
Six memorial tablets to Battery d.
S dead heroes will be dedicated in thu
# park Sunday afternoon at two O'Clock
1t The State Federation of Labo
d annual convention, to be held II
Rockford the week of October 1871
is expected to attract hundreds o
Il delegates from all sections Of Illinois
a, Other labor meetings will be held dun
Is ing the same week. The Farmer-La
u Dor party will meet to formulate stat
j. plans October IA and 10; the stat
union carpenters on the 18th and 14tt
and painters on October IA and TX
- The Illinois Union BARRIERS associs
= ton will meet the 10th.
49, Can persons be prosecuted fo
e distributing literature without
m cense if they drop handbills from a
80 airplane? The Elgin police would lik
TO know, and they are asking whethe
the city ordinances extend upward
: authority to the infinite heaven
= Meanwhile they are searching for a
-. airplane and its occupants which fie
over the city and dropped handbil
attacking an Elgin theater which
having difficulty with its union Ell
e ployees. The plane is believed
ne have come from Chicago
III Memories of the time when Il
~ stage coach was in its heyda
III especially along the old Nation
road, which, in the early years of Il
last century, ran from Cumberlan
zee Md, out through southern Illinois, a
at revived in the application of the w
ire bash Valley Transit company for t
ey right to operate motor bus line ov
the old road The company has ask
|
am certificate of convenience and nec'
nm, sity to run motor BUSES over the n
lD- tional road from Marshall, near the
the diana line, to bingham. 1t was ov
me this highway that the stage coach
i've and the mountain Ships" carryi
1th huge loads of freight, piled their W
a century ago.
Two Chester Whites sows owned
~ q farmer near Dixon have narrowed
. record number IF pigs this year, "a.
the spring, one sow narrowed IL a
the other IL. This fall they mother
10 and II, respectively.
ing Farmers who are trying to {
Who their grain at the advanced IN
IL. ket figures are now up against
shortage Of cars in many localities.
ma Illinois the elevators at many of
obi country towns are reported chock
en- and dealers have stopped buying
per cause they cannot get the transpol
ton.