Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-03-11
HAPPENINGS
of Tbe tOeek
IN MISSOURI

The peach + OF the Ozark region
has withstood the winter in fine con-
dition and, according to indications,
will afford a bumper yield, growers
say. Buds in southwest Missouri and
northern Arkansas have not been in
jured. Interest in that locality Is d.
vided between the strawberry and
peach crops, and the outlook now is
also favorable for a big strawberry
yield. Many new berry fields have
been planted since last season, and
the various associations now are max
ing plans to market the berries.
The Sunfiower mine, located in the
Alba mining camp near Carthage, has
been sold by c. H. Brett of Carthage
to James Smith of Webb City for $20,-
600. The property recently was re-
opened after being idle for several
years.
H. M. and James Harkers, twin
brothers. recently celebrated their
seventy-ffth birthday anniversary
with a family dinner at Carthage. It
is believed they are the Oldest twins
in Missouri. Both enjoy good health
and are active.
More than 1000 Shriners of south
west Missouri gathered at Springfield
to pay honor to DR.. Frederick Smith
of Rochester, N. Y, imperial ~potentate
of the Shriners of North America. 1t
was the first time an imperial poten-
tate had visited Springfield.
Frederick Cakes Sylvester, noted
landscape painter, died at his home
In st. Louis after an illness OF a year.
File was So years old. Mr.. Sylvester
was a former vice-president of the
Society Of Western Artists.
Charles Dykes is being held under
bond pending the outcome of wounds
received by JEFF Hicks, a farmer who
lives near STAFFORD, who is said to be
dying from bites in his neck, alleged
to have been made by LATE Jennings.
Captain Henry King has resigned as
managing editor Of the st. Louis
Globe Democrat, a post he has held
since the death of Joseph McCuilagh
in 1897.
The Clarence Courier has been
bought from A. M. S. Publishing Com
pany by E. w. Ragland, who has been
the managing editor Of the paper the
last two years.
The report of the audit of the books
of the Buchanan county offices, made
by accountants from the state audit
or's office, shows there is due the
state and county from county officers
and their predecessors more than $780,
900 in fees collected and illegally held
/, by them. OF the alleged delinquents
seven now hold office and five have
retired. The discovery was made in
+, the audit that one officer, R. d. Fulks,
/ county collector, is entitled to
$6,521.46 which he failed to retain
) from delinquent taxes collected by
him.
Patrick Morairty, 80 years old, an
old railroad builder, is dead at his
home in .Warrensburg. Morairty
! worked on the Missouri Pacific in its
construction from st. Louis to Kan
sas City more than a half century
ago.
The third election in fifteen months
on the proposition to incur an indebt-
, edness of $4,000 for the purpose of
/ operating a municipal light plant was
lost at Marshal by seven votes. The
vote was 7OS to 364.
!, . .
Solomon Mcclure, So years old, the
last of the Mexican war veterans in
that part of the country, is dead at
e Montgomery.
DR.. William w. Mosby, n OF the
g pioneer residents and oldest doctor
n in that part of the state, is dead at his
home in Richmond. Doctor Mosby was
n born in Scott County, KY, June l
1924. In 1928 he came to Missouri
with his parents. He was graduated
from the medical department of Tran
n sylvania University, class of 1916. He
Immediately located in Richmond tc
; practice. He vas regimental surgeon
/ with the rank Of major under Col
d John G. Hale Of the Fourth Regimen
e in the Civil war. In 1852 he was elect
ed to the state senate from that dis
D. trict. He served in this office tive
n terms.
A. v. Boand Of Kansas City, SUDDEN
at Westminster college, won the an
n nual prohibition oratorical contest II
d, which four other Westminster stu
4 dents competed.
H. r. Sinclair, president Of the Sin
r clair Coal Company Of Springfield
Aurora, Webb City and Joplin, wa
h found dead in his bed at Aurora tn
1f other morning. Apoplexy vas tn
cause of death. Mr.. Sinclair was 4
years old.
The body of e. J. Bohrman, STATIC
agent of the Rock Island railway q
y Lection, was found beside the gasolin
d engine which furnished the power 70
n, the pumping station there. The bod
n wal mangled and Bohrman had ev
a IDENTIFY met his death while startin
the machine.
Will Downing, "a years old, a clerl
re shot and killed a boarder at the Dowi