Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-12-30
HAPPENINGS
of the tOeek
IN MISSOURI

OF I'VE OSCN
IN MISSOURI
In a hurried attempt to kill a rab-
bit. Fred Leadore, 20 years old, lost
his w life at Commerce the other
day. Leadore was standing in a gen.
eral store where he had just purchased
three boxes of cartridges, when he
saw q rabbit nearby. He seized his
gun and attempted to tear open one
of the boxes of cartridges. As the
lid came off the cartridges exploded
The youth died three hours later.
An unidentified person placed a rail-
road tie across the track two miles
west of Dalton recently, near FSrm-
ers Creek bridge, attempting tcswreck
Wabash No. 4, fast mail, Kansas City
to st. Louis. The tie caught under the
pilot of the engine and the train was
not harmed.
e. H. Fisk of Helena, Mont, a stu
dent at a medical institution in Kinks
vile, who on December 6 fired a bull
let which passed through his heart
lung and liver, is on the road to re-
covery, it was announced by his ply
stefan recently.
The prompt use of a pulmotor sayed
the lives of Edward Demand and Mrs.
Matte Zoll, workers in the Methodist
church, at Sedalia. They were prepar-
ing dainties in a vacant room in the
business district for a charity sale,
when they we're overcome by fumes
from a gas stove.
The golden wedding anniversary OF
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Barrick was cele-
brated at Upton the other day by o
reception at their home. Mr.. Barrick
is a veteran of the Civil war, Il years
old. His wife is 68. They have resid-
ed in Upton thirty-seven years.
.
The drys of Fulton have organized
for the coming local option election
The city was formed into thirty-six.
districts and an active canvass will be.
made with petitions. The election Will
be held late in January. Fulton has
two saloons.
Merit Tilley, As years old, a farmer
near Watkins, was killed recently
while dynamiting stumps. He leaves
a widow and several children.
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A potato matinee, attended by 500
school children, was given by one of
the picture show proprietors at Rich
Hill recently. The admission charged
was from one potato to as many as
each child cared to bring. The pota-
toes gathered were turned over to a.
charitable institution for distribution
among the needy poor of the city
Christmas week.
The program for the formal opening,
of the new library building will be held
at 4 o'clock the afternoon of January
6 in the university auditorium. Talks
will be given by President A. Ross
Hill, Prof. J. w. Hudson, o. H. Swear
|, engen of Kansas City and William R.,
Painter, lieutenant governor Of Mis-
souri,.
J., Mrs. Joel Newly, 35 years old, resid-
, ing eight miles southwest of Carthage,
was burned to death when her home
! was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Newly
! was alone at the time. The origin or
: the blaze is a mystery.
st. Joseph is making bids for both
the Democratic and the Republican
state conventions next spring, at which
delegates will be chosen to the ma
tional conventions.
: The people of Warrensburg recently
contributed $4,000 to a fund for the
i Rev. Lincoln Mcconnell, the evangel-
: list who has been holding a tabernacle
meeting there four weeks under the
: auspices of the Baptists.
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J.. c. Little, who was born in Boone
county eighty-three years ago, died at
Columbia on his birthday anniversary.
He was one of the wealthiest farmers
in Boone county.
Mrs. Anna Thompson, 40 years old.
, was killed, and her brother, Earl Bur-
dick, SO years old, was dangerously in.
, jured when a Chicago, Burlington &
o Quincy passenger train hit Burdick's
motor car al a grade crossing at Ham
ilton recently.
William Cash, a farmer. As years
old, was killed when his wagon was
1t hit by a train on a grade crossing near
s. Brookfield the other night.
Mrs. Amanda Cook, "a years old
a. died at her home west of Columbia
n recently. She was born near the farm
on which she died and had spent hel
life in Boone county.
Dr. Seventy-eight of the $50 girls regis
n tered at Underwood college at st
lie Charles are i'll with the grip. Rev
Or John L. Roemar, president Of the col
n lege, also is suffering from the all
ment.
John e. Gorse, formerly Sunday edit
ry or Of the st. Louis t-Dispatch, Il
of dead at his home in st. Louis after
x. long illness. He worked on the Post
Dispatch continuously t~wenty-fiv,