The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 24

Earl V. Smith Is Indicted, Charge Is "Misconduct" Charge Grows Out of Plan to Finance Newspaper by Selling Employes Stock. Commissioner Earl V. Smith has been indicted by the grand jury for misconduct of an officer. In its report Thursday afternoon the grand jury returned 36 true bills and eight no-true bills.

All defendants, including Commissioner Smith, will be arraigned at 9 a.m. Saturday. State's Attorney Ralph Ivens said he expects to no immediate effort to arrest Smith. Maximum penalty for conviction on the charge, he said, is a fine of 000. List Witnesses The specific charge in the indictment of the grand jury is that: "Earl V.

Smith unlawfully, wilfully and corruptly did oppress employes against their will to contribute sums of money from their earnings for establishing and maintaining a private enterprise of the said Earl V. Smith, to wit, a newspaper." Twenty-five names, mostly of employes or formerly employes Commissioner Smith in the waterworks department, were on the indictment including C. Durbin. a former employe, as chief complainant. Circuit Judge C.

Y. Miller fixed. bond for Commission Smith at 000. More Strick Liquor Control Is Planned While the grand jury investigated the cutting scrape which brought closing of the Pumpkin Center night club, members of the county liquor commission and other county authorities Thursday prepared to establish more strict supervision of the sale of liquor and beer in rural area of Macon county. The grand jury's investigation of the Pumpkin Center case, in which Edward Goller received knife wounds in an argument with Oscar Weikle, delayed the report of the grand jury until late Thursday.

Consider Three Changes Members of the county board, the liquor commission, and representatives of the offices of Sheriff E. C. Wilson and State's Attorney Arthur O. Frazier were said Thursday to have three major changes in view in the handling of rural liquor licenses all designed to avoid a continuance of disorderly conduct and fights which have frequently occurred in recent weeks. The three proposals under consideration are: First.

elimination of the practise of issuing trial licenses for a period of one month to permit a tavern proprietor to determine whether he is launching a business that will draw paying business. Three such licenses were issued recently. In the future, the commission require payment of a full semiannual license fee. it was said. May Stop Beer Licenses Second, the discontinuance of a practise of issuing licenses for beer sale only.

The county board never authorized any license except one for sale of both liquor and beer at an annual fee of $300. payable semi-annually, but the license committee took it upon itself to issue special beer permits at the rate of $100 a year, payable semiannually, or at the rate of $10 a month for parts of a license period. Although county authorities believed beer could be sold with less disorder than would attach to sale of both liquor and beer, experience has shown that most of the disorder which has plagued county enforoement. officials has been in places which held licenses for beer only. This fact is not due to limitation of selling to beer only, it was said.

but grows out of the fact that several persons who lacked financial means to pay the higher license fee and maintain police supervision jumped at the chance to lowlicense beer places which in some cases they were unable to control. Special Roadhouse License The third proposal under consideration is to establish a new classification of license for a roadhouse or night club, which would carry a higher fee for the privilege of remaining open until 2 a.m. while other licensed places would be required to close at midnight. A. R.

Ivens. assistant state's attorney, said he will study the state liquor control statute to determine er the county has authority to vary the closing hours of places handling The rural taverns and clubs will come up for consideration when the county board meets next month. Recent disturbances have made both liberal and dry members of the board favorable to more strict supervision. Liberal members see danger of local option prohibition in rural territory as a probability, if order is not maintained, while dry members see opportunity to press for rigid supervision, believing recent disorders have turned public sentiment away from unrestricted sale. CHURCH RALLY DAY Antioch Baptist church rally day will be Sunday with Rev.

R. W. Fields preaching the morning and evening sermons. The senior choir will sing in the morning and the junior choir will furnish the music in the evening. The Sunday school picnic will be in Fairview park Aug.

