Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-13

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parade from the st. Francis Hotel to
the fair grounds. At the Missouri
Building the Rev. w. K. Howe opened
the formal exercises with invocation
Missouri Day wound up with a recep-
ton and dance at the states building.
Seventy per cent of the Missouri
corn land already has been planted ac-
cording to the report Of the state agri-
cultural commission. The acreage
represents an increase of 1 per cent
over that Of last year. The condition
of wheat is 80 per cent. Nine hundred
thousand acres has been sown to oats,
the condition of which is 80 per cent.
The west and north parts Of Moni-
teau county were swept late the other
afternoon by a destructive storm of
wind, hailstones and rain. Houses
and barns were blown down and
turned over, trees were uprooted, win
dows were broken and telephone and
electric wires were broken and tan
gled.
In the annual student election at
the University of Missouri, the pref
erential system of balloting vas used.
3. G. Mead Of Slater vas elected presi-
dent; c. E. Cowherd Of Perry vice
president; Dot D. Patterson of Macon
editor of Savitar; w. M. Neal of Inde-
pendence advertising manager of Saw
tar.
In a special election held at Spring.
field on a question of a levy, of twenty
five cents for school building purposes
the proposition carried by a majority
of ninety votes. Only a small vote
was cast.
Westminster colleges trio of debat-
ers defeated the debating team Of the
University Of Missouri the other night.
The collegians got the unanimous ver-
dict Of the judges.
Having a presentiment that some
thing had happened to her 1~7-year-old
nephew, Cecil Truitt, who had gone to
a neighbours home to borrow a book,
Mrs. y,ssephus Cox, who lives four
miles east Of Macon, started out at 10
O'Clock at night to meet the boy and
found his body lying in the road. Two
dogs were guarding it. The boy had
been complaining of a weak heart and
it is supposed that over exertion from
running with the dogs caused the
boys death.
The new buildings of the medical
school of Washington University at
st. Louis, were dedicated with an elab-
crate program recently. The three
large buildings, which contain labora-
tories, d~ispensaries, lecture rooms and
Libraries, cost $1,200,0O0 and, with the
new Barnes hospital, the st. Louis
5hildren's hospital and st. Johns hos
pital, form one of the largest groups
of buildings in the world devoted to
medical and surgical purposes.
H. S. Cole, a grocer at Springfield.
recently received a check for $65 from
James Bell Of Ardmore, Ok, in pay
ment for groceries which Bell bought
twenty years ago.
Wheat prospects have improved in
Bates county in the last few weeks
until now another bumper crop. equal
if not better than that Of last year.
is predicted.
]. N. Miller, manager Of the Etten-
son estate at Excelsior Springs, is
dead after an illness of six months.
He was sc years old. He leaves a
widow. The burial was at Mexico.
s. M. Jordan, Pettis county farm
agent, said the chinch bugs are get
ting numerous in that section, but he
has found only a few army worms.
He does not anticipate great damage
by the worms, but fears the bugs will
cut the wheat crop short.
William T. Brown has been sworn
in as United States deputy marshal
for the Springfield division, succeed
ing A. L. Arnold, who was appointed
temporarily upon the expiration Of
Judge Ewing BANDS appointment.
The annual meeting of the Royal
Arch Masons of Missouri was held at
Joplin recently. All the grand officers
and 400 delegates attended. Stanford
M. Daniels of Kansas City and Victor
H. Falkenheiner and w. ]. Vannix Of
St Louis were elected to represent the
grand council of royal and select mas
tiers at the general council in San
Francisco in August.
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Joseph Newlin, % years old, is dead
at Springfield from injuries he receive
ed in a motorcycle race when he was
hurled against a fence while his ma
chine was making sixty miles an hour.
Announcement was made at st. JOS
eph recently Of the appointment by q.
M. HARDER, collector Of internal reve-
nue., Of Wiley o. Cox as deputy at st,
Joseph, Cox, formerly Of Kansas City.
is a Democrat and succeeds George G.
Toei, Republican, who had held the
office twelve years.
Fishermen near Springfield probably
saved an Iron Mountain passenger
train when II waa on Arc cnar,s frcm