Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-12-09
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BREVITIES


weeks of January 8 to 13 and Janu-
airy % to February 3, 1928, lor the
benefit of the farmers of the state.
The second week tractor course comes
the week after the Farmers Short
Course week. The total registration
for each course will be limited to 80
students. Twenty-Five hours will be
devoted to lectures and % hours to
practical laboratory work during the
week. The lecture work in the course
will cover the construction, theory,
operation, adjustment and repair OF
engines and tractors. The laboratory
work will consist of practical work in
engine and tractor operation, mag
netoes, carburetors, engine timing,
ignition wiring, trouble work and ad-
justments. In the laboratory there are
35 different makes of gas engines, and
Is tractors of the most representative
types. The laboratory is well equipped
with magnetoes, carburetors and en-
CINE parts.
Springfield Reports covering the
general advancement of farm work for
this time of the year are most optimis-
tic, according to the semi-monthly crop
notes for Illinois, issued by the Illi-
nois Cooperative Crop Reporting serv
ice. Conditions have been favorable
for the gathering up of the corn crop
and the quality of the crop now in
Illinois corn cribs will rate with the
best on record. The movement of new
corn to market is light, as farmers are
inclined to hold for higher prices or
for feeding purposes. November rains
have noticeably improved and evened
the winter wheat crop which started
unevenly. The crop will go into the
winter, in much better condition than
was at first expected. Live stock re-
ports from over the state continue to
be favorable, and feeding operations
are gaining, particularly in the north
ern half Of the state.
Springfield - Tracing the family
tree, even 200 years hence, will be
simple comparatively, for Illinois resi-
dents. This. comes as result of the
federal government recognizing Illi
nois as a part of the United States
birth registration area, according to
announcement of DIR. Isaac D. Raw
lings, state director of public health.
Qualification of the state for this area
| means, Doctor Rawlings said, that
birth registration in Illinois virtually
is complete and that Illinois birth re-
turns for 1922 will appear in the gov
eminent census reports for birth
rates and infant mortality.
Springield.-A change in the man.
ner of distributing the millions of dol
lars of state school funds is planned
by the Illinois educational commits
sion of which A. M. Shelton, director
of the state department of registra-
ton and education is sponsor. The
plan is proposed in two bills framed
| by the commission which are to be
presented to the general assembly in
| its next session opening in January.
The first bill enbodies an entirely
| new method of distributing state
school funds. The other bill has not
been entirely completed but it deals
with community high school districts.
Mount Carroll-The Gillespie tav-
ern, nearly one hundred years old and
used for many years as a stopping
| place by stage-coach passengers trav-
cling between Galena and Dixon, was
destroyed l. fire. 1t was one of the
landmarks of northwestern Illinois.
| Rockford A lifetime's savings,
1865, were lost to confidence men
when Peter BiZia, a Serbian laborer,
intrusted his cash to a fellow coun-
| tryman who sold him a machine which,
it was promised, would double his
money"
Chicago.-William Bross Lloyd ate
his Thanksgiving turkey surrounded
| by his family at his home in Winnet-
| ka. The millionaire Red, pardOned
| Wednesday with his fellow Commun-
lists by Governor Small, received sew
eral callers during the day, all con
| graduating him on his quick release
from Joliet penitentiary, whittier he
had been sent under sentence of one
to five years.
CairO.-Three additions to the ter.
minal facilities of the Federal barge
| line at Cairo, Memphis and Vicksbure
will give the line an additional capac-
ity of 1900 tons of freight every
twenty-four hours. The line is now
equipped to take care of maximum oil
1880 tons in twenty-four hours. The
largest amount of freight handled in
one day at any terminal was at New
| Orleans, where 5000 tons was loaded
in twenty-four hours
Springfeld.-State mine union off
Gals have aligned themselves with the
state federation of labor in opposing
the adoption of the proposed new state
constitution which is to be voted or
the 18th of this month
Dixon.-The community high schoo
building at Harmon, a two-tory struc
ture, was destroyed by fire. The loss
$4,000 is partly covered by insurance
Carbondale.- to Superin
tendent w. Atwill of the ST. Louis di
vision of the Illinois Central railroad
the road will double-track its line from
East st. Louis to Carbonate. Mr.. AT
will said tracks were being extended
along the line at various places. ant
that these would be connected up fol
a double-track system next spring.
ringield.-Convicts who are in
jured while working in state peniten
tiaries and reformatories cannot Obtain
damages for their injuries, accOrdin,