Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-03-04
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State News

Inc ILLINOIS, state encampment OF
the G. A. r. and allied organizations
will be held in Alton May 16, Il and
Is.
A bond issue To provide for the
construction of a 100000 gallon
water reservoir will be voted on al
the Moline city election April IS.
Governor Small granted a reprieve
until April p to John Savant, sen
fenced TO hang at Benton for the muir
der of Fritz Heick. The reprieve was
allowed on the recommendation Of the
state division of pardOnS and paroles.
Governor Small recently made an
| unheralded trip over the route OF
the proposed Illinois waterway and.
after directing the department of
public works and buildings To pro
coed with letting contracts. said
that he expects To have the channel
completed and opened To traffic be
fore the expiration of my term as gov
ernOr, January l. 1929"
Three designations among the
teachers of the Peoria public schools
| to get married were the sub
| ject of discussion at recent meet
ing of the board of education. In each
! case the pedagogue was notified that
the resignation was regarded as
| breach of contract 1t was suggested
that whenever teacher wished To
| be married the date should be set
after the school term.
Insurgents in the Milk Producers
| association, representing dairy farm
erS in Wisconsin, Illinois and
| Indiana. We're defeated at a meeting
of several hundred delegates at Chi
cagO a few days ago, when Frank
| L. Holt, of KenOSha, Wis., and +. c.
! Rockwell of Chicago, were reelected
! president and secretary, respectively.
Joseph Kreiler Crown Point, Ind, was
elected a vice-preSdent.
Illinois is caring for 100 of its blind
! citizens. OF these, 221 are in
mates of the school for the
blind in Jacksonville, and are taught
various trades, such as rug weaving,
basket broom, brush and fiber furni-
ture manufacture; piano tuning, tele-
phone and switchboard operating,
StenOgraphy, dictaphOne operating and
other occupations. Last year seven
blind inmates of the county pOOrhouses
| were transferred TO the state inStitu-
tiOns and instructed in the operation
of machines for making carpets.
Building permits in l. Illinois
cities in January of this year
numbered 700, against 452 issued in
January, 1921. while the estimated
cost of work projected tOtaled 5000
| 800, as compared with S4.5S3. 561 in
January year ago. according To the
February employment bulletin of the
Illinois department of labor. Outside
of Chicago, Peoria showed the largest
amount of building work planned, the
estimated cost of projects for which
permits were issued last month being
1857 .9T2. while Aurora was next with
| S11596O.
Mrs. Eliza L. Bonner HoughtOn,
one of the last survivors of the
Bonner party, many of whose mem
bers starved to death while on
their way across the plains to Cali
fOrnia 10 years ago, is dead at her
home in Los Angeles, aged seventy
eight years. Mrs HOughtOn was the
daughter of Capt George Bonner and
the widow of Col S. O. HOughtOn,
California representative in congress
and attorney She was born in Spring
field and was only three years old
when she saved from the fate which
overlook many of the members of the
Bonner party.
Sam T. Brush, eighty years old
II
nOis Anti-SalOOn league, and one
of the first coal operators in southern
Illinois, is dead at his home in
Boulder. Colo. In 1889 he organized
the st. Louis and Big Muddy Goa
company, having former Vice Presi
dent Charles +. Fairbanks and +. c
DAVIS of Cincinnati among his asso
GATES. His contributions to prOhibi
ton activities made it possible fol
the dry forces TO take the IlinOi,
local option act to the state Supreme
court number of years ago.
Forty towns, once separate en-
titles in Illinois, have sue
cumbed to the growth of the metrOpOli:
and now are officially known only b!
the group name-ChicagO. AS listeC
by the Illinois Historical society, thes
towns include: Argyle Park, Auburn
Park, AvOndale, Beverly Hills, Bow
manville, Bridgeport. Brighton Park
BrOokline, Buena Park, Burnside
, CanalpOrt, Chicago Lawn, Cleaver
vile, Cragin, Dauphin Park, Eas
Washington Heights, EdgebrOoB
Edgewater, Egandale, EgglestOn, Engle
wood, Forest Glen, GalewoOd, Garfield
Grand Crossing. High Ridge, Holster
IrOndale, Irving Park, KensingtoI
Lakeview, Lawndale, Norwood Park
! Ravenswood, Rogers Park, Washing
ton Heights, West Ridge, WOOdlaw
and Lake town.
Revival services are in progress
at the First United Brethre
church at Decatur, in charge of tire
brothers, Rev. 0. ]. Todd of Decatur
Rev c. T. Todd of Freeport and Rev
w. III. Todd of Terre Haute, Inc
Their father has been a minister i
the United Brethren church for 8
years, and one other brother is a
L NJ. c.. A. secretary.
Fire destroyed the grandstand an
part of the fences of the Danville Att
> letic association baseball park, HON