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E. W. Croft, Member of the| commodations for fifty patients. it is Daily Sun Staff Tells: Ex-- | |to be completed by Juby 1, 1925. _ i periences on Board. MARION, July 17.--A patent for * eegaridt omg u-lnmm mine m::d m;om and GET ~A FINE RECEPTION| e or is taly." ts raive is made statieetipetiommie entirely of vookud is not affected . By €E¢win W. Croft by the acid in the sump water which The Biz Bill is now resting aulet 1 the average metal valve and BShe is to have hber masts, restored and her cabins fitted up. / It will take about a week to get her ready. for her trip to New Orieans and to have her made ready for the detp sea. The captain and crew were well received at Pooria and Mr. A. T. Griffith, edi-- tor of the Boating Magazine was ¢# pecially courteous and offered. his businees rooms for the use of Cap tain Duken and his . staff. Tonight the captaid and crew will be the guests of the llinois Valley Yacht and Canoe Club at a 'dinner. « By £¢éwin W. Croft The Big Bill is now resting qulet Iy at the U. 8. Navy Yard, Peorka. The city of Peoria is located on a part of the Illinois River that is so wide that it is called Peoria Lake, and is especially {itted for boating. BSpred boats are common here <and they do all but fiy, a pair of wings being all that is necessary to get off the ground. Captain Duken iz having a sign put on the ship. It reads: tk . "GREAT LAKES TO'THE GULF, a WE BLAZED THE WAY! .. _ WHAT WILL IT DO 42 TO PEORIA * AT PEORIA president of the Hne, -- as -- principal speaker. The station will cost $50,000 JOLIET, July 17.--Plans tor a $120,; #00 county tuberculosis °© sanitarium mzl.ncuuy :ubu.m;d' contraéct is expected to be soon. The saxwitarium will have a« commodations for fifty patients. it is to be completed by July 1, 192%6. ELGIN, July 17.--The wrecking of the brewery of the Kigin lee and Bev-- erage company has been resumed up-- receipt of premptory orders from Judge Wilkerson, who ordered the plant be dismantled when its owners were convicted of making beer with than the legat "kick."~~When he heard the brewery was not being dis-- strainer about once a week. One of Eillis' valves is said to have been in constant operation in a local mine for three years. FARINA, July 17.--The most profit-- able season ever experienced is re-- ported by strawberry growers 6f this district who --are checking up on re-- turns from the season's crop. Due to the rainy weather picking did not be-- gin until later tharueual but contin-- ued four weeks. From this station 24,000 cases of 24 quarts each were shipped, going largely to Chicako where they brought prices of from $2.15 to $2.45 per ease. judge issued the second order, BPRINGFIELD, July 17.--Hydropho-- bia continues to spread among dogs and cattle of the state, according to yeports received by the state depart iment of public healith. The muziling OF all dogs is recommended by the de-- partment as an effective measure against the spread of the disease. Bpringtield, I111., July 17-- During the last three years typhoid fever, smallpor and diphtheria took from Hlinois a toll of 4,50% lives, accord-- Ing to the state department of public bhealth, or people sufficient to popu-- late a city the size of Princeton, Des Plaines or Auni. 'Thete three dis-- eases are all positively preventable and are permitted to take thousands of 'lives in the --state only because vaccination is neglected, the depart-- ment officials explaintd., Centralia, »HL, July 17 -- Squirrel hunting season is open in southern lilinois ard numbers of the little ant-- mals--are reported biting the dust. Thesseason op{ined south of the north line of Madison, Bond, Fayette, Ef-- fingham, Jasper and Crawford coun ties July 1. The squirre! season opens in cen-- tral lilinois, south of the north lines of Hancock, MeDonough, Fulton, Taz-- well, McLean, Ford and Vermillion counties, August 1, and north of this line September 1. Jacksonville, 111, July 17--In 1867, soon after he had been discharged from Civil War service in the 310th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Daniel W. Howe~came ~to ~Jacksonville--and --op ened a grocery store. Today, after MHowe, who is 84 yéars old, beli¢tves be has conductet a store longer than any other person in lilinols. He declares be has no thought of: retir-- ing and maintains the same optning and closing bours as his son, who op-- @rates another grocery nearby. 