23. Thursday, August 9, 1934. HEAD-ON CRASH KILLS MAN Emil Englemann of Joliet was instantly nesday night. The wreckage of the Moise killed when the car he was driving crashed car is shown above. Englemann's machine head-on with the automobile driven by was only slightly damaged, but he was alGeorge Moise of Decatur on route 48 Wed- most decapitated in the accident.

Claude Carroll Named Sunday School Head Claude Carroll was elected superintendent of West Side Nazarene Sunday school in the annual meeting of the church Wednesday night. The financial report showed that $9,070 had been raised for church purposes during the year. Rev. H. B.

Jensen, Mr. Carroll, Mrs. Jensen, Miss Florence Rehfelt, Arthur Noakes and Mrs. Ora Yates were named delegates to the assembly in Olivet Aug. 28.

Alternates are E. Hathaway and Mrs. Howard Britton. Other officers were elected as follows: Board of trustees- -George Handley, Roy Smith, Claude Carroll, Earl Hathaway, John Eicas. Board of stewards- Britton, Ora Yates, Earl Buck, Howard Britton, Mrs.

William Gordon, Mrs. Buckmaster, Miss Florence Rehfelt. Church school board -Roy Smith, Mrs. Frank Boyd, Miss Emma Lewke, Mrs. H.

B. Jensen and superintendents of the three departments. Man Killed In Head-on Crash Emil Englemann of Joliet Decapitated; Two Others Hurt. In a head-on crash Green Switch road on route 48 north Decatur, Englemann, 30. of Joliet, was killed instantly Wednesday at 7 p.

and Mrs. George Moise of Decatur and Jake Schmitt of Joliet were severely injured. The collision occurred, according to witnesses, when George Moise, Wabash mechanic, attempted to pass a truck. Mr. Schmitt, superintendent of the Star-Peerless wall paper mills, in Joliet and Mr.

Englemann an employe of the same company, were driving toward Decatur on a business mission. Mr. Moise, with Mrs. Moise as a passenger was driving north. Nearly decapitated in the accident, Mr.

Englemann was dead when removed from the wreckage. Mr. Schmitt, who sustained rib fractures, severe cuts and bruises, and Mrs. Moise, who received dangerous cuts and bruises were to St. Mary's hospital in a Dawson Wikoff ambulance.

The body' of Englemann was taken to the J. J. Moran Sons funeral home, to wait instructions from members of his family. Mr. Schmitt seriously injured, an attending physician announced, but possibility was seen that Mrs.

Moise has internal injuries. Englemann passed several days in Decatur recently on business for the Joliet paper mill. He leaves a wife and two children. FAVORS CLEANUP PLAN. Charles L.

Shaffer, manager of the Kresge store 315 North Water, notified Commissioner Earl Smith Thursday that he favored the clean-up plan and would start at once the washing and polishing of the white tile front of the store building. Soy Bean Hay Market Good Drivers Would Set Uniform Milk Price Ten Cents a Quart Proposed at Union Meeting 1 Here. Milk drivers, meeting at Painters hall Wednesday night, urged that a standard price of 10 cents a quart be set for milk delivered throughout Decatur. About 75 of the 275 drivers belonging to the Decatur Milk Drivers union were present at the meeting. J.

Fred Richter, union organizer, said that. the union was working toward uniform price. He said that at present some drivers sell milk as low as eight cents a quart. A meeting of the union is planned for Aug. 15 the vice president of the "International union will be present.

Relief Work; Demonstration Friday. Mrs. Haan To Direct Canning. Equipment Shipped for Mrs. George W.

Haan, 206 South Taylor avenue, has been appointed canning director for Macon county emergency relief organization, George F. Hess, chairman of the county gardens and canning committee, announced Thursday. A telegram announcing the appointment was received by Mr. Hess Wednesday night from the gardens and canning division of the Illinois emergency relief commission. The message also announced that canning equipment for Macon county had shipped, partly by truck and partly by freight.

Expecting that the machinery would arrive in Decatur Thursday morning for immediate installation in the old Biflex plant, converted into a cannery, F. B. DeMotte, assistant state garden director, arrived here for a canning demonstration planned for this afternoon. The equipment failed to arrive in time, however, and Mr. DeMotte continued to Champaign.

