Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-10-21
ILLINOIS
NEWS
BRIEFLY
TOLD


NAL compared with 10 per cent last
year and the ten-year average of 56
per cent. The outlook is for $4,000
bushels compared with 100000 bushels
last year and the average Of $4,000
bushels. says a Springfield report.
September building contracts in the
state of Illinois amounted to $28,949,-
geo, according to the F. w. Dodge
company at Chicago. Chicago's total
was $11, 5SS, 300, or per CEN less than
August this year and per cent less
than September, 1921, but the state as
a whole reported an increase for the
month of % per cent Over August and
81 per cent over September last year.
Communicable diseases for August
of public health at Springfield as fol-
lows: Influenza. 1856; malaria. IS;
smallpox, 40; typhoid fever. 255;
diphtheria, 654; diphtheria carriers,
III; dysentery, 1914; measles, 373;
pneumonia, $40; scarlet fever, $40;
tuberculosis, LII; whooping cough,
1,O69; chickenpox, 149; humps, 90;
social diseases, 1904.
City and county school superintend-
ents of Illinois have been invited to at
tend conference for all school super
intendents of the state November %
and "A at the University of Illinois at
UrDana. The college of education
has sent letters to 400 city and county
superintendent The state teachers
high school conference will be held
November "a and %. A similar con-
ference was held two years ago. Dur
ing the conference five subjects will
be brought up for discussion.
Hard road contracts for 81 counties
have been advertised by the state high
way division at Springfield. Bids
will be opened October 81. Road con-
struction offered totals 102 miles and
heavy grading 1914 miles. Paving sec
tons designated for bids are distrib-
uted among the counties as follows:
De Witt, 4.SS miles; Rock Island,
11.16; Schuyler, 1854; Whiteside, 1.66;
Tazewell, 6; Perry, 81; Perry-Frank-
lin, 5.24; Wayne, 6.57; Marshall.
1884; Kendall, 4.12; Yorkville, 2.27;
McHenry, 4.36; Iroquois-Ford, 5.62;
Iroquois, 12.4S; Kankakec-Iroquois,
3.32; Kankakee, $40; Knox, 2.92;
Franklin, 6.83.
A Sangamon county farmer near
Springfield has erected a barn for ham
ding seed corn that is said to be a
model for the purpose. Asa Moore's
place is known throughout all this Sec
ton as one of the most modern build
ings of it's kind in the state. 1t is
furnace-heated, clectric-lighted. frost
proof and equipped with elevator
service. The building is three stories
high and has go glass windows. Mr..
Moore selects and stores his corn seed
during October, but shipping does not
begin before the first of January. In
the intervening months the corn drys
in the slow, natural way said to be
necessary to proper termination.
The state and nation have only
recently observed Fire Prevention
week. The people we're advised to
have their chimneys inspected, to
prevent the accumulation of waste
materials, and in many ways were
told how to prevent the destruction of
property by fire. In Illinois they were
told that for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1922, there were 14,214 fires,
entailing total loss of $19,537, 423.
That it was fearful loss of material
wealth cannot be denied. But, for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1921, it is
estimated Illinois lost from 1873, 457
cases of communicable diseases the
startling sum of SOB, 933, 543, an aver
age of $15.S1 per capita. The loss from
communicable diseases was more than
five times the loss from fire.
Charging that a deliberate at
tempt is being made to prejudice the
people against the proposed new con-
stitution before they have had an op-
portunity to study it, Henry /. Green
of Urbana, chairman of the commit
tee on submission, replied to state
ment given to the press by Henry
Hooker Van Meter, Bible league or
ganizer. The Van Meter. statement
charged that the words I'm the Year
of Our Lord" had been omitted from
Tic I'll alt VI Tic IOuSIllutiOns 6fA-
IDENTIFY the gentlemen who signed this
statement were misled," Mr.. Green
said ''If they will go to the Office of
the secretary of state, where the of
fetal copy of the constitution as adopt
ed by the convention is on file, they
will find that the closing words Of the
text are as follows: Done in c0nven-
ton at the. capitol in the city of
Springfield on the twelfth day of Sep
tember in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and twenty
two" fA
The house of Cortez Rufus at Dan
vile was not big enough for himself
and his wife's pet snakes, so he got
out, he told the court when arraigned
on charge of wife and child aban-
Comment. A jury found him guilty OF
the latter charge and ordered him to
pay $500 in weekly installments of Sc
for the support of the child.
Orville L. Davis, director of pub
licity for the federal prohibition unit
addressed the Illinois Woman's Chris
| tian Temperance union at its annual
convention at Decatur on the prohibi
ton enforcement code.