Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-04-29


Rea G. Levitt. architests of Kansas
City, was selected to furnish plans to
rebuild the school buildings destroyed
by fire March 6. II was decided to
erect a main building, a science hall
and to rehabilitate the training
school, which was damaged the least
by the fire. The board also elected
E. L. Hendricks a member Of the
faculty for a term of two years.
Mrs. Mary F. Robinson, aged 50, the
first successful woman operator in the
Joplin mining district, is dead of pneu-
monia. Mrs. Robinson came to Joplin
seventeen years ago from Chicago and
developed the King Jack, one of the
biggest zinc producers yer opened
there.
Edward Smaller, 80 years old, was
drowned when a motor car in which
he was riding plunged into a 20-foot
ditch on a highway twelve miles
north of Hannibal the other morning.
Three other occupants we're uniniured.
There was two feet Of water in the
ditch which had been excavated by a
drag line machine. The u~ninjured
men said there were no warning lights.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed in the United States Circuit
Court at st. Louis recently by the
Tyler (Mo.) Land and Timber Com
pany. The liabilities are given as
slightly more than $172,OO and the
assets as $255, 900.
In order to save the Pleasant Valley
school house, three miles east of Webb
City, from fire, the Cruzan residence,
about fifty feet west of the school,
was dynamited while it was burning.
The loss is estimated at $500.
Ernest See. a son of Fillmore See, a
scientific farmer Of Montgomery coun-
ty and brother of DR.. 7. J. ]. See, the
famous astronomer, is dead Of pneu-
monia. He was about Is years old and
leaves a widow.
George Catlett Russell, n years old,
veteran of the Civil war and a pioneer
citizen, is dead in Sedalia. He was a
native of Kentucky and fought in the
Confederate army.
The Central Missouri ~Lumbermen's
Association held its annual business
meeting at Sedalia recently. Thirty
two members were present. These
officers were elected: Earl s. Gold,
Sedalia, president; Philip Anweiler,
Versailles, vice president; Harry E.
Moore, Bonneville, secretary; Edward
Duensing, Concordia, treasurer.
Five hundred and fifty employees Of
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas shops
at Sedalia have been put to work on a
full time eight-hour schedule, six
days a week. For several months past
'the efnployeseha worked only three
days a week.
Albert N. Hanson, aged 67, for many
years a building contractor, was kill
ed at Springfield when a street car
crashed into an automobile he was
driving.
Charles A. Bates, "a, is dead at
Springfield from injuries he received
in a plunge down an elevator shaft
from the second floor of an office
building.
The Central Missouri Fox Hunters
Association at a meeting in Sedalia
decided to hold is annual hunt at
Mertgen Springs, Morgan county, May
"a to %, inclusive. Thursday will be
ladies' day. L. M. Monsees of Smith
ton is president of the association and
L. S. Eddins of Sedalia is secretary.
H. T. Burckhartt, editor of the Fay
cite Democrat Leader, was severely
injured in his car as he was return-
ing from the Schumann-Heink recital
at Columbia the other night. The
lights on the car went out and the car
rolled fifteen feet into a ditch. Mr.,
Burckhartt and Mrs. Callie Griffin,
who was riding with him, we're pinned
under the car and were unable to get
out until the car was raised an hour
and a half later.
Frank L. Martin, professor Of jour
at the University Of Missouri,
will spend eighteen months in Toxic,
Japan, as associate editor of the To-
kio Advertiser and as lecturer at the
University of Toxic. Mr.. Martin will
sail May Is from San Francisco for
Yokohama. He will be accompanied
by Mrs. Martin and their two children.
The resignation of A. H. Frederick
as president of the board Of aldermen
has been presented to the st. Louis
city registrar. Frederick was elected
April s by $4,000 plurality, but since
the election he has been indicted on
a charge of forgery in the first degree.
William Lewis Miller, 1O1 years old.
and Mrs. Nancy Pike, 60, were mar
ried in the parsonage at the South
church at Joplin the other
morning. 1t is Miller's third mar.
riage. There's nothing like having
a wife, and | believe I'm old enough
to get married." Miller said.
Free mail delivery was cut off ON
portions of fifteen different streets OF
independence recently as a result Of
order from the postofffce depart
ment, because Of the absence OF side,
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