The canning demonstration will be conductFriday at 1 p. m. instead. It is expected that garden and canning supervisors from other counties will attend. Canning operations will be started at the community canning center as soon as the equipment is installed, Mr.

Hess said. Beans from the sustenance relief garden may be ready for the vats Friday morning. It is expected that installation of the equipment will require a short time since it is ready set only. up immediately. The plan of operation will be announced following a conference between Mrs.

Haan and Mr. Hess's committee this afternoon. Mrs. Haan is serving her fifth consecutive year as president of the Decatur Woman's council. She has been active in several community projects sponsored by the council, including the milk fund, probation work and boys' recreation projects.

Police Encounter A Nudist, But Manage! Mrs. Hurleda McClaren, giving her age as 23. became a nudist Wednesday when police appeared at her home, 925 East Main street, to arrest her in connection with an automobile collision in the 600 block East Wood street. Removing her clothing, Mrs. McClaren declared sne would not dress to be taken to police headquarters.

Police overpowered her, dressed her, and brought her to headquarters, where she was bookdrunkenness. Mrs. McClaren was in a truck with Hershel Sapp Wednesday morning when the truck collided with a sedan driven by Miss Lucille Hoffman. Following the collision the McClaren woman ran and avoided arrest. See Price of $13.50 Per Ton; 40 Farmers Discuss Sales Contracts; Many to Sign.

Forty farmers of Macon county met at the county court room Thursday morning to hear a discussion of the soy bean situation by John T. Smith of Champaign, representing the Illinois Agricultural association and the Soy Bean Marketing association. Mr. Smith said that because of the great shortage of forage crops throughout the central west there will be a great demand for hay of all kinds. The Soy Bean Marketing association is advocating the cutting of 12 to 20 per cent of the soy beans for hay.

Already the Illinois Soy Bean Marketing association has one order from the Illinois Pure Milk association for 10,000 tons of soy bean hay and an allotment of 51 cars has been made to Macon county. Soy bean growers are being asked to sign contracts for the sale of their soy bean hay through the association and a number of the growers in Macon county have indi- Called Sewer Safe Shortly Before Death George Duncan Met Death By Strangulation, Coroner's Jury Finds. George Duncan, who was killed in the Torrence park sewer cave in Wednesday morning, came to his death by strangulation, the coroner's jury found at the inquest held Thursday at the Moran undertaking rooms. Dr. J.

J. Hopkins, coroner, was in charge. Witnesses testified at inquest that Duncan had 20 thad years experience in sewer work and that John Inman, who was working near the cave-in had 30 years experience in the same line of work. Harry Bell who was caught with Duncan, testified that Duncan and Inman had discussed the condition of the trench Wednesday morning and had agreed that it was in good condition and safe without bracing. Mr.

Bell also stated that there was no warning of the impending slip. Body Recovered. Duncan's 1 body, found in a kneeling position at the bottom of the ditch, was recovered about two hours after the accident Wednesday. The body was recovered by fellow workers and members of the city fire department force consisting of "Swede" Johnson, John Warren, Al Dresbach, Walter Morenz, Henry Tosh and Assistant Chief George Wackerly. Planking was installed in the remainder of the ditch Wednesday afternoon by a force of 20 men from the relief office working out their budgetary requirements on work relief.

Work was resumed on the job Thursday. Mr. Duncan was born in Forsyth, Jan. 4, 1870, and came to Decatur 16 years later. He was married to Kittie Walsh June 12, 1895.

She died in October, 1930. was a city fireman for five years, worked as a Wabash man for several years and for eight years, until 1931, was the city sewer inspector. He leaves two sons, Wilbur and George; four grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs. Lawrence Martin and Mrs. Lena Creekmur with whom Duncan made his home.

