Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-10-14
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Methodist Appointments.

Methodist Appointments.
At the close of the sixteenth annual
Southwest Missouri Conference of the
Me hodist Episcopal Church South, re-
Gently held at Kansas City, the following
| appointments were announced for the en-.
sing year:
Kansas City District, G. H. Briggs, Presiding
Elder. Kansas City. Walnut Street Church. j..
Z; Morris; Centenary Church, G. v. Jones;
Campbell Station w. j. Carpenter; Brooklyn
Station, J. NJ. Clark; Kansas City Mission, to
Westport and Bolton. j. G Given: westpors
Clr fc W. WAGNER; Lees Summit Cir
eas M Cob eGbb u,, Circuit j.
Chapel Hill Circuit. F. w watts; Columbus
CIRCUIT, I. d. Payne: Harrisonville Cilcuit.
J; NJ Weems; Index Circuit. H. l. Anderson
Freeman Circuit. R. j. Nelson: Archie Mis-
sion, to be supplied by T. NJ. Tabor; Butler
Station. L. b. Noland; Altoona Station. to be
Lexington District, Thomas NJ Cobb. Pre-
siding Elder. Lexington Station, w 7. Nc
Dover Circuit, r. p Cook; Waveriy Station,
F. H I'm, Morrison: Miami and Mt. Carmel, W.
Greening: Herndon Circuit. 4. l.. Houston:
Odessa Circuit, G. T. Wallace; Brownsville
and Blaekwater, J c. schackelford; Soda
Y. Busby: Warrensburg Station, to be sup
piled; Chiiohowi, J. j. Hill; Clinton Circuit.
Boonville District, NJ. Atkinson, Presiding
Elder. Boonvllle Station. c. NJ Hawkins !:
Pilot Grove Circuit, r H. schaeffer, Arrow
numerary; Gilman circuit, R. A. Holloway;
Cambridge Circuit: Preston Phillips: Slater
G,renIf
Clifton Circuit, C. X. Elliott; Funston Cir
cult, J, s. I, Blevens; Prairie Home Circuit,
jefferson City station. j. " Boone; Channels
Circuit, L. NJ. Phillips
Neosh Ssd District Sosegh King, Presiaing
oria Circuit, j. w. Ezell and Elder J j. Kel-
Ter; Finevilie Circuit, w. A. Derrick. R. NJ.
e. ID. Price: Sarcoxie Circuit, j. NJ. Chirron !;
Webb City, B. D. Wood; Gainesville, r. w.
sss1don rca \
ton, c. G. Woods NJ. Denen, supernumerary:
Nevada Circuit, B. j. sevien: Humes Circuit,
L. II. Vandever: Sprague Circuit, A. B. Don
aIdson: Rich Hill Station, H. S. Scheneckle,
A. G. Miller. president of Neosho college !;
station NJ shatien
A. j. Reed: Marshville. W. II. Winter; Nor
risvlle Station, w. NJ. McAllister: Bolivar, j.
burg; Ash Grove Circuit. w. IL Matthews;
Mount Vernon Circuit w. L. Mcguire, kena-
wa. G. E. Bruner; Ellis, president of Col
Clinton District, L P. ,Nonheeet, Presiding
Elder EI. Clinton 1, ON, station, j. NJ Dempsey;
Ridge Circuit, W. L: King; sedalia Circuit, j.
N. Anthony: Versailles Station, j. NJ. Stultz;
staon E Warsaa crcus
Montrose Circuit, j: H. X. Watts;
Circuit. S. N. Chase; Walker Circuit, p.
Leisoff.
EdeP DssPe and Da ape IL
Dowdy; Richland Circuit, j. G. Huff: Deca-
turvilie CIRCUIT it, J. L LOGAN; waynesville
erary: Dixon Mission, w. F. Wright;
Vienna n,s cGsut w White + selIs lens G1
hnr Il Strin rfiaI6 RJlffa In
Circuit, j. NJ. Proctor: HartviIie Circuit. J. F.
Davis; Plato Circuit, w. H. Son; Mountain
Grove Mission, j. A. Thomas; Arno Mis- sion,
to be supplied.
"Jerry" Whelan, well-known among
the sportin fraternity of Southwestern
Missouri, died, at St.Joseph recently aged
twenty-five years.
Geo. Allen. candidate for sheriff in
Wayne County, weighs ninety-fve
pounds, but he is said to be a dead shot
and that fact will count for something in
the race.
Wallace J. Meyer, a son of General
Meyer, U. S. A., retired, committed sui
eide in st. Louis few days ago.
Hon. NJ. K. McGrath, Secretary of State,
celebrated his fifty-third birthday re-
Gently at jefferson City. He was born in
the County of Cork, Ireland, in 1888, and
came to st. Louis in 1857. He has been
Mssouri's efficient Secretary of State
since 1874.
At the temperance meeting at the Opera.
house at Higginsville few nights ago the
one thousandth man placed his name to
the pledge, and in short time fifty more
were added. When VIM. Perry went for
ward as the one thousandth man to add
his signature, the hall rang with cheer
upon cheer and for few moments the en-
thusiasm knew no bounds.
Mrs. Henrietta D. Alexander, wife of
Craig Alexander, of ST. Louis, at present
in Fulton asylum, committed suicide at
the residence of her daughter, Mrs. L. B.
Pierce, in st. Louis, few days ago, by
jumping from the roof of the house to the
yard, where she was picked up dead. She
was aged forty EIGHT years, and was I'M
der medical treatment for mental derange-
ment, the result of grief over the sad fate
of her husband.
VIM. Morrison, Esq, of Lexington, at
tended the twenty fifth anniversary of
the battle of New Orleans at that place,
General jackson being present. He has
sacredly preserved his tadge. 1t is piece
of white silk ribbon. with a vignettz of
Jackson in the middle and printed upon
it: 'Twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle
of New Orleans. General Andrew Jack
son, defender of New Orleans on the Sth
day of January, 1915. The peoples in
vited guest in 1870"
The great st. Louis Fair, just closed.
has been the most successful in every
respect of any fair in history of the asso-
citation. The weather was perfect, the
exhibits in every department OVERLOOKING,
and the attendance such as to put that of
former years in the shade, "Big Thurs
day. having record of over lac, 900 peo-
pie on the grounds, with the other days
crowding for second place. The EXPOSE
tion, notwithstanding the Fair, never did
such immense business, Wednesday and
admissions footing, in round
numbers, 10000 and $1,000 respectively, a
very large proportion of which were
strangers. Poor old Chicago.
The new one dollar silver certificates
have made their appearance in st. Louis.
Mrs. Capriel Laffinberger, aged twenty.
six, wife of an employee of Helms brew
cry at Kansas City, was burned to death
a few days ago and her six-months- old
child, it is believed, fatally burned. 1t is
supposed to be a horrible case of suicide
from temporary insanity.
The st. Louis Fair opened with loom.
Harold, the youngest son OF Colonel j.
F. Barnard, general manager of the Kan
sas City, st. Joseph and Council Bluffs |
railroad lines, died at ST. Joseph a few |
days ago after an illness of about three !
weeks of typhoid fever. Harold was a |
bright, intelligent youth of about ten sum-
mers.
During September 40 AT poundS of let. |