Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-01-14
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egram sent TO John L. Lewis,
| president of the United Mine Workers
of America, declined TO urge operators
| of other states of the central cOmpeti-
| tive district to reconsider their refusal
to attend a joint conference of opera
tors and union representatives. The
| message was sent by Rice Miller,
president of the Illinois Operators as
ISOLATION, in response TO one from
| Lewis. The meeting referred TO was
originally set for January in Pitts
| burgh. A date for a wage parley was
to be decided upon. Pennsylvania,
! Ohio and Indiana operators refused to
attend. President Lewis then called
the meeting off. Illinois operators
! promptly protested, demanding a con
! ference. The suggestion that they in
/ tiuence operators of other states was
J then made Mr.. MillerS refusal was
! based on the ground that there is no
interstate association binding the OPP
! orators.
Three brothers. Earl, Edward and
! Lex Hall Of Flora. have been
! identified as the robbers of the State
| Bank of Iuka who escaped with
|
! $4,000 on December 20 after a thrill
! ing chase led by Miss Mildred Kelley,
a bank employee The brothers were
! taken TO Salem in default of $4,000
bond each Edward and Lex Hall
were identified by bank employees as
| the two men who forced the cashier
and assistant cashier into ante room
before rObbing the bank, while Earl
was identified as the man who waited
) outside the bank in an automobile
while the robbery was being com
mitted. Police say other arrests in
connection with the robbery may fol-
low.
Moving pictures are being used
| at ShawneetOwn, as an attraction
for farmers TO attend community
/ gatherings at which important discus
sfons on farm matters and community
questions are being held. The idea
has met with much success and
large attendances are being recorded.
| Packed houses are reported at the
meetings which have been held on
evenings when the weather permitted
road travel Besides the motion pic
lures, n program is arranged for the
evening meetings, at which some topic
of general interest is brought up for
a free discussion.
Awards of nearly 100000
to injured workers and their
survivors were made by the Illinois
industrial commission during 1921. the
state director of labor announces.
Through the agency of its IA free en-
ployment bureaus the state depart
ment of labor found employment for
10000 during the last year the direc-
tor said. Factory inspections during
the year numbered over $4,000. THE
great reconstruction period now upon
US. with the wave of unemployment
slowly receding. indicates that much
better things are in store for 1922" the
director asserted.
Chicago burglars, who broke into
the office of the II. II. Zaininger
Coal company at Naperville and
loaded a three ton safe on motor
true. and drove away, got one dime
for their trouble. Just before closing
time the cashier of the company took
81 100 out of the safe and put it in
the bank He left a dime in the
strong box for good luck, he said.
Neither the burglars nor the safe have
been found.
Once the largest city in Illinois,
NauvOO today is a town without
railroad, and its citizens are
proud of it. Nauvoo was here before
the railroads, they say, and will still
be here when aircraft have ciassed
the railroads with the dodO In
cidentally, situated at the halfway
spot between Chicago and st. Louis
NauvOO is an ideal site for control
: station for land and water planes,
they assert.
Crawling of five miles of main
: roads each year, oiling dirt roads
> and the maintaining of patrol system
over 100 miles of highways are the
principal features of the road improve
ment program for De Witt county.
John Quirk, who pleaded guilty
several weeks ago to embeZzlement
and forgery charges in connection with
the looting of the Arcola State bank
was sentenced from one TO thirty-fOuI
years in Chester penitentiary.
Heavy losses of horses are reported
by farmers living in the vicinity OF
Weldon. They attribute the animals
deaths to what is known as the corn
stalk disease.
large Chicago department store
announced 16-Ounce loaf of bread
for cents. A chain of groceries of
fer the same loaf at 3 cents.
/ Almost 100000 more automobile:
of all classes were licensed dur
r ing 1921 than during the previou:
e year, according to figures announced
by the automobile department. A to
tai of 670,513 licenses was issued TO
q all classes of automobiles in 1921, a!
: compared with 575, 351 in 1920, a tOta
increase of 95,162. The number of Ii
censes issued for motorcycles de
$ creased last year, when 1895 mOtorcy
l cles were licensed, as compared will
r 1857 in 1920. A total of 69,226 chauf
4 feurs' licenses was issued during TIL
year.