Another son, Jack, died two years ago. Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p. Friday at the Moran chapel and burial will be in Graceland cemetery. Should the city be liable for compensation insurance for the death of Duncan, the estate would receive not less than $2,500 nor more than $4,000, Counsel according to Corporation W. J.

Carey. Whether or not there will be any compensation liability would depend upon whether Mr. Duncan left any dependents. Carey attended the inquest. When the premium rates on compensation insurance for the city were doubled recently, the city decided to carry its own compensation liability for its employes.

Jokisch Family Sets Centennial For 1935 Extensive plans were laid Sunday at the eleventh annual reunion of the Jokisch family in Springfield, for a centennial reunion next year. The occasion will be the one hundredth anniversary of the arrival of Johann Gottlieb Jokisch to a farm between Beardstown and Bluff Springs. The plan is for the present descendants of that early settler to pay a pilgrimage to that farm on the 1935 reunion date. The descendof this pioneer family, now ants Lumber around 1,500 actual count on the family tree, which is in mimeographed form. At the reunion last Sunday Lillian Hurtt of Decatur was rEelected historian for the family.

Betty Sicker Is Best All Round Club Girl Betty Sicker was honored as the best all round 4-H club girl of Decatur S. O. S. club in its final meeting of the year Wednesday in the home of Mrs. J.

H. Dannacher. Mrs. Ralph Isome was assistant hostess. Marilyn White was designated? as the best seamstress.

The club finished the year with a 100 per cent membership record. The club Achievement day will be Aug. 15 with a style show. Mayor to Write Own Proclamation; Open House Day Is Aug. 29 29 has been.

set for Aug. "Open House Day" to celebrate the repaving of downtown streets but Mayor Smith wants to write his own proclamation. believe I can one that will suit me better," the said after he had read mayor the suggested proclamation to him by A. L. Altpresented schul, chairman of the merchants' Open House Day committee.

Mr. Altschul's proclamation said the celebration would include a plan to "make merry." The idea of the celebration is to start business upward for the merchants again. Mayor Smith asked the council to postpone its action until next Monday when he will have a proclamation ready for the action of the council. Considerable sentiment in favor of asking that the date for this celebration be put somewhat later was shown in the council but it was finally agreed that it was the business men's party they should have it when they wanted it. Commissioner E.

V. Smith wanted more time for the general clean-up and paint-up that he is adyocating for the downtown district. Heat Too Much For 2 Soldiers Overcome on March to Decatur; Two Decatur Men in Hospitals. Four cases of heat prostration occurred in Decatur Wednesday as the mercury mounted to 102 degrees. Two of the heat victims were members of the 6th U.

S. Infantry enroute from Jefferson Barracks, to Camp Custer, Mich. Floyd Goodman, 2500 East Hickory street, who was overcome while at work Wednesday in Faries park, was reported to be in a serious condition Thursday at St. Mary's hospital. It is expected that he recover, however.

William Smithers of Decatur, Wabash employe, who was brought to the Wabash Employes hospital Wednesday night after a heat stroke, was greatly improved Thursday and it was expected he would be able to leave the hospital today. Corporal Everett of Service company and Private Eisman of G. company, were overcome by the heat two miles south of the Wabash bridge on route 48 while marching into Decatur Wednesday. Both are elderly men who have completed 30 years of army service. They were able to go on with the column.

Beaches Crowded Decatur took to its bathing beaches Tuesday and Wednesday, and 2,000 bathers were recorded at the municipal beach Wednesday night alone. Scores of others sought relief in boats and canoes and made the most of a light and slightly cooling breeze that came in from the south about 8 p. m. The breeze, continuing through most of the night, did afford some relief to sleepers who held favored in which to drop their beds on floors and porches. The official thermometer, however, did not drop below 77.5 degrees during the night.

