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Local and State Items From the Illinois Papers
A survey of notes from Illinois— canal commissioner F M Ryan in Streator finds 1300 men seek lock tender posts. Kankakee county to debate supervisor salary cuts. Marriage licenses list Teofit Kurowski and Maryanna Jendraskiewicz. Nearly 200 apply for prison chaplaincies. Wheat crop winter-killed in western Illinois and northeastern Missouri. Tobacco fishing tale in Lily, Tazewell county. Caddie Sims Saenger teaching music around Chicago suburbs. Hawthorne for Labor Commission post debated. pay set at 1200. J T Cook of Tiskilwa dies age 74. Bicycle Sunday ban proposed. Theft bill penalties discussed. Curfew ordinance debated in Champaign. Falcon Journal reports misconduct at Woodman headquarters in Fulton. Wheat outlook varies across Illinois and Indiana. Stephenson county poultry sales cited. Proposals for county realignments and a statewide look at roads and taxation. Farmers resist hard roads. wide tires suggested for rebates.