Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-11-19
HAPPENINGS
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IN MISSOURI

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With the opening of the season for
shooting quail in Missouri but three
weeks off come reports from every
county in Southern Missouri of an
abundant supply Of the birds. F. c.
Garrett, deputy game and fish warden
in the Springfield district, who re-
turned recently from a trip through
several counties, also says that the
younger quail are unusually large for
this time Of the year.
Police Chief Hunter has ordered an
investigation of the cause of the fire
that destroyed the plant of the Her
mann Sanford Saddlery Company at
st. Louis. The company was working
on a war contract from the British
government. 1t is believed the building
was set on fire, as there had been no
fire in the building and the electric
current had been shut off since Friday
evening.
Missouri proclaims a new champion
COW, Pontiac Lady Josephine, n of
the prize dairy herd of the College of
Agriculture. Her record for the year,
ending October Is, gives her first rank
in the state in milk production and
second in butter. In that time she
produced 23,49S pounds, or 11,193
quarts Of milk, and $50 pounds Of
butter.
Missouri day" at the Panama-Pa-
cif1c exposition is to be May 3, 1915.
And the Missouri building, according
to W. D. Smith Of Princeton, vice
chairman of the Missouri fair commits
sion, will be ready for occupancy De-
cember 1. The structure is being com
pleted thirty days ahead of contract
time.
Announcement was made at the
general offices Of the Frisco at Spring
field, that, effective November 10, aud
itors will be removed from all passen-
ger trains on the system, their duties
to be performed by. the conductors.
.
A fight against what 1t regards as a
general increase in rates by railways
operating west Of Chicago has been
begun by the Kansas City CONNER
cial Club. An immediate appeal is to
be taken to the interstate commerce
commission.
A. G. Brown, AZ years old, an engi-
neer for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
while on the gangway Of the engine
looking for a hotbox, was struck on
the head by a projecting bluff one
mile east of Portland, NO., and fatally
injured.
All churches, school, shows and
public entertainments are ordered
closed at Montgomery on account Of
%diphtheria. The regular Sabbath SER
vices are forbidden and children are
ordered not to gather in groups.
That the interior Of Missouri's new
capitol will be of Carthage stone was
rendered certain when a contract was
closed with a Carthage company for
supplying the material. 1t is approx
mately a $4,000 deal.
The United States navy department
has placed orders for six engines for
submarines with an engine company
Of st. Louis. The contract is worth
Mrs. Susan North, 81 years old, is
dead at her home in Sedalia. She was
the mother of Mrs. F. Border, Kansas
City, and Mrs. James Devine, st.
Joseph.
Jesse Wilkerson, a Sedalia cripple,
fell recently or a pavement and frac-
tured his left leg. Wilkerson is %
years old and this is the thirty-sev-
enth time his leg has been fractured.
Claude Ball, former prosecuting at
torney, threw a bomb into the politi-
cal arena at Montgomery by filing a
motion in the circuit court asking
Judge Barnett to call a special grand
jury at once to investigate alleged
frauds in Montgomery county on cleo
tion day and previous thereto. He
charges in the petition that voters Of
fered their votes for sale openly on
the streets here and in the county and
that indications strongly pointed to
the buying Of votes by individuals in
the interest of both Democratic and
Republican candidates.
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The board of directors of the Kan
sas City Stock Yards Company has
invited the commission men and stock
dealers of Chicago to make use of the
local yards during the closing of the
Chicago industry by the government.
The offer probably will be accepted.
William Jones, a negro, was shot
and mortally wounded by Deputy
Sheriff J. A. Walker at Chillicothe,
while Jones was trying to elude the
officers. The negro was charged with
having assaulted George Perryman, a
white man.
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About two hundred farmers and
farmers sons and daughters came to
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