During the day the official weather recorder registered a high mark of 105 degrees and the Herald and Review thermometer reached 102. It was the second successive day of the present heat spell to reach the century mark and the 21st of the present summer, four days more than ever registered in the local official records. Promised relief had failed to arrive at noon Thursday and the thermometer at that hour was standing at practically the same level as it was Wednesday noon, between 96 and 97 degrees, which indicated another day above 100 temperature. The weather man continues to promise a little relief in the form of showers and "not so warm." Crash Victim Files $5,000 Damage Suit Mrs. Henrietta Sablowski, 1430 East Condit street, injured in AN auto accident on route 10 between Decatur and Springfield last Sunday has filed suit for $5,000 damage in Sangamon county circuit court against Paul E.

Genson and Herbert F. Ross, California residents, who were in the other ear that figured in the accident. 7 Playgrounds To Stay Open CWES to Carry On After Season Closes Friday With "Health Ball Tennis" Tourney. Seven playgrounds in Decatur will continue under CWES after the regular playground season sponsored by the Decatur park board and The Pines association has closed next Friday. The CWES playgrounds will be at Jasper, Torrence, Johns Hill, Fairview, Lincoln, Waterworks and South Side parks.

Playground directors have not yet been announced. The final tournament of the Decatur playground season will be conducted Friday at 9:30 a. m. at Pugh playground and will be a "health ball tennis" tourney. In this game a court similar to a tennis court is used with a chalk line instead of a net.

Players keep a ball 12 inches in diameter moving across the line. Hands take the place of tennis rackets but all rules of tennis are observed. Three Blocks Of New Water Paving To Open Traffic to Go Over Street From Wood to William Friday; Prairie Street Job Starts Soon. North Water street will be opened for traffic from East Wood street to East William street Friday morning. The asphalt workers were laying.

the final asphalt surface on the intersection of East Main and Water streets Thursday morning. The paving of the street by the asphalt will be completed as far as North street by Thursday night but the last block will not be ready for traffic for a day or so. West Prairie asphalt work probably will start next Wednesday. Property owners who want wood blocks from the street are now taking the blocks they want and the street will be prepared for the final paving immediately. "We started work on Friday the thirteenth of July.

We expect to finish by Aug. 13," said J. M. Driscoll, of Birt Driscoll, contractors on the asphalt paving jobs on the down town streets. File Collins, who have the contract for the paving of East William, North and South park streets, will start laying the brick on South Park street next Monday.

Says Teachers Lack Training Harris Gets 200 Applications During Summer, Cites Need of Study on Teaching Methods. General courses in sociology and political economy do not provide proper training for men and women who expect to secure teaching positions in elementary and high school grades, William Harris, superintendent of schools, said Thursday. On the superintendent's desk is a stack applications for teaching positions Decatur public schools that have been received during summer vacation. These are in addition to between 400 and 500 received before the close of school. Approximately 95 per cent of the applicants reside within a radius of 100 miles of Decatur but a few are from distant states.

Alibi Holds Up Naming Doyle Say Ramey Resignation Not On File; Wait Till It's Found. Somewhere along the line there is an alibi without foundation of fact in regard to the expected appointment of Representative Howard L. Doyle as assistant U. S. district attorney.

And that explains why Mr. Doyle has not yet received the appointment, and consequently is not yet on the federal payroll. Everything is at a standstill until the resignation of Frank M. Ramey of Hillsboro, tendered several weeks ago, is found. Mr.

Ramey tendered his resignation as assistant to Frank K. Lemon, present district attorney. Word came from Washington last week the resignation is not on file there. Mr. Lemon in a letter received by Mr.

Doyle states he forwarded the resignation to Washington promptly after receiving it from Mr. Ramey. In Washington, the appointment was withheld temporarily, it was learned, because in the absence of a resignation on file, there was an appearance that appointment of Mr. Doyle might be creating a new position, since to all appearances there Mr. Ramey was still in the government Mr.

