Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-07-01
HAPPENINGS
of fbe sOeek
IN o

hail and wind storm in fifty years
had swept jefferson county and
caused about 100000 damage. The
storm laid waste to a stretch of Ter
ritory three miles wide from Cedar
Vile to Hillsboro, skirting the Mis-
sippi river bank at Festus and
Crystal City. At a glass manufactur-
ing plant in Crystal City 10000 sheets
of plate glass were destroyed. One
hundred and fifty homes there were
partly wrecked.
William s. Cowherd of Kansas City
died at the Las Encinas Sanitorium
in Lamanda Park, near Pasadena, CAL,
recently as the result of a general
breakdown. The death certificate
gave pernicious aenemia as the direct
cause.
Herbert W. Pigg, deputy internal
revenue collector for the Springfield
division, dropped dead while standing:
in a bank in Springfield. He had suf-
fered from heart attacks for some
time.
The ~4-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Grover Hull, living near Dresden, IN
Pettis county, was rescued from
drowning in a large tank on the farm
of w. F. Yankee e Lamonte by
Charles Yankee, Is years old, Who
leaped into the tank and saved the
boy as he was sinking the third time.
County Line Baptist church, in west
ern Pettis county, celebrated its list.
anniversary the other day. None OF
the charter members is living. IN
Civil war time the church was dis
rupted, but was reorganized wnen
peace was declared.
Oscar L. Smith, who is charged on
nine counts with forgery and emDez-'
Element, was arraigned before Justice
j. F. Anderson at Chillicothe, and
entered a plea of not guilty. He was
bound over to the next regular term
of the Livingston county circuit court
which convenes there on the first Mon
day in September. His bond was
fixed at $4,000. He was unable to-
give it and was remanded to the coun-
ty Jail.
Napoleon Goodnight, SIS years old,
a Pettis county farmer, recently
brought to Sedalia the first home
grown roasting ears of the season. For
the last thirty-fve consecutive years;
Goodnight has been the first on thea
market with homegrown corn.
Thaddeus Phoenix, a farmer ~
years old, was drowned while attempt
ing to cross the swollen James reiver
at a ford zeal Cape Fair, Stone coun-
ty. His horse also persisted.
James Carr, two years old, was;
killed when struck by the engine of a
Frisco passenger train at Springfield.
The accident occurred within sight OF
the boys mother.
The petition for the appointment OF
a receiver for the Knights Of Honor,
a fraternal order, was recently denied
in the federal court at st. Louis.
A tornado passed over Paris at z
O'clock the other night, followed by a
cloudburst, and did considerable dam
age. The main amphitheater at the
fair grounds was blown over and eight
young men and women, members of a
picnic party, were caught in the fall.
None was hurt. The Dooley Hotel and
the Arnold Hotel were badly damaged.
Trees we're blown down and many
buildings unroofed. Bridges are gone
and streams in Monroe county have
been converted into torrents. No loss
of life has been reported. Four freight
cars were blown from the track.
The contract for building an add
ton to the Excelsior Springs High
: School has been let to John e.. Ander
h. son & Son Of Kansas City, Kas,
whose bid was the lowest Of nine sub
mitted to the school board, their fig
Of ures being $1S,515.
Charles Smith, Z years old, wa
A. killed by lightning the other after
noon. He had sought shelter from tn,
N storm in a barn on the Scott farm cas-
Of Marshall,
"a H.N."I| So IH|H. UN
q Five negro children, two boys AM
three girls, were burned to dealt
q. when the home Of Bob Lewis, a Negro
near Eolia was destroyed by fire tn
other night.
R. N. S~nodgrass, a pioneer an
GO wealthy farmer Of Green county, wa
ha found dead in bad at his home nea
"a. Springfield by his wife. He a z
he years old.
Judge Estes Smith, member OF th
he Bates County Court from the norther
district, wal found dead in his HON
near Adrian the other morning. Heai
disease was the cause of death.
,en Rev. w. J. Garrett, said to be tn
oldest Presbyterian minister in soutI
west Missouri, both in ears and ser
a Ice, is dead at the home Of a son
,av Springfield. He was 95 years old ar
had been an ordained minister I,
seventy-three years,
ma. Because his suggestions for Il
ys' protection Of fish and game have n
met the approval Of his superior, ID.
Holland, deputy game and FISH col
atm miaaionar for tha snrinehaid diafri,