Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-10-01

larger attendance than ever.
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MONETT.-The st. Louis & San
railroad station was burned
lere. The loss is estimated to be
bout $4,000.
HUNTSVILLE.-John Summerfeld,
farmer, As years old, was almost
instantly killed by a bursting emery
Wheel.
JoNESBURG.-The enrolment for
he fall term of the National Farm
school promises we'll for the coming
1ear. Rev. j. T. Tuohy, the director,
las received applications from so
many in the city and the country that
ne fears the schools accommodations
will be overtaxed. This school is con-
1ucted by a system by which boys
nay earn their living and pursue their
studies at the same time.
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ST. L0UlS.-The, Missouri Bar as
ISOLATION has decided to request the
legislature to call a constitutional con-
vention. Members believe a conven,
ton necessary to simplify the code Of
legal procedure in Missouri.
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SEDALlA.-W. F. Keyser, secre-
tary Of the Missouri Bankers ascot
alton, is making final arrangements in
connection with the special train
will leave on Oct. 10 for the
convention of the American Bankers
association at Richmond, Va.
JEFFERSON clTY.-President Will
well-known aversion to a per-
sonal political campaign is I'd be
evaded If a request from the state
committee is taken up. He
has been requested to make a series
Of short talks to be used as phono-
graph records, setting forth why the
should support Democratic
policies.
ST. LoUiS.-William Mullens, GA
years old, after being sentenced to 80
days in the workhouse offered to re
main imprisoned 10 more days if Bry-
an Patterson, a ~19-year-old boy and a
stranger to him, were freed.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Hinkett
Of Miami Station was kicked by a
mule and seriously injured. A mes
sage was sent for his father and
brother. The message stated that the
young mans jaw was broken and that
he was otherwise badly injured.
WEBSTER GRovEs.-Mrs. Walter
McNabb Miller delivered a lecture at
the First Congregational church in
the interest of amendment No. 13. A
large and enthusiastic audience was
present.
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ELSBERRY.-A joint meeting Of
the commercial club and corn grow
ers association Vas held in Gibson &
Sons office and preliminary steps
were taken for holding the Lincoln
county corn show in Fishery some
time in early December.
GALLATlN.--Mrs. Joe Shaffer was
bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake at
her home northwest Of town. She
went to a fodder shock for corn for
the hogs and when she ran her hand
into the shock something bit her. Her
hand and arm began to swell and
pain her so badly, however, that she
investigated and found a rattler coiled
UP In the shock Of fodder.
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KANSAS CiTY.-Col. Theodore
Roosevelt stopped here on his return
trip from a speaking tour of Kansas
in the interest of the Progressive
party. He makes two more talks be
fore returning east, and expresses
himself as pleased with the prospects
in the west.
MARYvlLLE-Billy Martin. Z years
old, was shot and killed by Homer
Stall, 13, while they we're hunting
chicken hawks. Stall al trying te
eject a rife shell.
kENNETT.-The movement to pur-
chase a traction engine and road
grader has encountered difficulties,
owing to the fact that the companies
with which the commercial club has
been negotiating have declined to
ship an engine to Kenneth under the
plan desired by the club.
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PALMYRA.-Last week ~ sacks
containing mail order catalogues were
received at the Palmyra ~postoifice
They contained $40 catalogues and al
were delivered on the rural routes ou'
OF Palmyra.
MExlco.-Mrs. Belle X, Fitzgerald,
art ulrector IN Har0ln coiieSe, arrived
from Europe without her baggage
which is lost somewhere in France
Mrs. Fitzgerald had sent her baggage
to Paris before the war began, but she
failed to reach there, stopping in Eng
land.
GRASS vALLEY--No more frol
legs--or at least, the crop here will
be short. The continued drought 0
the last two or three summers hal
made the hoppers forget how to swim
and the recent rains have drowned
them all.
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SEDALIA.AThe roads leading int
this place have all been marked 10
the benefit Of au~tomobilists and arr
called state Fair Roads, Secretar,