Doyle, interviewed in Decatur Thursday, he believes the tangle will be unravelled within a few days. Weekly Stage Shows At Lincoln Theater Starting next Wednesday the Lincoln theater will have a stage show one day each week, Tom Ronan, district manager, announced Wednesday. The shows will consist of feature acts from the Chicago theaters which appear the first three days of the week in Peoria and the last three days in Springfield, Decatur being given the day between the three days at each of the other two cities. The feature attraction for the first stage show is Benny Meroff's orchestra which is also a singing organization. Continuance of these stage shows in Decatur will depend, said Mr.

Ronan, on how well they are supported. Increase In Millikin Registration Is Seen With a substantial increase in advance registration for the fall term as compared with the registration a year ago at this time, the prospects for an increase in the student body at Millikin this fall are very good, according to Clarence Deakins, university registrar. The term begins Sept. 19 with tration. Sept.

17 and 18. Hessler, president of the university, is spending two weeks at his home in Ellison Bay, and will be back in Decatur some time next week to prepare for the opening of the university year. TO ATTEND FUNERAL. Members of the Good Losers club and substitutes will meet on the corner of Jackson and Eldorado streets at 8:40 Friday morning to attend the funeral of Mrs. Mary Ward in St.

Patrick's church. "The deplorable feature of most of the applications is the fact that the they seek to Mr. applicants, are untrained for Harris said. "While a' course in sociology may provide an understanding of human nature it has little value in teaching methods. "Teachers in elementary grades should have training in teaching methods in elementary subjects, especially arithmetic, geography and English.

Those who receive a bachelor's degree in literature, arts and sciences are usually qualified to teach in the high With hundreds of applications on file. only a few teaching positions will be open this fall in local schools, Mr. Harris said. Contracts Last of This Week Only Few Farmers Unsigned; County Freed From Wheat Ruling. Macon county's latest group of corn and hog reduction contracts should be ready to mail to Washington by the last of this week, Ralph Beckett, corn and hog secretary, said.

Friends Creek township farmers have signed all but five of 150 contracts, all but four of Maroa township contracts are signed and Austin township has only two unsigned contracts. According to word received here, Macon county is among 67 Illinois counties which have been released from surplus whest rulings, affecting the 1935 maximum acreage allowance. Farmers may donate their surplus to relief or feed the grain without deducting the amount from their 1935 crops. -There have been no relief donations SO far and surplus wheat used for feed must be mixed with corn in the presence of a wheat board inspector. Seventy-five per cent of farmers who had asurplus in 1934 have indicated that they will deduct the surplus from the 1935 crops.

Y. M. Honor Students See Lindy Memorial Five boys who received highest honors in the Y. M. C.

A. summer school left Thursday at 5 a. m. for St. Louis to visit the Lindergh Memorial, art institute, zoo and other points of interest.

The honor pupils are Jed Tucker, Jud Gustin, Bob Young, Bud Hickman and Ben Greenberg. They were accompanied by Noel Hudson, summer school director. Before returning Decatur tonight they will attend the Fox theater. Nab Seven In Gaming Raid; Pay $192 Fines Fines totalling $192.05 were assessed Wednesday morning against seven men arrested by police in a gambling place at 124 East Wood street. Patrolman D.

L. Stanger was assigned to make the arrests on information that gambling on horse racing was being conducted in the place. Paul Keister, giving his address as Chicago, pleaded guilty as keeper and was fined $53.15 by Justice R. C. Rentfro.

Six others, charged as inmates of a gambling room, pleaded guilty and each paid a fine of $23.15. They gave their names as Richard Smith and Robert Young, St. James hotel, Albert Fry, 1044 West North street; James Lee, 1472 Sedgewick street; J. R. Lichtenberger, rural route and E.

L. Byer, 1736 North Main street. Bits of News In Today's Want Ads $40 merchandise check $3.50. Orchestra wanted. Wrist watch lost.

$45 buys Reo truck. Stenographer wanted. 50 shoats $1 each. New electric refrigerator $81.50. Duplex wanted.