81 years, he is still operating the store,' s been elected president of the-- Peo ple's Bank of this city, succeeding George Argo, who died recently. Bheibyville, IlL., July 17----The new paved road between Shelbyvillé and Tower HMill, constructed as an im portant link in lllinois' bigbway #ys lem, saw its first service as a dance #loor. Dancing on the smooth surface of the road was a feature of the cele-- bration attending the formal opening Oof the highway last night. Citizens from both cities took part in <the c¢lebration. . Addresses were made by Mayor C. F. Stlarwalt of Sheiby-- ville, and Mayor W. O. Shanks of Tower Hill. Clinton, HL., July ~47--E. B. Bentiey, representative in the state legisia: ture from the nineteenth district, has Oakland, IHL, July 17-- Mrs. Ed. Bumgarner and Mrs. Abe Bitner are recovering --from -- injuries _ received when their automobile was wrecked by a swarm of bees near here. When the bees swarmed into the car, Mrs. Bumgarner, who was driving, lost control and the machine crashed into a ditch ,turning over, The women were ' not seriously hburt but were brought here suffering from shock and bee stings. ----Hardin, --BL.,--July--17--Every coun-- ty in IiMlinois now has a railroad. E.ts yesterday on the new Chicago and Alton branch connecting Hardin, the eounty seat of Calhoun county, with Bpringfield and St. Louis, giving Ca)+ boun county, for a long time the on-- ly county in the state without a rail-- road, Its first line. Taylorville, H1L., July 17--Christian county is in the grip of an epidemic of 'éJopements. In less than five days, five young couples have staged runaway marriages and have return-- ed to face parental wrath that melt-- ed away upon the arrival of the new-- lyweds. P The toll of elopers includes: Loren Jabusch, Kemper Military School stydent, and Lwcille Cazalet, helress to: approximately three--quarters of a million; Pauline Rhoades and John Flood, a medical student at Chicago; Glenna Milligan and Charles Bury, and Erma Adams and William Mc Jacksounville, I1., July 17--An aw tomatic transmission for automobiles has been perfected by Wm. Wheel-- ®r, of Scottville, a smin village south east of Jacksonville, after fifteen years work. Wheeler's transmission does away with all shifting of gears. The invention is protected by 20 pat-- ents, costing more than $2,000. Eddie Rickenbacker, race driver and--automobile manufacturer, made a trip to Scottville to see the inven-- tion recently and is reported to have forwarded a contract to Whecler, calling for a lump sum and royalty on each device manufactured. w e ves Corcese sea| MLINOIS FARMERS 1¥ "% % Urbana, I!1., July 17.--lllinois farm-- ers did not earn enough last year to pay 5 per cent interest on their land and equipment, let alone pay-- ing them a wage for their work,. This statement is the result of 233 repre sentative farm records kept by farm-- ers in all counties in co--operation with the College of Agricuiture of the University of llinois and their local farm bureaus. Earnings on Farms Slumped [LY A summary of the records shows that the earnings on these farms slumped last year to the point where the owners lacked $12 of getting any-- thing for their labor and manage ment after a fair amount of interest These results confirm the generally recognized fact that farmers aze go-- Ing through a severe depression, ac-- cording to H. C. M. Case, head of the farm organization and manage-- pnrent department of the college. The records were kept by farmers who were willing to kcep goqz farm ac-- counts* throughout the year and their earnings probably are better than those of the average farmer in the had been deducted. Bady During This Last Year; Weather is Blamed. EARN LESS THAN 5 PER CENT INTEREST GENERAL --DEPRESSION ©0ck. . MeDunateh," Webatere, Fath .l # ' rmy. Clinton, fonroe, Wabash and Gallatin countles. Journeymen barbers are threaton-- ing a city--wide strike unless their demands for inctreased wages and eml" are accepted. The abbre-- ¥ tresses are held responsible for their grievances. HAIR BOBBERS TO ASK MORE W AGES Chicago, July 17.--Bobbed kair was indicted here today as a labor agt "The bobbed hair epidemic is mak-- ing the bosses increase their busi-- ness, but the barbers don't, for when the girls go out, all they leave is a lot of fragrance. 4 "Their hair is harder to cut, and it's come to a point where we've got to take action." ~ "RBirds' nesting strictly probibited,' read the notice which caught little En» BHy's eye. "What a shame!" she ex claimed indignantly, "Fancy not let ting the poor little birds build theit nests where they like!"--Loadon Dailp Mail. Trick of Human Nature --_ A republic is the form of government in which those who will not vote de-- nounce the choices of those whe doa -- Woston Herald. § i t4 Shameful! ¥% xt #} f.%