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m pp SPOOKY BALL BY WOMEN'S TRADES UNION LEAGUE On Hallowe'en night, Oct. 31, when witches and good fairies forget their enmity and join hands in celebration, there will be a ball at the Hotel La Salle under the auspices of the Wo men's Trade Union League. Huge black cats with green eyes will peer from corners of the ballroom, witches will hop around on broomsticks and there will be a barn dance to the strain of "Turkey in the Straw." Heleh McCurdy, Beatrix Dauchy, Mary Haney, Agnes Johnson, Mary McEnerney and Francis Wulkowski are on the ball committee. Tickets are fifty cents a person. o o TEACHERS MAY GET RAISE Eighth grade schoolteachers are due for a raise, if the board passes new schedule recommended by Mrs. Ella P. Young. The increases vary in amount from $200 to $240 a year. The new schedule asked: First year, $1,300; second year, $1,350; third year, $1,450; fourth year, $1,- 550; fifth year, $1,650. 1 The old schedules are as follows: First year, $1,100; second year, $1, 150; third year, $1,200; fourth year, $1,310; fifth year, $1,430. The repair department has been ordered to make a complete survey of the property of the schools to de termine what is needed to put the school grounds in perfect condition. A special committee is working on a plan to lessen the noise of the "L" and other trains passing school build ings. No action has been taken since the first kick was made early this summer. o o INSANE KILLS CHILDREN Galesburg, III., Oct. 28. Tempor arily deranged, Will M. Stromberg, candy dealer, early today blew the heads off his three children with an automatic shotgun, shot off a part of his wife's arm and then turning the weapon on himself Inflicted a fatal wound. Mrs. Stromberg will recover. THE COSTLY MR. NORTHUP Judge Scully, Democratic nominee for county judge, is getting some fine material out of the cost of Johnny Northup, former special prosecutor in the alleged vote fraud cases, to the people of Cook county. John now de sires to be county judge. It appears that Northup was par ticularly fond of his special grand jury, even though they treated him rather skimpy in the way of indict ments. Instead of taking them to a moderate-priced hotel, John planked his jury right down to the Hotel La Salle and showed them a good time. One bill at the LaSalle for expenses is as follows: Laundry, $3.32; tele gram, $4.05; telephone, $19.75; lodg ing, $1,115; incidentals, $8; meals, $2,656.17; medicine, 5; other ex penses, $2; making a total of $3, 813.29. On the records of Cook county there appearsa check "on account" for $20,000. And also through the "popular" subscription promoted by Vic Lawson of The Daily News and the McCormicks of The Trib he got $25,000, a tidy sum, indeed, for in dicting two minor clerks. o o MINE STRIKE CONTRIBUTIONS Figures made public by the Amer ican Federation of Labor yesterday show that 5,200 unions made con tributions amounting to $55,200 in the miners' strike in Upper Michigan which was held all of last summer and winter. All of these donations were volun tary, and besides this money a large amount was sent direct to the West ern Federation of Miners, which con ducted the strike. The strike resulted in a compro mise. o o SAFETY FIRST "What can I do," he pleaded, "to make you love me?" "Get hair on your head and have your salary increased," she replied. ' ...QhAAAjMMjaMMd