West side home for $1,750. Traffic Men Attend Dinner Dance Tonight End Two Days of Golf And Pinochle; Nearly 200 Attend. After two days of golf and 8 day of pinochle, Middlewestern transportation officials will transfer their activities tonight to the ballroom and join their wives a at 7 p. m. at South Side Country club for a dinner dance as guests of Decatur Transportation club.

Under a boiling sun, another group of 100 traffic executives were matched Thursday in golf against Decatur business men. The tournament waxed hot as the competitors vied for the cups which will be presented with other awards at the dinner dance tonight. Somewhat cooler, but not less enthusiastic. another group of rail and steamship officials pitted their skill against each other in a pinochle tourney. A cup is also the inducement in this diversion.

Between 175 and 200 transportation officials have set aside their duties and played during the annual two day outing. Wives of the visitors have been entertained at bridge and other social affairs while their husbands were on the golf course. Decatur School Audit To Be Ready Tuesday Decatur public schools' annual audit will be completed in time for presentation to the board of education at its regular meeting next Tuesday, William Harris, superintendent of schools, said Thursday. A portion of the audit was received in advance to enable the system to make its annual report to the state through Mrs. Cora B.

Ryman, county superintendent of schools. The st state report is 16 pages in length and involves details such as attendance, expenditures, seating, educational facilities and other items. It will be presented to Mrs. Ryman Friday and forwarded by her to Springfield. Mary Josephine Ward Dies; Here 40 Years Mrs.

Mary Josephine Ward, ill five months, died Wednesday at 11 a. m. at the age of 61 at her home 1337 East North street. She was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic church and various organizations within it.

Mary Meara was born in Tipperary, Ireland, May 27, 1873, and came to the United States and Blue Mound at the age of 19. She moved to Decatur 40 years ago and in 1897 was married to William Ward. Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Joseph Miller and Miss Margaret Ward, Decatur, two brothers, Frank and John Meara, Ireland, and a cousin, Edward Lonergan who made his home with Mrs. Ward.

Friends may view the body at the J. J. Moran Sons funeral home. Funeral services will be Friday at 9 a. m.

at St. Patrick's church. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. cated their willingness to do this. It is expected that soy bean hay will realize around $13.50 a ton and that the average fair crop would yield two and a half to three tons to the acre.

Mr. Johnson also told the growers that railroads in the state were offering old box car bodies to farmers for the storage of the beans that are threshed. The car bodies are sold at low figures to the farmers and are used by them as granarie: for the beans to be held until sold. The meeting Thursday was under the direction of Russell Hirsch of Oreana, chairman of the soy bean marketing committee of the Macon county Farm Bureau. J.

R. Gilkey, county farm adviser, was also at the meeting. Contracts for those interested to sign for an allotment of the Macon county share of the hay to be sold by the association were left with Mr. Gilkey by Mr. Johnson.

In Friday's tourney boys and girls under 15 will compete in doubles only. In charge of the girls' division will be Lucille Schudel, assisted by Frances Wilson. Glen Summers will supervise the boys, assisted by Frank Henry. The annual playground circus will be the night Aug. 16 at Millikin field.

In case of rain the circus will be Aug. 17. A parade at 1:30 p. m. on "circus day" will advertise the event.

Lloyd Baird will be ringmaster. Directors of the playgrounds honored E. J. Muffley, playground supervisor, who is resigning this year, Wednesday night at a picnic supper in Nelson park. Playground officials and their families were present.

Mr. Muffley was presented by his co-workers with a book and billfold. Macon Gas Tax Quota Cut to $7.261 In July Macon county is allotted $7 261.11 from gas tax collections for July, it is shown in a report of distribution by the state department of finance. The amount is smaller than usual, due to the diversion of onethird to school purposes under legislation which became effective July 1. The total to be distributed to Illinois counties is $575,331.91, Cook county receiving $269,003.14.

TO ATTEND SERVICES. American Legion auxiliary mombers are asked to meet Friday in Moran and Sons funeral home to attend the funeral services for George Duncan at 3:30 p. m. All women of the auxiliary are asked to be present 15 minutes before the services..