Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-06-10
HAPPENINGS
of fbe sOeek
IN MISSOURI


A new worlds record price for zinc
ore was established in Webb City
when a firm of Carthage mine opera
tors sold ten cars at 500 a ton
This is 1880 more than the highest
price paid last week, when the pest
grade OF zinc brought $3.50. The
sale has caused much excitement In
mining circles.
Mrs. Eliza James, widow of Edward
James, born in Rose county, Ohio, in
1886, a resident of iPettis county since
1872, is dead. She is survived by five
children. !
A horse show, the only one held in
connection with a university COM
mencement, divided honors with SEN
Tors at the seventy-third annual COM
mencement exercises at the Univer-
sity of Missouri. The show was held
on Rollins Athletic Field.
Flower growers at Branson this
spring have listed about seventy-iVe
distinct varieties of wild flowers grow
ing in that part of the Ozarks. In
spring the Ozarks rival California and
Florida as a flower garden.
The first food fatality near MaconS
occurred when John Burnett, 70 years
old, a farmer living west of Jackson
vile, was drowned in a slough near
East Fork.
Harold Zimmerman, rural mail car
rier, whose back was broken near
Pleasant Hill April IA, when his mo
tor mail car turned over, is dead.
Out of fourteen social fraternities ut
the University of Missouri, seven rank
in their studies higher than the aver
age grades of non-fraternity students,
and out of seven sororities five of
them rank higher in their studies than
n~on-sorority women students. This
. Improvement in the scholastic stand.
ing of the students who are members
of social fraternities at the university
is shown in the faculty report of stu.
dent grades announced recently.
The forty-third annual commence
ment exercises of the Missouri School
of Mines and M%etallurgy took place in
Parker hall at Rolla recently. The
l commencement address was delivered
by E.. ]. McCaustland, dean of the
I school of engineering of the State
+ University at Columbia. DR.. A. Ross
Hill, president of the State Univer-
e sity, conferred the degrees.
g John Gill and V. B.. Gray weres
s drowned and C. v. Roof and Clarence
Mullock barely escaped death in the
# Platte river at Parnell when a home
made motor boat in which they were
It making a trial trip captized.
John Burnett, a farmer, was drown
ed in East Fork creek, q Jackson
e vile, while attempting to ford the
a. stream. His body has not been recov-
d cred and divers from Kansas City
-e were sent for to search for it.
Of
al The highest price ever paid for zinc
h ore was reached in the Joplin district
n the other morning when $S8 was given
e. for extra choice grades of blende run
lie ming as high as So per cent in metallic.
zinc.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ramon Gilmore r.
Gently celebrated the sixty-sixth ami
versary of their marriage at their
:. home near Clear Creek, in the north
~ ern part of Green county.
AZ e.
In the case of the Mallinckrodt
.. Chemical Company of st. Louis, the
supreme court has upheld the Mis-
souri, law compelling corporations to
file affidavits that they are not mem
ri bers of any pool, trust or trade COM
"a ~bination.
I'M The Missouri Federation of Wo'
ed mems Clubs Endorsed equal suffrage
nj and elected the following officers at
wo the St. Joseph meeting: Mrs. W. r,
Chivvis, st. Louis, president; Miss
Marie Goodman, Kansas City, vice
president-at-large; Mrs. e. M. Plat
st. Joseph, recording secretary; Mrs
i.S F. H. Littlefeld, st. Louis, correspond
~ ing secretary; Mrs. George Still
VI Kirksville, treasurer; Mrs. Rosa In
~ gels, Columbia, auditor: Mrs. e. M
Shepard, Springfield, general fedora
% ton secretary.
With the subject 1.-THE future o.
-, Progressivism," Chester r. Long
IN we'll of Columbia, formerly of Palmy
-, -, ra, was awarded the medal in tht
Stephens oratorical contest at the
y University of Missouri. Mr.. Long
lily. 49,
Miss Helen Hungate of Columbil
will was voted the best girl athlete in thu
Ca, University Of Missouri by the VIC
cir mems Athletic Association recently
me She vas awarded a silver cup. Sh
SEES was elected president of the associa
tion for next year.
. =
Julius Sombart, 80 years old, is dea'
In Boonville. Mr.. Sombart came t
!. Boonville from Prussia in 1897 an
'ne served in the Civil war in the UnioI
red army. He was the father of Mrs. Nor
re- II. Goodman, William J. Sombart an
in George H. Sombart of Kansas City an