Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-06-17
HAPPENINGS
Of fbe tOeek
IN MISSOURI

The proposition for the city of Polo
to grant the water. gas and electric
company OF Excelsior Springs a 20
year franchise to furnish electricity
to Polo from their plant at Excelsior
Springs carried by 1913 to % votes
A tax of rs cents on the 800 valua-
ton for street lighting purposes also
carried. The company agrees to have
the lights in operation within 12o
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Metcalf Smith OF
H~oustonia celebrated their fifty-fifth
wedding anniversary recently. They
are ~Illinoisans by birth and we're mar
ried there. They have lived in Pet,
tbs county forty years. They have
five children.
Twenty members of the senior class
of Central college received degrees at
Fayette. The graduating address was
delivered by Rev. Henry s. Cope of
New York City. DR.. John A. Rice OF
St. Louis preached the baccalaureate
sermon.
Mrs, ]. E. Anderson, wife of the
cashier of the Marion County Savings
bank of Palmyra, is dead.
The parkway proposition was de-
feated at a special election at st. Louis
by about ten thousand votes. 1t was
proposed to convert twenty-one blocks
into a drive and parkway, connecting
the business and residence sections of
the city at an estimated cost of seven
million dollars.
The sixth annual reunion of the
Missouri Elks' Association was held
in Sedalia recently. These state Of
ficers were elected: President, Allen
McReynolds, Carthage, Mo-; first
vice-president, ]. G. Grady, Lexings
ton; second vice-president, Audry D.
Risden, Kirksville; third vice-presi-
dent, E. E, Wood, Webb City; secre-
tary, w. E. Brown, Carrollton; treas
urer, e. A. Major, Clinton; doorkeep-
er, F. Thomas, Columbia; sergeant-at-
arms, Isadore Levi, Moberly; chap
lain, G. F. Gottfried, Joplin. Moberly
was selected for the seventh reunion
in 1916.
A conference of representative citi-
e n of Clay county was held in Liber-
ty recently to- push the good roads
movement. The question of building
a system of one hundred miles of rock,
roads in the county connecting all
of the towns has been agitated and at
the meeting today a committee OF one
man in each of the townships of the
county was appointed to learn the
sentiment of the people on perma-
nently improved roads and on the adj
visibility of calling an election to vote
bonds amounting to $4,000 or $780,
900.
DR.. J. M. Casey, a pioneer physician
Of the Ozarks, is dead at West Plains
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. w.
T. Harlin. He was rs years old and
came from Tennessee to Mountain
Home, Ark, when Ia years old. He
established the first store on White
River, in Arkansas.
Samuel Scott, a high school STUDENT
was drowned in Spring river, near
Carthage recently, while swimming
with boy friends. Scott carried down
Roy Nevin a companion, who tried to
save him and Nevin came near los
ing his life.
Gov. Elliott w. Major delivered the
commencement address to the gradu-
ating class of Missouri Valley college
at Marshall recently. The degree OF
master of arts was conferred upon
the governor by the institution. Be-
fore the address the governor was,
given a reception and motor a ride
over the city by the Commercial
Club.
DR.. C. M. Woodson of st. Joseph has
been reinstated as president Of the
Missouri State Medical Association by
the unanimous vote of the twenty-four
members of the judicial committee Of
the association at st. Louis.
Stone at the rate of five carloads
a day now is being rushed from the
quarry at Carthage to Jefferson City
to be used in the construction Of the
new. Missouri Capitol,
David r. Francis, president of the
board of curators, said at the alumni
luncheon at the University of Mis-
souri, that the board will test the con-
stitutionality of the Buford act in the
supreme court.
Cary Bledsoe, 80 years old, Of Lib
eral, who was bitten nine months
ago by a rabid cat, is dead of hydro
phobia. He left a widow and two
small children.
Alex Logan, one of the oldest citi-
zens of Montgomery county, died at
the home OF his daughter, Mrs. VIII
liam Maxey, near Montgomery. He
was SO years old
Agnes, 4-year-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Phillip Lynch, was killed at
Carthage when she fell a distance Of
two feet from a 'house-moving truck,
on which she was playing. She struck
on her head and her skull was frac-
tured.
F. o. McHenry, go years old, was
found dead on a couch in his employ